The
recent elevation of the most rich Americans to near-royal status made
me wonder, as I pondered for some time in a shed with an ambient
temperature of about ten degrees Fahrenheit, why the ketchup in a
plastic bottle more than half used did not freeze.
Russians are well known to be
fans of ketchup. Did they discover some sort of quality about it that
had gone unnoticed in the more temperate United States where it was
invented? Is it possible that ketchup simply does not freeze because
of some kind of chemical reaction going on within its tomato thick
realm of accoutrement?
The
potential uses of a common thick, viscous non-freezing vegetable
liquid are too obvious and numerous to mention. Even so I shall write
of a couple of uses for ketchup if it were really had immunity to
freezing to quite a low degree; perhaps single digits.
Ketchup could become a great
building insulator in panels an inch or two thick that are seasonally
filled with high-quality ketchup, actually a winter supply fir all of
those boiled potatoes. While there be some other liquids with
chemical reactions that might be able to provide at least an easy 32
degree Fahrenheit minimum temperature against exterior cold, without
additional heat at all, they probably would lack the edibility of
ketchup.
While working on solving the
matter I discovered that Tabasco hot sauce readily freezes solid.
Thus combining Tabasco sauce with ketchup to make a hotter ketchup is
probably not a good idea since it could defeat ketchups
invulnerability to common cold freezing temperatures.
While the rich increasingly own
every sort of franchise business store and can track and take a
percentage of virtually every financial transaction in some way,
there may yet still be a few niches where free enterprise could grow
for a little while at least before being snuffed by the large
corporate entities as they devour every start-up down to the grass
roots.
I
have thought that Bolivia could be the new, temporary land of
opportunity for a brief renaissance of actual free enterprise.
Bolivia’s mountain glaciers are drying up with decreased annual
snowfall and water doesn’t flow downhill to several villages. With
some innovation Andean mountain slope rocks could receive a spray-on
solar voltaic electron collecting, energy producing material that
could capture a vast amount of right-wing sunlight, gathering the
energy through wireless power transmission to larger,fixed cables.
That energy could be used to pump Pacific seawater upslope to fill
summit catchment reservoirs where water could be desalinated through
evaporation and collection under lids therein allowing a new source
of water to flow downhill. Somewhere in that process some opportunity
for earning a few pesos might exist that could be stored for oneself
before the apparatus were expropriated by Wall Street.
If some inspired highlander of
Bolivia choose to manufacture portable metal sliding seat rails for
use in adapting aluminum American fishing skiffs for rowing and sell
those on ebay; would he or she have a fair chance to patent such a
contraption for an affordable price? Are Bolivian patents cheaper
such that even Americans might find them affordable?
Environmental butchers definitely
have an edge in this political environments where democrats want to
compel consciousness voters to sell their soul for abortion and
homosexual marriage in exchange for a little environmentalism, None
have an interest in real reform; no not one.
