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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Going Green! Think Outside The Box

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I know you thought I have gone crazy. Not really. Everyone starting from my 2 1/2 year old nephew to the 212 year old grandpa next door keeps talking about "going green" now a days. I know, while Al Gore's revelation of "truth" to the mankind drove half the literate world switch from H3 to Prius, the ever opportunistic media and the smarty-pant entrepreneurs coaxed the rest into going for things like some cheap-ass, non-recyclable, cancer-causing plastic bottles just because they are 'green'. All this started to challenge my semi-functional brain. When so many people are trying to save the mother nature from the cruelty of this selfish human being, I can't just sit in my couch writing some useless blogs. Since I want to write a blog, I decided to gear it towards the 'green factor' and see if I can be of any use to the humanity. Only thing is that this approach of going green is a little (or a lot?) different from almost everything else. I'm sorry, but thinking outside the box gives me kicks.

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Wait a minute... did you just go through this list of words, like 30 seconds (even if you are the slowest of the readers) ago? Hhhmmm, I think they sound pretty much the same but don't seem to spell right though. Does the spelling really matter? Do you understand that I conveyed the same message as above but with 11 less characters (33.33% less)? From one of the billion forwards I keep getting every hour, I also came to know that the human brain can decipher a word just by looking at the first and the last letter though everything else is messed up. Assuming this is true, there opens another avenue for possible character cutting. Let's not go there for now though. If you are wondering how this is anything to do with going green, here is how.

In a nutshell: typing more characters means increasing the size of the files and hence hogging up more memory. Though pretty much everything is "soft" now a days, unfortunately all the soft things need to be stored on something hard. These hard things are not easy to dispose without messing up the mother nature. Want to print it? That's going to be a direct hit as it means chewing up more paper. Now I don't need to mention that paper comes from trees.

Honestly speaking, I picked these words at random and did the calculations later. So, the savings are not predetermined. Assuming an average of 25% savings by removing the "silent" letters from words, I think we will be making a move in the right direction. Not just documents, think about stuff like chatting. Actually the young ones, knowingly or unknowingly, are already doing this. "howz u doin?". Jeez! That sounds awful but you know that the communication process is still alive and in a smarter way, fewer characters. Now how is chatting going to help, as most of it is not stored or printed? Think about all the electricity you are burning. Breaking it down to a single person, whatever I said till now translates simply into utter nonsense. But put it in the perspective of hundreds of millions of "I can't live without a comp" dudes and you will know what I'm talking about.

By now you are 100% sure that I have gone insane right? Somehow I think this is exactly what "thinking outside the box" is. Now you know another way of GOING GREEN!!!

Disclaimer: The content in this blog is just for entertainment purpose. I'm not responsible if kids who read this start challenging their teachers and/or parents about some spellings. This is not targeted towards any particular language or group of people.

Labels: al gore, box, environment, geeks, global warming, going green, mother nature, outside, saving earth, saving energy, saving trees, silent letters, spellings, think

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At 24 March, 2008 13:48, bachi said…

Thanks for the comment "amigo". Checked out your blog. Looks pretty good but unfortunately I can't quite understand your language :-)

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Wednesday, May 2, 2007

The Inconvenient Truth about "An Inconvenient Truth"?

After trying hard to restrain myself from watching the documentary till I read the book, An Inconvenient Truth, I finally gave up. I saw the movie recently and I should say I'm impressed with it. Now that I did not do so much research in the field of Global Warming, I have to take the information provided by Mr. would have been President on his face value. Assuming all the information provided by him is accurate, it scares the hell out of me to imagine what the world would be like in a couple of decades (or sooner?) if our attitude towards the mother nature does not change.

Having said that, I could not help but notice the following inconvenient truth.

1. Through out the movie, the Sr. Bush administration and the dubya administration have been blamed for not acting on the issue. I wonder where the Clinton administration went. That was an impressive 8 year jump made by the, "I invented the Internet", guy.

2. Having mentioned that every individual's contribution is essential and makes a difference does not seem to consider himself as an individual. Why am I saying this? Have you observed the guy driving an SUV in the movie? Well, I did! Also I would be foolish to believe that he pays attention to energy conservation with regards to the amount of gas and electricity his houses consume. Now don't tell me he is breeding solar panels in his backyard or that there is a windmill on his rooftop.

Sniffing on the Internet for some statistics regarding his lifestyle, I gathered the following information.

He has a 10,000-square-foot, 20-room, eight-bathroom home in Nashville, a 4,000-square-foot home in Arlington, Va and a third home in Carthage, Tenn http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-08-09-gore-green_x.htm.

His Nashville home alone devoured an incredible 221,000 kilowatt-hours in 2006 putting his utilities bill at a modest $30,000 http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=5072659.

This is all bullshit since it is not from reliable sources. Right? Not really. It may not be accurate but I think it is close enough.

OK! Enough of blaming the poor guy. He is just trying to help the humanity. But I can't stop here as still there is something quite important (at least according to me) that I want to share. Let us try throwing light on this subject from a couple of different angles.

1. The statistics, those impressive view graphs with all those peaks and valleys in the movie pop out of an equation that Al Gore put together. When I say equation I don't really mean a mathematical equation. Rather a logical one. I mean, he took into consideration only a few things that he thought are causing this problem. How do I know if there are a million other factors missing from here? To give an example, what if the Sun is actually behaving funny with its mighty rays and that is in fact causing this problem? Scientists may figure this out after 20 years from now while we keep mudslinging. How did the previous ice age occur? There were no gas guzzlers or atomic fuel plants then.

2. Another perspective. May be the only factor is population? If we control the population, the demand for everything the greedy man wants will go down right? Don't you think that itself should impact every other negative element in Mr. Gore's equation? Say, like the need for cars, electricity at home, cutting down trees for houses etc.?

Dear liberals, if you are still reading (still haven't ripped your computer screen, or thrashed the keyboard), I want to make one thing clear. I'm not anti-democrat and absolutely not pro republican. This blog is not for a political debate. It is more of a logical and common sensical thing. Well... I'm an engineer and hence, obviously, cursed with the disease, logico-mania.

Labels: al gore, an inconvenient truth, global warming, green house gases, melting ice caps, nobel peace prize, pollution

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