Tell us a really original idea

[Mangetout]

@Sal Ammoniac

I’m mulling a project to encourage people to grow beards as a form of carbon sequestration, to fight global warming. I think it could put a real dent in the problem!

Is beard growth optional then?

[DMark]

@Mangetout

Is beard growth optional then?

Depends upon how many closeted homosexuals there are who need girlfriends.
Regarding original ideas:

Quick, pre-fab, solid housing for people who live in disaster areas. I mean something you could live in for at least a year, in all weather conditions. I am thinking in terms of a fast, geodesic dome, or something of that ilk, that could be transported to sites after tornadoes, hurricanes and floods, etc and be up and livable within 24 hours. Including plumbing, sewage and electrical. Come on - someone should be able to design something like that that could be mass produced in advanced and ready when needed - for minimal money per unit, and re-useable when the crisis was over.

[Mangetout]

Geodesic domes are cool, but cuboids are strong enough, don’t have headroom issues(wasted headroom in the middle, unusable low edges), and could be modular/stackable. I think rectangular panels would be more efficient for packing/shipping too. But the concept is a fine one.

You could quite easily have different panels for different purposes - such as a panel with pre-plumbed washing facilities.

[Sal_Ammoniac]

@Mangetout

Is beard growth optional then?

Yes, but you’d have to pay a carbon tax to remain clean-shaven.

I have a slightly less idiotic (but no less hopeless) idea about adding colored smoke to people’s automobile exhaust, so they’d get a visual reminder of how much greenhouse gas they’re putting out.

[Colophon]

@Sal Ammoniac

I have a slightly less idiotic (but no less hopeless) idea about adding colored smoke to people’s automobile exhaust, so they’d get a visual reminder of how much greenhouse gas they’re putting out.

Hmm, cos the boy racers wouldn’t delight in tearing back and forth across housing estates leaving bright purple smoke trails, at all.

[BMalion]

@DMark

…Regarding original ideas:

Quick, pre-fab, solid housing for people who live in disaster areas. I mean something you could live in for at least a year, in all weather conditions. I am thinking in terms of a fast, geodesic dome, or something of that ilk, that could be transported to sites after tornadoes, hurricanes and floods, etc and be up and livable within 24 hours. Including plumbing, sewage and electrical. Come on - someone should be able to design something like that that could be mass produced in advanced and ready when needed - for minimal money per unit, and re-useable when the crisis was over.

Sort of like This pref-fab capsule home from 1968?

I wonder why it hasn’t been done.

[DMark]

@BMalion

Sort of like This pref-fab capsule home from 1968?

I wonder why it hasn’t been done.

Well, the name Bull o’ 6 Cocks probably didn’t help sell the idea in non-French speaking countries.

But yeah, that is the type of housing I was thinking of, but they looked like they might be a bit pricey to make thousands of them - then again, considering what we paid Haliburton to do nothing in New Orleans, price doesn’t seem to be the main issue.

[JillGat]

@DanBlather

There was a splinter group who used wood to make guitars called the Luthierans.

I pine for those days.

[JillGat]

@Sal Ammoniac

Yes, but you’d have to pay a carbon tax to remain clean-shaven.

I have a slightly less idiotic (but no less hopeless) idea about adding colored smoke to people’s automobile exhaust, so they’d get a visual reminder of how much greenhouse gas they’re putting out.

Make table salt blue so that you can see how much is coming out of the shaker onto your food.