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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
Did you actually look into the concept, or are you just shooting off your mouth here? Who said anything about rounding up homeless people?
http://www.climatecare.org/projects/.../human-energy/
The treadle pump is a simple device which uses human power to pump water from wells, streams and lakes. One person - man, woman or even child - can operate the pump by manipulating his/her body weight on two treadles and by holding a bamboo or wooden frame for support. These pumps displace the diesel pumps that are more commonly used.
Benefits- Replaces polluting diesel-powered pumps
- Allows 2 or 3 harvests a year, instead of 1
- Prevents farmers having to leave their families to work in the city during 'off season'
- Farmers' income increases, often between two and five-fold
I don't think anyone is saying 'to solve global warming people have to get on a treadmill like hamsters to generate power', its about finding new ways to do old things... like developing this type of pump. Sometimes you have to look into a topic before you can really say anything about it... otherwise you end up looking like an ass... like HOZ. |
Or we could just love old technology and give it a new trendy name. I mean logic is really not your strong point.
Machines were invented to free up labour. Now we are to reverse that. Great. Only one other country with such a multitude of cheap labour to draw from as India has.
But some how were are to believe that.....since it is now human labour instead of deisel pump-power, they now have more harvests? Hmmm... how did that come about? (Skip the historical facts : Machine power > human power = more food)
Now if the labour is cheaper and therefore these communities can afford to have this (like I said the labour was cheaper than the deisel) then I can see this happening. Not because we changed from deisel engine to labour but because more communities can have that all new technology called "irrigation". And because they can have irrigation they can have more more harvests and therefore their income improves.
By all means let us all go back to grinding our own wheat for our bread.