I see an economic diasater coming...

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Lee,And in 1980 I knew graduate students on food stamps at the university of arkansas.My brother many times would cause a gas filled bulb to flash just getting up off his couch.Gain a static charge in doing so and discharge thru a light bulb to a ground.So my design would catch less than 10% of the energy in the flash at this point due to the limited effs of solar cells.Today I heard on tv that 10% of all senior citizens live with their kids.Sometimes that SS check is so stable that the kids can depend on it.


i do think that 2000-3000 volts might be generated when my brother gets up off of his couch.I do think a solar cell would be "quick enough" to catch some of the energy.Also a wheel could be used to generate static charges,not just a 200 foot wire.triffid

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It seems that Sears is in trouble  http://www.businessinsider.com/signs-sears-is-edging-closer-to-death-2013-10

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I have realized that there are vast deposits of natural gas on mars put there by microbes from earth that in the past found mars to be a warmer and wetter place.When the huge meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs hit the earth 65 million years ago.It sent earth bacteria into orbit and over long periods of time found its way to a warmer and wetter mars than what we have today.Whatever bacteria survived the heat of impact and then the cold of space found mars to be a fertile place 65 million years ago.Of course there were earlier impacts.My opinion of course.Remember we still get rocks from mars hitting the earth every year.The process goes both ways sometimes.Its got to! triffid


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/news/marsmethane.html




http://www.amazon.ca/Mars-A-Warmer-Wetter-Planet/dp/1852335688

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Long believed to have been cold, dead and dry for aeons, there is now striking new proof that not only was Mars a relatively warm and wet place in geologically recent times, but that even today there are vast reserves of water frozen beneath the planet¹s surface. As well as casting fascinating new insights into Mars¹ past, this discovery is also forcing a complete rethink about the mechanisms of global planetary change.
What does the drastic turn of events on Mars mean for Earth¹s climate system?
Could life have thrived on Mars very recently, and might it survive even today?
Will humans be able to live off the natural resources that Martian hydrogeology now seems to offer?

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We observed and mapped multiple plumes of methane on Mars, one of which released about 19,000 metric tons of methane," said Dr. Geronimo Villanueva of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Villanueva is stationed at NASA Goddard and is co-author of the paper. "The plumes were emitted during the warmer seasons -- spring and summer -- perhaps because the permafrost blocking cracks and fissures vaporized, allowing methane to seep into the Martian air. Curiously, some plumes had water vapor while others did not," said Villanueva.






One  plume released about 19,000 metric tons of methane," said Dr. Geronimo Villanueva of the Catholic University of America,