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Convert Human Fat into Electricity - Generate Power with a Stationary Bicycle - Pollution Free! Buy an Already Assembled Machine or Get Parts & Plans...

ELECTRICITY GENERATING BIKE. Most people understand the concept of a power generating exercise bike; they just don't realise its potential.



CAN I BUY AN ELECTRICITY GENERATING BIKE?
Most people understand the concept of a power generating exercise bike; they just don't realise its potential. It's because microgeneration sounds...well, too small-scale to be useful in the modern world. Of course, that's the point. Microgeneration means small-scale energy production. It's the kind used in homes and small businesses: solar panels on a roof or small-scale wind turbines, for example.

But one of the biggest advantages of this type of clean energy generation is that generally it's less conspicuous and affordable; it's also relatively easy to install and maintain. https://energym.io/blogs/news/can-i-buy-an-electricity-generating-bike

The Pedal-A-Watt Stationary Bike Power Generator: create energy and get fit...
The Pedal-A-Watt Stationary Bike Power Generator: create energy and get fit...

https://newatlas.com/the-pedal-a-watt-stationary-bike-power-generator-create-energy-and-get-fit/13433/

Pedaling a bike at a reasonable pace generates about 100 watts of power. That's the same energy-per-time used by a 100-watt lightbulb.

https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/12/08/504790589/could-you-power-your-home-with-a-bike

Generate Electricity with a Stationary Bicycle. Convert Human Fat into Power...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbUxt2x4InE&t=1s

RUBBER ROLLER DC GENERATOR DYNAMO FOR EXERCISE BIKE

RUBBER ROLLER DC GENERATOR DYNAMO FOR EXERCISE BIKE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUr-ACN3ZJ8&t=2s


CAN YOU REALLY POWER YOUR HOME WITH A BICYCLE GENERATOR?
Talk about a way to ease any device-time guilt - power your TV and devices by cycling! As a parent that struggles with device time and kids too, I quite like the idea of teaching kids about climate change and energy efficiency by making them pedal-charge their devices. The effort expended puts energy use into perspective and may just encourage them not to take their device time for granted.

The truth on how to use less energy? Build more efficient homes

For more info on how to build an energy efficient home, or perhaps build an off-grid home, or even how to build an off-grid Tiny Home, check out our building guide pages, or use our Edelweiss House as an example of what is possible when you design for optimum energy efficiency from the beginning, as it only consumes about $600 a year in total energy - that includes all the electricity for lighting, heating, cooking, bathing, and even charging an electric car for an extended daily commute. 

http://www.gulland.ca/homenergy/lindabike.htm
Our neighbor Linda needed a way to boost her house's small solar electric system during cloudy periods. She wondered if a bicycle could be adapted to make enough electrical power for her water pump, which is her minimum electrical need. I was planning to build a wind turbine, including it's low-speed alternator. The turbine alternator I had in mind functions at less than 400 rpm and so does a bicycle wheel. That got me thinking . . . 

There are two types of bicycle generator stands.   Belt drive and roller.   There are pros and cons for using each type of stand.  Here is the summary:  

HPG-75 HUMAN POWER GENERATOR  INSTALLED AT DISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM    Rockford, IL

This interactive display provides children with the unique experience  of generating electricity and then selecting which appliances in the home to power up.   The hair drier and blender are  the most difficult item giving the children  a very high resistance to work against.

https://windstreampower.com/ Welcome to Windstream Power LLC.  We are an OEM manufacturer located in Vermont, USA.

We have been supplying Permanent Magnet DC Generators, Voltage Regulators and our Human Power Generator to exhibit fabrication companies, small wind and microhydro manufacturers, as well to hundreds of other industrial applications, all over the world, for 47 years!  

https://www.motherearthnews.com/renewable-energy/pedal-powered-generators-zmaz08onzgoe

Make Electricity While You Exercise... 

While you probably won’t produce enough electricity to power your entire house, pedal-powered generators can play a small but useful role in some homes.


Photos of Our House at 17830 Bruce Ave Los Gatos, CA - Now Gone - Loma Ave, Eureka - Redwood Street, Cutten and Main Ave, Orangevale...

Photos of Our House at 17830 Bruce Ave Los Gatos, CA Vanderlaan Family
In this Living Room...
My Parents had a SNCC fundraiser during the 1960s. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

 A Black Man gave a speech about The Civil Rights Movement and we sold admission tickets. Many people attended and the house was packed. In general, my parents were opposed to racism. Los Gatos had VERY few Black people but Many Mexican Americans and Orientals.

Photos of Our House at 17830 Bruce Ave Los Gatos, CA Vanderlaan Family
Grandpa Malek worked as a carpenter (general contractor). He would build entire houses. Mom's family would live in the houses while they were being built and then move on to the next house when grandpa sold it. Our family house on Hedding Street in San Jose was built by grandpa. We had to move because it was under the flight path for airplanes to the San Jose Airport and the entire neighborhood became uninhabitable when JET airplanes were invented. We moved to Los Gatos and the house was put onto a truck and moved to Almaden. The house was valuable enough to justify moving it instead of simply tearing it down. Grandpa became a carpenter right after the 1906 earthquake. He was living in Oregon when the call went out for all able bodied men to go work rebuilding the city of San Francisco. He also built a house on "The 17 Mile Drive" a neighborhood of palatial mansions in Carmel. Mom, Dad and Grandpa built a Redwood Deck on the back of our house in Los Gatos in 1960.

Photos of Our House at 17830 Bruce Ave Los Gatos, CA Vanderlaan Family
Of Course, I COULD Have Just Lived in The Bruce Ave House After My Father Died BUT... I Had Built an Excellent Life in Eureka, CA with a Job, Friends, Cool and Rainy Weather (no Danger from Wildfires) - Small Town (safe) Culture... Six Miles from Arcata, Ground Zero for Marijuana Farming in the USA... Humboldt State University (My Alma Mater - Class of 2005) and and and Los Gatos Just Fails to Compare... "It's a Quality of Life Thing" said My Friend Jesse, The Leader of the Band Womama That Played Positive World-Beat Music for Free in Central Park... So We Sold The House in Los Gatos and Kept The Money... Bought a House in Eureka for 1/5th the Price and Continued to Love Life Behind the Redwood Curtain... Sometimes It's Difficult To Believe the Outside World Really Exists... Why Are Those People Over There is So Much Trouble All the Time? I Don't Know BUT... Don't Come Here With Your Failed Culture and Crazy Beliefs...

Photos of Our House at 17830 Bruce Ave Los Gatos, CA Vanderlaan Family
I remember buying a slice of Redwood Burl at That Store/Gallery on Highway 9 directly across the Street from San Lorenzo High School. We were taking a Stained Glass Window Making Class at West Valley Junior College Night School. I made a Red Rose Framed by that Burl... and it hung in the Window of my Father's House for decades... and... I noticed the ERROR I made in the construction of that window... and it bugged me for about 10 seconds every time I saw it... I also made a Clock from a slice of Burl... and It hung in the Living Room... The School was right next door to a drive in Movie Theater and at Night we could walk over and see the movies without paying. Saw "Carrie" there... My Father Bought a Stained Glass Window for His Office from Mike Coolie... a Business Expense and Fully Tax Deductible because it Had the Name J.D.Vanderlaan - Realtor Etched into the window...

Photos of Our House at 17830 Bruce Ave Los Gatos, CA Vanderlaan Family
 At The Engineer's Club Picnic, Mom Won the Hammering a Nail Contest for Women . Grandpa worker as a Carpenter and He Taught Mom. They Built a Redwood Deck on the Bruce Ave House. Mom worked as a Librarian at Fisher Junior High School. Marguerite Vanderlaan... 

Photos of Our House at 17830 Bruce Ave Los Gatos, CA Vanderlaan Family
On the Left is a Fantastic Fabric Art
Hanging Made by My Mom...
 

Martin, Nicole and Vanessa Vanderlaan

Justin Vanderlaan, Bonita Post, Nicole Vanderlaan Smith

Justin Vanderlaan and Martin Vanderlaan
In the 1990's I often drove around with my Dad. One time we were cruising down Vista Ave near our home and he said "At least I raised you right, that man's son became a "Merry Prankster"...and he pointed to a neighbor's house. I have forgotten who the boy was but I'm sure he was older than me... more like my big brother's age. And definitely NOT Neal Cassady. He lived in a Different part of Los Gatos.


I was living in Willow Glen at that time and Working at Radio Shack and he would often come over an we would get a cup of coffee and sit on a sunshiny bus stop and "solve the problems of the world". He often wrote letters to the editor and they usually got published in the San Jose Mercury News. One letter recommended putting a stop light on Almaden Expressway at a dangerous intersection and soon the city installed one there. Saved some lives...

My mom's family lived in "The Heart of the Willows" and I remember going to Christmas Parties there. My uncle made apricot white lightning and I would eat an apricot, get drunk and then dance with my cousin. The adults thought it was funny to have small children experience sexual desire before puberty... HA HA! The way he made the liquor was to fill a mason jar with pitted apricots and rock candy (sugar) then pour in vodka. Set that jar on a shelf for a year and the liquid was nearly 100% alcohol.


He also went to a bar named "Chick Letty's" during prohibition. Willow Glen was an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County just outside the border of San Jose. The laws were not enthusiastically enforced in the County... Decades later I went to the same bar and purchased illegal marijuana in the parking lot. SO, nothing has really changed... He bought illegal booze and I bought illegal reefer...


Mom's grade school has been recycled as a Senior Center and Dad went there to participate in their bus trips to Eureka. It was a voyage to the Bear River Casino in Lolita but he just used it as a handy way to travel to see me.

Gregory Vanderlaan in Halloween Mask
Dia de Los Muertos Celebration at Work...
I Just Printed a Grateful Dead Album Cover
and Cut out the Eye Holes on the Skull... Wore it as a Mask. 

Co-Workers at the DHHS Office in Eureka, CA
Halloween Costumes at the Office.
We Were a TV Game Show. Deal or No Deal
Our House 17830 Bruce Ave Los Gatos CA 95030 - gvan42 - Gregory Vanderlaan
Our House 17830 Bruce Ave Los Gatos CA 95030
The New Owners Tore Down My Father's Custom 
Built House and Built a McMansion...
Then they Blurred Out Google Street View So
No One Can See What They Did... 
But They Didn't Blur Out The Satellite View. 
Two Houses to the Left is Victor Koman's House.
READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/03/growing-up-in-los-gatos-california-in.html

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Photos of Loma Ave in Eureka, CA - When we sold Dad's House We Bought This Home for Victoria and I... 

6353 Loma Eureka, CA

6353 Loma Eureka, CA

Satellite View 6353 Loma

From the Living Room we can see the Humboldt Bay - the South and North Jetties that form the Entrance Channel and the Pacific Ocean... The Sun Sets into the Ocean at a Different Location depending on the Season... Farther to the Right in the Summer and Farther to the Left in the Winter... It's amazing when Science is Verified by Reality. 

Orangevale, CA
Where I Live Now. 7117 Main Ave Orangevale, CA 
Near Sacramento


Picture of Victoria's Sister Beth, Our Home in the Redwood Forest and a Tower of Jewels Plant. in Cutten California near Eureka.
My Truck and The Magic Bus Kinetic Sculpture

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I Found 15 Photographs of Our House on Realtor Dot Com... I Guess that when we were trying to sell the House they Built an Advertisement Online... So People Could See What They Were Getting... These were Taken by a Professional Real Estate Photographer and Most Look The Same As The Ones I Took... Except the One With the Front Door and Back Door Open at the Same Time... That's Excellent... 
Our House in Los Gatos, CA - Vanderlaan Family 17830 Bruce Ave

Our House in Los Gatos, CA - Vanderlaan Family 17830 Bruce Ave

Our House in Los Gatos, CA - Vanderlaan Family 17830 Bruce Ave

Our House in Los Gatos, CA - Vanderlaan Family 17830 Bruce Ave

Our House in Los Gatos, CA - Vanderlaan Family 17830 Bruce Ave

Our House in Los Gatos, CA - Vanderlaan Family 17830 Bruce Ave

Our House in Los Gatos, CA - Vanderlaan Family 17830 Bruce Ave

Our House in Los Gatos, CA - Vanderlaan Family 17830 Bruce Ave

Our House in Los Gatos, CA - Vanderlaan Family 17830 Bruce Ave

Our House in Los Gatos, CA - Vanderlaan Family 17830 Bruce Ave

Our House in Los Gatos, CA - Vanderlaan Family 17830 Bruce Ave

Our House in Los Gatos, CA - Vanderlaan Family 17830 Bruce Ave

Our House in Los Gatos, CA - Vanderlaan Family 17830 Bruce Ave

Our House in Los Gatos, CA - Vanderlaan Family 17830 Bruce Ave

Our House in Los Gatos, CA - Vanderlaan Family 17830 Bruce Ave




It Takes TWO People To Make a Lie Work. The CON MAN and the CHUMP... You Have Been Fed the Fiction That Owning a Gun Makes Your Home Safer... However, That's FALSE...

It's a Marketing Trick to SELL GUNS and SELL Membership in the NRA... They are Lying to You and You BELIEVED THEIR CrazyTalk® 

The Easiest way to Protect Your Family From Danger is to Get Rid Of any Guns in the Home. Fortunately, there are several legal ways to remove guns from your possession. Below is a look at some options for legal gun removal... https://putgunsinsafehands.org/the-single-best-way-to-get-rid-of-inherited-guns/

To Make Your Home Safer, Simply Remove any Guns. That Removes the Chances of an Accident... It's Not Complicated... "We at Cash My Guns celebrate the right of law-abiding Americans to own a gun. Similarly, we celebrate the right of law-abiding Americans to relinquish ownership of their guns."

https://www.cashmyguns.com/blog/how-to-get-rid-of-a-gun-legally/


A Simple HOW TO Article about Making Your Home Safer... At the National Center for Unwanted Firearms Inc., our mission is to accept and responsibly dispose of or repurpose unwanted firearms and promote firearm safety and awareness in communities. https://www.unwantedfirearms.org/


If you want to surrender an old gun, call your local police station’s non-emergency phone line and describe the situation. They will usually be happy to walk you through the process. Depending on the station they may even dispatch officers to your home to collect the firearm, ask you to schedule an appointment to bring it in, or simply ask you to walk in. https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/four-ways-to-dispose-of-an-unwanted-gun-ask-foghorn/

ANOTHER CRAZY MAN WITH A GUN COMMITS SUICIDE BY COP.  HEADLINE: "Anthony Thompson Jr., 17, was shot and killed by a police officer at Austin-Magnet High School in Knoxville, Tennessee." https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/no-charges-officer-who-fatally-shot-tennessee-high-school-student-n1265045

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My Favorite Acid Trips were Way Out in the Woods Backpacking with Friends... Climbing Mountains in Yosemite or Walking Around the Redwood Forests Near Santa Cruz... IMPORTANT! Do Not Take LSD Near a Policeman... It's Illegal... and They Might Arrest You... REALLY! Dancing at a Grateful Dead Concert IS a Fine Location Also as It Has Been My Experience that The Police are NOT Likely to Enforce the Law...  https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78qvw/solo-trip-acid-mushrooms-advice-harm-reduction

HEADLINE: "Vaccine hesitancy among Republicans emerges as Biden's next big challenge." - Frankly Speaking, I do not see a Problem with Republicans Refusing to Get Vaccinated for Coronavirus... Let them Get Sick and Die... Truly Making America Great! I'm Comfortable With the Disease Lasting a FEW MORE YEARS if It Means The Removal of Crazy People From the Planet... DARWIN! https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/24/politics/joe-biden-vaccine-hesitancy/index.html

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced plans to ban hydraulic fracturing by 2024 as part of a longer-term aim to end all oil extraction in the state. The governor has ordered the state's top oil regulator to implement regulation to stop issuing new fracking permits by 2024. He has also directed the state's air resources agency to look at ways to phase out oil extraction completely by 2045. "The climate crisis is real, and we continue to see the signs every day," Newsom said in a Friday press release. "As we move to swiftly decarbonize our transportation sector and create a healthier future for our children, I've made it clear I don't see a role for fracking in that future and, similarly, believe that California needs to move beyond oil." https://www.npr.org/2021/04/23/990368418/california-governor-moves-to-ban-fracking-by-2024?ft=nprml&f=

HEADLINE: "91 Percent of Americans Support Legalized Marijuana as Democrats Push to Reform Laws." Legalization will Increase VOLUNTARY TAXES and Reduce Spending on Law Enforcement and Incarceration. EVERYBODY WINS! 

https://www.newsweek.com/91-percent-americans-support-legalized-marijuana-democrats-push-reform-laws-1585867

SCOTUS GOES CRAZY - RULES IN FAVOR OF CRIMINALS! "The Supreme Court ruled in favor of scam artists and dishonest corporations, leaving average Americans to pay for illegal behavior," FTC Acting Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter said in a statement after the ruling. "With this ruling, the Court has deprived the FTC of the strongest tool we had to help consumers when they need it most. We urge Congress to act swiftly to restore and strengthen the powers of the agency so we can make wronged consumers whole." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/supreme-court-ruling-helps-scam-artists-avoid-punishment-ftc-chair-says/

HEADLINE: "Santa Cruz man gets 10 years in federal prison for selling psychedelic drugs at college" - CLassic Example of CrazyLaws® - Why are LSD, MDMA and Magic Mushrooms Illegal? No One Knows... Were the Politicians that Wrote the Laws BRIBED BY BIG PHARMA? How ELSE Can You Explain the Insane Laws? A Frantic Attempt to Prevent Teenagers from Becoming Hippies and Refusing to Participate in the Vietnam War? That "War on Drugs"Failed 50 Years ago But the Laws are Still on the Books!

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/04/23/santa-cruz-man-gets-10-years-in-federal-prison-for-selling-psychedelic-drugs-at-college/

On the Ram Dass Facebook Group: How do you get out of, what feels like a negative loop?

I Intentionally think of a Positive Experience... For Example: Whenever I See A Turtle I Have a Bad Memory... So After I Remember that I FORCE Myself to Think about a Fantastic Memory... Like Dancing at a Grateful Dead Concert with my Wife when they Played Terrapin Station... Here is a Visual Mantra... Remember the Mirrored Ball of Winterland...

The Mirrored Ball at Winterland - a Visual Mantra - gvan42

SE Posted of Facebook: At an apartment where I lived briefly before this one, I had several nicknames for my neighbors. The building had paper-thin walls, so you could hear everything. There was "the crazy lady," because she walked around the courtyard talking to herself and sometimes looking up and talking loudly to God. Above me was "the mad cougher," because he would randomly cough loudly, and since the walls were paper-thin, it sounded like he was coughing right in the room with me. There was also "the sweeping lady," because she would get out her broom and sweep the staircase wearing high heels. She slowly made her way down the stairs, sweeping each one along the way, then she did the same thing on the way back up. 

At my current apartment, I have had ongoing issues with noise from the apartment below me. (Paper-thin walls again - bleh.) There is a man who doesn't live there full time, but when he visits the apartment below me, it sounds like his voice is being amplified into my apartment through a club sound system. I refer to him as "Sir Booming Voice."

I Replied: I live in a Six Person Group Home for the Elderly... and One Lady always complains about the Food at every Meal... and She says She wants to get out of Here... "I Hate it, Hate It, Hate It Living Here." However, When her Daughter Visits she ALWAYS FORGETS about how much she Hates Living Here... Her Daughter Pays the Rent and COULD TAKE ACTION to Move Her to a Different Place... Or Move Her to Live at her Daughters House... SO... She is the Endless Complainer... I Guess that the Joy of Seeing her Daughter Erases all memory of How Much She Hates Living Here...


Get Together by the Youngbloods... a Great Hippie Song... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_inXx-J3nU

I Like watching Documentaries on TV. It's Important to Me To NOTICE REALITY and They Often Have Valid Information... Today it's "Investigating the Historical Jesus." - Quite an Interesting Story! http://www.robertfeduccia.com/new-products/investigating-the-historical-jesus


In the Ram Dass Facebook Group: What are some interesting spiritual experiences you’ve had?

I Said: I Accidentally slipped into the Tuolumne river upstream from a Giant Waterfall at Hetch Hetchy while High on LSD, Marijuana and Peyote... The Current Was Vastly Stronger than I was and I was swept to the bottom of the pool... then I Accepted Death... Relaxed and Somehow Bubbled Up to a Place I could Crawl out of the Water... Every Day since then Has Been a GIFT. That Day We Climbed up a Granite Chimney... Never Before or Since Have I Been Able to Do That Feat of Freeclimbing... I Had a LOT of Energy and Lack of Fear due to The LSD...

In Retrospect...  I'm Extremely Lucky to Have Taken Two LSD Trips in Yosemite... and I Survived, So... It's all Good!

One of Yosemite's oldest historic trails (built 1873 to 1877), the Yosemite Falls Trail leads to the top of North America’s tallest waterfall, which rises 2,425 feet (739 m) above the Valley floor. This trail starts near Camp 4, along the Valley Loop Trail, and immediately begins its climb, switchback after switchback, through oak woodland. You will begin to climb above some trees and into exposed plateaus that offer you a glimpse of what's to come: great views of Yosemite Valley and its many iconic landforms. Do not stray off of the maintained path, as you will find steep drops adjacent to the trail.

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/yosemitefallstrail.htm

Hidden in Yosemite National Park’s peaceful northwest corner, Hetch Hetchy Valley is a treasure worth visiting in all seasons. Located at 3,900 feet, Hetch Hetchy boasts one of the longest hiking seasons in the park and is an ideal place for thundering spring waterfalls and wildflower displays. High temperatures prevail in summer months, but that is a small price to pay for the reward of vast wilderness filled with stunning peaks, hidden canyons, and remote lakes.

Hetch Hetchy is on the main stem of the Tuolumne River and is part of the Tuolumne watershed. The Tuolumne River originates in the peaks above Tuolumne Meadows and is the major drainage system for the northern part of Yosemite. The Tuolumne River continues through Tuolumne Meadows and the associated park developments at an elevation of 8,600 feet. It then cascades on its westward descent through the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne, and enters the eastern end of Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. Hetch Hetchy is dammed by the 430-foot-tall O’Shaughnessy Dam and has a storage capacity of 360,360 acre-feet. It is the primary water source for about 2.5 million residents of the San Francisco Bay Area.

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/hh.htm

Great Books: The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey - Illustrated by Robert Crumb - The Classic Novel That Inspired People to Form the Earth First! Ecology Group...


Read it and be inspired too. 

Here is an Excerpt from the Book... as they look at the Peabody Open Pit Coal Mine in Utah.

"Parking in the shade and concealment of a group of pinyon pines, the gang took a walk up the nearest knoll, armed with field glasses.

Their view from the knoll would be difficult to describe in any known terrestrial language. Bonnie thought of something like a Martian invasion, the War of the Worlds. Captain Smith was reminded of Kennecott's open-pit mine ("world's largest") near Magma, Utah. Dr. Sarvis thought of the plain of fire and of the oligarchs and oligopoly beyond: Peabody Coal only one arm of Anaconda Copper; Anaconda only a limb of United States Steel; U.S. Steel intertwined in incestuous embrace with the Pentagon, TVA, Standard Oil, General Dynamics, Dutch Shell, I. G. Farben-industrie; the whole conglomerated cartel spread out upon half the planet Earth like a global kraken, pan-tentacled, wall eyed and parrot beaked, its brain a bank of computer data centers, its blood the flow of money, its heart a radioactive dynamo, its language the technetronic monologue of numbers printed on magnetic tape.

But George Washington Hayduke, his thought was the clearest and simplest: Hayduke thought of Vietnam.

Peering thru the dust, the uproar, the movement, they could make out a pit two hundred feet deep, four hundred feet wide, a mile long, walled on one side by a seam of coal, where power shovels, ten stories high, as Smith had said, gouged at the earth, ripped the fossil rock from its matrix of soil and sandstone, dumped it in ten ton bites into the beds of haulers. Beyond the first machine, in a farther pit, they saw the top of a boom, the cables and pulley wheel of another alien invader at work, digging itself in deep, almost out of view. To the south they saw a third machine, bigger yet: it did not roll on wheels like a truck, or on endless treads like a tractor, but "walked" one foot at a time, towards its goal. The feet were a pair of steel base plates resembling pontoons, each as big as a boat, lifted first one, then the other, on eccentric gears, rotated forward, placed down and the cycle repeated. Waddling forward, ducklike, the enormous structure of powerhouse, control chassis, superstructure, crane, cables and ore bucket yawed from side to side. Like a factory walking. The machine was electrically powered; as it proceeded a seperate crew of men handled its umbilicus the power line, an "extension cord" thick as a man's thigh through which throbbed the voltage driving the engines in the powerhouse - enough juice, its builders liked to boast, to light a city of 90,000 humans. The cable crew, four men with truck, kept the line clear and also towed the transformer unit, mounted on an iron sledge, keeping pace with the dragline machine. Giant Earth Mover: the GEM of Arizona.

We are so small thought Bonnie. They are so huge. "

http://www.abbeyweb.net/

http://www.abbeyweb.net/bookstore/index.html


The Kennecott Copper Mine Seldom Seen Smith speaks of
as viewed from space... easily twice as big as the Salt Lake City Airport.

Landslides have closed the mine for tourists but you may take a virtual tour at their website: http://www.kennecott.com/visitors-center and print the ever popular coloring book... of giant earth moving machines... 


Link to a Google Image Search for all the illustrations by Robert Crumb:
http://tinyurl.com/k9ahu2e
Dr Sarvis and Bonnie Abzug torch a billboard



Links to Earth First! http://www.earthfirst.org/ and http://efhumboldt.org/


Psychedelic Art
Rock Sculptures on Mount Shasta



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With the New Elon Musk Satellite Internet... It Will be Possible to Live Anywhere and still be Online... A Solar/Wind Powered Home, Growing Your Own Food...and doing WORK online...

So you can drive to town and BuyThe Stuff You Can't Make Yourself... Like, Maybe Once a Month... Go to Town and Buy Ammunition... 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink

https://hypebeast.com/2020/6/elon-musk-starlink-internet-beta-test-sign-up 

Beta-testing for Elon Musk‘s Starlink internet is slated to arrive this summer and users can now sign up with their email address and zip code on its official website. The SpaceX program aims to allow access to the Internet from virtually anywhere on earth and poor regions with no internet, slow connectivity or generally have expensive services can benefit from the commercial program.

As of now, the startup launched 500 satellites into earth’s orbit this year, with the goal of providing Internet access to most of the world by 2021. In a Tweet, Musk said that Seattle and Germany would be the first to regions to get to trials with an official commercial launch in North America already in the works for late this year.


Earthday Everyday - MEME - gvan42



"HATE Won't Make America Great" Slogan Printed on a Rainbow Flag - ROY G BIV - Buttons, Coffee Cups, Stickers, Paper Plates, Gift Boxes, T-Shirts ETC ETC ETC


- "LOVE JUSTICE TRUTH" Slogan - "#Vote4Joe He's Not Insane!" Slogan...

LINK TO ALL MY LATEST GIFTS:
https://www.zazzle.com/store/gregvan/products
"HATE Won't Make America Great" Button for sale... 
You May Change The Words if You Want To On ALL THESE GIFTS... Write Your own Slogan or Just Leave it Blank with a Rainbow Flag! 

"HATE Won't Make America Great" Button
by gregvan

"LOVE JUSTICE TRUTH" CERAMIC ORNAMENT 
For Sale: You May Wear This as a Necklace 
if You Can Find a String... 


"Peace Thru Art" Compact Mirror
by gregvan

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*The Violet Overgrow - An Eco-Warrior's Journey by Gregory Vanderlaan - FICTION

*Trump Confesses to Adultery! "Hey, Moses Was JUST JOKING When He Wrote those Ten Commandments...

*Generate Electricity and Clean Drinking Water AT THE SAME TIME. A Solar Powered Desalinization Plant Would Convert Seawater into Energy, Pure H2O and NaCl.

*Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics

*Tree Sitters Protest Lignite Coal Mine in Hambach Forest, Germany

*The Passage of Roe v Wade Led to Fewer Unwanted Babies Being Born... and 20 Years Later, Less Violent Crime... Because Unwanted Babies Grow Up to Become Violent Criminals...

*FREE COLORING BOOK: Print The Drawings and Color Using Felt Pens, Pencils or Potatoshop... American Indian

*HEADLINE: Deadline for "Real ID" for Air Travel Postponed AGAIN Until May 7, 2025... WONDERFUL!

*My Music Video: FREE ALL THE CANNABIS PRISONERS - A Mockery of Nancy Ray Gun... Jest Say KNOW

*Bubble UP! Economics. Raise the Minimum Wage, Social Security and LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans. Actually Collect Taxes on the Top 1%... We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy...

*How to Escape the Cult of Trump: Deprogramming by Family Members of the MAGA MORON is Essential... If Someone you Know has been Brainwashed... RESCUE THEM!

*The Best Five Restaurants Near Eureka, California - Eat a Fish, Watch the Boats...

*Trump: "The Art of the Failed Deal" Book. Every Deal in that book LOST MONEY. That's why He declared Bankruptcy SO MANY TIMES. Will his Business Stupidity cause the ENTIRE COUNTRY to Go Bankrupt?

*Photographs of a Journey to the Headwaters Forest - Now a State Reserve... Near Eureka, CA - Plus The Story of How It Came To Be!

*Rainbow Gathering July 1-7, 2024 Will Be In CALIFORNIA... Exact Location To Be Revealed June 15th... and As Soon as I Know, I'll Post Driving Directions and Maps Here... What IS The Rainbow Gathering? For Me, It's Woodstock with Amateur Musicians and I'm in the Band... It's a Week Long Backpack Trip for Thousands of People...


*Add THIS to Your Bucket List: Swimming at Bear Hole in Upper Bidwell Park, Chico California. Crystallized Black Lava Rocks - Basalt from the Eruption of Mount Lassen.

*Numbers have Cultural Meanings... A list from Zero to Infinity and Beyond... For example: 007 Means James Bond. 420 Means Marijuana. 5150 means Insane... and... 420 + 5150 = REEFER MADNESS!

*"Conspiracy Theories" that are ACTUALLY TRUE. MKULTRA, Cointelpro, CIA-Contra-Cocaine, Donald Rumsfeld Selling Weapons to Saddam Hussein, UFOs are Real... Sometimes people dismiss Truth as "Just a Conspiracy Theory" because they Don't LIKE THE TRUTH.

1967: The Summer of Love... San Francisco, Hippies, Flower Power, Peace, The Diggers, Haight Ashbury, LSD and the Grateful Dead. It certainly has been a Long Strange Trip. Congratulations to all those of us who have survived... One thing is for certain...The culture of the United States was radically different After the 1960's...



*American History: "The Thunder Machine" was a Giant Sheet Metal Sculpture that you Got Inside and Played like a Drum. Made by Ron Boise and used at Ken Kesey's Acid Tests.

For Maximum Effect, Don't Read This Book. Write Your Own! --- "Lessons Learned" by Gregory Vanderlaan. A Lifetime of Trial, Error and Survival Yielded These Words of Wisdom...

My Biff Rose Trip: Driving To a Cabin in the Woods - down The Coast of California from Arcata thru Ft Bragg to Mendocino... An Excellent Adventure!

How To Remove Smoke from Indoor Air. Tape a Filter to a Box Fan. During Wildfire Season the Air Indoors is Bad to Breathe...


Pretty Soon the Filter Turns Brown
from Smoke, Pollen and Dust.

Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote) Then He went to India Looking for Enlightenment and Met a Guru. Changed His Name and Published a Great Book... "Remember: Be Here Now" - It Has His Autobiography and then Many ART Drawings Explaining Eastern Religion. Real Name: Dr. Richard Alpert...


Who WAS Ram Dass? In the Sixties, He was a Psychedelics Researcher and Promoter at Harvard with Dr. Timothy Leary. (LSD, Magic Mushrooms and Peyote)


My Autobiography: Growing Up in Los Gatos, California in the 1960s by Gregory Vanderlaan - and Living in San Jose, Washington DC, Chico, Eureka and Orangevale, CA.

I Was Born in 1954. We lived Near the San Jose Airport until they Started Landing Jet Airplanes and We had to move... We went to Los Gatos in 1960. I lived there until graduation from Los Gatos High School in 1972... an Ideal Childhood... FYI: Los Gatos is about 50 miles South of San Francisco on the edge of the mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz.

I Went to West Valley Jr. College, learned electronics drafting and got a job at System Industries in Santa Clara... I feel blessed that not only did I grow up in a great location but I also grew up at a great time. I missed the Vietnam War by ONE Year and Silicon Valley Was Hiring Like Crazy When I Needed a Job.
Peace Sign Pie Chart
History of the Vietnam War. 58,000 Americans Died for Nothing... Something They Don't Teach in School Now... "Too Controversial" -

During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


During the height of this hysteria Vice President Richard Nixon went on Television and explained "The Domino Principle" while pointing to a map of Asia. His theory was...

READ MORE: https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-vietnam-war-58000.html

Who Won the War? DOW CHEMICAL AND HUGHES AIRCRAFT. Selling Napalm, Agent Orange and Helicopters...

Military Death Chart USA

AMERICA'S BOGUS WARS - Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA, Not Even Once.

Ever since Victory in Japan, All of Our Wars have been Marketing to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex.







Free Coloring Book Art by gvan42 - UFO and Alien Hieroglyphics