8/7/2008 1:11:38 AM
Learn from the Nature
Mother nature has taught our inventors and scientists a lot. But still the mysteries and profoundity of the wisdom hidden in mother nature is beyond the understanding and comprehension of the ordinary. We have cracked the code of some of nature's mysteries such as sonar, aerodynamics, infra-red, sub-sonic. magnetism, electro-magnetism, quantum physics, relativity, radiation, fusion, DNA,. etc. However, while some have been applied to improve our everyday life and civilization, most were deployed as military weaponry.
Enough is Enough
Science when applied in the right direction, is beneficial to the well-being of humankind. Some examples are the discovery of electricity, electro-magnetism and its application to our daily life; etc. However with such pace of progress in science and the wide-range of application to military usage, It's not hard to imagine the so-called advancement in our science is gradually driven our days of progress toward the days of Armageddon. Since when people replaced their appliance at home because it is out-model, the obsolescent period of many appliances are sometimes as short as two years. Where on earth can we find places to buried these huge inventory of out-dated junk? And what about the stockpile of nuclear weapons in those bellicose countries, what if those weapons were fallen into the hands of a mad leader? Who can guarantee leaders like Hitler will never be elected and come to power again considered the IQ of the majority voters? Does anyone of you ever questioned or evaluated something your leader said before they told you rhetoric fallacies? We're living in an extremely dangerous world. The way we disrupted the balance of nature will at the end bring forth calamities and disasters to the earth we are living as well as more frequent occurrence of El Niño, La Niña, tornadoes, tsunamis and super hurricanes. Who said those phenomena have nothing to do with global warming. Are we not receiving enough signs from the nature yet? By excessively burning the fossil fuel, the green house effect amplified. As a result, ice at both poles is melting, sea level rises, and weather turned freakish, storms strike places that they wouldn't be in the past, Drought occurs to places where it used to have abundant rain fall. Sooner or later, famine and pests as described in biblical old testament days will happen again. Does the recent surge in food prices around the world trigger the alarm of how we should start to care for the land. When there are countries spending lots of their resources on hi-tech development, turning arable land into urban subdivisions, are their leaders aware of any future crisis of the need to import food from other countries. You don't need to be a doctorate to understand the precariousness of a country to rely a high percentage of its food sources from other countries. Investing in those countries are simply short-sighted. Whilst their hi-tech development cannot be sustainable, their demand for food will be everlasting until their population reduced. But how can their population be reduced when their birth rate is multiplying in geometric progression?
Love the Earth and the Animals , may you live in harmony with everything the Earth provides.
Every living organism are created with a purpose. They worked silently together so that our planet earth is suitable for all living things to live in harmony. so that we have fresh air to breathe, clean water to drink, the soil is fertile enough for plants to grow, the soil can be hold to one place rather than washed away, that one species will not over grown, that we have food carries the nutrients from nature, that our planet is balanced and controlled, so that all creatures living on the same planet can be benefited. However, there are people and nations which have no consideration for the animals and the environment. There are people who believe buildings or bridges are more important than the animals. Where human beings has the absolute right to invade animal territories with man-made infrastructure. Nature has proven again and again, wipe out the entire species of one animal and another problem will occur. We can't see the problem today does not mean there will never be. Sometimes it takes decades for a problem to become catastrophic. Since when our buildings and infrastuctures are no longer in harmony with nature? Should "in harmony with the nature" be the first lesson they taught in architecture? When was the so-called "Feng Shui" has more to do with stone lion or "Pak Kua" than about direction and geography.
It's time to save our earth.
The air we breath in many cities have reached an intolerable pollution level. And it's about time for us to find a new source of energy. The forms of energy that are natural, clean and free from pollutants. There have been studies on energy such as solar, wind, hydraulic, nuclear, thermal and hydrogen, etc. Of all the above mentioned forms of energy, solar, wind and hydraulic are natural and come in forms that are ready to use. Hydraulic has been widely use in producing electricity and has been proven to be effective. However, both thermal and hydraulic are location specific, neither are they portable. Hydraulic has been widely used in producing electricity and it's out of the question. Whereas solar and wind are ready-to-use energies at their final forms. However, we all know that both are unstable because we simply don't have sunny or windy days all year round. Nuclear energy is neither clean nor safe for widespread commercial use. Leaving our final hope to harness hydrogen as energy. By nature hydrogen is clean and produce no pollutant at all when it is burned. It is very efficient as fuel. However, our technology today faces 2 major challenges to utilize hydrogen to even power a car. First is in the cost of production, second is in the safety of storage and in the transport of the energy. As of the writing of this blog today, we already have cars powered entirely by hydrogen. The traditional way of producing hydrogen is to use electrolysis... be continued.
