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PHCN: Cold Weather and Good Thinking
Posted Dec 7, 2008 at 01:13 PM by NextLevel
It's hard to think when the weather is hot all the time. In fact, many things are impossible to run properly when the weather is hot all the time. In other words, heat encourages leisure.
One of the underestimated reasons why slavery was more popular in the South than in the North (in America) was that it was much warmer in the South thereby giving Africans an edge climate wise, as well as encouraging less productive thinking and more leisure.
I usually can't work without cool weather and electricity. Not ice cold weather, but cool weather. But to get cool weather in ice cold weather, you can burn fires and wear more rugs. To get cool weather in hot weather, the options are far fewer.
The lack of electricity in Nigeria is enslaving the minds of many of our people.
One of the underestimated reasons why slavery was more popular in the South than in the North (in America) was that it was much warmer in the South thereby giving Africans an edge climate wise, as well as encouraging less productive thinking and more leisure.
I usually can't work without cool weather and electricity. Not ice cold weather, but cool weather. But to get cool weather in ice cold weather, you can burn fires and wear more rugs. To get cool weather in hot weather, the options are far fewer.
The lack of electricity in Nigeria is enslaving the minds of many of our people.
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I've been thinking about this.
One of the problems I used to have in Nigeria was that it took ages to fall asleep in the very hot weather. I won't even talk about how the attempts to fall asleep are continuously disrupted by a choir of very soprano mosquitoes.
So wouldn't it be a great idea if there was this wind-up fan that I could wind up before going to sleep so that it could blow air long enough to send me to sleep?
How to build this is another issue...Posted Dec 7, 2008 at 07:02 PM by Shoko Loko Bangoshe
- Every time i call home these days and hear my parents and friends complain of the heat in naija, i say to myself, what wouldn't i give to experience some of that heat in this freezing weather i find myself in as the year draws to a close and the harsh winter bites even harder?
Then again, if Nigeria had a winter season, am sure millions will die of frost bite because our dearly beloved PHCN cannot guarantee electricity to run electric heaters, and gas price will hit the roof this season if everyone had to rely on gas heaters and the sale of generating sets will sky rocket because people will make a killing, selling both new and tokumboh generators to those that can afford it, because its a matter of survival, cos you simply cannot live without heating in the winter.
God knew what He was doing when he didn't make Nigeria have a winter season.Posted Dec 7, 2008 at 07:15 PM by shinycoin - How winterized is California?
British Columbia is not bad idea for Canadian version of prosperity.The weather is not all about winter either. They represent regions of culture, diversity and creativity. The Silicon Valley and Vancouver's productive high tech sector, and the filming industries on both sides speak to something deeper than winter.Quote:As of 2007, the gross state product (GSP) is about $1.812 trillion, the largest in the United States. California is responsible for 13 percent of the United States gross domestic product (GDP). As of 2006, California's GDP is larger than all but eight countries in the world (all but eleven countries by Purchasing Power Parity). California is facing a $16 billion budget deficit for the 2008-09 budget year...source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California#Economy
Then, the question is why do this regions thrive phenomenally compared to winterized regions?Posted Dec 8, 2008 at 12:23 AM by katampe - Katampe,
It's called "air conditioning".Posted Apr 2, 2009 at 02:31 PM by NextLevel
