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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 2/6/2007, you wrote:
> In this map of 1947 Palestine, you can also see that no Jewish
> settlements existed in the far south in modern times, nor in the ancient
> past.  It boggles the mind, then, why they needed to be given all the
> land to the south.

Read the book "O Jerusalem" by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre for a 
good picture of what happened when Britain reached the end of the Palastine 
Mandate in 1947.  For more background read "Proud Tower" by Barbara 
Touchman for background on the Balfour Declaration and the Dryfus Affair.



Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
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Subject: Re: [Homestead] Unpreparedness
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It's only the limitations of language that make it seem hard to 
understand.  If you could be here to watch me blow into the tube, and 
you saw the water flow out of the return line, you'd say, "Is that all 
you were talking about?"  It really is such a no-brainer.

It seems to me that we've abandoned something important when we become 
passive consumers of someone else's technology exclusively.  It's 
amazing the opposition I get from Orlando (my gardening mentor), my 
partner, everyone.  I contacted a local teacher friend of mine to see if 
she would be interested in teaching elementary physics through 
compressed air technology, but there was no interest there either.  It 
seems everyone has memorized the maxim that I was also taught: "Anything 
you create on your own will be vastly inferior and even unacceptable 
compared to the fantastic hi-tech products available at you local 
dealer."  I stipulate that this is true for any electric or mechnical 
go-roundy that I might attempt to make (not that it makes them worth 
buying).  But it's just not so for compressed air.

For instance, suppose I need a wood splitter.  I couldn't begin to make 
an electric one, but it would be quite easy to set up a buoyancy engine 
(an upside-down jug in deep water with a stick on it), and leverage the 
buoyant force to split wood.  This and the water pump are just two ideas 
I've had with my limited creativity.

We often talk about the energy crisis, but which did you spend more on, 
the energy or the "brilliant inventions" that use it up?  I've had space 
heaters whose clicky switches broke long before I had put their value in 
electricity through them.  Do you realize that my well pumping job is a 
10-watt job?  Why is a 1000-watt pump required to do it?  It's because 
"we" insist on an on-demand, full-throated (in the words of Louis the 
14th, speaking of his fountains at Versailles) well pump that can 
sustain continuous showering or laundry, when a simple storage tank 
would allow a 10-watt pump to do it.  Wouldn't the storage tank & 10W 
pump combination be the more brilliant invention?  But I sense that 
someone really is profitting from the flow of space heaters and impeller 
pumps from the retailer to the landfill.

I heard a great quote from Jefferson yesterday: "If a nation expects to 
be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never 
was and never will be."

Bill Jones wrote:

> Would you believe that I don't have the slightest bit of skill?  I'm all 
> thumbs when it comes to anything mechanical or electronic.  It just so 
> happens that compressed air makes everything easy...
>
> EarthNSky wrote:
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> > G'D'Evening Bill,
> > You are talking over my head, but I can sense your excitement and pride, 
> > so I am excited for you..congrats!
> >
> > Bev
> >
> > Bill Jones wrote:
> >
> >
> >    
> >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > It's really funny how things come together.  If I had never moved here 
> > > and seen Orlando's pneumatic-controlled sawmill, or if I'd never studied 
> > > (just a little) electronics, I probably wouldn't have the confidence to put it all together.
> > >
> > > Bill
> > >   
> > >
> > >      
>
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