OT - Re: Program templates as Object Classes

From: Robert Wagner (spamblocker-robert_at_wagner.net)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 21:21:08 GMT

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 21:11:31 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashwood@enternet.co.nz> wrote:

>The coffee grinder makes a brilliant cheese grater, and the microwave
>generates little hurricanes with lightning flashes inside dixie cups for
>entertainment,

Gold rimmed cups give better pyrotechnical effects.

>Ever costed the energy requirement to bake bread on the dry cycle of your
>dishwasher?

I make it up by walking to work, and home for lunch.

>And you wonder why the US gets a bad name...

We have a bad name? Really? I thought we were the good guys.

>The rest of us are using energy
>efficient devices, trying to limit CO2 emissions and there's good old Wagner
>making bread with a dishwasher.

One third of energy consumed in the US is used to produce meat.
Every pound requires twenty million joules, nearly all from fossil
fuel. That's 5,000 'calories' or 7.5 horsepower-hours. To give it some
perspective, if you eat meat and walk one kilometer, you consumed more
energy than a small car driving one kilometer.

Rice requires more water than any other food plant. Producing a pound
of meat consumes ten times as much water as a pound of rice. If meat
production was not subsidized via irrigation projects, a pound of
hamburger in the US would cost $35.

I forgot, what were you saying about energy efficiency?

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