Farewell to Belmont - Night 81

Trip Start Oct 11, 2007
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Trip End Mar 26, 2008


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Monday, December 31, 2007

The second nice day in a row. To celebrate I took my final hike to Belmont Park.  I've been there so often it has begun to feel like my backyard, yet the place is so big I've never done the same hike twice.  I will definitely miss the prickly gorse forests and dogging sheep shit with every step. 

In the afternoon I lounged on our underused deck and reread Tim Flannery's opus on climate change, The Weathermakers.  We all sat down to a good family dinner of Lasagna and played some cards in the evening.  Just another day of hiking and reading.

What I Learned Today:   The strange thing about all our supposed technological advances in the energy sector is that 90% or more of all our energy generated is done using 19th century technology, namely, boiling water to create steam to turn turbines.  Coal, natural gas, and even nuclear plants still use this archaic and inefficient method of power generation....the second law of thermodynamics is a bitch.
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