[ExI] Energy hints

[Mike Dougherty]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Dave Sill <sparge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You mean the way we envy our [great-]grandparents who shoveled chunks
>> of coal into boilers to drive steam engines?
>
> No, more like the way we wish we could still flush a turd with a
> single push of the handle.

My counter analogy was concerned about locomotive power (figuratively
and literally)

OTOH, your observation is about another type of "going"  :)