I do not expect radical developments in home energy provision in only ten years, but existing technologies will be more prevalent. Perhaps an Independence Day party would make use of rooftop solar panels for heated water and some lights and batteries. Most home energy might be nuclear, but still a large portion would be from coal. America is starting to build nuclear plants again. A solar grill uses lenses and mirrors to cook with sunlight, just not very quickly.
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Added by Warren Saunders on April 5, 2010 at 3:16pm —
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Even though biomechanical energy is technically more costly/impacting than most other forms of energy because our bodies are inefficiently creating it from food, which has related production and transportation costs and environmental consequences, I would turn towards it more for some trivial appliances around the house because, as a typical industrialized citizen, my nutritional intake provides a surplus of energy.
Similar to old clocks that use weights to maintain…
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Added by Warren Saunders on April 5, 2010 at 1:35pm —
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Solar energy is practically unlimited. The problems that we encounter while harvesting solar energy are that sufficient arrays for our needs take up a great deal of space, are dependent on good weather, and there are potential consequences of absorbing so much energy before it reaches the ground. Cooling an area may affect the ecology. A solution may exist, though, in space.
A vast solar collector in space, perhaps even hundreds km across, would be hardly noticeable. It…
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Added by Warren Saunders on April 5, 2010 at 12:44pm —
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I do all the cooking in my home, and I take it rather seriously. In 2020 I'll be cooking for my wife and children, using herbs and some vegetables from our garden, eggs from our chickens, and meat from a relatively local butcher, but many ingredients will still be from the supermarket, shipped from around the world. Since it is March, any veggies would have to have been preserved from the previous year, or I'd have to get those from the supermarket as well. I make my own fresh breads and…
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Added by Warren Saunders on April 1, 2010 at 5:39pm —
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I have created a blog in which I discuss recipes and issues relevant to eating on a poverty level budget.
http://grocerygaming.blogspot.com Easy, nutritious, tasty meals are possible for very little money, but some people do not believe it and are not motivated to investigate or experiment. They buy whatever they feel like in the moment, and run out of money before the next check comes in. Food insecurity is not just about lack of money, but about…
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Added by Warren Saunders on April 1, 2010 at 5:21pm —
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My area does not have African levels of food insecurity, but there is enough to have created demand for programs and organizations to improve security. 11% of households in my state are insecure, and 1.5 million people receive food stamps.
http://www.pahunger.org/html/hunger/Ideas.html is an interesting resource for American suburbs. I am particularly interested in gleaning, which feeds people with food that farmers usually leave to…
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Added by Warren Saunders on April 1, 2010 at 4:55pm —
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Ideally, by 2020, I'll be living wherever I feel like and performing health care program evaluations and outcome analysis via the Internet. It is vital to know what treatments and other outcome determinants are most efficient so that we can develop sustainable health systems. I would like to apply my skills to such meaningful work.
Added by Warren Saunders on March 21, 2010 at 5:32pm —
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Unfortunately, Abraham Jacobi and Norman Borlaug are dead. Looking through Evoke's suggestions, I was very happy to watch Derek Lomas's Playpower Foundation video. I am a big proponent of Open Source, games, and Carnegie Mellon, so Derek pulled off a trifecta for me. His work reminds me of A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson), brought to life to an infant degree. It will be great to watch the development (or adaptation) of educational games for such inexpensive…
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Added by Warren Saunders on March 21, 2010 at 2:39pm —
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I would argue that there are not 33 tips listed, but rather only a few with different wording. One that stands out to me a little from the numerous "work with what's there" tips is Share. Besides the valuable etic application of the share tip by giving advanced knowledge and training in advanced skills, there is a more emic approach of sharing responsibility that works synergistically with the other tips. Sharing responsibility for recognizing and identifying needs, responsibility for…
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Added by Warren Saunders on March 21, 2010 at 2:23am —
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