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Watched a doco last night on SBS about 5 ways to save the world. They were pretty interesting, including sending a rocket towards the sun, dumping out little glass shield type things and using them to deflect some of the sun's rays to cool down the earth.
Anyway, got me thinking of less scientific ideas like..
1) we should drink more beer instead of drinking water to help conserve water.
problem is that it takes many more litres of water to make one litre of beer.
2) we should all use wood heating and wood stoves instead of electricity to save water
problem is that by cutting down all our trees then this increases global warming and decreases rain fall (i guess you can always replant)
So i thought that skateparx could come up with some funny ideas that might sound good at first but really make the problem worse.... it doesn't have to be about saving the world
have sex with out condoms to lower machinery use on making of the love gloves. problem is kiddies would be popping up everywhere
take condoms away from south africa so higher the rate of aids.
oh i think thats been done.
i have often wondered with all these drought countermeasures how much extra water would be used at the power plant generating the electricity in order to power the projects.
Desalination uses alot of power, how much water is used to generate that power ?
companys are pretty much exempt from level 5 water restrictions so i beleive its up to the media to turn civlian against civilian.
its fucking bullshit.
hahahaha, some people need to be dobbed in like that guy on today tonight living in a caravan park and having two hour showers everyday.
as for that show on sbs last night I kinda like the one about making plankton (sp?) grow, by dumping nitrogen in the ocean, that was a pretty cool idea.
Yeah I though that guy was gonna take a piss in the harbour or something to help the plankton grow LOL
The only problem with that idea is the possibility of evolutionary changes to the sea life - or at the very least all the fish species will end up getting obese - thus increasing the water displacement factor in the ocean, therefore creating higher water levels and thus washing away those civilisations living at low water levels around the earth - the ones for whom the plankton was placed in there in the first place
well it made sense ot me whilst I was writing it
If memory serves (quote from The Iron Chef) when sydney water looked into desalintation it was said that you need to use 1 litre of water to provide 2 litres of water. I could be wrong
when we lived in Sydney dad would drive about 30kms to the markets (somehwre towards redfern???) and buy a 10kg box of rotting bananas for $2 and get a maximum of 2kg worth of bananas out of it. He was spending money to save money. Not an example of saving the world but counterproductive nonetheless
I guarantee 2 years from now, we'll have shitloads of water and everyone will have forgotten about global warming.
"evolutionary changes to the sea life"
no such thing as evolution. God created everything as it is. The idea of selective pressure governing genetic change is absurd. Darwin is a sinner. Well actually darwins ideas were mostly regurgitations of others people work.
yeh i'm with drinking more beer. though beer does need water to be created....pretty sure we can overlook this fact
Yeah the solution is really quite obvious if you think about it - Drink beer, and piss in the ocean.
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counterproductive solutions to world problems
jughead 08:52 11/Apr/07
Watched a doco last night on SBS about 5 ways to save the world. They were pretty interesting, including sending a rocket towards the sun, dumping out little glass shield type things and using them to deflect some of the sun's rays to cool down the earth.
Anyway, got me thinking of less scientific ideas like..
1) we should drink more beer instead of drinking water to help conserve water.
problem is that it takes many more litres of water to make one litre of beer.
2) we should all use wood heating and wood stoves instead of electricity to save water
problem is that by cutting down all our trees then this increases global warming and decreases rain fall (i guess you can always replant)
So i thought that skateparx could come up with some funny ideas that might sound good at first but really make the problem worse.... it doesn't have to be about saving the world
skelator 08:55 11/Apr/07
have sex with out condoms to lower machinery use on making of the love gloves. problem is kiddies would be popping up everywhere
The Alter Ego TED 09:00 11/Apr/07
take condoms away from south africa so higher the rate of aids.
oh i think thats been done.
The WILD card 09:12 11/Apr/07
i have often wondered with all these drought countermeasures how much extra water would be used at the power plant generating the electricity in order to power the projects.
Desalination uses alot of power, how much water is used to generate that power ?
The Alter Ego TED 09:18 11/Apr/07
companys are pretty much exempt from level 5 water restrictions so i beleive its up to the media to turn civlian against civilian.
its fucking bullshit.
Jon 09:34 11/Apr/07
hahahaha, some people need to be dobbed in like that guy on today tonight living in a caravan park and having two hour showers everyday.
as for that show on sbs last night I kinda like the one about making plankton (sp?) grow, by dumping nitrogen in the ocean, that was a pretty cool idea.
Mr Fox 11:20 11/Apr/07
Yeah I though that guy was gonna take a piss in the harbour or something to help the plankton grow LOL
jughead 12:53 11/Apr/07
The only problem with that idea is the possibility of evolutionary changes to the sea life - or at the very least all the fish species will end up getting obese - thus increasing the water displacement factor in the ocean, therefore creating higher water levels and thus washing away those civilisations living at low water levels around the earth - the ones for whom the plankton was placed in there in the first place
well it made sense ot me whilst I was writing it
If memory serves (quote from The Iron Chef) when sydney water looked into desalintation it was said that you need to use 1 litre of water to provide 2 litres of water. I could be wrong
when we lived in Sydney dad would drive about 30kms to the markets (somehwre towards redfern???) and buy a 10kg box of rotting bananas for $2 and get a maximum of 2kg worth of bananas out of it. He was spending money to save money. Not an example of saving the world but counterproductive nonetheless
TFI-Brokefoot Muntin 16:41 11/Apr/07
I guarantee 2 years from now, we'll have shitloads of water and everyone will have forgotten about global warming.
The WILD card 08:22 12/Apr/07
"evolutionary changes to the sea life"
no such thing as evolution. God created everything as it is. The idea of selective pressure governing genetic change is absurd. Darwin is a sinner. Well actually darwins ideas were mostly regurgitations of others people work.
DeathMoth 10:28 12/Apr/07
yeh i'm with drinking more beer. though beer does need water to be created....pretty sure we can overlook this fact
Mr Fox 10:33 12/Apr/07
Yeah the solution is really quite obvious if you think about it - Drink beer, and piss in the ocean.
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