The homeless can't help being mentally ill, so why not care for them in a small meager way by giving them relatively comfortable shelter. This may keep them off the streets from bothering people if you also gave them land to garden on.
Have it made of pvc pipe structure that has mylar and scrim layers. Mimicking "multi layer insulation". This protects from all radiated heat and some conducted heat from air spacing between layers because of scrim cloth(air is a poor conductor of heat). Also this structure would be cube shaped, and only be big enough to hold an adult standing up or laying down. Because of the small size of space, it would hold any body heat released by the person inside, and eliminate the need for heating. Of course you'd also be wearing warm clothes. But they could also warm up rocks in the fire and put them into the small structure. The multi-layer insulation may be stored inside of the pvc pipes for easy transport.
Then may put additional spray foam insulation inside of the structure for less conduction of heat.
Or tube shaped with mylar shingled over the dome.
This is a concept that we can test on the homeless and get funding for the cost of the materials by getting feedback on the functionality by the homeless living in them.
I have homeless living in the woods next to where I work and they live in the rain and the cold and the heat. The homeless are people who usually have mental problems and cannot hold a normal job because of the mental problems interfering with social life. Therefor they ask for money on the street or trick people into giving them money or pressure people into giving them money instead of working. And if they are addicted to drugs then they sometimes turn to crime to pay for the addictions. But they may still be an asset to us if they would test out new types of housing and then giving feedback on comfort level of the new structures. They'd have somewhere comfortable to dwell and we would get feedback. This wouldn't solve the problem of begging though, or crime.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Atomic Battery
I just added a new idea to whynot.net, called "Atomic Battery" under "mobile services" you can see it here.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Relaxation/Adventure Ideas
I plan on getting an inflatable canoe($200) and life vests and ores and paddle around the area seeing the rich houses and experiencing the peace and quiet.
Then when I've gotten bored with that I will buy an inflatable dinghy($1,300) with a motor and go to private islands and camp out and do fishing and just fun.
The I will finally buy a sale boat($?) to go as far as I want and quit my job and go to maybe the osa peninsula Costa Rica or an equivalent paradise.
I might also get an electric bike that goes 50 miles/hour and 50 miles per charge because it's lithium ion, which I can use as a second vehicle that requires no maintenance except for bad batteries, and requires little insurance. I'd use it for fun and for a backup plan f my car dies and I don't want to use the bus.
I now only buy on craigs list and other internet places like ebay, because they're better deals than retail. And can then sell them back for what bought them at.
Then when I've gotten bored with that I will buy an inflatable dinghy($1,300) with a motor and go to private islands and camp out and do fishing and just fun.
The I will finally buy a sale boat($?) to go as far as I want and quit my job and go to maybe the osa peninsula Costa Rica or an equivalent paradise.
I might also get an electric bike that goes 50 miles/hour and 50 miles per charge because it's lithium ion, which I can use as a second vehicle that requires no maintenance except for bad batteries, and requires little insurance. I'd use it for fun and for a backup plan f my car dies and I don't want to use the bus.
I now only buy on craigs list and other internet places like ebay, because they're better deals than retail. And can then sell them back for what bought them at.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Lava House
I just added an idea to whynot.net called "lava house" under "home" you can see it here.
Later added,6/11/09: With powerful enough lasers you would be able to melt rock into magma in a constant stream. But that's decades away. For now you can use a blow torch, maybe one that uses hydrogen if you need to create the fuel from scratch because of rising energy prices in the future. In fact you may just elect to melt slabs of rock together at the seems to make them water tight, like on the roof.
Later added,6/11/09: With powerful enough lasers you would be able to melt rock into magma in a constant stream. But that's decades away. For now you can use a blow torch, maybe one that uses hydrogen if you need to create the fuel from scratch because of rising energy prices in the future. In fact you may just elect to melt slabs of rock together at the seems to make them water tight, like on the roof.
EEStor Will Succeed!
I now am almost totally certain that EEStor will succeed because the only reason that any scientist has for the ultra-capacitor not working is because the perfection needed for permittivity to be achieved is not possible with todays technology. But where I agree that we cannot make things perfect on the molecular level yet with semiconductor technology, I also know that we will be able to make things that perfect some day, and that it is only a matter of time. We used to only have flash memory of 1 gig, but now with the same sized device it has become more "perfect" or smaller so that the same sized device has 16 gig. Moores law is what investors relied on in the past when investing in IBM and other semiconductor companies. And moores law still holds true for EEStor. It is possible in the future and it will happen, as we make the semiconductor printing process smaller and smaller and therefor more and more perfect we will see EEStor succeed eventually. So I think in the same way that the genome was mapped at faster and faster rates until it was finally done before funding was cut, I think you will also see the predicted unveiling of EEStor's EESU sooner rather than later, and maybe even at the end of 2009 as expected.
The problem of the government getting rid of this technology in some way someday stems from the fact that it's an energy technology. Now they use oil to control people but with this capacitor technology the people in power will now be supplying electricity instead of oil as power. They will either have a monopoly on solar panels or a monopoly on their new NIF fusion energy source. Either way the people in power want to always keep their control over the masses in some way.
So when the stock is doing good and in the news the government starts saying something about the technology being a matter of national security, that's when you want to sell the stock and run for the hills because that's when eminent domain takes it over and the stock will be worthless.
The problem of the government getting rid of this technology in some way someday stems from the fact that it's an energy technology. Now they use oil to control people but with this capacitor technology the people in power will now be supplying electricity instead of oil as power. They will either have a monopoly on solar panels or a monopoly on their new NIF fusion energy source. Either way the people in power want to always keep their control over the masses in some way.
So when the stock is doing good and in the news the government starts saying something about the technology being a matter of national security, that's when you want to sell the stock and run for the hills because that's when eminent domain takes it over and the stock will be worthless.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Lost Paradise
The problem with paradise the getting to it. Paradise being an undeveloped lush place where you can sit on the beach and drink special drinks and do nothing but be alone. This usually only exists in undeveloped countries. A candidate is Osa Peninsula Costa Rica. I saw it on an episode of survivor man.
So to get there would be an extreme endeavor of travel and paperwork and risks and expenses, but if you could get there in your own boat somehow and live out of the boat and afford to not work, then you could just stay there and experience paradise for as long as you wanted.
So the hardest part about paradise is just getting there.
When I quit my job that's where I'm going, someday!
So to get there would be an extreme endeavor of travel and paperwork and risks and expenses, but if you could get there in your own boat somehow and live out of the boat and afford to not work, then you could just stay there and experience paradise for as long as you wanted.
So the hardest part about paradise is just getting there.
- Bring infinite source of obtaining food and water. Spear fish using a "Hawaiian sling" with paralyzer tip. But using nets is more efficient use of time and energy. Sweat from heat necessitates water source. You can get all the nutrition you need off of coco nuts alone, but you still need variety to stay sane.
- Bring tape and alcohol for wounds to not get infected(it's not the cut that kills you, it's the infection).
- Only beaches have coco nuts.
- Leaf rub test: Rub types of leaves on parts of arms and wait a few hours for a rash to break out, if they don't, then you have your new source of tp.
- To cool down be next to a stream that has cool mountain water.
- Move boat if there's a storm
- Just leave if you ever get bored with this type of paradise and instead visit another paradise that you saw on another episode of survivor man.
When I quit my job that's where I'm going, someday!
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Now is the time to buy gold
My dad just gave me a quick economics lesson.
Now is the time to get a hedge against inflation such as gold or real estate.
The reasons for this can be found in this quick economics lesson:
When the government wants to get more taxes but doesn't want you to know you're being taxed, what do they do?
Well one thing they do is they tax someone other than the nice people that voted for them, like lets say... the energy companies! So they say, "We won't tax you, instead we'll tax those evil energy companies in order to cut down on emissions because it's the green thing to do". But what do the energy companies do? They still need to make their percentage, so they just raise energy prices and pass the buck onto the consumer... that means you! So now through this third party you are being taxed by the government.
But some people can figure out this shell game, so what's another way they can tax you without you knowing? Well they can print money and basically borrow from themselves which is called monetizing the debt, the definition in short is "printing more money, which causes inflation". But this also means that if there is more money but the same amount of goods and services then you just do the math and the same goods and services will now cost more in dollars. But it won't hit the entire economy right away which is good because you have time to buy hedges against inflation before the effects actually hit. People say "But how will we pay off all of this debt?" Oh they don't pay it off, they just print more of what passes for money these days(lets say t-bills), so the debt will always be there.
The fact is that most people are just too stupid to know when they're being taxed. And they think that the government is stupid but, they aren't and they know exactly what they're doing and what's going on.
They had to have known about the housing bubble. Here's why. When the house lending industry was deregulated(actually meaning regulations mandating that unqualified buyers be accepted for loans. Yes this is backwards but correct). This made it so that there were now more people bidding on the same house, when there used to be only 2 qualified buyers there are now 2 qualified buyers and 8 unqualified buyers, all bidding on the same house which because of supply and demand means that the house prices went up. And when the bubble burst this was called a housing "market correction". Where all of the unqualified buyers are now not buying houses the demand went way down and so did the prices.
But houses are always a good investment even if the dollar becomes worthless because even then your renters will just pay in whatever currency is around then. And as they say, "They aren't making land anymore".
But in short whenever they say "We're monetizing the debt" you should run out and buy gold or real estate, because those are hedges against inflation. But with real estate you have leverage so that should be the main thing to buy now especially right after a market correction like this in Florida.
But the one thing I'm not sure of is that if one bar of gold now will buy the same number of loaves of bread per ounce as in the future then you're not actually making money, unless maybe you have the power of leveraging, like with houses. At least you want to retain any money you have already by converting your cash into hedges.
Now is the time to get a hedge against inflation such as gold or real estate.
The reasons for this can be found in this quick economics lesson:
When the government wants to get more taxes but doesn't want you to know you're being taxed, what do they do?
Well one thing they do is they tax someone other than the nice people that voted for them, like lets say... the energy companies! So they say, "We won't tax you, instead we'll tax those evil energy companies in order to cut down on emissions because it's the green thing to do". But what do the energy companies do? They still need to make their percentage, so they just raise energy prices and pass the buck onto the consumer... that means you! So now through this third party you are being taxed by the government.
But some people can figure out this shell game, so what's another way they can tax you without you knowing? Well they can print money and basically borrow from themselves which is called monetizing the debt, the definition in short is "printing more money, which causes inflation". But this also means that if there is more money but the same amount of goods and services then you just do the math and the same goods and services will now cost more in dollars. But it won't hit the entire economy right away which is good because you have time to buy hedges against inflation before the effects actually hit. People say "But how will we pay off all of this debt?" Oh they don't pay it off, they just print more of what passes for money these days(lets say t-bills), so the debt will always be there.
The fact is that most people are just too stupid to know when they're being taxed. And they think that the government is stupid but, they aren't and they know exactly what they're doing and what's going on.
They had to have known about the housing bubble. Here's why. When the house lending industry was deregulated(actually meaning regulations mandating that unqualified buyers be accepted for loans. Yes this is backwards but correct). This made it so that there were now more people bidding on the same house, when there used to be only 2 qualified buyers there are now 2 qualified buyers and 8 unqualified buyers, all bidding on the same house which because of supply and demand means that the house prices went up. And when the bubble burst this was called a housing "market correction". Where all of the unqualified buyers are now not buying houses the demand went way down and so did the prices.
But houses are always a good investment even if the dollar becomes worthless because even then your renters will just pay in whatever currency is around then. And as they say, "They aren't making land anymore".
But in short whenever they say "We're monetizing the debt" you should run out and buy gold or real estate, because those are hedges against inflation. But with real estate you have leverage so that should be the main thing to buy now especially right after a market correction like this in Florida.
But the one thing I'm not sure of is that if one bar of gold now will buy the same number of loaves of bread per ounce as in the future then you're not actually making money, unless maybe you have the power of leveraging, like with houses. At least you want to retain any money you have already by converting your cash into hedges.
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