Gasifier Experimenters Kit

Untitled Documentcollaboration, rather that all that it is currently.thus the all power network and a gasifier fueled edsel bonneville landspeed record attempt and 1600gal of matthew barney vasoline powering acontainer camp squat art space in berkeley.you see anything here?do you think any of this has legs?j--------------------------------------------------------------------9.21.06later restatement of the abovei'm starting to see all this alt fuel thing as really an artificiallife endeavor. the third leg of the grand arc engineering project ofreplicating and elaborating the human animal. but a third leg we oddlynever call out as such.mechanical engineering has broadly been the replication and expansionof the physical body. artificial intelligence the replication andexpansion of cognition. with both now together as robotics. seemsthat heat engines and their varied fuel preparations are the artificalmetabolic system that powers all this. without metabolism throughoxidative respiration, there is no life. nor is there heat tomechanical energy to electrical energy, which powers all industrialprocess. this oxidative metabolism is what powers all bio physicaland cognitive entities. but the synthetic forms of this metabolismare largely ignored as a major challenge of artificial life endeavors.i'm starting to see power engineering as nothing other than thereplication and expansion of the organic chemistry of life. allbiomass based energy work is immitative of the natural transactionsaround carbon and hydrogen, ultimately fueled by solar radiation.petroleum was an easy to way to ignore it and just input ready madeproducts from ancient and dense underground sources (which were atone time solar energy packed and stored into the form ofcarbohydrates). sustainable biomass sources require engagement withhttp://whatiamupto.com/mechabolic/mechabolicthesis.html (3 of 9) [10/9/2008 08:16:56]