Gasifier Experimenters Kit

Untitled Document---------------------------------------------------------Sent: 12/20/06From: jim masonSubject: the cyborg gaia ideaalso remember, the system being suggested in all this is not really asingle animal organism, but the larger marco-metabolism of solarenergy and co2 through photosynthesis to carbohydrates to heat, motionand exhalation of co2 back into the atmosphere, so that solarradiation can start it again. a giant planetary system of powerconversion, driven by the sun.that is the larger metabolism of interest here. with our industrialmachines and fuel preps, we are still rather fragmented in all this.we have the respiration part down near perfect. but ourcarbohydrate/hydrocarbon preps are a complete mess, as in we take themout of the ground, and don't deal with any contemporaryphotosynthesis.and to the degree that we are trying to harvest solar to run thissynthetic macro-metabolic machine, we are trying to use pv, which isequally fragmenting of hte larger system. yes, pv is great, but ithas little imaginative potential when trying to get our minds aroundthe larger system.and in absolute terms, the more i read on this, the more i see thatthe biomass based inputs into our existing MASSIVE infrastructure ofsynthetic respiratory machines, is what is going to make the biggestdent in all this. not the silver bullet. but likely the mostimportant comonent that can change. well, that and nuclear. allprojections for pv are not impressive. about 90% of current energyuse on the planet is petro based. yes, even hydro and nuclear is thatsmall. all this petro fuel is burned in machines of syntheticrespiration that can already use biofuels with very minormodifications.-------------------------------------------------------------------1.27.06From: jim masonhttp://whatiamupto.com/mechabolic/mechabolicthesis.html (7 of 9) [10/9/2008 08:16:56]