Energy

Going somewhere? Food had to move to get to you, so did those Amazon Prime boxes you ordered online. Even if you work from home there is a system of energy exchange happening in industrial systems & nature continually causing emissions & changes. 

Everything constantly changing & nothing lasts forever. Even stars in space burn up & have a stellar burn cycle & eventually die as they run out of things to fuse in fusion energy processes that cause stars to emit so much heat & light during their operational life. A modern human lives around 75 years. 

Homes depending on their construction & natural hazards & disasters can last up to several hundred years, with some masonry examples in very stabile areas lasting thousands of years. Even the contentments of Earth are in a state of flux because of plate-tectonics moving the mantle or crust of the Earth in a dynamic continually changing kind of way. 

So if life is temporary, and you cannot take money or things with you after you body dies, what's with all the obsessive greed & materialism, vanity & radically wasteful excess needless consumption thats driving ecosystems into degradation with pollution & thoughtful inconsiderate overdevelopment & human over population as we are moving towards having 10 billion people alive at the same time?

If the US Government runs a national debt & keep debt spending, then why are only 93 million people in America filing taxes with the IRS, especially when there is around 430 million people in the USA? 

Why do billionaires & other hyper wealthy elite income earning Americans not pay their fair share of the taxes that are legally withheld from the paychecks of all the working honest hollowed out middle class who can barely afford life's basics now as the cost of food, fuel, housing & everything else on the rise as the fiat currency or USD keeps losing it value due to quantum easing & inflation respectively? 

I could ask why questions about why all the worlds problems continue un-solved, but I already know the answer. Political For Sale to the Highest Bidder, often Satan who uses demons to trick & confuse people with thoughts that even sound like their own inner monolog. This must be the case if someone like Vladimir Putin ordering the Russian Military to shoot military rockets into apartments filled with children & innocent unarmed regular people. That's evil & sick like what the CCP did in the Tiananmen Square Incident in China. Why does the rest of the world allow Russia to get away with continually destroying the Ukraine with terrorism & crimes against humanity? Here is an even better question. Why is every human person a flawed hypocrite sinner, but 99.99 of people are nothing like Vladimir Putin? Well in part, it's because every human person is slightly different on every possible level. One person's sin area often different than that of another person.

Some people have an area of weakness with food excess for example. I have watched TV shows & other content with people who have body masses of greater than 600lbs, who rarely live past 40 years of age, though I had an 800lb aunt who lived to 88 years of age. So obesity itself does not kill people, but it does make them disabled & very hard for them to get around. Her persona vehicle was a modified Ford F450 diesel that had to have upgraded suspension to accommodate moving her amazingly high body mass around on one side the vehicle without causing it to be off balance. 

She showed me as a little boy what she ate every day. It was more than 10,000 calories of all matter of foods. I can barely eat enough food to keep my body weight & if I eat more I get sick & feel like death, like keeling over & dying. Eating in excess saps my body energy, gives me a high blood sugar, makes me feel tired, sore, depressed, angry, frustrated, easily annoyed, irritable, negative, pessimistic, & in general makes all the thinks I hate about life bubble up in my mind causing a toxic negative spiral downward inside my mind that feels like wrecking ball of inhibiting toxic thoughts. So my personal weakness not food abuse, I actually have to force myself to eat when I am not hungry, even when eating makes me feel worse, just to keep my 160lbs body weight. 

I was watching a YouTube show about a small cheap solar electric city car with a maximum forward speed of 45 KMP/h or about 30 MPH & range of about 50KM. In the Netherlands where this little Smart Car sized solar EV unit selling, its flat & cloudy & rainy, so the 800w solar array only adds about 20km of range of solar electric charging per day if the vehicle left outside parked in brighter unshaded areas when its daytime. Amazingly, if I hyper-mile our 2019 Nissan LEAF SV I can get 4.9 miles per kWh. This little Solar Electric Dutch city car gets 12 miles per kWh. You can watch the Fully Charged Show on YouTube to see exactly what I am talking about. We can't use Amsterdam's road infrastructure as a transportation analogy for the rest of the world. 

My otherwise exceptional Hiboy S2 electric kick scooter for example really struggles with the hills around nearby. I was trying to keep the mass or weight under 30lbs or 14kg so that it would be feasibly safe to lift into & out of a car, but this means the battery smaller & electric motor only 500watts, with a top speed of 18.6 MPH, its actually able to cruse at 12 MPH for about 1.5 hours. It has human bicycle like performance for a short commute, not the highway intensive route that I take between Issaquah & Downtown Bellevue, though there are about 10 different ways to get from where we life now to where I work, most are slower. In the LEAF going slightly faster, its 12 minutes in low early morning traffic to go 9.8 miles. I can bicycle the same route in about an hour or slightly less. The PCX-150 brilliant for lane splitting around traffic congestion no matter which way I go. Our MT03 also great, except the Segway MP, Kick Scooter, Scooter & Motorcycle & Bicycle are not fun or enjoyable to use in cool raining or cold raining weather. I call these warm weather or fair weather vehicles. 

So it's fair to say that people are going places. The cheapest & easiest way to get around on foot walking, but with 2 or 3 miles or 4-5 kilometers per hour, walking not a fast way nor are most people able to walk 15 miles or more, especially not in a time efficient way for commuting. Also on foot, your ability to carry bags of groceries, a water bottle & other gear limited by the kinds of packs you are carrying, worst case being only the pockets in your body clothing. People who study urban mobility suggest that a walkable city has assets that people living in multifamily complex can walk to within 15 minutes at normal average walking speeds. This makes the suburban sprawl in most local in America unworkable as walkable cities. In the Northwest near Seattle where we live, huge mountains & large hills make walking be between cities more like hiking, physically intensive. 

I remember walking home from Eastgate Elementary as a school boy & scaling the 450ft tall hill on foot for about 2 miles to get home & it would take me about 20-30 minutes to walk home after school. My dad or mom took me to school in one of their cars on their way to work as realtors in the morning. I felt safe walking as a small boy, back then there were fewer weirdos out looking to abduct small boys, not to say there were none nearby, just no school shooting or fewer signs of profound social decay back then in the late 1980s & early 1990's respectively, in South Bellevue, Wa, USA. Homes that sold for under $100,000 in this area when I was a boy are currently selling for more than $650,000, often more than $800,000 & sometimes over $1,000,000 today. That's called home price inflation or gentrification more broadly referring to the income gap making it harder & more expensive for sensors on a fixed retirement income & new families looking to become home owners for the first time. This property inflation also unfair to everyone because of property taxes that keep increasing. 

The Anthology Apartment that we live in was built on what was originally a farm on the south side of Interstate 90 or I90 east in Issaquah, along Newport Way that runs parallel to i90 for example. The problem stems from so many people with big incomes wanting to live within 10 miles of Lake Washington. More specifically, techies working for Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, Boeing & other tech companies nearby created a high income housing demand which causing home prices to increase by 3X within the last 10 years, or if you do price inflation since I was a small boy, thats more than 18% annual increases, fare more than wages increased. So normal working people have been priced out & forced to move to cheaper locals & often to commute long distances in traffic using a gasoline fuel automobile. Around here is actually considerate almost impossible to hold down a steady job without owning a car or similar SUV, Truck. There are tons of Tesla electric, Hybrid electric Toyota Prius, Nissan LEAF & other energy efficient newer vehicles nearby. Meg counted 24 Teslas & 27 other electric cars during a 12 mile drive yesterday. Today she saw over 50 different electric vehicles. The Chevy Bolt & Bolt EUV, Ford Mustang MachE & Many many Tesla Model 3, Model Y, Model S, the Rivian RT electric Truck, many Hyundai & Kia electric cars, tons of Nissan LEAF's and Meg is not a car person or even familiar with all the battery electric models. I see a ton of VW ID electric vehicles on my way to & from work & while I am out driving the school bus. 

The human body makes energy from foods & beverages containing calories as the food energy measurement. Our microbes in our guts liquify food so the biomolecules from food can pass the membranes in our small intestine & be taken into the blood stream where these nutrients, macro & micro nutrients are buffered all around the body in the circulatory system of arteries & veins. The citric acid cycle or TCA the metabolic way that the body converts proteins, starches, sugars, fats,  fibers & vitamins into human body energy for thought or thinking in the brain & related CNS control of the skeletal muscles to enable human movement of all variests, so that people can perform a bewildering number of different kinds of tasks. The human hand & especially the thumb enables remarkable control of so many different kinds of things. Consider the Olympics & Olympic Athlete's & the way their brains control their bodies, absolutely incredible if you think about it. Some people are exceptionally gifted athletically. Others are intelligent to the point of doing well as contestants on Jeopardy. Some artists & contractors are exceptionally gifted at solving visual problems on the seat of their pants in real time. 

I was sitting in my car at the local L3 charging station nearby charging the LEAF SV battery pack fort 20 minutes early this morning when it was still dark outside. The lights from the Dealer were causing a very interesting distortion image on the front window that I had turned the wiper blades off. No reason to clear rain when I am parked for 20min, that works better when driving. The reason that cars have windshield wipers is because rain droplets cause visual distortion so the human visual system has a hard time making sense of what's happening in front of the vehicle when the light hitting eyes contains a lot of chaotic visual distortions. The atmosphere creates distortions like this for ground based telescopes, providing the logical reasoning to develop the Hubble Space Telescope & the much more amazing successor the James Web Space Telescope. 

Our brain are always tying to make sense of reality. This is mixed bag when people are trying to call the shots on their own. This is why most elementary schools require so many different staff to orient the small children. On their own, children are dangerous to themselves because they have not had a chance to learn enough about the world to operate as an adult. Some adults have similarly undeveloped understands that make them dangerous drivers or worse. Not all people are fit to adopt pets for example & similarly not everyone is fit to be a parent of children. That's just true. That's not my personal opinion alone, thats is widely help belief because its true. Some people are insane & neglect or abuse their children. Some people belong in a padded room or prison. There are bad actors in the world, I already gave examples above. 

We have to keep our guard up, someone is going to steal you car, bicycle, stuff from your home or workplace. Some people even steal other peoples ideas without giving attribution so they can take credit for others ppl;es thinking. This is why software patents are bogus. No one writing software code actually coming up with a truly novel idea on their own. To even understand a programming language they have two study the works of other people extensively drawing on many examples of existing & prior code work. Most software so complicated that it's developed with teams of people, often many dozens of teams with each team with 5 to 8 people. Meg' says "it takes a village to raise a child" as an allegory to this example of collaborative technical team work. All amazing products are the cummuluativbe collectible works of thousands or millions of people over long times scales working together across time & place & history. It took over 20 years & over 20 million hours of engineering to make JWST at NASA & then send it into space so it cam image the universe dim light sources & beam imaging data back to Earth's World Wide Web so you can I can see what the JWST imaging in Space on NASA's website. 

Consider how many different recipes exist & how they have evolved throughout history in different locals, different cultures, different language, using what was then available as ingredients. Many people now, even on Youtube are making food dishes using ancient recipes from hundreds of years ago. I have said this before, but humans are really good at moving forward while reflectively considering what was happening recently. We have a future past focus that blends what was, with what is & what will be, some people able to predict with good fidelity what will be happening in the 5th Industrial Revolution by examining what got us through the first 3 industrial revolutions & what is powering the 4th Industrial Revolution, robotics & AI of all kinds, today. 

Consider CGI in Hollywood as an example off computers blending with creative works to make amazing content possible, only recently because of the radical advances made in IT or information technology over the last century, from early telegraph too 5G NR mobile broadband in smartphone supercomputers & information jewelry that people regularly wear today, like the 8th Gen Apple Watch or latest Samsung Gear smartwatch. People in well to do areas are always upgrading their electronics, vehicles, homes, clothing, so much they throw perfectly good items, still working & useful into nearby trash dumpster where other less privileged people are able to glean these good nice luxury items, sometimes to sell for money or income or to use. 

You cannot get something with nothing in Physics. In chemistry there are no reactions happening without reactants interacting. People do not just exist, we are dependent on ecosystems in our bodies & on our bodies to live, to have an immune system, to digest food, to be safe from pathogenic microbes & bad bacteria, parasites & parasitic fungi & other viral particles & bad pests that give people diseases. Our gut flora, skin flora, colon flora, mouth flora, nasal flora, eye flora, hair flora, nail flora, belly button flora, our vaginal or penal flora, there are many kinds of ecosystems inside & on the human body. This is why so many chemical toxins cause diseases, they kill the ecosystems that help human cells thrive. Herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, insecticide, many of the chemicals sprayed in agriculture were modeled after or are analogs of chemical weapons designed to kill people. 

Synthetic chemical toxins get into the body & interfere with hormones signaling, energy exchange, ion exchange, knocking homeostasis out of balance. POP or persistent organic pollutants for example are well documented to cause diseases. Many of the synthetic chemicals, dye, color, flavor, stabilizers & preservatives added to processed foods are also chemically toxic to the human body, especially when mixed with others present in the average human diet. 

Unholy, immoral, unethical, thoughtless, inconsiderate, evil development means ignorant mowing down of nature no matter who or what it hurts, like Russia shooting missiles into unarmed apartment complexes in the Ukraine, that's not progress & it will not make Russia great, it will ruin the Russian economy & waste all of Russian military resources & cause a lot of death & suffering & damage to infrastructure that's eco-toxic to repair because of the resource strain that rebuilding creates on more masonry, more pipe, more wires, more of everything needed. 

Mining & making all of those things creates carbon emissions, acid run off drainage, ecosystem destruction, deforestation, air pollution, water pollution, acid rain & worse. Again we can't make & move stuff around without creating impacts, so it is the huge scale of human activity, especially wasteful ignorant war where people are killing other people, that's actually insane when you say it out loud & think about it. How can we be making good progress as a human race if some bad actors are busy wasting life killing people for political & monetary gains that benefit a tiny minor at the expense of the majority ?