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Hymn 1 Enter, rejoice, and come in. Enter, rejoice, and come in. Today will be a joyful day; enter, rejoice, and come in. Open your ears to the song. Open your ears to the song. Today will be a joyful day; enter, rejoice, and come in. Open your hearts ev’ryone. Open your hearts ev’ryone. Today will be a joyful day; enter, rejoice, and come in. Don’t be afraid of some change. Don’t be afraid of some change. Today will be a joyful day; enter, rejoice, and come in. Enter, rejoice, and come in. Enter, rejoice, and come in. Today will be a...
read moreFrying oil car conversions
A 1986 Mercedes 300D converted to run carbon neutral on filtered used frying oil allows the use of waste oil saves 7 tons a year of CO2 To get to 100% carbon neutral driving I looked online to find a car I could afford which would be a good car to convert to run carbon free on filtered waste oil I was looking for a car with a reputation for rugged simplicity and long life to realise the benefits. But many more modern cars have been converted with this kit – see later I chose a 29 year old Mercedes 300D with 175,000 miles on the clock,...
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“An unexpected event: risk: opportunity: possibility of something happening” ( only the English language could use the same word to describe ‘risk’ & ‘opportunity’!) A chance where we have complete control A chance where we have no control A chance we can influence 1. A chance where we have complete control When we eat, What we eat – except where we have been ‘influenced’ by advertising – or sugar has been added to our food – (80% of supermarket products…) 2. A chance where we have no control Acts of God ....
read moreInvestors & JV Partners sought.
Investors & JV Partners sought. Fresh water from Renewables2 1 The Sun – SunDew solar desalination – target 50 L/d – water 2 The Wind – WindWater wind powered desalination – water 3 Water currents – boatman – wind & water current powered desalination (pat’d ) – water 4 The Tide –...
read moreDear Lord Mayor
Dear Lord Mayor It was a pleasure to meet you last night and hear what you had to say. There is no doubt in my mind we have to hurry now – I have heard it said we have only 10 years to put this ship about. Met Office warns of global temperature rise exceeding 1.5C limit … https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jan/31/met-office-warns-of-global-temperature-rise-exceeding-15c-limit Jan 31, 2018 … In next five years greenhouse gases may push global warming past threshold set by Paris deal. - because of our unceasing carbon...
read moreSea level rise
One of the largest difficulties with sea level rise is the lack of fresh water we all need every day. 3 design students from Flinders Uni and I have been working on an RO unit to make fresh water – powered just by the tide. We envisage a partly flooded bouy moored in shallow water. Attached to the underside will be a cylinder holding a piston on a rod with its foot on the sea floor. As the tide rises, brine is drawn into the cylinder through a non-return valve. At the tide falls the weight of the bouy drives the brine through an RO...
read moreSome are downcast
18 Some are downcast looking forlornly towards the future especially some young men… what can they do? It seems our ship earth is heading towards a climate change iceberg our rudder is useless and the skipper is no-where to be seen But there is hope in changing to solar compressed-air and hydrogen powered vehicles to free our cities from vehicles’ deathly exhaust and the climate of carbon and fresh water from the sea from renewables powered units After all in WW2, the US car manufacturers changed to start making aircraft in 3 short...
read moreIf by weight
If by weight about a third of the species around the World is human and a further two thirds are the animals we raise then just 3 percent is left for all the others from ants to elephants and bees to whales Then we are clearly the most successful species by far and the currently accelerating sea level rise is showing dramatically our impact on that gentle World No one else or no thing else is going to change that situation apart from us So it is up to us to act quickly and without...
read moreVegoil Vote
Portrush road on a hot day trailer of restaurant used oil drums and a sign on the back window saying ‘Carbon neutral on used frying oil’ The pilot of a ute in the next door lane shouts ‘Sir! that smells amazing, good on you’ and with a thumbs up and the broadest Australian smile - he was...
read moreBelt
There’s a chink in hydrocarbon’s armour a crack in their dam South Australia now has a renewables pot in her budget - remember that ‘small’ country – over there - now with a GNP vying with that of Russia - which gets enough sun-shine in two hours - to power the rest of the world for a week Well if that budget can be a home for a state battery one day then it might just be behind the solar surge another For carbon in the air continues to rise and behind that comes temperature rise - as night follows day So that pot might just be...
read moreThe Change
A change is happening and it needs to soon if we are to keep our planet fit to live on China with her communist muscle & control is charging on with her solar & wind renewables G in 2015, y now z times in A shrt years While the laws of Commerce in the rest of the rest of the world have their teeth and claws in the thighs of the hydrocarbons S in 2025 f now with the graph streaking up So Communism and Commerce are linking arms to combat the threat Will their combined power be enough to limit world temperature enough and in time? Or will...
read moreLoud
Writers Week should it not be Weak Writers? audible murmurs were heard from the Audience whenever renewables were mentioned - but were not responded to Should we not be shouting our dismay As the skippers of our countries Not only don’t see the iceberg But deny it exists And steam straight for it We will strike soon unless things change Some say in 50 years Some 20 I say from the NASA data so far Four & a half years Then what? At 1.5C, much will be the same as now With more storms and weather events And 2C? Flooding around the...
read moreThe Race is on
In the black that wise old horse ‘World temperature rise’ accelerating now a gain to +.99C last year .87C the year before .74C the year before that and .65C the year before that Not spent & running freely no end in sight And in the Green ‘The Renewables Filly’ young yet but accelerating fast up a third over the last 5 years from a slow start Computers were from the same stable And grew 36% a year And soon swamped the market Either could still yet win the race And dominate the world And the race organisers could fix the outcome but...
read moreHead for the hills
Head for the hills we have ‘Runaway’ sell that beachfront house if you live in-land lag that house Each of the last five years has been hotter last year by .94C burn what you like – solar, vegoil – wood! but best leave hydro carbons in the ground mother nature clearly can’t take much more being...
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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. 
