alternatetheory: femtoceleb

too much empty time and sobriety and bradleys inspiration runs dry.

too little sobriety and clarity runs dry (I've never really run out of time)

things to do:
dismantle the roof
reinvent my door.
invent some road
communicate with elders and peers
show off

not vital stuff, but then, when I walk into my house, it's warm. there's water, and power. so what do we need? what's left?

just money, the stuff to keep the cars running, and all the unnecesary crap it allows us to do.

let me tell you about burning hickory, by the way. long, slow and sweet. from a tree that fell between thr time we first saw the land and when we bought it. made a mess. I'm cleaning it up. heating my house. creating soil amendments (wood ash).

and carbon loadoing the atmosphere, but since you brought it up, let's look at that.
- I'm heating a total of 260something sq.ft.
- only when needed (6-10 hrs/day?)
-to an interior temp of... 50 degrees? still no thermom, and its hard to tell in sweaters.
-no transmission loss, no toxic extraction (a bit of fuel, oil, and wear on the chainsaw), no transport (maybe a few calories)

yeah. so. nasty truth is I'm also trying to make myself feel better since I'm probably gonna start burning coal soon, extracted from our very own plateau. cumberland county baby.

but again. let's look at it. essentially,its the difference between coal for home heat and coal to run your blender. therews no heat loss in the transform (since I'm using the heat), no friction in the turbine, no line loss - the fuel is used in its mist efficient possible manner. of which the waste contributes directly to global warming, air pollution and smog (not really a problem around here). so yeah. not exactly perect.

but there the central problem with sustainability. what I'm doing is perfectly sustainable. but not times seven billion.

hell, you're probably sustainble too! congratulations! we all win/lose together.