Re: OT - Re: Program templates as Object Classes

From: SkippyPB (swiegand_at_neo.rr.NOSPAM.com)
Date: 12/08/04 

Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 11:11:31 -0500

On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 21:21:08 GMT, Robert Wagner
<spamblocker-robert@wagner.net> enlightened us:

>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.
>

That is just pure bunk! Commercial and residential buildings account
for over one-third of the energy consumed in the U.S. and dictate
two-thirds of the electrical generating capacity requirements.

See a real article with real facts at:
http://solar.colorado.edu/comp/what.shtml

While grain-fed livestock farming is costly and non-sustainable in
terms of the use of fossil fuels, it does not even come close to be
one third of the energy consumed in the U.S. An article on Cornell U.
website at
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Aug97/livestock.hrs.html
gives more specifics. On average, animal protein production in the
U.S. requires 28 kilocalories (kcal) for every kcal of protein
produced for human consumption.

>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.
>

U.S. agriculture accounts for 87 percent of all the fresh water
consumed each year. Livestock directly use only 1.3 percent of that
water. But when the water required for forage and grain production is
included, livestock's water usage rises dramatically. Every kilogram
of beef produced takes 100,000 liters of water. Some 900 liters of
water go into producing a kilogram of wheat. Potatoes are even less
"thirsty," at 500 liters per kilogram. In comparison, soybean
production uses 2,000 liters for kilogram of food produced; rice,
1,912.

>I forgot, what were you saying about energy efficiency?

Regards,

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