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A more “economist” view of how washing machines affect the world and some of the environmental effects around them.
Interesting thoughts.
[youtube:1wf6qek7]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoKfap4g4w[/youtube:1wf6qek7]
K.
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Its alledged that on this very day in 1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patented the first washing machine
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Did you all spot the error in his talk though? 😉
There’s a fundamental assumption that is incorrect IMO which actually destroys a good bit of the argument.
I will admit, it’s not obvious and it’s one of those “economics” things. So, it may well not be that easy to spot for a casual observer.
K.
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I will have another look at it tomorrow when I am not so tired 🙂
George
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No but I did click the ‘edit’ button on your post, I now understand what you meant by youtube tags. 😉 8)
Jim.
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🙂
Good ’cause I went back and altered some so you could see what I’d done. One at least was yours for a football thing removed due to copyright issues. 😕
I’ll buy the person that finds the error a drink at the next meet, in fact I may even make that two but all bets are off if you all give up and I have to explain it.
K.
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well the obvious thing is, guessing that guy is a little older than me, when he was 4 its unlikely his mother had a front loader with a start button and that they could all sit around and watch and later, when bored of watching, she then had all the time for reading the kids books etc. More likely she was standing there for hours humping heavy washing from one tub to the other……maybe I am just being pedantic though.
not an economic reason I know and i really cannot be bothered to go researching all the figures.Re: How Washing Machine’s Changed The World
Is it the assumption that developing nations will have both population growth AND increasing standards of living, when it’s more likely population will grow but they’ll be fighting over increasingly scarce resources, with no impact on overall energy consumption?
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Nope, but a good effort and correct also almost got a bit of it. 🙂
K.
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We also need to consider that a washing machine requires water… The world social services types are finding it hard enough to get water to some of these people to drink atm, never mind water for washing machines.
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That’s because we have too many people and not enough resources for them all but, not he problem I was thinking on. 😉
K.
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way over my head guys .. cant you find anything elso to do ?? 😯
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