buzzkill? how climate change could eventually end coffee

[bcbm]

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/03/27/buzzkill-how-climate-change-could-eventually-end-coffee

[ckaihatsu]

Despite the ongoing war coffee farmers have been fighting with climate change, consumers have likely not noticed much change in their daily routines. According to the International Coffee Organization, global coffee prices spiked in 2008 due to the scarcity of Colombian Arabicas, but have since fallen to pre-2008 levels as Colombia ramped production back up and farmers in Africa learned that growing coffee under shade trees can effectively lower temperatures by as much as 5 degrees.


Bullshit, or not -- ?

Interesting how financial speculation, and resulting price inflation, is *never* mentioned, in *any* context about pricing.

[Brutus]

Eventually is the key word. Though a life without coffee is a life not worth living.
Suicide would honestly be desirable

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

I call bullshit. Fairly sure a couple of years ago they were talking about the link between speculation, price inflation and a 300% rise in the sale price of coffee from source.

[ckaihatsu]

Eventually is the key word. Though a life without coffee is a life not worth living.
Suicide would honestly be desirable


Coffee contains hydrogen peroxide

http://www.mindandmuscle.net/forum/41736-coffee-contains-hydrogen-peroxide

[Brutus]

Coffee contains hydrogen peroxide

http://www.mindandmuscle.net/forum/41736-coffee-contains-hydrogen-peroxide

Its worth it.

[ckaihatsu]

Its worth it.


To clarify:





Conclusion

Hydrogen peroxide is one of the few simple miracle substances still available to the public. Its safety and multiple uses ranks it right up there with DMSO. If you've never used either of these compounds you are overlooking two of the most powerful healing tools ever discovered. Most of us started on hydrogen peroxide shortly after birth. Not only does mother's milk contain high amounts of H202, the amount contained in the first milk (colostrum) is even higher. This seems only reasonable now that we know one of its main functions is to activate and stimulate the immune system. Although I am a strong supporter of H202 therapy, I am not suggesting that everyone needs to be using it. There are probably some individuals whose health and well-being would not be enhanced with hydrogen peroxide. But there are also millions of others who are suffering needlessly because they either do not know about hydrogen peroxide or they have been misinformed about its use.




http://www.educate-yourself.org/cancer/benefitsofhydrogenperozide17jul03.shtml

[ckaihatsu]

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that there's a way to get the benefits of increased oxygenation without having to buy anything -- I'll describe a simple, rudimentary method here to make 'energized water' that can be scaled-up and customized depending on your access to larger containers, etc.


Materials:

- Any aluminum can, preferably larger

- 1 large paperclip, 1 small paperclip

- electrical tape

- water

- salt


Tools:

- can opener

- laptop AC charger, or common battery (reportedly)


[1] After the can is empty wash it out and use the can opener to remove the top. It may take a few repetitions since the lip on a beverage (non-food) can is slightly higher, making the top slightly lower.

[2] Rotate the non-removable tab on the top 180 degrees so that its "eye" hole is lined up with the pouring hole in the can's top.

[3] Straighten the large paperclip and thread it horizontally along the center of the bottom-side of the can's lid (opposite the tab side) by gently pushing the tab downward, slightly into the pouring hole and catching the tab with the paperclip through its eye hole, and beyond, onto the solid side of the lid's bottom-center.

If you do this correctly the tab will clasp the paperclip to the lid's underside, joining the two materials into a single unit.

[4] Put one or two layers of 1-inch lengths of electrical tape on any part of the empty can's now-exposed lip -- drape the length-halves of the tape equally over both inner and outer sides of the can, and press onto the can. This provides a brief length of insulation from electrical contact with the can.

[5] Straighten the small paperclip, then bend it exactly in the middle so that the tips touch. Don't flatten the bend, but allow the spring-like resistance to remain in the clip's elongated loop. Insert both ends into the open center of the DC plug of the laptop AC adapter -- the outward-spring tension should keep the loop in place within the plug.

[6] Fill your can about five-sixths full, so that there's about the same amount of space *below* the taper as there is from the taper to the rim.

[7] Add a pinch or two of salt to the water -- it helps electrical conductivity in the water, and also in your body.

[8] This final step requires some dexterity, so possibly some practice -- you'll want to lower the lid down into the water, fishing-line-style, while making sure that the lid does not touch the sides or the bottom of the can. You can squeeze the rim a little to allow leeway for the lid to pass through. Once you have the correct height set for this, grab the "wire" where it emerges out of the top of the can, and bend it at a right angle (90 degrees) at this place.

You can rest the barrel of the DC plug onto the tape on the rim and hook the loop under the taper, possibly at an angle away from the horizontal center-line. The "fishing line" is placed *on top of* the barrel so that the barrel's outside surface is conducting to the lid in the water while the *inner* side of the plug is conducting to the can itself -- polarity makes a difference here.

There's no exactness from this point onward, aside from keeping the polarities separate, of course, to avoid a short-circuit. Depending on specifics you should begin to see tiny bubbles forming on the surface of the submerged lid -- the miniscule bubbles throughout the water may cause the appearance of the water to change slightly, too.

Finally, after maybe a minute or so, the process will have advanced far enough and you'll then have to drink the water directly from the can. Just kidding.


Reference:


Energized Water - Welcome to Good Health

tinyurl.com/bud5khn

[Sea]

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that there's a way to get the benefits of increased oxygenation without having to buy anything -- I'll describe a simple, rudimentary method here to make 'energized water' that can be scaled-up and customized depending on your access to larger containers, etc.


Materials:

- Any aluminum can, preferably larger

- 1 large paperclip, 1 small paperclip

- electrical tape

- water

- salt


Tools:

- can opener

- laptop AC charger, or common battery (reportedly)


[1] After the can is empty wash it out and use the can opener to remove the top. It may take a few repetitions since the lip on a beverage (non-food) can is slightly higher, making the top slightly lower.

[2] Rotate the non-removable tab on the top 180 degrees so that its "eye" hole is lined up with the pouring hole in the can's top.

[3] Straighten the large paperclip and thread it horizontally along the center of the bottom-side of the can's lid (opposite the tab side) by gently pushing the tab downward, slightly into the pouring hole and catching the tab with the paperclip through its eye hole, and beyond, onto the solid side of the lid's bottom-center.

If you do this correctly the tab will clasp the paperclip to the lid's underside, joining the two materials into a single unit.

[4] Put one or two layers of 1-inch lengths of electrical tape on any part of the empty can's now-exposed lip -- drape the length-halves of the tape equally over both inner and outer sides of the can, and press onto the can. This provides a brief length of insulation from electrical contact with the can.

[5] Straighten the small paperclip, then bend it exactly in the middle so that the tips touch. Don't flatten the bend, but allow the spring-like resistance to remain in the clip's elongated loop. Insert both ends into the open center of the DC plug of the laptop AC adapter -- the outward-spring tension should keep the loop in place within the plug.

[6] Fill your can about five-sixths full, so that there's about the same amount of space *below* the taper as there is from the taper to the rim.

[7] Add a pinch or two of salt to the water -- it helps electrical conductivity in the water, and also in your body.

[8] This final step requires some dexterity, so possibly some practice -- you'll want to lower the lid down into the water, fishing-line-style, while making sure that the lid does not touch the sides or the bottom of the can. You can squeeze the rim a little to allow leeway for the lid to pass through. Once you have the correct height set for this, grab the "wire" where it emerges out of the top of the can, and bend it at a right angle (90 degrees) at this place.

You can rest the barrel of the DC plug onto the tape on the rim and hook the loop under the taper, possibly at an angle away from the horizontal center-line. The "fishing line" is placed *on top of* the barrel so that the barrel's outside surface is conducting to the lid in the water while the *inner* side of the plug is conducting to the can itself -- polarity makes a difference here.

There's no exactness from this point onward, aside from keeping the polarities separate, of course, to avoid a short-circuit. Depending on specifics you should begin to see tiny bubbles forming on the surface of the submerged lid -- the miniscule bubbles throughout the water may cause the appearance of the water to change slightly, too.

Finally, after maybe a minute or so, the process will have advanced far enough and you'll then have to drink the water directly from the can. Just kidding.


Reference:


Energized Water - Welcome to Good Health

tinyurl.com/bud5khn (http://tinyurl.com/bud5khn)

What kind of bullshit is this? If anyone here is patient enough to explain how electrolysis works and how the energy you put in simply goes into splitting up the water molecules (no net energy increase in the water aside from a rise in temp) be my guest. I think my words would be falling on deaf ears but maybe you're more of an optimist than I am.

This reminds me of those people on youtube who think tesla coils are magic and give free energy! :laugh:

[ckaihatsu]

What kind of bullshit is this? If anyone here is patient enough to explain how electrolysis works and how the energy you put in simply goes into splitting up the water molecules (no net energy increase in the water aside from a rise in temp) be my guest.


Well, this isn't meant as a sundry science exercise -- the point is that the "freed" oxygen and hydrogen aid the body by being available in the bloodstream.





I think my words would be falling on deaf ears but maybe you're more of an optimist than I am.

This reminds me of those people on youtube who think tesla coils are magic and give free energy! :laugh:


Solar cells provide "free energy", so with this fact in tow you may want to re-examine your assumptions about how energy may be provided with or without commodification.

[Sea]

Well, this isn't meant as a sundry science exercise -- the point is that the "freed" oxygen and hydrogen aid the body by being available in the bloodstream.How? Do you have any evidence to support this claim? Are you completely ignorant to the fact that molecular hydrogen and oxygen are gaseous, and thus won't be in the water at all?


Solar cells provide "free energy", so with this fact in tow you may want to re-examine your assumptions about how energy may be provided with or without commodification.Solar cells don't provide free energy (overunity) in the sense that they violate the laws of thermodynamics, unlike that hogwash website claims that a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen can. There's also the fact that this quackery has nothing to do with the thread's topic.

[ckaihatsu]

How? Do you have any evidence to support this claim? Are you completely ignorant to the fact that molecular hydrogen and oxygen are gaseous, and thus won't be in the water at all?


I understand, and I don't claim to be a clinician -- all I can say is that the results are experimentally reproducible, and at minimal expense to anyone, for you to see for yourself.





Solar cells don't provide free energy (overunity) in the sense that they violate the laws of thermodynamics, unlike that hogwash website claims that a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen can.


I think much more to the point, for *either* case, is that one domain of energy leverages a second one -- thus no fundamental laws broken.





There's also the fact that this quackery has nothing to do with the thread's topic.


Sly slander there -- why not drop the topic then instead of allowing it to fester -- ?

[Lynx]

I don't drink coffee. Hows that for a buzzkill?

[Brutus]

I don't drink coffee. Hows that for a buzzkill?


Neither do I, we should start some sort of exclusive club.

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