Ashes to Ashes

Saturday, September 27, 2008

A strange thought came to me this morning, by virtue of my contemplating how my waste comes from consuming energy to drive me, my machine.

My energy comes from cows, fish, fruit and vegetables (no, I’m not going to get into the vegetarian/vegan debate here) and that these in turn derive their energy from sunlight which reaches us from our Sun in the form of photons.

We are bombarded with many other particles from our Sun, neutrons to name but billions upon billions of examples.

These photons and neutrons (and others) are emitted as a direct result of the energy process of the Sun. Think of the Sun as a machine (it is a weak example, I confess), and you’ll see that the photons and neutrons are waste, by-products from the Sun’s activities.

The Sun does not reclaim these by-products; they are pure waste.

And we live on them.

That’s food, for thought!

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