ComeBackMudPuddles
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the Fact of the Matter is NO ONE cares about WHAT YOU HAVE -- so stop trying to impress them
Easier to give advice than to follow it, 'eh?
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the Fact of the Matter is NO ONE cares about WHAT YOU HAVE -- so stop trying to impress them
No its actually simple IF you have the WILL Power
I THINK you MEAN willpower.
Anyway, I think things are a bit more complicated than you suggest and would necessitate breaking the golden "no politics" rule to properly discuss it.
This is such a total over reactionary BS maneuver today. Big deal, there's a short lived cold snap across maybe 1/3rd of the country, and voila oil jumps almost $4 a barrel before falling back a bit towards the end of trading. Big deal, it's North America, it's January and it's cold, quite a newsflash! The biggest B.S. move will be tommorrow when some gas station owner spikes the price .10 to .15 a gallon based on this, when the oil that was traded today isn't even close to the refinery that will finally turn it into what we'll use a fuel likely WEEKS from now!
This is almost a perfect example of how modern technology/communications can be a BAD thing at instilling unneeded volitility in commodities markets!
Unfortunately thermodynamics tells us that heat is the most entropic form of energy, the form in which all energy tends to end up as. Meaning it's hard and typically not energy or cost efficient to extract work from it, however- energy storage like you speak of is already being utilized.
Nicely put but I'm not giving up hope that some Nobel-prize-winning thinking will find a way to make better use of waste heat and other small energy gradients. I'm thinking steam-engine technology with the sun/heat waste converting to motion. Even eductors that use the sun's energy to draw cooler air from underground.
They'll be ready and economical when the conditions are right
Unfortunately one of those conditions is a thinning of the herd. Earth cannot sustain even half the current human population of six billion.
I'm currently building a building for my business and hope to incorporate a simple heating technology(see below). Rather than heating just the air, I have quite a mass of dry crushed stone under the floor. I think that if I can warm the under-slab area all fall, then I will have at least a non-freezing area through the winter. It seems to be the most efficient use of solar energy around here. This is offered as an example and not an endorsement of any brand:
I don't want to seem like I'm poo pooing your idea, but your thermal mass would need to be well insulated for it to last any length of time.
Your contention is unknowable, at best.
Your contention is unknowable, at best.