“[I predict] the electricity generated by water power is the only thing that is going to keep future generations from freezing. Now we use coal whenever we produce electric power by steam engine, but there will be a time when there'll be no more coal to use. That time is not in the very distant future. ... Oil is too insignificant in its available supply to come into much consideration.” UseScienceWaterGenerationsProduceAvailableOilConsiderationEnginesElectricElectricityPredictionsCoalInsignificantFuture GenerationSteamFreezingSteam EnginesWater PowerElectric Power Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz
“Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.” WayWaterSolutionsRemainsSurfaceAlcoholIceEach DaySugarSaltLiquorFreezingMapleHeating Author:Bill Mollison
“What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter.” WaterSeaLaughterRiversFellowsFishesBoatLakesRemoveFishingNervesExposedHookTemperatureTissuesHystericalFly FishingFreezingAnglers Author:Jessica Maxwell