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I am always amazed when I hear news of uncontacted native tribes being “discovered.”  There is a story that I saw from the Yahoo pages about a tribe in Brazil that includes pictures from a recent “flyover.”  The natives are photographed aiming flaming arrows at the aircraft that is taking the pictures.  Can you imagine the horror and dread these natives are feeling as they see this “monster” flying overhead?

I have to stop and 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 I don’t have to make it!  I know for sure that I am glad that I don’t have to live in such primitive conditions!

If you want to see the story I’m talking about, click here.

There have been reports that the FEMA trailers used by the US government to house people who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina have/had 5 times the safe level of formaldehyde.  Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen, and there is evidence to support the worry that the people who have been living in the trailers already are, or will be in the future suffering from various ailments from asthma to cancer as a result of the prolonged exposure to the formaldehyde.

The US Government KNEW about this since 2006, and yet there are still thousands of people living in those trailers!  I consider this an outrage, and a crime against humanity!

For more information about this situation, I invite you to read the following link: click here

I saw on the news where there was a huge motorcycle rally called “Rolling Thunder” in Washington DC last Sunday.  This was an annual event held by a motorcycle club of veterans; they hold it on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend every year to honor and call attention to all of the service men and women who are still MIA.  I heard that over 350,000 motorcycles met at the Pentagon and then rode across the Potomac to the White House!  What a spectacle that must have been!  I saw a picture of the two leaders of the club giving a leather jacket (or maybe it was a vest?) to President Bush.  He looked thrilled.  I guess at his point of existence in his Presidency, and his low approval rating, he would probably be thrilled to get any kind of positive interaction with any group right about now!

I think that instead of using salt water to create fuel to run our cars, using algae to create fuel is a more reasonable path to take.  I’ve been reading a lot of articles about making fuel from algae, and I saw that some companies are already using fuel made from algae, including an airline company!  I think that is really cool 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 it, click here.

A friend of mine sent me a link to a blog that was talking about how someone has found a way to burn salt water, and that the possibility was there to further develop that to actually be able to run cars with that technology.

So I was just googling “fuel from salt water” and was reading the different links about it.

From what I can tell, right now it takes more energy to create the fuel than the fuel itself would generate, which makes it impractical.  Perhaps someone can refine the process, but I also read that when the salt water DOES burn, it releases a deadly form of chlorine gas, which probably would not be a good thing!

So, I think that quite a bit of “tweaking” needs to be done for that technology to hit the mainstream use of running our cars on saltwater!