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Yep, I have watched that movie. Its important to remember that the movie is fiction. Separating fact and fiction is really important for piece of mind :-)

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Hardware in Kunming

Hey - I just realised that I have been walking past quite a few hardware shops selling power tools and what looks like pretty much everything in Da Shang Hui (大商汇) in the south. The whole area sells everything from bathtubs, to doors, to floors to tools to paint... lots of international brands for stuff as well. Check out the southern side nearby Guangfu lu (广福路).

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But Stanley Meyer IS found on wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Meyer's_water_fuel_cell

We have people in our country too popping up occasionally claiming they can turn water into a fuel, but every time the "amazing technology" ends up putting more energy into it than what comes out. The opposite, the perpetual motion machine, is a pipe dream that tends to defy logic and physics. I will repeat: if someone actually built a perpetual motion machine, they could make so much money from it that they could easily become the most powerful and richest person in the world.

In the USA, where the government is constantly chomping at the bit to try and wean itself off middle east energy supplies, I highly doubt the government would suppress anything that could make it energy independent. It would be a dream for any president to be able to support it and would definitely see them re-elected. It just doesn't make sense any way you look at it to suppress such technologies.

Which makes me go back to my original thought: the "inventions", as described, break physics laws and defy common sense. Generally anything that does such is a hoax - quantum theory being the exception, but as we don't live day to day in a quantum world, I am fine with that.

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Regarding HFCAMPO's claim that solar power is covered up, I think he is half right, I suspect energy companies there don't exactly want to encourage people getting free energy. But I would doubt if they actively worked against people installing solar, that seems a bit extreme, yet still possible. It would most likely be an "only in America" fiasco if that did happen, much like the Californian energy crisis engineered by the energy companies. Any documentation to back that up HFCAMPO?

In my country, my friends built their own solar hot water heater, it wasn't that hard. But it cost about $1000 (5000 RMB) in the end and was about 60% the efficiency of a more expensive ($5000 including install for other friends) than an off the shelf version. Plus they had endless issues with their home built one (leaking pipes, pressure issues, roof mounting problems) so canned it in the end. Energy don't actively encourage solar powered hot water (its counter to their own interests to do so), but the government does subsidise them. I will certainly install them once I have a home, depending on the solar radiation that hits my roof of course.

In this part of Yunnan, they have excellent solar radiation and mild winters so doing solar powered water here completely makes sense. The competition in the market and economies of scale would make the systems pretty cheap too I suspect.

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I agree with liumingke, there will be more and more couples that cannot have children as the pollution in China means many reproductive toxins are in the food system causing huge issues. While it may not currently be socially acceptable to adopt children, this may change with couples unable to conceive and a ready supply of healthy young women (particularly those in university conceiving as a result of non existent sex ed) giving up their babies at a young age. Add to this the newer social pressures of women having careers and having babies later and later, subsequently not being able too as they wait too long. Surely this will just facilitate a demand with a supply and in the end cause the necessary change in cultural norms. Well, one can hope.

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Not sure people would want to take a high speed train for 2 days as they are the worst of both worlds. Too fast to see the scenery out the window, too slow (and with too many things to go wrong) to get to your destination quickly.

Don't get me wrong, they are fine for a few hour trips on common routes and better than planes for short-medium routes (e.g. HK-Shanghai/Guangzhou etc), but for longer distances planes win every time. Or if you have the time, slow comfortable trains with decent windows are much better than planes.

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Yeah, I can imagine in a few months they disarm all the cops in Kunming after 12 incidences of them shooting themselves, 18 accidental shootings (playing with their guns or cleaning them when loaded), 3 dead civilians (walking past when playing with their guns), 28 necessary cover-ups (when the police use the weapon for shooting people they don't like) and 35 lost pistols (where they were stolen from sleeping cops). The authorities decide Kunming is safer if the cops don't have guns even with the threat of terrorism.

(Actually I hope none of this comes to pass, but I can imagine!)

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Gregomatt - YES! But the line doesn't stop in the train station. I was there today and walked around a bit, couldn't find where to enter the subway from the train station as (according to the article) its on the south side of the station, which is all but useless for getting to the train station as far as I can tell.

Instead I walked north to the 2nd Ring Road station (HuanChen Nan Lu) and took it south, past the train station stop. I took it only to Rixin Lu, but it goes all the way to University District in Chenggong. I aren't sure this is the best way to go, you may be able to find a way to get to the subways entrances on the south side of the Railway station, but I couldn't find it. It wasn't signposted or anything yet either as far as I could see.

It was actually really full this morning, standing room only and already pretty squashed. The trains seem to be going pretty slow at the moment too, I expect they will crank up faster after a few months shortening the travel times somewhat. 2 minutes wait between trains too.

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Wow, just wow. Possibly the best Chinese food I have had in Kunming. And in one of the nicest, traditional courtyard style restaurant I have been in. A woman dressed in traditional qi pao playing a gu zheng just adds to it.

We had okra, mushroom soup, dried beef and chou dofu. All top notch with the bill coming in at just over 250 kuai. But we could have fed 3 people for that so not too bad at about 80-90 kuai each. Not the cheapest but for the quality, it's damn good.

If you have people visiting and want to take them to a traditional Chinese style restaurant with Yunnan style food, or want a romantic night out with a gal, you can't go wrong here. Close to Green Lake (down a little alley) for a romantic walk... Just perfect.

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Pretty good place for getting all your documents translated and/or notarised. Note that there are a number of notaries in the building which you can find by going up the stairs (the elevators are impossible). But you have to find the stairs to do so... go in the door, head over to the right, go up the big wide stairs which head up a floor, turn right then right again into the elevator area and right again into the stairwells. Whew!

One point off for the elevators never being available and having to hike 7-9 flights of stairs (not good if you have to go 3-4 times a day like I often did!)

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This does not stop at the Jinanya hotel at Da Shang Hui as the flyers state (and is on the images tab here). They need to have another stop in the same area or else they are missing out on covering a big chunk of the city.

You can take another bus, the 919C, I believe, if you are nearby Da Shang Hui, which leaves from the bus station on HeHong Lu, nearby the Qianxing road intersection. This bus goes every hour and is white, found at the western end of the station. It is operated by a different company and takes about 1 hour 10 minutes to get to the airport due to a large number of stops especially near the airport.

Great bus though if you can catch it!

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Friendly people, even got to the talk to the vice consulate, who told me she had done a stint in Malaysia's Siberian Consulate!

English is spoken by some of the Chinese girls working at the desk who are pleasant to deal with. I assume they do Visa's as well but I wasn't here for a visa, this time!