Jim Dwyer itibaren Goryń, Poland

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12/22/2024

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2018-04-29 04:41

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There are two stories playing out here. The first is the story of three people chasing each other: The Longing Heart, the Jealous Heart, and the Indecisive Heart. It’s a story as old as the Bible and as recent as today’s soap opera episode. In this version, it is a man and two women, the man indecisive about what he wants, one woman longing for him, the other woman jealous that he is indecisive about who he wants. I have seen this played out many ways – a boy and two girls, and girl and two boys, all boys, all girls, and any manner of hetero and homosexual attraction and pairings – and any way you figure it, the equation always equals pain for someone. And its heartbreaking to watch – even in the lightest, most carefree French farces, there is an element of sadness underneath all the laughter that someone can’t be with who they love. The second story is also very old, often retold and seen throughout the history of human stories. It is the story of the animal, plant, angel, demon, doll, puppet, statue, house, computer, android, hologram, cell phone, etc that has the self awareness to know its not human – and longs with all its inhuman (and possible non-existent) heart to be human so that they can have a shot at being loved. Johnson did her homework on 10th century Japan, bringing to life every detail the life of the royal courtiers. A glossary of some sorts would have been nice to explain a few things, but context clues get the gist of it across and it is easy to see that these people were more wrapped up in rigid customs and rules than the residents of Versailles. One of her main characters, the nobleman Yoshifuji, is emo way before it was cool, wandering around and practically bumping into things, his head is so far into the clouds (or up his butt, depending on how tolerant you are of his I–am-comfortably-well-off-with-no-practical-problems-so-life-is-meaningless angst. ) Shikujo is his wife and doesn’t know what to do with him, in love with him, yet frustrated that he isn’t playing along with the game like the rest of the court, and also frustrated by the inkling that there is more to life than being a 10-century Japanese edition of a Stepford wife, yet having no idea how to break out of that restricting mold. And then there is the fox, who longs with all her foolish heart to be human and to be loved, eager to run towards it, paying no heed to her grandfather’s warnings that foxes who gain a human heart risk breaking it…

2018-04-29 05:41

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Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları

Basic premise is the USA could be energy independent in 10 years by going with alcohol rather than petroleum based economy. He suggest using both Ethanol (but admits to replace all USA oil consumption would require all 4x current agricultural output) and methanol. I have not heard much about methanol. It is about ½ as energy dense as gasoline (and 2/3 as much as ethanol). But it can be made from Coal and Natural Gas very easily. It costs around $0.93/gallon currently, so without subsidy it would be $1.86 per gallon. Which is slightly higher than current (March 2009 price for gasoline is $2.00 at the pump but includes a $.050 road taxes which leaves gasolean about $1.50). When this book was written Gas was at $3.00, so Methanol was very competitive. The best part of the book covered the Brazilian history. Basically, the country went to Alcohol from Sugar Cane in the 70s due to the fall of sugar prices (70% drop in prices in 1975) and the rise in oil. First, they mandated 10% ethanol mix. Then 15% to a maximum of 24% for conventional vehicles. Then they started to push ethanol cars. The state oil company was ordered to add ethanol pumps at each service station. Then oil prices skyrocketed in 1979 and then the market share of ethanol cars went to 30%. By 1986 oil prices crashed and made oil cost less than ethanol. Brazil was in trouble with the IMF by subsiding ethanol but kept a 20% mixture. Now they are pushing flex fuel vehicles and now these vehicles at 100% of the new car sales. Brazil is now a net exporter of energy. Another interesting piece was on Hydrogen as a fuel. Too expensive to generate (There is no hydrogen free in the environment. It is bonded with Oxygen (water) or Carbon. Hydrogen creates a lot of energy by mixing with Oxygen, so you need energy to separate it.) The problem of the book is the politics and economics. Most of it is re-treading ground covered by many others - Saudi wahibilism and Saudi support for Madras’s worldwide. It then covers Saudi influence on USA politics. Weak research, mostly secondary sources if they are footnoted at all. Further the actual technical stuff seems to have been pulled from another book titled, "The Methanol Economy", but have not read the original to confirm.

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