Re: OT: Mac spotting?

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:39:12 +0200, Jochem Huhmann <joh@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

This is really spooky. Last month I have been hiking for 10 days in a
region here in Germany that very much lives off forests and in the
village we rented a flat for a base there were a "wood market" which
displayed some such monsters.

Talking of monsters, imagine seeing this walking out of the woods!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2V8GFqk_Y

Ahh! At least it's an herbivore, so it won't eat me.

While we were hiking about there we often saw hills where there were
strips of forests harvested like any other crop.

And that's all these plantations are isn't it, 'crop'. What I like is
the diverse range of uses they can put every last chip of sawdust to
these days. Either 'special' man made wood, like chip board to bigger
'bits' as with Sterling board. They even have special chippers for
making fuel burner sized chips.

Well, if you accept that we need wood to do things with, this is just
one way of doing it. And an interesting one, too.

Two or three people
with alien looking machinery going over a hill and cutting huge strips
of forest down to almost nothing in almost no time at all. Spooky.

Especially that walking one!

Add a bit of computing power, GPS, satellite photos and cameras and
these things will roam the countryside on their own and harvest as
they'll see fit.

But
then, renewable resources are in the end just industry as any other and
I certainly like to see this rather than another nuclear power station.

Hmm, not sure about that myself but then I don't know the whole story
so ...

Well, I certainly had my doubts over the decades. But meanwhile I think
that I take such things over a government and police protected nuclear
corrupt industry all the time. At least the wind blows everywhere and
the sun shines here and there and even trees grow everywhere the same.
While the nuclear industry needs police and government protection from
the fuel production over building and maintaining the things and getting
rid of the spent fuel and every bit of used equipment. And all of this
is mostly supplied by big corporations (like Siemens in Germany) and
getting in a foot is almost impossible for any small company. Building
solar energy farms and windmills and harvesting tress is a very
different thing. It's almost as the difference between a dictatorship
and a democracy. I like small-scale and distributed stuff, even if
high-tech and automated. And I know very well what to do with a pile of
wood in a hard winter.


Jochem

--
"A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no
longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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