Thursday, March 08, 2007
1st Stop on the Campaign Trail: Dilworth Middle School
Well yay. Sheri and I, along with Felicia and Rose--energy conservationists for Sierra Pacific, addressed 100 kids at Dilworth Middle School this morning. Sheri takes the prize cuz she rocked the presentation, making it extremely relevant and had the students engaged at about 110%. Hopefully they will all become a bit more aware of ways to conserve energy and will be motivated to make a difference. Felicia and Rose want to present to at least 10 elementary schools in conjunction with CHANGE 5. If the word ever gets out that I take long hot baths, I'm doomed.
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Yay, you go girlz. Congrats!
Not so.
Assuming your sole goal is to limit conventional energy consumption, you could heat your bathwater in a cast iron tub by burning trash underneath it. Granted, it'd take a lot of trash as it isn't particularly energy dense. Plus, you'd probably want a double-boiler thing happening, otherwise the tub's interior surface could reach temperatures much greater than that of the water contained within.
I'd suggest burning old incandescent bulbs as fuel to make a kind of symbolic point, but such bulbs are mostly vacuum, which doesn't burn particularly well.
At this point, you readership is probably thinking, "How can anything be 'mostly vacuum'?" It can't. They're correct. I guess what I meant to say is that much of the implied volume of the conventional bulb is in fact nothing, and not useful as fuel.
Now they're probably thinking, "Wow. He toadally anticipated my questions. I'm unused to that sort of understanding of my unspoken needs. I bet he r0x0rs in bed." But they'd be wrong. I never know what I'm doing.
And now we're onto, "Whoa. Why'd he bring that up? That's toadally not applicable to the subject at hand." Back to being correct again. Occasionally, I like to stop pretending I'm mentally deficient and take another path.
1920s jungle cannibal movie all the way.
srry i messd up ur blog agin
Only 10% of the energy generated by an incandescent bulb generates light. The other 90% is wasted in the form of heat. OMG HEAT MY BATH WATER DAMMIT.
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