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• A comment on Talk: Bart Knols: Cheese, dogs and a pill to kill mosquitoes and end malaria

  May 16 2012: I have heard stories of Vietnam Veterans putting garlic in their boots and consuming vast amounts to ward off mosquitoes

• A comment on Conversation: Can we invent our way out of our coming crises?

  Mar 27 2012: • It never ceases to surprise me at the infinite capacity of the human mind to resist the introduction of useful knowledge

• A reply on Conversation: Can we invent our way out of our coming crises?

  Mar 27 2012: I'm aware of these but like you say they have shut down most of them< when I was laid off last year from teaching I had to do something I tried truck driving (what a mistake) but anyway I learned allot about trucking. The sound at night is deafening all that power of running trucks. I know there is a better way has to be

• A reply on Talk: T. Boone Pickens: Let's transform energy -- with natural gas

  Mar 26 2012: No tell us what you really have to say

• A comment on Conversation: Can we invent our way out of our coming crises?

  Mar 21 2012: I have these ideas and nowhere to go with them I wrote to singuliarty university an no go. Even if we come up with solutions no one cares the hydrogen car has been around for years. It will take a big disaster for everyone to listen if we survive that is

• A comment on Conversation: Can we invent our way out of our coming crises?

  Mar 21 2012: o Everything is delivered by trucks today, like it or not these behemoths’ are a necessary evil and idling trucks are a problem. They are expensive for fleets or owner/operators and they impact the environment to such a degree that some states have banned idling trucks because of the carbon emissions. Even so, drivers must rest and temperature control is needed inside the cab and sleeper berth for these drivers. If you ever have pulled into a trucker rest stop at any time of the day you will hear them running there air conditioners and heaters for this needed comfort and for their required sleep, to keep them alert for their safety as well as ours who share the streets with them.
  Morpheus: The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat.
  It seems the really big problem is cooling during the summer months. To solve this problem I believe there are several solutions that can be used

• A comment on Talk: T. Boone Pickens: Let's transform energy -- with natural gas

  Mar 21 2012: Everything is delivered by trucks today, like it or not these behemoths’ are a necessary evil and idling trucks are a problem. They are expensive for fleets or owner/operators and they impact the environment to such a degree that some states have banned idling trucks because of the carbon emissions. Even so, drivers must rest and temperature control is needed inside the cab and sleeper berth for these drivers. If you ever have pulled into a trucker rest stop at any time of the day you will hear them running there air conditioners and heaters for this needed comfort and for their required sleep, to keep them alert for their safety as well as ours who share the streets with them.
  Morpheus: The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat.
  It seems the really big problem is cooling during the summer months. To solve this problem I believe there are several solutions that can be used.
  • If interested in saving millions in fuel and carbon emissions , as well as employing thousands, write to me lets talk

• A comment on Conversation: Everything is delivered by trucks today, like it or not these behemoths’ are a necessary evil

  Mar 14 2012: Why not indeed !
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  A comment on Talk: Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit

  Mar 13 2012: I have always said I wanted to be chopped up and used as fertilizer when I die this sounds much cleaner

• A comment on Talk: Peter Diamandis on our next giant leap

  Mar 13 2012: I wrote to the x prize and to SU with my fuel saving idea the best advice I got back from them was to go out and buy 4-Hour-Workweek-Escape-Live-Anywhere Really "Really" My idea is not junk it is a real idea not some pie in the sky