Saturday, June 16, 2007
Prediction: 6/16/07
If the meaning of life is to have fun, then how do you have fun?
- What you are given to percieve
- What you allow or don't allow yourself to percieve, and
- How your brain interprets what you are percieving
- And all of the above are given to you by your senses/feelings however strong they are
-----For instance, an example of #1 is if you are rich you have more options or parts of life on earth to experience. But if you grew up rich then your perception of all of your extraordinary experiences would be mundaine or even boring because you grew up with it your whole life and desensitised to it. But also if you were put into a poor persons shoes after being rich your whole life it would be the worst experience ever. for you even though it's normal for everybody else.
-----An example of #3 would be if you find looking at or being with the opposite sex fun, then your perception(senses) of them is thought in your brain( based on the gene programs that made your brain, most likely) as good or fun. But the same perception (senses) of the same situation by a person without an interest in the opposite sex, would see the situation as normal or not fun based on how there bain in particular interprets the perceptions-----Also if you present yourself as a good perception(being clean/ put together) to someone you like, then it will be more likely that they will find it fun to look at or be around you. wich there are some pipe dreamers that say that they will only clean up there act after they're already in a relationship------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----An example of #2 and more is-If you get rid of all human created bad from your life, but still keep all human created good, then you would be choosing to only percieve good things, and if you could also find those things fun, by the way your brain is interpreting the perceptions(senses) (example of #3). And if you had all earthly desires and could afford to experience all aspects of life, either through new technologies or homemade utopia, or by having the money to(example of #1). Then you would effectively be the happiest person on earth. But , I guess in the end, there would still be no meaning other than survival----------------------------------------
-----I guess there's having the opportunity to be happy, and then there's actually feeling happy or having fun. And being able to sustain it the rest of your life.
Friday, June 15, 2007
House Design:6/14/07 (contd)
- (Part 2 of: "House Design")--Grey water/ Sewer/ Toiletry/ Shower- Can't have just a hole in the ground unless up north where there is permafrost because it attracts flies and has odor. So instead have a solar composter wich is is just a 1M cubed box sealed shut with a door for removal of pan with a slanted windowed side facing south one half outside and one half inside the bathroom. And instide the box is a screen to hold solids and a pan underneath to hold ashes after the compost has decomposed. The sides are made of adobe(for good insulation) and has a thick wooden top that attach the washing toilet seat to, and when not in use have an air tight seal on the hole----- Any liquid should evaporate or be needed for decomposition or be pasturised. Pasturisation is the main factor in the decontamination and again it needs to get to 200 degrees or a little less on a regular basis. Best composting is done when the carbon/ nitrogen ratio is correct so if you need more wood pulp in the pile put paper plates or cups or kitchen scraps into the pile wich is in the solar composter toilet. May also add lime for more acidity to kill bacteria faster. ----- For grey water wich is just less dirty or less hazerdous water you just pump or divert that water to non edible plants on property. This is the water that comes from shower, but sink water with food particals is considered dangerous water so that should go to compost pile, if it really matters, because gardens have rotting food as fertilizer all the time.----- Washing toilets cost 80$ for cheapest and 400$ for most expensive.----- For the water supply for the shower in bathroom you may have a tank above the ceiling that collects rainwater and filters it with a "slow sand filter" but this water may not be totally disinfected, so if that is necessary then have 2 containers of water on rotation that you boil above the roof or have a clourine tablet wich is what they already use in our public water supplies(clourine, not tablet form) and it's what we use in our pools and is safe to shower in as long as filtered when collected to get rid of any particulates before hand. So just learn how they construct safe backyard pools for homes.----- Also to heat the shower use the instant tankless water heater.
- Clothes (cont'd) ( costs 100$/year)- I left out that if you want regular clothes instead of the inventive new clothes idea , just shop on the "day after thanksgiving sale" for them when it's always 50% off, and stock up then for the rest of the year.
- These are all new ideas that deserve substantiation but if you want to live as a prehistoric technology dependant, slave to the stores, unhappy, peasant then live in your nonutopia and die after a long life living that way
- Internet(10$/mo or less)/ computer/ entertainment(maybe 30$/mo to 0.00$)- use comunity internet hotspots wich seattle is now putting everywhere. Or instead of internet, if you don't need to buy or sell things off of it all the time, just have a flash memory drive that stores an encyclopedic, all knowing, memory bank of all previous human knowledge. May get encyclopedia cd's or download wikipedia somehow. And connect to the computer for stored info or video games with a projection keyboard, and use wifi connection for external attachments and for a screen use a projection screen on a white wall as the least energy consuming / lite weight/ and small space tech there is. Also have your dvd player or videogame system hooked up to the tv with wifi connections to easilly move around your equipment.----- And for total immersion theatre or gaming have a set of goggles that play whatever is sent into the goggles thru wifi. -----For dvd collection only have 1 dvd and trade it as many times a week that you watch a new show / same with comics or books or games. Sort of like how libraries function. For the cable option, you can buy it if you're stuck at home all day, or if it's one of the only bills that you have to pay, or if you can easilly afford it .
- Actual bill payment/Job- If you could save up enough you could have all your small bills paid by an interest earning account like a CD or moneymarket account at a stockbroker(better % paid/year than a bank)- May only need to work a small amount in the future if lots of your bills are taken away if the energy crisis is solved and you use some of these ideas, and only buy items that never need to be replaced or repaired.
- Medical/ Perscribtion- Having insurance is the only way now, but universal healthcare may happen here some day like it did in Europe, wich I think should be the average illness rate of americas medical bills/mo, divided by everybody, is the amount you have to pay each month in the event that you need serious medical treatment some day( average out what the average person pays on average for medical in their entire life and pay the monthly amount of that each month , minus administration fees of course).
- Pet- I say, just get a Nintendo DS game "dogs" or "cats" and leave it at that, otherwise you'll be paying for the pet for the rest of it's life, and also its medical bills.
- Crime- A novel approach would be to have an emergency help beacon on everyones person at all times or also connected to vital functions(maybe with blackbox info), I describe a device that can send a signal thru any barrier in a previous post, wich may or may not work but the idea would probably solve crime if the criminal knew that they would most certainly be a dead man if they killed someone in the woods.
- Actual House Building Plan- Make it out of adobe bricks, of certain thickness, for best heat retention, or put glass over structure for more heat. Dig a hole in the ground the size of a room and put alluminum poles in the ground and along the sidesof pit, bent high above to make an upper domed room. Put a solid wooden floor on ground level with hole cut into it for access to the bottom room. Put chicken wire all along the exterior and interior of the alluminum frame and also so that it is flush with the wall in the under ground portion of the house. Then put the adobe bricks over the chicken wire making the ceiling of the upper room. and leave holes in the adobe for 2 doors some windows and a chimne hole in the center of the roof. And now construct a bathroom of square dimentions or curved roof attached to one of the doors of the dome. Then make an entryway for the second door with a bump or step into the front door to have no risk of water entering the front door----- Now you can put stucko all allong the outside of house and along the interior of whole house( remember you need a perfect water barrier for the underground portion of the house because if it isn't sealed it will fill to the top with water). And for the floor on the bottom of the house you may just use stucko, or for more durabillity use cement. Now create the stairs to the bottom portion of the house, and then the closable water tight chimney, and attach the solar pasturizing toilet and a rain catcher purifyer system above the bathroom and add plumbing to everything including automatic sprinklers and add all the electrical wiring that you need and solar panels or other type of power system ----- in the end add architectural features to your whole property because all modern houses may be amazingly inefficient or ineffective but what they do have is good architectural design wich is why we like to look at them and buy them----- and if you ever want to sell this house it has to pass a safety inspection, I would guess, wich should be the only reason you aren't supposed to build a house without permits or under code, because if you sold it to somebody you don't want to be responsible for their injury, but otherwise I say if it's on your own property and no one can see it or is effected by it, you should be able to do whatever you want even if they think you're risking your own safety, you know the science behind it and are self assured of own safety. And take own precautions.-----
- The main feaures of why this design is effective, are-----In a hot summer or cold winter just go to underground portion if need to. This design may be stronger in roof design than a regular house(depending on strength of alluminum poles). This house requires the least work/ expertise/ money to make successfully. It can probably even survive any storm at all, because of it's shape and height. It can never catch fire because it is made of incombustible materials(in fact stucco puts out fires) . May even be a bomb shelter. Most materials are either easilly obtainable or native materials so are free( adobe is just clay and hay or dried grass as binder)( clay is made from soil/ rock exposed to water/ air). And by digging a hole that makes less of a wall that you have to build. Save energy from super insulation. Can even plant grass or moss on the roof as an architectural statement
- Power System- The best solar panels are going to be OLED solar electric cells because they can't break and are extremely cheap. unless you have an inventive new or different power supply---- You may even produce hydrogen by anaerobic decomposition of compost. Or by disolving easy to obtain metal in a strong organic acid that grow somehow. this needs more research though. But it would be used for water/ electricity/ flame/ and maybe pressure cooling/ and in fuel cell car.
- Make your own pond by digging a giant hole and let it fill with rain water over one year, then add air to the water with water plants then add fish for free fish if the pond is big enough to support an ecosystem to feed them off of, or you feed them with a bag of fish food .
- Tables/ Desks/ Chairs/ Bed/ Furniture/ Pictures/ Storage- have everything lite weight and collapsable and not breakable for least work or have well designed sturdy appealing furniture for being more fun to look at. -----I suppose if you didn't have many material posetions like books(replaced by encyclopedic computer) or entertainment(dvd's , comics, books, games- replaced by trading) then you may only need one shelf for collectables or favorite or sentimental artifacts. -----And for pictures just have them all on flash memory, and have a backup card, and put them into a high resolution or big digital picture frame. ----- bed may just be the mattress because I find every bed frame always breaks unless it weighs a ton or is built into the house itself- sheets should be just like a pillow case so that they don't ever slip off, and then whatever blankets you want------ for storage have a storage shed kit so that it's out of the way of your new clean/ absent of any clutter, house.
- Add-Ons - Hot tub/ Pool/ Sauna/ Screened porch/ camera /camcorder/ public utilities/ trash/ sewer/ garage/ office/ gym / studio
Thursday, June 14, 2007
House Design:6/14/07
- -----Cooking(requires power)/Dishes/Fridge(requires power)- 1 option is to have a microwave/convection/bake oven all in one unit to consolidate all functions of cooking(drawbacks are cooking many different items at once)and have an infra red burner for easy to clean cooktop-----The 2nd option is for the least maintenance possible to have an outdoor infra red barbecue that is powered by solar cells,(or newer power system) and for cold days have an outdoor heater by the barbecue,----- and for pots and pans if you didn't even clean them except rinse them off and then heated them on the barbecue they would be disinfected thru "pasturization" and there would be effectively no need for cleaning of pots / pans except for rinsing for the bulk of dirt-----and for dishes you would have paper plates and paper cups and metal utencils and clean the utensils w/ soap and clean filtered / boiled water. This way you buy the paper plates and cups instead of water/ energy/soap for a dishwasher. And to get rid of the plates and cups either burn or put in a compost pile that requires it-----and for keeping leftovers, or crop overrun, and cold drinks, and ice you may want a fridge run off of solar power, or some cultures in warm climates just always pick fresh produce from their property and eat meat from a barbecue party of some sort every sunday, with no leftovers
- Water heater(requires power)/clothes washer/dryer- For hot water use an "instant tankless water heater" where using the water is the lowest energy use possible by only heating the water on-demand and for more hot water flow at a time just connect 2 instant water heaters in series, this also saves on the space taken up from the conventional storage tank water heaters; the cost of an instant tankless water heater is $180-$400 now, electric powered is best-----for washer and dryer you may choose a washer dryer combo unit that saves on space and energy and water, but there is an inventive solution to get rid of them mostly- if you made a shirt out of a material that was stretchy or strong and never ripped(maybe kevlar) and also didnt absorb dirt but was still a breathable fabric- then you could put the shirt over a shirt shaped panel or grid and clean it with alcohol/ perfume mix and wipe off the dirt with a brush or another cloth . ----- The alcohol acts as a disinfectand and as a mild solvent loosening the dirt and the perfume is to get rid of odor and the brush is to loosen and take off the dirt. But supposedly with this system you wouldn't require the massive amounts of water and your cleaning would be done in 10 minutes instead of 2 hours and would dry instantly requiring no high electricity using dryer. and also the space saving and the soap buying costs would be replaced with alcohol/ scent buying cost.----- The one drawback other than slight work is of washing blankets or other thick clothe used for insulating properties usually. So you may want a washer around just in case anyway or go to the cleaners wich is what you do with expensive quilts anyway.
- Supplies(have to pay)- for sure will need laundry soap or alcohol/ dish soap, bar soap, shampoo, chemicals(vinegar, alcohol,etc., all nontoxic though) toothpaste, deodorant, clothes, haircut, and paper plates/bowls/cups- I always find that with all of these supplies the cheaper it is the better the quality of the product all around or the better bang for your buck( for the reason they're only common/ known chemical formulas that you can't improove on)----- now for the other supplies of daily life I will explain why they might not be needed------light bulbs- may not need of my light collection device works otherwise use flouresent and only replace once in 2 or more years -10$/year.-----entertainment- you may be able to buy a dvd or a comic or a game used and then sell it right after done using it on ebay or trade with friends. otherwise seeing movies in theatres is an expence if you like doing that -10$+/mo-----Foil/wrap- may use hardly any if you use sturdy tupperware-5$/year-----TP- if you had a washing toilet with a washlet then you could make your own toilet paper if you made your own water and used that instead- warm water line supplied by the tankless waterheater/ and a cold water line under a certain pressure each- cost of one of these seats is 180$ and up but lasts forever and self cleaning parts(but you want household cleaners just in case)-cost= maybe 0.00 if self sufficient system-----trash bags- you don't need if you don't produce solid waste( or for the little that you do produce use grocery bags)cost=0.00-----paper towels -you don't need to buy if you use rags(lots of them for different purposes and rotation of use)- otherwise use them if they're cheap or you can afford it because they're biodegradable or burnable and are less work to do- cost maybe at 3 rolls in 2/3 of a year is about 4$/year-----stationary- instead may use pda with flash card storage or computer with cd storage(always have back-up disks or files)----- laundry sheets and soap may not be needed if you use the inventive idea above- cost= maybe 0.00-----dvd+r(w)may want if not a minimalist-cost= 20$/year(always buy the good brand or will get corrupted dvd's- go to radioshack)-----boxes- just buy them when you move 20$/year(get rid of all the stuff that you haven't used in a year-sell stuff on ebay instead of a garage sale)-----in all my estimate for my supply budget is about 10$/mo +/- 5$/mo
- Phone(have to pay)- get a cell phone that never breaks and gets power from radio waves or just charge at night if not self charging in some way like solar cell battery that hook to at night but either way you need to pay a phone bill from monopoly so 20$-40$/mo
- Calendar/datebook/phone#'s/address book- may use pda with flash memory and backup
- Important paper work/ backup disks- keep in a lockbox hidden(beauracracy is a human made problem so far and if you have ID theft then it's not even a sure thing
- Tools/ Supplies/ Experiments- as humans we always need to alter our environment so it's important to have all the tools needed and supplies needed so have consolidated into one box unless big tools
- Car(requires power)- in the perfect world we should all be flying easy to use ultralite helicopters-for the reasons of not needing to maintain and expand roads with taxes, using up valuable land and also wasting time in traffic and alsoyou have access to anywhere no matter how remote. Supposedly if my electron device works it will make this and all other things possible----- well other than that the best car out there is the "Tesla Roadster" wich performs just as good as a high end sports car without a single one of the drawbacks and if you want to travel long distance it will go 250 miles on one charge wich I travel and know that 200 miles is driving from when you wake up to when you make a hotel reservation. so then charge it at night for 4 hrs like a cell phone and leave the next day
- lighting(may need power)-my light capture device or solar powered flouresent
- Heating(may need power)/cooling- in a cave it's a constant 45 degrees all year round so I propose having the same for a house by making the house out of old fashioned "adobe"/stucko and having half of the house underground and may only then need warm clothes when cold and a "heated top" chimney to circulate air on a hot day----- and if that doesn't work then have an electric space heater when cold and have a chimney when it's hot instead of a fan and go to the underground portion of the house when it's hot
- cleaning- dusting-waft dust in the air with a duster and let the chimney (heated top is low pressure and open window is high pressure creating draft) suck the dusty air out of the house----- sweeping/vacuuming - always have wood floors and wear socks- because carpets are a human made problem that only creates dust and has to be replaced and serves no actual realistic purpose- and have a swivel sweeper wich uses battery power and if it actually has suction power then it is the best designed vacuum ever created----- disinfection/deep cleaning-use the cheap household chemicals described in "haileys hints"-water softener/cream of tarter/ amonia/ white vinegar/ hydrogen peroxide/(white)toothpaste/hair spray/ bar of soap/ rubbing alcohol/ always cold water-but you mostly only need these if you have oldfashioned cooktop or dishes or old type toilet wich may be possible to eliminate , but shower and sink have to stay
- food/ fruit/ veggie/herb/ meat-meat you can trap or hunt or fish for if you don't have to live in the city-----fruit/ veggie/ herb- grown at home and traded with neighbors and stored in freezer----- dairy/ wine/ chocolate'and other rare items that are also bad for you are put together in different ways for all food needs
- water(requires power)-fresh water may be from a water producing plant like vines (grapes) or fruit juice and to water in a drought just have a storm water collection pond of semiclean water and water the plants with that, using an electric pump or down hill and an automatic sprinkler system(pretty straight forward to set up) clean water can also be made with a polyethelene terephthalate bottle put in the sun for 6 hours until a temperature of I think 160 degrees for 30 minutes at least but if you get it wrong it could be dangerous so look it up on the internet----- otherwise for all other water needs either use a slow sand filter or a normal filter of some kind and then use that for most tasks (shower- if it's clean enough for that,and toilet)and for sink water or totaly disinfected water you should boil it and keep it in a clean tank(plastic) or if the instant tankless waterheater is hot enough it may heat the water enough for disinfection if the bacteria die that fast.
- (to be continued...)