Quote of the Day - [3]

mickey megabyte said:

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

Thomas Alva Edison, inventor (1847-1931)

Just a thought: I wonder how civilization would have progressed had oil and coal not been discovered?

erm, not quite sure what point you're trying to make (if any).

I'll try and elaborate.

No coal: what would have powered our coal-fired power stations and our home fires? Wood probably, so how would we have kept up with the tree planting needed constantly?

No oil: without oil there probably wouldn't be a car industry, no airline industry, no heavy engineering, no world wars, in fact we'd probably still be living in small communities that never travelled further than a few miles.

As I said, it was just a thought. Perhaps I should have kept it to myself. :)

i don't think edison was slagging off fossil fuels per se, but merely suggesting that cleaner and renewable sources are preferable.

what's wrong with that?

I wasn't suggesting that there was anything wrong with it at all, in fact his suggestion is preferable.

I was just trying to imagine how things would be today had fossil fuels not been diiscovered.

Dinesh said:

JMH said:

THE PARADOX OF OUR AGE

We have bigger houses but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time;

We have more degrees, but less sense;
more knowledge, but less judgement;
more experts, but more problems;
more medicines, but less healthiness;

We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet
the new neighbor.

We build more computers to hold more
information to produce more copies then ever,
but have less communication;

We have become long on quantity,
but short on quality.

These are times of fast foods
but slow digestion;

Tall men but short character;
Steep profits but shallow relationships.

It's a time when there is much in the window,
but nothing in the room.

The 14th Dalai Lama

{Ken & Jan}

Thanks for sharing. :)

A pleasure Dinesh.
Certainly "food for thought!"