WE CAN MAKE POWER

 Subject: In "The Glass Bathyscaphe" 2
 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:53:38 +0100


 Macfarlane & Martin (quoting Japanese economic historian and demographer Akira Hayami)
 give us the Eastern tradition of increasing production of crops and artifacts, by making
 intensive use of people-power, thereby tending to create full employment.  He called it
 an "industrious revolution".
 
 They set that against Western methodology, which tends to make the output and
 efficiency increases by intensive use of machinery and chemical interventions,
 the ongoing "industrial revolution".

 There's an immediate problem - the West is running out of cheap (or _any_) fuel
 to power that "industry". At the same time we have a Welfare Crisis _and_ a Public
 Health (obesity) Crisis.

 Industrious v Industrial: Why not BOTH?

 Here's the Cure -

 Communities large or small have their own Generator Halls, each with one or more
 multi-human-powered, low-friction Flywheel Generators.  People would go to the Hall
 instead of the gym, but for same reason - to work-out. And they will earn money by
 generating electricity.

 The work-out positions are adapto-fitted so all ages, or folk in wheel-chairs etc
 can do forms of exercise to suit them.  An ID card / disk in the slot would ensure
 the correct person gets correct payment - (which would have to be increased at evening
 and nights to ensure some supply when otherwise people might not wish to "generate").
  

 The right ancillary gear would ensure they could continue studies, listen to music or
 media, or chat to friends via the web - all while exercising and generating power
 (and income).

 This would also create "local" power, so cutting out the huge waste of long-distance
 Very High Voltage transmission lines - at the moment these not only "waste" electrical
 power but irradiate people and animals nearby, heat the surrounding atmosphere and
 contribute to global warming.
  

 OK - that's solved the Power Crisis, the Employment Crisis, the Welfare Crisis and
 the Obesity Crisis. Now to patent it.

 cheers
 Ray D

 "for it is a habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for,
 and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not fancy"

 - Thucydides, `The Peloponnesian War'

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