What a great idea, everybody in the world has to report to a health/tread center 3/4 times a week and spend two hours on a tread mill/bike adding to the countries generation of electricity.....brilliant idea.
Totally foolish alternate energy idea thread!
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What a great idea, everybody in the world has to report to a health/tread center 3/4 times a week and spend two hours on a tread mill/bike adding to the countries generation of electricity.....brilliant idea.
We could harness the potential energy locked up in the gravitational shifts associated with the 2012 approach of PLANET NIBIRU that our mutual friend has told us so much about.
Alternatively, I think the hot air from TNZ could be channelled in to some sort of turbine.
Alternatively, I think the hot air from TNZ could be channelled in to some sort of turbine.
This reminds me of an idea I heard once for a perpetual motion machine. It combines two laws of the universe to create a paradox that will yield unlimited energy. The laws are: (1) buttered toast always lands with the butter side down, (2) cats always land on their feet. So, simply butter a piece of toast, tape it to a cat with the buttered side up, and drop it. The cat/toast combination will spin indefinitely without ever hitting the ground. Perpetual motion, my friends.
Get enough cats and enough toast and we could power the world!!!
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This reminds me of an idea I heard once for a perpetual motion machine. It combines two laws of the universe to create a paradox that will yield unlimited energy. The laws are: (1) buttered toast always lands with the butter side down, (2) cats always land on their feet. So, simply butter a piece of toast, tape it to a cat with the buttered side up, and drop it. The cat/toast combination will spin indefinitely without ever hitting the ground. Perpetual motion, my friends.
Get enough cats and enough toast and we could power the world!!!
Sadly there would be friction losses. Also butter-toast-cats are very dangerous to the equipment operator.
It's totally impractical. I approve.
Don't worry. Even if it works, I'm sure neither of us will get the credit.
Well, not as a "power generation" idea, no. But the alternate-universe Earth of the Mainspring series has a big brass gear encircling the equator of the Earth, which meshes with a larger gear in orbit to drive the rotation of the planet. That and, in the first novel, the Earth is running out of power so God sends a kid on a quest to rewind the spring that runs the world.
These books are out? So the author is saying God came forward in time and stole my idea? Wow.
Well, if nothing else, these devices would be excellent anti-gravity devices.This reminds me of an idea I heard once for a perpetual motion machine. It combines two laws of the universe to create a paradox that will yield unlimited energy. The laws are: (1) buttered toast always lands with the butter side down, (2) cats always land on their feet. So, simply butter a piece of toast, tape it to a cat with the buttered side up, and drop it. The cat/toast combination will spin indefinitely without ever hitting the ground. Perpetual motion, my friends.
Get enough cats and enough toast and we could power the world!!!
Sadly there would be friction losses. Also butter-toast-cats are very dangerous to the equipment operator.
It's totally impractical. I approve.
We build ultra-light, ultra-tough air turbines. Then we suspend them under massive helium balloons, tethered to a ground base station. They'll get some energy from the higher winds a few thousand feet up....and they'll really give us a boost whenever a hurricane comes through. I suggest deployment in Florida.
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No, you have to anchor these to the planet! That way, when the sun finally gives out, we can reverse the magnetic polarity of the turbines and inject the amassed wind energy back in to the turbines (now gant electric fans). This will provide the motive force to move Earth a safe distance from the sun, or through the galaxy.
If we manage to increase the voltage by running the electricity through a giant planet encompassing toriodal transformer converted from an equally giant orbital launching track, we could then move the planet at incredible velocity!
How about energy gatherers in the pavement of streets, so the energy from moving cars is used to power street lights, and put extra power back into the system?
Hydroelectric power is an already in-use system in some areas -- harnesing hte power of falling water. What is the underground sewer system was fed to a point , in each major city, and a large cliff was created, so all the shit and piss could fall over and create power. Crapoelectric power.
Then the leftovers are recyled and used to create a fuel source.
Heck -- power is expended for over head lights, machines and the creation of car batteries, so what if we made fewer batteris? Each car could have solar panels on it that collect and store the power.
Hydroelectric power is an already in-use system in some areas -- harnesing hte power of falling water. What is the underground sewer system was fed to a point , in each major city, and a large cliff was created, so all the shit and piss could fall over and create power. Crapoelectric power.
Then the leftovers are recyled and used to create a fuel source.
Heck -- power is expended for over head lights, machines and the creation of car batteries, so what if we made fewer batteris? Each car could have solar panels on it that collect and store the power.
The Energy collectors should be on the cars, not on the road. That way the energy collected could be easily delivered to the point of need.
Make the hole go to the core of the planet. Put a cap over it. When you pour the water in, you can collect the steam for massive generators to power the pumps that pour the water over the waterfall to power the hydroelectrics.
Just put motors, wheels and seat cushions on large solar panels. The solar panel *is* the car!
This reminds me of an idea I heard once for a perpetual motion machine. It combines two laws of the universe to create a paradox that will yield unlimited energy. The laws are: (1) buttered toast always lands with the butter side down, (2) cats always land on their feet. So, simply butter a piece of toast, tape it to a cat with the buttered side up, and drop it. The cat/toast combination will spin indefinitely without ever hitting the ground. Perpetual motion, my friends.
Get enough cats and enough toast and we could power the world!!!
Why not butter the toast on both sides, it eliminates the needs to a cat and equipment to handle said pissed off feline?
I have an idea, it is called taking people after they die and using the same tech that melts turkey guts down to oil.
Oil crisis solved! Thanks Grandma!
This reminds me of an idea I heard once for a perpetual motion machine. It combines two laws of the universe to create a paradox that will yield unlimited energy. The laws are: (1) buttered toast always lands with the butter side down, (2) cats always land on their feet. So, simply butter a piece of toast, tape it to a cat with the buttered side up, and drop it. The cat/toast combination will spin indefinitely without ever hitting the ground. Perpetual motion, my friends.
Get enough cats and enough toast and we could power the world!!!
Why not butter the toast on both sides, it eliminates the needs to a cat and equipment to handle said pissed off feline?
I have an idea, it is called taking people after they die and using the same tech that melts turkey guts down to oil.
Oil crisis solved! Thanks Grandma!
I can just envision Charleton Heston on top of a tanker yelling "Ethanol is people!!!"
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I hae now creeped myself out by thinking of car mileage in terms of miles per old person. Eeewwww!
