Troubled Town

After reading this week's Troubletown I started to reconsider how much time I spend on the internet. (A lot, but a hell of a lot less than, oh, let's say everyone who works is an office and don't lie because I've worked in offices and know how people really spend their day work related research my ass!) And that compounded the feelings I have about how much gas I use. (I'm guessing a lot less than a suburban soccer mom who commutes quite a distance to work and then does the whole driving the kids around and running errands thing in her giant SUV with under-inflated tires but considerably more than those small town little old ladies who think anything over 20 miles is a major undertaking yet with as much wanderlust as I have I could spend so much more.)

Solution? The time has come for new methods of obtaining and using energy. At one time it was extremely efficient and economical to feed corn to a horse and then use that horse to go places. That is a very quaint notion best left to hobbyists. My neighborhood happens to have curbside rings for tethering horses. If I got myself a good horse and a high quality road worthy buggy it would only take me three times as long to get to work since I never get on the freeway and work close enough the horse could maintain a trot the entire way. A road trip to Santa Cruz which used to take 12 hours would take at least two weeks on horseback. Unlike a car, the horse would require fuel regardless of how little I drove it.

No, reversion is not the right way to go.

We humans are so wasteful. Using the famous formula of E=mc2 we can determine that a single kilogram of water contains 10,000,000,000,000,000 joules in just the hydrogen and whole lot more if we could convert the oxygen as well. Converting perfectly good drinking water is no better an idea than converting perfectly good food (or even crappy food like soy) to suit our fuel needs. But the average human contains 40 kg of water and the dead don't need that water any more. One corpse has the potential of providing the energy equivalent of 400 million gallons of gas just in the water molecules. In order to cover the energy needs of America's thirst for gas we would need to harness the atomic energy of just one corpse a day! We are currently averaging 6,400 deaths per day in this country. So even if you Google your name twenty times a day we have a potential energy source that can ride this out with massive reserves. We just need to learn how to process all of that energy.

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