RAIN
Rain, rain come to stay. As global warming continues to wreck massive climactic change we'd better get used to its fallout. Shifting wind patterns, increased solar radiation and millions of gallons of frigid waters pouring off glaciers into the jet stream are leaving us a changed planet and we are only starting to feel the effects. As Mr. Gore so starkly pointed out to us, the global indicators are only at the precipice of massive change to come. So? Rain. There is nothing a happy little rain drop loves more than chaos, when turbulent wind and water meet in a starry, cloudless sky. Where there is massive drenching rain of course, drought cannot be far behind but thats for another post. What to do? I say its time to stop cowering in ridiculous fear of the rain, dashing from awning to awning trying not to let the stuff peck at our precious skin. We are all creatures of the earth and the sooner we learn to live in balance, the happier we're all gonna be. So throw off your parka and bear your breast to the wind and call out to zeus almighty, that or invent some proper, damn waterproof clothes, the floodgates have been opened time to let the rain shine in.
1) Rain Dear: Off to dinner and a movie, and then drinks at that new club, a little dancing, and then home to my place...BORING! Why not take advantage of the rain today and take your date out for a romantic walk in the park. Nothing screams kiss me now, like the misty drizzle hovering over the treelined paths in Central Park. Too often these days people avoid the rain. I'm guilty of it myself. I'll stay inside just to keep my feet dry. I'll take a cab instead of walking. Anything to avoid feeling the slightest bit uncomfortable.
Well, not any more! Let it rain my dear and we shall go-a-frolicking! Imagine how sexy this would be. You're out on a romantic walk in Central Park or Riverside Park and perhaps you venture off the path, walk up a slope, and then whoops, you slip on a leaf and go tumbling, legs akimbo, down the slope, only to land in eachothers arms, a soft rain gently falling all around, tip-tapping down through the trees. Ahhh, yes, to be romantic again. I propose that this Fall we get back to nature.
So get out there, get wet, get dirty, and enjoy the foul weather! Let it rain!
2) Rain Collection: Wow talk about an oldie but goodie! They say that the wars of the next millennium will not be fought over oil, but water! The price of water/gallon at the store often exceeds the price of crude and which one do you think is just a teensy bit more important for our survival? Boone Pickens, famous oil speculator, is already buying water rights and running giant pipes between water starved cities in Texas. What about the rest of us? I propose the implementation of standard water harvesting systems all over the country. Would be simple enough to design a home that had a water collection systems built into it I want mine STANDARD! And what about India and Subsahara, need to bring better water harvesting technologies there as well. I am thinking about vast fields in the Himalayas with 100 mile tarpaulins stretched into giant cones, enormous evaporation/condensation fields. Big stuff. Let it rain.
3) Corporate Reins: Lip service as PR tactic or evidence of a real effort? Major corporations claim they are working to do their part in protecting the environment. The surge in sales of hybrid cars is a good example of how consumer needs can work in tandem with profit driven corporations to create products that are good for the environment. More effort like this is certainly needed, but it's encouraging to see some steps forward; however, as Al Gore has so poignantly demonstrated in "An Inconvenient Truth", it may be too little too later, and a gleeful, feel good, glossing of environmental issues, like this GE Video posted below, might really be pernicious deception of the true state of our world.
4) Pin Wheels and Solar Panels or Come Rain or Shine: Water evaporates into the atmosphere when a certain amount of energy from sunlight frees it from the bonds that hold it in its liquid state. It rises in the atmosphere and is carried around on the winds that wind around the world. But, it carries a latent potential energy, namely it's grativationally driven decent back to earth in the form of rain, snow, or sleet. As our dear rain drop hurtles toward the earth it picks up speed and force, gaining the ability to do a certain amount of work. But at the end of it's trip, SPLISH - SPLASH back into the puddle from whence it came! ----- "CUT"------- take (2) But at the end of it's trip it collides with one of the arms of a tiny pinwheeel which drives the crank of a tiny generator, which feeds electricity through a vast field of tiny rain-energy-collecting pinwheels down into a battery storage system which supplies energy for a home. The pinwheels would collect a significant amount of energy during rainy seasons and the rooftop energy creation device would house solar panels for the sunny summer months. Now, that's some creative energy you got their ma'am! Rain on!
1) Rain Dear: Off to dinner and a movie, and then drinks at that new club, a little dancing, and then home to my place...BORING! Why not take advantage of the rain today and take your date out for a romantic walk in the park. Nothing screams kiss me now, like the misty drizzle hovering over the treelined paths in Central Park. Too often these days people avoid the rain. I'm guilty of it myself. I'll stay inside just to keep my feet dry. I'll take a cab instead of walking. Anything to avoid feeling the slightest bit uncomfortable.
Well, not any more! Let it rain my dear and we shall go-a-frolicking! Imagine how sexy this would be. You're out on a romantic walk in Central Park or Riverside Park and perhaps you venture off the path, walk up a slope, and then whoops, you slip on a leaf and go tumbling, legs akimbo, down the slope, only to land in eachothers arms, a soft rain gently falling all around, tip-tapping down through the trees. Ahhh, yes, to be romantic again. I propose that this Fall we get back to nature.
So get out there, get wet, get dirty, and enjoy the foul weather! Let it rain!
2) Rain Collection: Wow talk about an oldie but goodie! They say that the wars of the next millennium will not be fought over oil, but water! The price of water/gallon at the store often exceeds the price of crude and which one do you think is just a teensy bit more important for our survival? Boone Pickens, famous oil speculator, is already buying water rights and running giant pipes between water starved cities in Texas. What about the rest of us? I propose the implementation of standard water harvesting systems all over the country. Would be simple enough to design a home that had a water collection systems built into it I want mine STANDARD! And what about India and Subsahara, need to bring better water harvesting technologies there as well. I am thinking about vast fields in the Himalayas with 100 mile tarpaulins stretched into giant cones, enormous evaporation/condensation fields. Big stuff. Let it rain.
3) Corporate Reins: Lip service as PR tactic or evidence of a real effort? Major corporations claim they are working to do their part in protecting the environment. The surge in sales of hybrid cars is a good example of how consumer needs can work in tandem with profit driven corporations to create products that are good for the environment. More effort like this is certainly needed, but it's encouraging to see some steps forward; however, as Al Gore has so poignantly demonstrated in "An Inconvenient Truth", it may be too little too later, and a gleeful, feel good, glossing of environmental issues, like this GE Video posted below, might really be pernicious deception of the true state of our world.
4) Pin Wheels and Solar Panels or Come Rain or Shine: Water evaporates into the atmosphere when a certain amount of energy from sunlight frees it from the bonds that hold it in its liquid state. It rises in the atmosphere and is carried around on the winds that wind around the world. But, it carries a latent potential energy, namely it's grativationally driven decent back to earth in the form of rain, snow, or sleet. As our dear rain drop hurtles toward the earth it picks up speed and force, gaining the ability to do a certain amount of work. But at the end of it's trip, SPLISH - SPLASH back into the puddle from whence it came! ----- "CUT"------- take (2) But at the end of it's trip it collides with one of the arms of a tiny pinwheeel which drives the crank of a tiny generator, which feeds electricity through a vast field of tiny rain-energy-collecting pinwheels down into a battery storage system which supplies energy for a home. The pinwheels would collect a significant amount of energy during rainy seasons and the rooftop energy creation device would house solar panels for the sunny summer months. Now, that's some creative energy you got their ma'am! Rain on!
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