I think that instead of using salt water to create fuel to run our outrageous amount of vehicles that are clogging up the roads at alarming numbers, that using algae to create fuel is a much more reasonable path to take. I’ve been reading several articles as of late, about making fuel from algae, and I saw that some companies have already began using fuel made from algae, including one airline company!
This is awesome news because algae is NOT fossil fuel; it is a renewable resource that will produce less harm to the environment! There is a website about algae fuel that I found that has a lot of information about the subject. If you are interested in learning more about this exciting news, please click here.
I am always amazed when I hear news of uncontacted native tribes being “discovered.” There is a story that I saw one today about a tribe in Brazil that shows pictures from a recent “flyover.” These poor natives are photographed aiming flaming arrows right at the aircraft that is taking their pictures. Can you imagine the horror and dread these natives are feeling as they see this “monster” flying overhead?
Makes me think whether it really is in the tribes best interest, as human beings, to be left undeveloped or is it in their best interest to be contacted and taught “modern ways.” That is a moral and ethical decision I know I’ll never have to make, and I’m glad that I don’t have the responsibility of having to make that decision
I was at a neighborhood block party last night and met some new people that I had not met before. Not that its much of a “neighborhood” being as our closest real neighbor is at least ten miles away, we still got to town though, as do many of those who dwell in the mountains here. But when I go to the town-wide neighborhood street parties, I go with some reservations. You see, I don’t usually like to be around people I don’t know. You never know what kind of person they are or what they are capable of. However, I do like going to the street parties to hobnob with the few that show up that are my age and share my interests and see what’s going on in their lives that might actually be of interest.
So it was with quite a bit of surprise that I met a woman about my age who shares the same musical interests that I have, likes the same kinds of movies, television shows and books that I do, and shares my love of animals. So we spent quite a bit of time socializing and she told me to check out her blog when I got home and had a chance to check it out. I did, and I was glad that I did because now I feel like I’ve gotten to know her a little better. I hope we can keep in touch!
The cost of a postage stamp is once again going up on price. I don’t really mind that the stamps are going up again because I honestly don’t use the regular mail much anymore anyways. I pay almost all my bills online using my bank’s free bill pay and I stay in touch with friends and relatives online. There’s not much need for me to even buy stamps to keep them on hand – I’m better off taking the occasional piece of mail to the 24 hour post office and just pay them at the counter when the need arises.
I find most of the time if I need to know the current price of a postage stamp that I haven’t got a clue and need to ask some one, the prices keep changing so often I lost count years ago, right around the time of the 32 cent stamp. It has been down hill ever since.
As one of those people who thought that you had to change your oil every 3000 miles I was excited to see a story the other day that said, with the advances in oil and the better engines that they have developed in recent years that it is not necessarily required to change your oil every 3000 miles. Many of the new oils will last until 5000 miles or even longer if you use synthetic oils they will last up to 10,000 miles.
This is very good news for me, considering I made sure that from the beginning that my vehicle has only used the synthetic type of oil, so it seems that I have a few thousand miles left to go before having to deal with all of that.