This is it boys and girls power the world with static electricity generated by cat fur. We just need lots more cats. 

https://images.app.goo.gl/qSXJPZA4xhfFPpEF8

 

Edited April 2, 20251 yr by martin-w

We had the answer, thanks to the geniuses on Avsim, back in 2021. 😲

 

 

Can somebody good at maths calculate for us how many cats we need to power the world... or maybe just one huge genetically engineered cat the size of a continent????

 

 

3 hours ago, martin-w said:

Re the so called little ice age, it wasn't an ice age, it was very short term and just parts of the northern hemisphere, believed to be caused by the Maunder Minimum.

Some climate scientists believe much of the recent warming is due to solar activity and the position of the Earth relative to the sun.  This is ridiculed by other climate scientists who insist that "solar forcing" is not the cause, but is instead man-made fossil fuel emissions increasing CO2 levels.

Yet you say that the Little Ice Age was caused by reduced solar activity.

Either solar activity significantly influences the climate or it doesn't.  You can't use it only when it's convenient and supports your theory.

Dave

1 hour ago, dave2013 said:

Either solar activity significantly influences the climate or it doesn't.  

 

Solar activity definitively can impact the climate.

But no solar causal factor has been present from the beggining of the industrial revolution to now, that would account for the rapid increase in GLOBAL AVERAGE temp since the start of the industrial revolution. Except for our emmisions. 

We've had short term peaks and troughs, but not events that cause long term global changes.

The Little Ice age was mostly northern hemisphere, if I recall corectly, so local, and not long term. I'm not sure if Maunder Minimums can cause global changes.

And as I mentioned, we know the additional CO2 causing warming is from burning fossil fuel due to its isotopic signature.

Climatologists do obviously consider such things as changes in solar activity, significant geological upheaval, Milankovitch Cyles, reduction in volcanism, and other factors before blaming our emmisiins.

Edited April 2, 20251 yr by martin-w

1 hour ago, dave2013 said:

Some climate scientists believe much of the recent warming is due to solar activity and the position of the Earth relative to the sun. 

 

I know of no serious scientist that believes that. There has been no long term change in solar activity that would be responsible. And no Milankovitch Cycle that would account for it. As I said, climatologists aren't uneducated in such things, it's part of the research they do

Edited April 2, 20251 yr by martin-w

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On 4/2/2025 at 3:04 PM, martin-w said:

it's part of the research they do

and yet they are still always wrong or do they know its all bullcrap. I expect its the later given all the money involved. The fact that you're not allowed to question it, in my book says its all Bollox

Edited April 4, 20251 yr by FBW737

I can't believe you just did that after Charlie's warning. 😄

You are a very, very naughty boy. And now Charlie, in extreme anger, will puke plasma from every orifice.

Cats also believe in CC and GW so will also be very angry too. So millions of sought after cat points will be deducted from your "Freindly to Felines" account.

😾

 

Always wrong = incorrect.

Can't question it = yes you can.

Now I'm guilty too. 😒

 

Edited April 4, 20251 yr by martin-w

IBTL. 😁

I still think cat fur and compulsory stroking is the answer. We would need several feline electricity generating stations. With our beloved feline masters permission, of course.

Question... how many cat strokes would it take to charge a mobile phone? 🤔

Edited April 4, 20251 yr by martin-w
Still can't spell.

3 hours ago, martin-w said:

Question... how many cat strokes would it take to charge a mobile phone? 

The cat will let you know.  They're pretty smart.  They always know when they're treading on forbidden ground and back off.  Smarter than some people.

Noel

On 4/1/2025 at 9:28 AM, birdguy said:

But of course, Dave, anything new and innovative you would be against.  I expected that.

I think all he's saying is that all too often these "green" energy ideas aren't quite as green as we would like them to be.

The answer definitely lies in Cat Fusion.  Just a little fluff and fur, put together, the static electricity alone would be enough to power Tucumcari for 5 years.

5 hours ago, martin-w said:

I still think cat fur and compulsory stroking is the answer. We would need several feline electricity generating stations. With our beloved feline masters permission, of course.

Stroking cat fur to harness static electricity is literally scratching the surface in harnessing energy from cats.  Cat wheels are the solution for generating electricity:

The downside is you have the problem of disposing of the solid deposits made in the litter box, but that’s still going to happen with cats that have their fur stroked anyway.

On 4/4/2025 at 8:09 PM, Mike A said:

Stroking cat fur to harness static electricity is literally scratching the surface in harnessing energy from cats.  Cat wheels are the solution for generating electricity:

 

Well, yes. But the cats themselves are being subjected to extreme physical activity.

Extreme feline exercise is a ritualized activity shrouded in mystery and only performed in accordance with the Feline Galactic Councils permission. it is a form of feline exercise that was developed and purr-fected a millennia ago and written about in the ancient feline texts. We humans know it as... The Zoomies!

Subjecting felines to a pleasurable stroking, on the other hand, not only generates power but pleasures our feline masters too. This they would allow and the reward for such an exquisite pleasuring would be the electrical power granted us. 

 

Edited April 6, 20251 yr by martin-w
Still cant be bothered to check spelling before posting. Thus, editing required.