Well said Pancho, well said.

But OP, we can't give up, there's got to be someone out there who will appreciate you for who you are.

Welcome to the forum.

Dedicated to a silent one on here:

Well, they'll stone you when you walk all alone
They'll stone you when you are walking home
They'll stone you and then say you are brave
They'll stone you when you are set down in your grave
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned.

Rainy Day Woman 12 & 35

Yup, live and learn. Or live, at any rate.

Through the pp?

That's like removing a kidney stone!

On my third date we went shopping, she wanted to buy exercise equipment to get in shape she said. I paid for it. On the fifth date she sold the equipment and gave the money to her crackhead ex. And told me she was getting back together with him.

I had a big S on my forehead I suppose.

Interesting, sounds like a plot in the same style as Yojimbo.

Another sorta forgotten one I guess:

Papillon

I just about peed in my pants! You guys are killin' me!

I'll never think of a sage bush the same way again!

Or any bush for that matter!

Oh yeah, the mexico guy! Read an article on him some time ago. Not sure I'd try one of those, and can't afford it anyways, but peroxide sounds interesting actually. Easier to store than pur hydrogen anyways.

Brown's gas, yeah, oxyhydrogen. My one worry is storage, since it contains weakly bonded hydrogen... and it couldn't be stored like modern hydrogen tanks, like in a hydride. So not sure how it improves over just plain hydrogen, they both have to be electrolyzed.

But yeah, batteries are the weakest link right now. Gasoline has a very high energy/volume ratio, even compared with other renewable fuels like highly compressed hydrogen. Even more so compared with even the most cutting edge batteries. So that technology has to really step up. But tbh, unless you're talking long distance trips, there are a good number of electric cars that do just fine for in town driving. And if they cut the charging time to say, 1/2 hour, long distance may even be a possibility. Shoot, I don't have a problem getting out of the car every 250 miles or so for a half hour break.

I don't know if I already said it, but congrats you too! Beautiful place as well, love waterfalls.

I don't really know either of you except from your posts, but it's heartening to see couples that have found each other here.

May your love be like the waterfall, never tiring, ever lasting.

So, how many of you have danced to Rock Lobster? Cmon, admit it...

Actually Stan, I think they do!

http://www.slashfilm.com/tucker-and-dale-vs-evil-2/

Wow, that's pretty cynical imo. So, does that mean all divorced people are rejects?

Wow, a post I mostly agree with!

My take:

- any non-renewable should be off the table, or at best phased out as soon as feasible. And sadly, that includes nuclear, although it's a _much_ slower depleting resource.

- speaking of nuclear. I believe the next step in nuclear technology is betavoltaics, basically nuclear batteries. The russians have had them for decades (I believe though the US or UK developed them first) and they have used them in spacecraft... actually I think the Cassini uses one based on their design. Those are thermionic devices though I think.
Found some interesting articles though:
http://www.gizmag.com/water-nuclear-battery-radiolysis/33844/
http://www.gizmag.com/city-labs-nanotritium-betavoltaic-battery/23720/
Talk about betavoltaic batteries, one already commercially available, the other a prototype.

Found another article, of questionable reliability:
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2011/05/swedish-skeptics-confirm-nuclear-process-in-tiny-4-7-kw-reactor

But if it does prove true it seems a viable option for individual home power needs.

- why did solar initially fail? Cost, simply and purely. If it wasn't for large government subsidies, Chinese solar panels wouldn't get to the low cost they are today. But like everything else, hopefully the economies of scale will drive cost low enough to make it an attractive alternative. I think France is looking at replacing their nuclear reactors with solar. As in my solar topic, I myself found it cost effective to at least partially replace my energy needs to solar. The jury is still out on that one until I actually run the thing long term.

- Cars running on coal? Yeah, but why? Liquefied coal gas has been used at one time or another for over 100 years, but coal is still a non renewable resource. To me, anything that is a resource that other countries depend on, whether raw materials or energy (look at Russia/Ukraine/EU) becomes a political tool eventually. Look at the rare earths fiasco with China controlling output.

I would say both?

Yeah, people who are passionate tend to do that. I am learning to take things slow though.

And I meant this one for you knightheart!

Absolutely agree with that!


Lol not ignoring you knightheart, I was just agreeing with romeo.

Atop

For a great friend I found on here:
http://youtu.be/KEXQkrllGbA

Thanks very much Andy, good points.

I'll be a stick in the mud and disagree. If anything is preordained then we have lost our free will.

Now, life is full of possibilities. You can find your perfect match and be happily together everafter, but you will have to search... and wait, sometimes for a long time.