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Posted by Admin at 1:56 PM,Monday, April 27, 2009
Sai Baba on vegetarianism, no smoking and no drinking
“It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to more diseases. Why? Because animal food is incompatible with the needs of the human body.” -- Sri Sathya Sai Baba quotes (Indian Spiritual leader, b.1926)
“I have been stressing the vital importance of people giving up this habit of eating non-vegetarian food even from my boyhood days. Meat eating fosters animal qualities in man making him descend to the demoniac level; it is a heart-rending sight to see cows being slaughtered to serve as food for man.” -- Sri Sathya Sai Baba quotes (Indian Spiritual leader, b.1926)
“Nature can be modified by nurture; even dogs can cease to relish meat when they are trained to relish only vegetarian food.” -- Sri Sathya Sai Baba quotes (Indian Spiritual leader, b.1926)
“Man degrades himself by consuming intoxicating drinks and non-vegetarian food and by indulging in smoking. These noxious habits affect the brain also.” -- Sri Sathya Sai Baba quotes (Indian Spiritual leader, b.1926)
“If a smoker blows air on a white handkerchief, he will find yellow spots on it. This is a sign of disease. Smoking leads to cancer. Drinking is a demonic quality. It makes you intoxicated and to forget yourself. Consuming non-vegetarian food is also a bad quality." -- Sri Sathya Sai Baba quotes (Indian Spiritual leader, b.1926)
“In order to have sacred thoughts, give up the vices like consumption of non-vegetarian food, smoking and drinking intoxicants.” -- Sri Sathya Sai Baba quotes (Indian Spiritual leader, b.1926)
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Posted by Admin at 11:17 PM,Sunday, April 26, 2009
How to make a drip irrigation system from a plastic bottle
Tied of watering your garden everyday? Or do you need to leave your plants alone for weeks because of travelling? Perhaps, you need an automatic drip irrigation system. What follows describes a system that is exactly what we need. This system can be readily made from a recycled plastic bottle without any electrical drill or solder iron. It can keep your plants watered for months without you having to pay for electricity.
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How to grow mung bean plants
This entry describes a procedure for growing mung bean plants in a self-watering planter. Why mung beans? Mung bean plant is one of the edible vegetables that are highly resistant to drought. It can extend its roots deeper into the soil in response to drought. It is moderate in both moisture and temperature needs. During this critical time, when many places are affected by drought because of the unprecedented climate change, mung bean is perhaps one of the most interesting food sources for survival.
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Recently Uploaded SMTV Videos
This entry lists all the recently uploaded SMTV videos from Youtube. They are dynamically uploaded in Youtube, but you can watch them here on a real-time basis without visiting Youtube's website. If you encounter any technical problems when viewing these videos, please let me know at: b l o g @ p o l y m e r f a b. c o. u k:
Posted by Admin at 9:44 PM,Friday, April 24, 2009
Tesla on vegetarianism, no smoking and no drinking
A MACHINE TO END WAR. Liberty, February 1937 by Nikola Tesla as told to George Sylvester Viereck: "MORE people die or grow sick from polluted water than from coffee, tea, tobacco, and other stimulants. I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat. I am convinced that within a century coffee, tea, and tobacco will be no longer in vogue. Alcohol, however, will still be used. It is not a stimulant but a veritable elixir of life. The abolition of stimulants will not come about forcibly. It will simply be no longer fashionable to poison the system with harmful ingredients. Bernarr Macfadden has shown how it is possible to provide palatable food based upon natural products such as milk, honey, and wheat. I believe that the food which is served today in his penny restaurants will be the basis of epicurean meals in the smartest banquet halls of the twenty-first century. There will be enough wheat and wheat products to feed the entire world, including the teeming millions of China and India, now chronically on the verge of starvation. The earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900."
THE PROBLEM OF INCREASING HUMAN ENERGY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCES TO THE HARNESSING OF THE SUN'S ENERGY. by Nikola Tesla, Century Illustrated Magazine, June 1900: "A thousand other evils might be mentioned, but all put together, in their bearing upon the problem under discussion, they could not equal a single one, the want of food, brought on by poverty, destitution, and famine. Millions of individuals die yearly for want of food, thus keeping down the mass. Even in our enlightened communities, and not withstanding the many charitable efforts, this is still, in all probability, the chief evil. I do not mean here absolute want of food, but want of healthful nutriment. How to provide good and plentiful food is, therefore, a most important question of the day. On the general principles the raising of cattle as a means of providing food is objectionable, because, in the sense interpreted above, it must undoubtedly tend to the addition of mass of a "smaller velocity." It is certainly preferable to raise vegetables, and I think, therefore, that vegetarianism is a commendable departure from the established barbarious habit. That we can subsist on plant food and perform our work even to advantage is not a theory, but a well-demonstrated fact. Many races living almost exclusively on vegetables are of superior physique and strength. There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. In view of these facts every effort should be made to stop the wanton and cruel slaughter of animals, which must be destructive to our morals. To free ourselves from animal instincts and appetites, which keep us down, we should begin at the very root from which we spring: we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food. There seems to be no philosophical necessity for food. We can conceive of organized beings living without nourishment, and deriving all the energy they need for the performance of their lifefunctions from the ambient medium. In a crystal we have the clear evidence of the existence of a formative life-principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is none the less a living being."
SPEECH ON BEHALF EDISON MEDAL PRIZE, A speech delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, May 18, 1917: "On this occasion, you might want me to say something of a personal and more intimate character bearing on my work. One of the speakers suggested: "Tell us something about yourself, about your early struggles." If I am not mistaken in this surmise I will, with your approval, dwell briefly on this rather delicate subject. I may say, also, that I am deeply religious at heart, although not in the Orthodox meaning, and that I give myself to the constant enjoyment of belleving that the greatest mysteries of our being are still to be fathomed and that, all the evidence of the senses and the teachings of exact and dry sciences to the contrary notwithstanding, death itself may not be the termination of the wonderful metamorphoses we witness. In this way I have managed to maintain an undisturbed peace of mind, to make myself proof against adversity, and to achieve contentment and happiness to a point of extracting some satisfaction even from the darker side of life, the trials and tribulations of existence. I have fame and untold wealth, more than all this, and yet - how many articles have been written in which I was declared to be an impractical unsuccesful man, and how many poor, struggling writers, have called me a visionary. Such is the folly and shortsightedness of the world!"
PRODIGAL GENIUS, The Life of Nikola Tesla by John J. O'Neill (1944): With the passing decades, Tesla shifted away from a meat diet. He substituted fish, always boiled, and finally eliminated the meat entirely.He later almost entirely eliminated the fish and lived on a vegetarian diet. Milk was his main standby, and toward the end of his life it was the principal item of diet, served warm.
As a youth he drank a great deal of coffee, and, while he gradually became aware that he suffered unfavorable influences from it, he found it a difficult habit to break. When he finally made the decision to drink no more of it, he adhered to his good intentions but was forced to recognize the fact that the desire for it remained. He combated this by ordering with each meal a pot of his favorite coffee, and having a cup of it poured so that he would get the aroma. It required ten years for the aroma of the coffee to transform itself into a nuisance so that he felt secure in no longer having it served. Tea and cocoa he also considered injurious.
He was a heavy smoker in his youth, mostly of cigars. A sister who seemed fatally ill, when he was in his early twenties, said she would try to get better if he would give up smoking. He did so immediately. His sister recovered, and he never smoked again.
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Categories: Be Veg, For Scientists and Engineers, Go Green, Save the Planet
Posted by Admin at 11:26 PM,Saturday, April 18, 2009
Poor man Solar Cooker made with Cardboard Sheets wins a climate change award--助窮人太陽能煮食 「京都紙盒」奪環保大獎
Poor man Solar Cooker made with Cardboard Sheets known as "Kyoto Box" wins a $75,000 worth climate change award. The inventor of this inventiion was Jon Bohmer, a Norwegian-born entrepreneur based in Kenya. According to the inventor, this prize-winning invention can be used to cook food and bring water to the boil under a sunny sky.
(credit due to http://news.sky.com)
09 April 2009
Poor man solar-powered cardboard oven, also known as the Kyoto Box, has won a $75,000 climate change award. The inventor of this inventiion was Jon Bohmer, a Norwegian-born entrepreneur based in Kenya. According to the inventor, this prize-winning invention can be used to cook food and bring water to the boil under a sunny sky.
The Kyoto Box is a simple invention made from two cardboard boxes, one inside the other with a transparent acrylic cover to let in the sun's energy. Between the inner box and the outer box is straw or newspaper which serves as an insulation. The reflective foil on the outer box and black paint in the interior of the inner box ensure maximum absorption of solar energy.
Bohmer named his invention the Kyoto Box, after the international environmental treaty to reduce global warming.
The cooker costs around $5.00 to make and will be given away for free to the 3 billion poor people who currently rely on firewood to cook.
Introducing the Kyoto Box to such communities would cut carbon emissions from burning wood. In addition, there are also sanitary benefits from boiling water to drink.
The invention was pitted against nearly 300 other entries, including a machine that turns wood and other organic material into charcoal, wheel covers that make trucks more fuel efficient by reducing drag, and a garlic-based feed supplement for livestock that reduces the methane they emit by 15 percent.
"A lot of scientists are working on ways to send people to Mars. I was looking for something a little more grassroots, a little simpler," Jon Bohmer said Thursday.
"In the West, we cook with electricity, so it's easy to ignore this problem," he said. "But half the world's population is still living in a stone age. The only way for them to cook is to make a fire.
"I don't want to see another 80-year-old woman carrying 20 kilos of firewood on her back. Maybe we don't have to."
.... CLICK HERE FOR TECHNICAL DETAILS OF ANOTHER VERSION OF SOLAR BOX COOKER
Chinese version of the news:
"助窮人太陽能煮食 「京都紙盒」奪環保大獎
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/090410/4/bmei.html
"助窮人太陽能煮食 「京都紙盒」奪環保大獎
"(明報)4月11日 星期六 05:05
"【明報專訊】想以廉價及環保方式煮食？只需買一個紙盒就可以。非洲肯尼亞一名發明家把常見紙盒改裝成太陽能煮食爐，可助全球數以億計窮人減少燒柴煮食，以減少排放溫室氣體。這項成本僅6美元（46.8港元）的發明，在環保大賽中贏得7.5萬美元（約58萬港元）獎金。
"兩紙盒製成 成本僅HK$46。
"這一設計獨特的煮食爐名為「京都紙盒」（取名源自規範溫室氣體排放的《京都議定書》）。它由兩個紙盒製成，盒蓋包上錫紙集中熱力，盒身塗上黑油吸熱，紙盒內有一個煮食用黑煲，透明煲蓋可助保存熱力及水分。
"在肯尼亞開設能源公司的發明家博默（Jon Bohmer）表示，他希望「京都紙盒」能把太陽能煮食推廣至發展中國家，取代燒柴，「發展中國家人口眾多，他們不可只靠木材及山火煮食，這會摧毁所有樹」。
"評審：有望改善數十億人生活
"在環保組織Forum for the Future舉辦的環保大賽上，評審對「京都紙盒」能在發展中國家立即大量生產，都感到印象深刻。評審馬登說﹕「紙盒有改善數十億人生活的潛力，是一項可大量生產的革新發明。」
(Note: Chinese version of this news is by no mean the exact translation of the English version.)
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Posted by Admin at 2:14 PM,Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Arctic sea ice melting away faster than before
Apr 6 - A new survey indicates Arctic ice is thinner and melting away faster than ever before, while in the Antarctic, the Wilkins ice shelf is on the brink of collapse.
A six-year NASA report concludes Arctic ice is thinner and melting away faster than previously thought due to global warming.
The report was released as news that the Wilkins ice shelf in Antarctica was a on brink of disintegrating.
Satellite photos taken by the European Space Agency confirm that the thread of ice connecting the ice shelf to land had shattered leading scientists to warn that the entire ice shelf could soon break up and disappear.....
(VIDEO: Ice shelf brink of collapse included)
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