iwan - Brussels #1 - alternative energy

20090307 14:41 taking off, gears in. Budapest >>> Brussels
Every time, i fly over Budapest, the first thing, i think is: "Yeah, this is our great capitol!" Over the years it had been savaged by many enemies: the invading Mongols (tatars), the Turks (Ottoman Empire), Germans, Soviets and so on. But it still stands* !

*: (for how long, i really don't know)

After 15-20 minutes -as the airplane fly over Austria- wind turbines and solar cell farms are showing up. The second thing turns into my mind immediately: Practically, we don't have wind turbines and solar cells in Hungary. Belgium is a 3 times smaller country than Hungary and they even have 10x more wind power capacity. Don't even mention Germany %) - we are not the same division.. but they have 1076 X more then us. I'm sad because it shows: Hungary is not at the top rate in alternative energy source management..

(in number of megawatts)

The wind power statistics a gathered from Show.Mappingworlds.com

SZiget Statistics Team (SZ.S.T)

Dávid Lovas(on the left), and me (iwan) on duty

I'm pretty good at illogical behavior, like going out, under the burning sun in an antigas suit* in the early afternoon and standing under the strongest sun-power exposing myself to the fatal temperature. We managed to do exactly this at Sziget Festival, Hungary, 14,Aug,2008.

We took apart in a project as 'statistics agents' working around our professor's (János, Szirtes) art-installation. We collected people and asked them to take a seat at a table in front of a video-camera. Meantime we stand behind them and noted some parameters about them. Such as : if he/her Hungarian or not, smoker or not, drunk, excited, or has any extra attributes..

The primal syptom that i observed on myself is the fast acclimatization (readjustment is better word) to the changed climate, to the terminated vaporization of my skin. The first half an hour was critical, of course we got totally sweltered in 2 minutes, however we only wore shorts under the antigas suit. But after 20 minutes the increasing suffering/passion stopped and remained constant. After a while i started to feel myself almost good enough. I drunk only 1.5L all along the time while this suit was on me. My firm belief is that i lost at least twice more water, maybe 3 litres or more !

*: "adequate wear to survive a germ warfare". I bought these suits from a Hungarian, who lived in the USA, when the WTC terror happened, and when everybody bought there this kind of costumes by scare at the panic-time.

"FÁJIV" - our fawourite building

This is an abandoned factory owned by FÁJIV* far ago, near Gyöngyös-city outskirts, East-center Hungary. Me and s0phie fell love into this building and want to buy this land once. It a pleasant idea to convert it into a home with swimming pool and botanic garden on the roof, with opened garage for my Porsche 914 2.0 and s0phie's Mini Cooper (we want to buy them in the future also %) under the houses in the area covered by the columns and legs. There is enough place for a minigolf-court, fishpond and some tennis-court also in the front garden.

The only problem is the location of this complex. It is in Hungary, that's not problem, because we love Hungary whatelse would happen here.. But Hungary is a member of that minor group of countries, who ain't got any sea, gulf or ocean. And aint got some snow flaked high power-hills like the Alps. Thats okay, that the highest point in Hungary is in our neighbourhood (1014meters high peak of Mátra hill). But maybe it should be a bit higher..and a bit well covered by -for example- the Adriatic Sea...

If anybody knows which style and era it had built, please write it down ! (maybe infected by Bauhaus ? :)

FÁJIV: it is an acronym, means: Metropolitan Mineral Water and Ice Works Company. The biggest company who produced the "Bambi" soda in Hungary from 1949 and started to glass Pepsi Cola for us on the 23th of February, 1970)