Gasifier Experimenters Kit

Untitled Documentimagine that when you were buying your biodiesel, you had a choice of"indian", "thai", "italian", "sushi", etc. that you could choose theoil base of the fuel you were buying, and have to pay differentlydepending on what it was, and how pleasant it is to smell while youare driving. instead of different octane grades, you have choices ofsmell. with all the jokes and play that follows.smell is one of the few direct sensory returns from fuel, other thanones in the imagination (which maybe are mostly of interest to me), sosmell seems the place to differentiate them.the smell industry is giant. the car customization industry is giant.as soon as there is opportunity for vanity and distinguishing oneselfthrough customization, people will pay. and in doing so often pursuethings of greater quality and creativity in the process.which is the critical turn we need to make with fuels.fuel should not be an invisible need fulfillment problem. a zero sumgame of solving a problem so we can forget about it, only concernedwith economic optimization. but rather relearning it as an expressivemedium, whereby we can get past zero and into other areas of interestwith it. pleasure, play, learning, humor, community, etc.and thereby release fuels from their raw btu/$ calculus, and open theminto a realm where much more than btus are being transacted. when wasthe last time you saw food in the market costed by the calorie? i'venever seen a food label that said, "these noodles are 10cal/cent."which is essentially how we label the food for our mechanical animals.it seems to me that the personal meaning and opportunities of fuel forour machines are as rich as food for ourselves- which long ago leftthe realm of raw starch and burned meat.but currently there is no where to buy such "otherwise" distinguishedfuels. hmmm . . .j---------------------------------------------------------------------------http://whatiamupto.com/mechabolic/mechabolicthesis.html (5 of 9) [10/9/2008 08:16:56]