Greenpeace

  Please correct me if i'm wrong, but if my memory serves me correctly then when hydrogen is introduced into an oxygen rich atmosphere and energy is added to the mix s violent reaction occurs in the form of combustion (as demonstrated by the Hindenburg). When the reaction ends the only thing that remains is water (H20). Could sucha reaction be taken and converted into a form of a hydrogen combustion engine? Obviously a much larger amount of hydrogen is  needed in such an engine, than gasoline in a regular combustion engine, and maybe a greater source of initial energy than a spark plug can provide. But hydrogen is an extremely light gas  (the lightest and most abundant anywhere) and can therefore more can be carried ad still weigh less than a tank of gasoline. Also it can be compressed to fit into a smaller volume. Ag for a stronger power source an extra battery or two can be put in. I realize that there is probally an enormous hole somewhere in this idea that i just haven't seen ye. of time but I felt that it had to be said just to clear up if it's possible or not.If it is possible then wouldn't it be cheaper than trying to totally reinvent the car.

   Also I feel that i should mentiont that enviromentalism isn't a new fad it had been proposed as far backa as 1830's. If people are going to criticize Greenpeace then they should just look to the past even some of the Founding Fathers beleived that we should live a more natural life than mechanized one. I guess we should have listened to them.

An idea has recently popped into my head based on the lessons of the Founding Fathers it goes something like this;   Government doesn't listen to FF's greivances= BOYCOTTING. If we don't want to be dependant on foreign oil anymore then we should BOYCOTT IT.        However instead of dumping it all into Boston Harbor, I would suggest a more greener solution in that if a large fraction of the population absolutely refused to use oil for a specified amount of time the government and the oil companies will be forced to address OUR greivances.

I've been looking through the blogs and it amazes me! Some people put the stupidest most unhelpful stuff  on them and others haven't editted their blogs in over a year. you would think that if they actually cared they would write something they thought was meaningful and keep writing.

i've had an insight i beleive that there is a reason people chose vegitarian lifestyles.  Maybe they have had a near death experience and would never want to install that fear or anguish on another being.    Maybe they had a loving pet and their minds have made the small jump from compasion and love for the pet to other animals as well.   Maybe their people who just don't like the taste of cooked blood because a part of their brain developed or didn't develope.                                                                                                                  And if such a mental situation is the case then what does that say about the people who choose nmt to be vegetarians. Is there some mental element that is missing some wire that is loose. Maybe vegetarians are the ones who have the loose wire either way it's something to look into.

I've been reading a book called Walden written by Henry David Thoreau. In it Thoreau writes about how he went out into the woods his friend owned, built himself a house with 27 1/2 dollars ( how much that equals in todays value I have no clue), and lived there for two years eating berries and the vegetables he grew. He describes how happy he was and how much he pitied the townspeople 2 miles away who lived lives of "quiet desperation" enslaved by the tools and land which they owned.He also pitied them for their reliance on techno-garbage while he lived peacefully gardening, swimming, and writing his books and poetry. Thoreau beleived in transcendentialism or the philosophy that people were self-illuminating and that true heaven on earth can be attained simply by looking inward and living according to what you beleive to be right. Writer, poet, activist, naturalist, rebel, albolitionist, and nature-lover, Thoreau died in 1862 for unknown reasons. When asked if he had made peace with God he simply replied, "We never quarrelled."

 I have made one of my personal missions to spread the word about this lost teaching of his which has become ecclipsed by his writings on CIVIL DISOBEDIANCE, another teaching I hold in high regard.Thoreau may have been the first writer to sugest living in harmony with nature so I thought I would post something about him. If more people lived as Thoreau did war and hate would be very hard to come by.

Today it's official my school's second attempt at an Enviromental club flopped. This time about 20 people showed up but it soon became apparent that the onlyy people who cared about the enviroment were mew and the other two original members from last year. The others had only joined to get out of a boring advisory class and just sat there the whole time, and no amount of berating or lectures by the sponsoring teacher could get them to leave the club. So far all we mannaged to do was pass out some orange flyers advertising a marathon.  No campaigns, no speakers, no fundraisers, no cleanups, and no recruiting. 

I'm going to attempt to save it or at least start a smaller or exclusive club but I don't think it will work. i'm sure Mrs Lewis has had enough. Maybe the other two members and I can start a club outside of school but so far we don't know any other people in or around Houston who would care. The lack of enthusiasm is astounding.

Everyday it's the same thing I go to school I come home. And everyday I see more and more how little the rest of my school cares. I went to the enviromental club last year and there were only 5 of us. This year the club was almost disbanded.     I look around and all i see are two-thouand people in denial, because they're far happier beleiving that none of it is really happening. Glovbal Warming , genetic engineering, whale hunting, poaching.      They all pretend it doesn't exist.      And meanwhile the icecaps shrink and the elephants die.     I've tried to talk to my friends, but even they are indifferent.

 WHY??????

 Because either a parent or teacher or the news reporter or the governor say that it's all BS and there's nobody there to prove them wrong.    Greenpeace and other envirometal groups has failed to show my classmates the seriousness of the matter. No one ever came and gave a presentation on Conservation,None came to talk about poaching, GE, or nuclear hazards,and I get the feeling that nobody is going too.They gave the speech on safe sex and staying off drugs but none about the enviroment.So why should they beleive me.