Posts made in January, 2016
World population is forecast to grow
This is a concern: World population is forecast to grow to 10 billion in 2050 fresh water will need to be found for an extra 3 billion people in only 34 years time That’s more than all the people in India & China today. We’ve done it before… What are the odds that in 1911 you would have said that a combined army from Japan & Germany would be beaten in 1945? Or in 1935 who would have said that Neil Armstrong would walk on the moon and be flown safely home in 1969 34 years is 34 years We can do it we can be making & distributing fresh water every day around the world from the sea using just renewables by...
Read MoreOur population grows
We are all co-captains of the good ship Earth the condition in which she arrives in decades to come wherever that might be will be the direct result of all the decisions we all take now day by day Our population grows 7 billion now 10 billion in 2050 water will need to be found for an extra 3 billion people in 34 years time - 15% more than China & India today Our water hungry middle class grows doubling every 15 years 1.4b in 2000 2.5b in 2015 5b in 2030? The modern lifestyle is itself water hungry growing beef taking 16 times as much water asgrowing corn the generation of power uses water 4 litres of water are taken to make each litre of fuel fracking...
Read MoreCloser to midnight
“Looks like it’s getting closer to midnight on 31st December and not sure we’ve got a viable plan.” The climate change traffic lights may have gone green in Paris & while all around engines might be revving - few have yet to drop the clutch Are we mentally strapped by fear of financial meltdown? will we be emancipated by the shift of currencies based on simple gold rather than hopes & promises compounded Perhaps we are numbed by the precipitous drop in the price of oil - those gallons gushing into the sky as CO2 All those sheds all those paddocks round the world all those ‘Charlie Taylors’ making engines from aluminium...
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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. 
