July 23rd, 2008
There are two sisters, one is blonde and the other is brunette and they inherit the family farm. Unfortunately, after just a few years, they are in financial trouble.
In order to keep the bank from repossessing the farm, they need to purchase a bull from the stockyard in a far town so that they can breed their own stock. They only have $600 left.
Upon leaving, the brunette tells her sister, “When I get there, if I decide to buy the bull, I’ll contact you to drive out after me and haul it home.”
The brunette arrives at the stockyard, inspects the bull, and decides she wants to buy it. The man tells her that he will sell it for $599, no less.
No problem. After paying him, she drives to the nearest town to send her sister a telegram to tell her the news.
She walks into the telegraph office, and says, “I want to send a telegram to my sister telling her that I’ve bought a bull for our farm. I need her to hitch the trailer to our pick-up and drive out here so we can haul it home.”
The telegraph operator explains that he’ll be glad to help her, and then adds, “It’s just 99 cents a word.”
Well, after paying for the bull, the brunette only has $1 left. She realizes that she’ll only be able to send her sister one word.
After a few minutes of thinking, she nods and says, “I want you to send her the word ‘comfortable’.” The operator shakes his head in disbelief.
“How’s she ever going to know that you want her to hitch the trailer to your pick-up and drive out here, to haul that bull back to your farm if you send her just the word ‘comfortable’?”
The brunette explains, “Very simple, my sister is a blonde. Comfortable is a big word. She’ll read it very slowly, com - for - da - bul.” “You see, easy as pie.”
Thanks to oil’s soaring prices, people are now more interested in adopting cleaner and environment-friendly energy resources than before. Some of the most popular renewable energy resources are:
- Biofuels
- Biomass
- Geothermal
- Hydro Power
- Solar Power
- Tidal Power
- Wave Power
- Wind Power
I’ve penned a couple of posts about wind and solar power. These are my favorite renewable resources, because they have a great potential in Panama, the country where I live. If only our government officials would take their dark glasses off to see reality.
Texas is doing just fine making huge investments in wind power building giant wind turbines in a place called Pampa located northeast of Amarillo on the Texas panhandle. Famous oilman T. Boone Pickens, is investing $10 billion to build the world’s largest wind farm near Pampa, Texas.
Even though it has been demonstrated over and over again that wind power is one of the cheapest and cleanest alternative for oil, many people are against wind farm projects because they say they are ugly and pollute the scenery of country roads.
Wind turbines don’t necessarily have to be cold and ugly as their detractors say. I’ve just seen very imaginative and beautiful wind turbines designed in Europe which resemble moving works of art blowing in the wind.
You can take your pick from 3 megawatt offshore monsters, to zero energy windmill skyscrapers, kite flown turbines and giant seabed anchored super-turbines, held aloft by blimps. Please click here to find a picture gallery of the most futuristic and quixotic designs for wind turbines. By far the most beautiful way to harness energy.
Enjoy and please spread the word for the adoption of clean energy resources in your neck of the woods. With imagination, they can also be works of art in motion. Adios!
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