Monday, October 11, 2010
micronesia recycling: How does Micronesia recycle old batteries (lead), ...
micronesia recycling: How does Micronesia recycle old batteries (lead), ...: "How does Micronesia recycle old batteries (lead), aluminum (cans), and iron (old cars)? Metal prices seem pretty high right now. But that i..."
How does Micronesia recycle old batteries (lead), aluminum (cans), and iron (old cars)?
Metal prices seem pretty high right now. But that is in the US. I wonder what the prices are in Indonesia, Philippines, China, and Japan.
Is there a boat that goes from Island to Island picking it up and then reselling it in SE Asia, Philippines, Indonesia, China, or Japan?
If not; I wonder if there could be some money made in collecting and selling scrap if there was a boat to pick it up?
I wonder how a boat could even pick the stuff up.
I wonder if it could pay for itself by going Island to Island and buying the scrap from people who would collect it.
Where could such a boat be had?
How are the fish stocks in Micronesian Territorial Waters?
How does Micronesia enforce its territorial fishing rights?
Are there fishing trawlers fishing in Micronesian waters illegally? Maybe Micronesia could seize one of the trawlers and convert it to a scrap hauler. Or collect fines and buy one.
How much do Micronesians pay for electricity?
How much does a street light cost per month?
How many people use electricity to heat water?
For the businesses and houses that use air conditioning – do they put their hot water heaters in the house or leave it outside? Do these businesses and houses use insulation?
I wonder if China, Indonesia, Japan, or the US offers grants to study Hydro-kinetic power production.
I wonder if there are companies that would be willing to build such a plant to study the efficiencies and work out the problems if an ideal location could be found – (Any deep channel with strong tidal current flows.)
Are the automobiles used in Oceania designed properly for their use in the islands? How much money could people save if their automobiles could get two times as many miles per gallon as they do now?
If the power process could double the fuel efficiency how much money could be spent improving the vehicles Oceanic Island peoples use; since the fuel costs over the life of the vehicle would be so much less?
I wonder if a technical school in Oceania could design a high efficiency power process for wheeled vehicles, and then make money by converting conventional autos to much higher efficiency? Perhaps by buying used cars and selling the engines for scrap or re-building on the main-lands and installing more appropriate power systems that would get much better fuel efficiency before bringing them to the islands so that the islands do not have to handle the waste materials of production.
If a school owned such a company how much money could the technical school make doing this? Could it offer free education to its citizens?
How would this affect the money outflows and inflows to Oceania?
How about designing and building appropriate solar hot water systems for tropical applications?
Could a technical school use the design process in teaching principles of math, geometry, physics, material science, economics, business, patent law, technical writing, welding, light metal fabrication, controller programing, and what-ever else I may have left out?
Do you think there might be a few very good, highly qualified, and experienced teachers somewhere on this planet that would be willing to design specific course curriculums and then come to Oceania on teaching sabbaticals in trade for room, board, good food, great diving, and healthy lifestyle? If successful in such endeavors could you ever get them to leave?
How would one enjoin the different curriculums for specific learning objectives?
Ahhh – such foolish dreams. Perhaps it is better to build golf courses and resorts for rich people, spray herbicide on them, kill the mangroves and reefs, and live as peasant servants for foreigners like me. Borrow money from money lenders and allow foreign investors to export the added value of your people’s labor while destroying your environment. Sell the fishing rights for pennies on the dollar to enrich a handful of people and watch the fragile remaining fish stocks collapse. Better to serve oneself for today than design a sustainable future for your progeny; anything to avoid being accused of foolish dreaming!
Yes- enough of this foolish dreaming of alternative ways; go ahead and implement a Social Security System like the US where the tax is only paid on the earning s of workers who make less than a certain amount of money. That way only the poor and middle class have to pay on their whole income. You know – make it like the US system where all interest income, capital gains, and all other incomes escape the tax that represents a third of revenue and about a third of outlay.
Yes; maybe you too can build a society where medical costs are twice per capita than anywhere else in the world and the payoff is third world infant and maternity mortality rates; where culturally induced Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes, and other induced illnesses can spurn a technocracy that consumes nearly 20 percent of your GDP.
Yes indeed – better to build towards a socioeconomic model that has shown such great and long term historic success than to challenge the money changers and lenders or scrutinize the long term benefits of unbridled greed.
Enough of all this made up dreaming;----------- but not today, not tomorrow, and not in my lifetime if I can bring a few moments pause to this headlong dash to disaster.
You can choose the difficult and narrow path of self- determination or you can follow the “experts” who will convince you of your ignorance and show you what is best for you while lining their own pockets and leaving you penniless, indebted in perpetuity, and following a status quo to failed state status.
You can be ruled by money mongers or you can pull yourself away from the things that are numbing your mind, raise your head from the uncertain path you are on and look to the horizon. Seeing that horizon will require you to study and dream with your neighbors, learning from the past and being confident in your own ability to know what is right for your own people.
I wonder what it could be. I wonder what it will be.
Metal prices seem pretty high right now. But that is in the US. I wonder what the prices are in Indonesia, Philippines, China, and Japan.
Is there a boat that goes from Island to Island picking it up and then reselling it in SE Asia, Philippines, Indonesia, China, or Japan?
If not; I wonder if there could be some money made in collecting and selling scrap if there was a boat to pick it up?
I wonder how a boat could even pick the stuff up.
I wonder if it could pay for itself by going Island to Island and buying the scrap from people who would collect it.
Where could such a boat be had?
How are the fish stocks in Micronesian Territorial Waters?
How does Micronesia enforce its territorial fishing rights?
Are there fishing trawlers fishing in Micronesian waters illegally? Maybe Micronesia could seize one of the trawlers and convert it to a scrap hauler. Or collect fines and buy one.
How much do Micronesians pay for electricity?
How much does a street light cost per month?
How many people use electricity to heat water?
For the businesses and houses that use air conditioning – do they put their hot water heaters in the house or leave it outside? Do these businesses and houses use insulation?
I wonder if China, Indonesia, Japan, or the US offers grants to study Hydro-kinetic power production.
I wonder if there are companies that would be willing to build such a plant to study the efficiencies and work out the problems if an ideal location could be found – (Any deep channel with strong tidal current flows.)
Are the automobiles used in Oceania designed properly for their use in the islands? How much money could people save if their automobiles could get two times as many miles per gallon as they do now?
If the power process could double the fuel efficiency how much money could be spent improving the vehicles Oceanic Island peoples use; since the fuel costs over the life of the vehicle would be so much less?
I wonder if a technical school in Oceania could design a high efficiency power process for wheeled vehicles, and then make money by converting conventional autos to much higher efficiency? Perhaps by buying used cars and selling the engines for scrap or re-building on the main-lands and installing more appropriate power systems that would get much better fuel efficiency before bringing them to the islands so that the islands do not have to handle the waste materials of production.
If a school owned such a company how much money could the technical school make doing this? Could it offer free education to its citizens?
How would this affect the money outflows and inflows to Oceania?
How about designing and building appropriate solar hot water systems for tropical applications?
Could a technical school use the design process in teaching principles of math, geometry, physics, material science, economics, business, patent law, technical writing, welding, light metal fabrication, controller programing, and what-ever else I may have left out?
Do you think there might be a few very good, highly qualified, and experienced teachers somewhere on this planet that would be willing to design specific course curriculums and then come to Oceania on teaching sabbaticals in trade for room, board, good food, great diving, and healthy lifestyle? If successful in such endeavors could you ever get them to leave?
How would one enjoin the different curriculums for specific learning objectives?
Ahhh – such foolish dreams. Perhaps it is better to build golf courses and resorts for rich people, spray herbicide on them, kill the mangroves and reefs, and live as peasant servants for foreigners like me. Borrow money from money lenders and allow foreign investors to export the added value of your people’s labor while destroying your environment. Sell the fishing rights for pennies on the dollar to enrich a handful of people and watch the fragile remaining fish stocks collapse. Better to serve oneself for today than design a sustainable future for your progeny; anything to avoid being accused of foolish dreaming!
Yes- enough of this foolish dreaming of alternative ways; go ahead and implement a Social Security System like the US where the tax is only paid on the earning s of workers who make less than a certain amount of money. That way only the poor and middle class have to pay on their whole income. You know – make it like the US system where all interest income, capital gains, and all other incomes escape the tax that represents a third of revenue and about a third of outlay.
Yes; maybe you too can build a society where medical costs are twice per capita than anywhere else in the world and the payoff is third world infant and maternity mortality rates; where culturally induced Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes, and other induced illnesses can spurn a technocracy that consumes nearly 20 percent of your GDP.
Yes indeed – better to build towards a socioeconomic model that has shown such great and long term historic success than to challenge the money changers and lenders or scrutinize the long term benefits of unbridled greed.
Enough of all this made up dreaming;----------- but not today, not tomorrow, and not in my lifetime if I can bring a few moments pause to this headlong dash to disaster.
You can choose the difficult and narrow path of self- determination or you can follow the “experts” who will convince you of your ignorance and show you what is best for you while lining their own pockets and leaving you penniless, indebted in perpetuity, and following a status quo to failed state status.
You can be ruled by money mongers or you can pull yourself away from the things that are numbing your mind, raise your head from the uncertain path you are on and look to the horizon. Seeing that horizon will require you to study and dream with your neighbors, learning from the past and being confident in your own ability to know what is right for your own people.
I wonder what it could be. I wonder what it will be.
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