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Archive for ‘Transport’ Category
This week, I’ve become aware of three excellent initiatives that are focussing people’s energies, creativity, and cash(!) into positive solutions to the global energy crisis. It just shows what can be done – and these projects are not difficult or hard to creative creatures like ourselves. Big Mirrors in the Desert A sustainable energy initiative that will start with a huge solar project in the Sahara desert has been announced by a consortium of 12 European businesses. This is a $400billion plan (yes, 400 billion!), that will plaster the top left corner of Africa with mirrors to harness solar energy. These will boil water, make steam, turn conventional turbines to make electricity which will be sent across the Straits of Gibraltar, to Europe. No doubt, the various peoples in the areas will benefit from all this in numerous ways. That’s for politics. The thing is, major European govenrments and industries are all signed up now, which in the scheme of things, takes some doing. The first step is always the hardest. Green Oil Algal Ponds biodiesel In a similar way in the USA, large tracts of semi-desert are being used as test beds for algal production and it’s distillation into a usable biodiesel. The BBC had a piece yesterday that explored the forces and conflicts at work, between the big oil businesses, the environment, people worried about jobs, etc. Read it here: America’s energy policy dilemma The Venus ProjectQuoting the website here:
Don’t let the pictures put you off! To my mind they remind me of Gerry Anderson’s world of Stingray & Thunderbirds, but maybe that’s what’ll happen? The important thing is the degree of coherent thought being made, for the benefit of everyone, not just a few individuals or states. This ties in closely with what I said here; http://strangelyperfect.tv/3821/top-banker-states-the-bleeding-obvious/ This is good, because at present, if these big technologies come to fruition, all the hot sunny places in the world, most of which are extremely poor in money and natural resources, will suddenly become everyone’s best friend, and it’s in the planning for this part of the equation that I think The Venus Project will show it’s greatest value. Browse the website, there’s pots to see and think about!
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2009
Mandelson: Expenses Morals and Postal Flowers Posted on 08:39, October 12th, 2009 by Strangely Peter Mandelson As MP’s expenses come to the fore again, Peter Mandelson spoke on Radio 4 this morning and did his usual self by not explaining anything and being perfectly unclear about everything! Listen hear here! Thank god the interviewer cut him off. The question was “Have you got much sympathy with MPs who’ve claimed under one set of ‘rules’ and now might have to cough-up under a changed set of rules” (my wording)
 Flowers and Pot Plants The trouble is that Mandelson’s flower bills for his office/department are over £24,000 per annum. When news of this started coming out, Darling’s Treasury flower bill of ~£3000 was cut to zero but the Business Dept.’s of Mandelson has remained the same. (see Government departments ran up £780,000 flower bill) That’s the painful truth. And as the most disadvantaged in society, dependant on the State for their well-being, are now coming into the firing line as the cause of society’s ills, it’s a truth that deserves repetition. As the money given to bankers to pay for their bonuses (~£1.2 billion!) goes out, consider the £3 billion stolen from the Post Office worker’s pension fund by the State in a ‘pensions holiday’ since 1994. These Post Office employees are now having to suffer because as part of the Royal Mail’s super-imposed business ethic, it has to recoup the missing Pension money from it’s business at the same time as it’s core business changes and it reacts accordingly. Now, the focus is on the Post Office worker who must change and not go on strike to ’save the company’!
 Having a Millstone around one's Neck I think a few more ‘rules’ need changing. If the Royal Mail was not hamstrung by the Pensions millstone round it’s neck it could compete equally with the piss-poor Home Delivery Network owned by the odious Barclay brothers who have their own idea of democracy on their little island fiefdom. Without the millstone, Royal Mail could have expanded it’s network of local offices as collection and despatch points for the country’s expanding home shopping bonanza. Instead, it’s closed many down because reduced investment made them un-economic. The Dept. of Business is a fool’s paradise of blinkered short-sightedness, completely devoid of morals and common sense. Mandelson though, is no fool. He knows exactly what he’s done and is doing. I think he’s borrowed one of Dr Who’s perception filters because of the way that people’s focus shifts as their gaze falls upon him. Further Reading:Home Delivery network
The prime problem for HDNL is that they have few offices and don’t deliver out-of-hours which is no use for normal consumers, the majority of whom work 9-5. Consequently they are cheap so mail-order companies will use them… Previous PostsPossibly Related Sites
Related Posts by Tags Gordon Moore's Bonk Like a metal mickey, old Geordie Gordon Moore (no, not him of Intel and his ‘law’) has astounded the medical profession with the recent discovery that a big hole in his head has grown back under the protective metal plate that was inserted to fill the gap. (see the story here: Man grows new skull after horror car crash from the Newcastle Chronicle) The thing that got me though, is that Gordon seems to be a bit of a disaster merchant, seeking thrills and escaping continuously….
As if these aren’t dangerous enough, in his early life he crashed his car and got the metal plate in his head for his trouble. A short while after, he crashed his car again and bent the metal plate in his head!!! The question that’s bothering me and is the one you should be asking yourself is,
After all, he’s alright – but what about if you’re standing next to him? I tell you, Ozzy Osbourne’s boy, Jack, has got nowt on this guy Gordon Moore. Amazon Related:
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