Posts made in August, 2013
AirCar
AirCar There are murmurs at the horizon of air cars. James Dyson made his Pursuit air motorbike around a Scuba cylinder – 100 km range, 140 k.p.h speed Ford are mooting their Model T2 which will run on compressed air. And Peugeot Citroen first-ever hybrid gasoline-air vehicle – 2L/100km. The SA car population is riddled with perfectly good old V8s. These could be converted to compressed air two strokes & use a solar powered compressor with an array of CSIRO’s flexible solar panels stuck to the bonnet, roof & boot – so they can be recharging their cylinders – for free – when parked. That range of 100...
Read MoreGlaciers the Canary in the mine?
Chasing Ice If all but 4 glaciers are receding one a mile a year one whose surface has dropped the height of the Empire state building In the few short years it was filmed Many, many are already gone - just 4 of the hundreds that exist are growing Water wars are threatened in just 7 to 15 years a population equivalent to half that of the United States will be moved by the rising sea What hope is left with indifference everywhere In the path of such impending...
Read MoreCarbon
The lot & now If the carbon in the sky is to have gone up 40% in 37 years time - we are not sure exactly by how much but not down then the number of children killed by drinking dirty water will have grown from 9,000 a day now around the world - we are not sure by how much but not less whole districts will be drowned many people will migrate - we are not sure how many but many millions, maybe billions & all because WE didn’t have the balls now to scrap our brown coal power stations and put in solar thermal instead adopt electric & solair cars, busses & lorries - & where they didn’t exist make...
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Water boatman is a unit on the water, that takes in polluted or sea water, distills it & either stores the pure water – or pumps it ashore. Water boatman is a unit on the water, that takes in polluted or sea water, distills it & either stores the pure water – or pumps it ashore. 
