My Methods Bath

So there I am on Saturday night sitting and thinking about my design research methods. Which is really my own and therefore most successful? And what I really want to do with my project...

I am in a process of researching the renewable energy sources and to be honest they simply blend into each other. It is that simple: a device transforms a natural generated for example kinetic energy into something what a person from XXI century may use to boil water, heat their flat, or put into their best friend - a big shiny car. On that respect there is not a big difference between solar power and biomass.
What strikes me is something else. Renewable sources of energy, all of them use the elements which can either work for or against us. So tsunami, flood or fire are the same bursts of energy but working against a potential human being. What comes to me each time when I read articles about the subject is that ages ago the only way of receiving energy was from nature.
SO THAT WAS DONE BEFORE.
The difference between me and people from Middle Ages is that I do not have a choice. According to many publications we are in a real danger of extinction as a human race unless we will do something about this. The big thing is reducing CO2 emission into the atmosphere and that has a lot to do with generating electricity, heating, fuel for our cars, from different sources than the fossil fuels. Or strictly changing completely our current life style and making it less environment damaging.
Sun, wind, oceans, forests for ages have been considered powers that can easily produce a lot of energy. There is no polemic to that. What was changing is the attitude that the human race had towards them. The industrial revolution happened not that long ago, and it gave us an idea of holding a power against the nature. At the moment we discovering that this has never been true and we can either work with nature or don't, and agree on death with sudden weather change. Putting it right: we can work with the nature and have hope of still making a change, or work against it an do not have hope at all. Tsunami which happened in Asia a couple of years ago killed many people, but from a physics point of view that was a massive burst of energy. Some experts suggest that this and similar events are effects of the climate change, which leads me back to CO2 emissions, pollution and looking for alternative energy sources. As I said, it is striking that we were having a knowledge and respect for nature not so long time ago, and then lost it on behalf of celebration of technologies and a human brain which would be able to make those technologies up. It is a beautiful story of innovative thinking and a dream of a great power which could be given to us with a brand new iPod coming to the shops every week.
In primitive cultures there was always a great respect for nature. It was personalised into gods, goddesses and given normal human habits and very often similar to a human look. Very often those would be greedy powerful creatures which were not at all friendly. If an average man form, let's be local and say London, would be put in front of them, would be dead within seconds for being cheeky. Can we tam the old and grumpy god of Sun? If so, they probably could do a lot for us. And show many more ways of heating up this precious glass of precious water.

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