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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...
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...
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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...
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The carbon fibre rotor has a low inertia allowing it to speed up & down, following the wind speed and garnering the maximum amount of power from the sky. The churn is a Joule heater in polycarbonate, impervious to warm brine. It has a cubic characteristic like the wind turbine, so once matched mirrors it. It has a nil power draw at start-up to allow the turbine to catch the gust. As the design speed is approached, centrifugal actuators dump the lift / drive. Patent 201110222 ‘Water boatman’ was awarded on 12/8/11...
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Unless we completely change our ways and very soon Did He Cry? or just turn around with a shrug of the shoulders at another failed trial - when they sent off YET ANOTHER Crusade against a much better foe faster & better equipped, miles away and more than able to defend THEIR Jerusalem Did He wring his hands as Irish shot Irish? over an interpretation of the 5th version of Jesus & his Mum - to walk and work on our planet Or when brave clever Pole shot down German over France. With bullets made by someone in Birmingham, All 4...
read moreGlobal Climate Leadership Review 2013
I encourage you to read the Global Climate Leadership Review 2013 & to listen to Lord Stern’s introduction. He states that “It is highly probable our climate will warm to +3, +4 or +5C in the next 100 years – if we carry on as we are. Plus that when the world was last at +3C – 3M years ago, the sea was 20m higher.” And that would submerge most of the world’s capital cities + make 100s of million – perhaps billions to move to higher ground. Already many in the Solomons – where most live on the...
read moreSolar Desalination is the only way
Experts believe that solar desalination is the only way that GCC nations can ensure sustainable water supply for their nation’s growth and development. Saudi Arabia started its first solar-powered sea water desalination plant this year in Al-Khafji, near the Saudi border with Kuwait which will be the world’s largest of its kind.
read moreProposed Chinese carbon tax could well be fear-based
Last week’s announcement by China’s ministry of finance that the country will introduce a carbon tax, probably in the next two years, did not dominate the international headlines. The ministry was too vague about the timeline and the rate at which the tax would be levied, and fossil fuel lobbyists were quick to portray it as meaningless. But the Chinese are deadly serious about fighting global warming, because they are really scared. The Xinhua news agency did not say how big the tax in China would be, but it pointed to a...
read moreGreenpeace – Point of No Return
“In 2020, the emissions from the 14 projects showcased in this report – if they were all to go ahead, as they are now planned to do – will raise global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by 20% and keep the world on a path towards 5°C to 6°C of warming.” “The world is quickly reaching a Point of No Return for preventing the worst impacts of climate change. Continuing on the current course will make it difficult, if not impossible, to prevent the widespread and catastrophic impacts of climate change. The costs will be substantial:...
read moreIt just Newton’s 2nd Law
Greenpeace Australia By Georgina Woods [Editor's note: In case you missed it, as Australia is suffering from the hottest day on record, yesterday the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued its monthly State of the Climate report, which showed 2012 was the hottest year on record in the continental U.S. Media Matters for America released a report yesterday showing that even with 2012 being the hottest year on record in the continental U.S., climate coverage from mainstream media remained minimal.] Australia has suffered...
read moreDear Ms Gillard & Mr Abbott
P 0433 565 039 79 Birksgate Dr Urrbrae SA 5064 18/12/12 Dear Ms Gillard & Mr Abbott We must decarbon – & soon. The time has come to find where you both agree – & join forces to combat this very real and dangerous enemy. You are both Australians - a country that is the envy of the world for her share of renewables. And citizens of the world – & we only have one – with a very thin atmosphere, which we are changing fast. There would be huge relief to all of us to see you talking as one on this, from the...
read moreStorm surge
Darren Ray – head of the South Australian climate section of the bureau of meteorology – spoke at the talk last week ‘Rising Tides & Climate Change’ at the Hawke Centre here in Adelaide, a podcast is available. He said that – along with cheapest generic viagra the obvious dangers of sea level rise goes the even more damaging storm surges. As shown by the water damage in New York. An increase in sea level of 20cm raises the chance of storm surges from 1:100 years to 1:10 or 1:5 years. An increase of 50cm...
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Earth @ 6 x 10^9 miles – look how many other blue dots there are ?! ( – best fix that leaking tap, everywhere else is bone dry…)
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Nine thousand children everyday worldwide 84% of 3.9M people dying every year - from drinking dirty water each a gem each through no fault of their own A massacre ignored under our very noses each and every day set to g cialis online et worse with climate changeWhile there are enough arms to arm each 7th person on the planet Nuclear power plants built at Nation’s worth of cost - and no regard to the disposal of their waste Billion dollar desal plants built in Adelaide – & then mothballed − because there is plenty of...
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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. 
