CONSERVATION OF RESOURCES VS. HUMAN COMFORT

Hi freinds,..

This piece must be read in whole.
No piece-meal reading...PLEASE...


While we talk about conservation of energy /resources we actually expend quite a good amount of energy and resources unnecessarily.

Here is a debatable point.-HOW MUCH SPENDING IS NECESSARY???
Frankly...I have no clear answer to this question.

Take for example, for a journey of, say, 5 KM,

• one person may think, he/she should take four wheeler since it is very hot outside and there is no public transport at the moment...
• But, another person mayt think...hey..i am just only one person..I take my bike..and beat the traffic...never mind hotness...
• Yet another person may think.....just 5 KM..I have enough time ..let me plan visit just when public transport(bus) is available.

Different person think different way... then who is correct..or which is best option..???

I feel, all the three persons are correct in their own way. But, answer to next part -best option....best option for comfortable journey is travel by four wheeler..

best option which balance of time and convinience is journey by bike..

Stricktly from conservation of energy point of view the ..journey by public transport is best option.

oH!!! ALL OPTIONS LOOK THE BEST option

!!$$###$^^^ confusing...#$@#^&&&!!!!

Well, having narrated a simple daily life example... let me try to answer the puzzle...as to what one has to do -spend energy OR forego comfort..??

One can easily measure how much enrgy/resource is spent in a particular activity. But, how much comfort one gets out of the activity done in ones own way is difficult/or impossible to measure. What is the solution???

MIND CONTROL

YES, that is exactly...citizens must do... to conserve energy..

(just when comfort heavily weighs in its favour against 'saving energy')

HOw to control mind....I have few solutions.. and.....you may have many more..

TO BIGIN WITH...

• just wait few more minutes in the morning to switch on fan to beat heat.
• just avoid..switching on AC in your car for few more KMs.
• Don't drive the distance...that you can cover by bicycle..or just by walk..(forget about spending extra minutes for this ...lost minutes !!!!! can always be brought back by time mangement !!!!!)
• few lights or no lights are required to brighten corridors of so many big buildings during the day time...(Next time.. when we see glowing bulb competing with sun shine..just avaoid such unhealthy compition...SWITCH OFF...)

I look forward from readers to suggest more ways and means to save energy..

thnx for the pateint reading..

CONSERVE WATER

Hi freinds,

More often than not, we just leave tap on..and keep us engage in activities like washing with soap, brushing teeth, shaving, washing /cleaning vessels, ...and so son.
We, urban people r oblivious to the fact that-water has been pumped for us from reservoirs/water source...several tens of Kilo Metres...and we hardly think...how much enrgy(both electrical, mechanical) and manpower spent in getting water at our reach. My own conservative estimate that-every day, every family (say of 4-5 people), must have wasted about 50 litres (minimum). Think of an urban area with 1000 families...the wastage comes to 5000 litres.
Wait...!!!! .....I haven't added the wastage due to leakage in supply lines....malfunctioning of taps.( about 50% of taps have some minor to major leakage problems...)
I tend to think....even though..we have sent man to moon...we r yet to have simple, durable, cost effective water taps.

I am sure ..there may be some paper/book/document with stringent ISI standards /specifications for taps used for domestic purpose. Alas...!!..!!...but reality stares at us...with water flowing in our homes....as if we r on the shores of GANGA, YAMUNA......

my next blog ....please wait

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Energy saved is ENERGY generated- crazy ideas..

Hi freinds..

Title is self -explanatory....

haaa..haa..what else there to write on....

Well, I have few crazy ideas (read imagination..)
Who knows..when our oil reserve comes to an end....my ideas could be just way of life in 22nd or 23rd century..

ONE. Have a large area with full of solar panels and a big capacitor (whatever that can store light energy and transform into elctric enrgy).... and hurray !!!!!! you have plenty of energy,.....to lit your home..run ur gadgets (possible all r miniaturised and consume very very less enrgy. But, am not sure, whether we can geenarate energy in 100 MW to run big machines..etc.

TWO. Movement of Waves at sea shore...could be another mechanism to generate energy. Have some electromagenetic arrangement which run on such cotinuous movement of waves( may be some calculation/adjustement /mechanical devices required to synchronise with regulated Power supply @50 Hz cycle.)

THREE. Lot of us go for walk, jogging, running, jumping..(various physical exercise to burn extra calaries... I just want somebody to invent such a device..where human physical exercise itself is INPUT. And such a device OUTPUTs electrical energy (or device must have energy generating arrangement and energy storage/supply system as well).
To put it simply......while burning calory..we generate energy...haaa..haaa..

More in my next blog...