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The Stampede of the Green LemmingsBy Viv Forbes No country on Earth relies entirely on wind/solar energy, but Australian politicians aim to achieve this miracle. They are leaders in the Stampede of the Green Lemmings.
Solar energy has a huge problem. Even on sunny days almost nothing is generated to meet the demand peaks around breakfast time and dinner time – the solar energy union only works a six-hour day, goes on strike with little warning, and takes quite a few sickies. (more…) Time for Truth-Telling in GlasgowBy Viv Forbes For 26 long years the UN and their tame media have promoted their expensive annual climate carnivals. This month they will flock to Glasgow for COP 26 but they will not arrive on Shetland ponies, penny farthings or sailing boats – hydro-carbon energy will get most of them there and keep them warm and well fed. These jamborees are designed to spread climate lies and green energy propaganda. (more…) A Salute to Engines and ElectricityEarth Day should Celebrate “Engines and Electricity”. Most chapters of human history are defined by the tools and machines that were used. In the Stone Age, the first tools were “green tools” – digging sticks, spears, boomerangs, bows and arrows made of wood; and axes, clubs, knives and grinders made of stone. These were all powered by human energy. Then humans learned how to control fire for warmth, cooking, warfare and hunting.
Image acknowledgement: Another clever person invented the wheel and we harnessed animal power using donkeys, horses, mules and oxen, and made better tools like bridles, saddles and yokes from wood, fibre and leather. All of these tools made hunting, gathering and trade easier and more reliable. Then wooden ploughs revolutionised the cultivation of wild grasses for food for animals and humans. Farming started.
Image acknowledgement: www.pixabay.com Trade and exchange was made easier with money using rare commodities like gold, silver, gems and shells.
Image acknowledgement: www.pixabay.com Tool-making made a huge advance in the Bronze Age with the discovery of how to extract metals like copper, lead, zinc and tin from natural ores using charcoal. Brass, bronze and pewter made many useful tools. These were then replaced with better tools when man discovered how to smelt iron and make steel. Then along came the game-changers – engines and electricity. The steam engine, running on wood and then on coal or oil, revolutionised life with steam-driven pumps, traction engines and locomotives releasing millions of draught animals from transport duty.
Image acknowledgement: www.pixabay.com Then came electricity when steam engines were used to drive generators. All the windmills, coaches, sailing ships, lamps, stoves and dryers powered by green energy (wind, water, wood, animal energy, whale oil and beeswax) became obsolete.
Image acknowledgement: www.pixabay.com Mankind made another leap forward with the invention of internal combustion engines using petroleum liquids and gases for fuel. An even bigger leap was the harnessing of nuclear power to produce almost unlimited clean energy from controlled reactions using tiny amounts of fuel.
Image acknowledgement: Nothing in life is without risk, and every tool or engine can be misused. On balance, however, tools, engines and electricity have allowed humans to live better from less land and natural resources per person than ever before. Societies with an abundance of capital equipment are richer, have lower population growth and have the leisure and resources to provide far more environmental protection. Therefore we should spend “Earth Day” celebrating “Engines and Electricity”. Further Reading: Earth Day Failed Forecasts of Doom:
Image acknowledgement: George Carlin on Saving the Planet: Viv Forbes 24 May 18 We welcome comments. If you would like to comment on anything in this newsletter go to: PDF version: http://carbon-sense.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/engines-and-electricity.pdf [PDF, 670 kB] “Carbon Sense” is an independent newsletter produced for the Carbon Sense Coalition, an Australian based organisation which opposes waste of resources, opposes pollution, opposes the baseless war on carbon fuels and promotes the rational un-subsidised use of all energy resources including coal, oil, gas, hydro, nuclear, wind, solar and geo-thermal. Literary, financial or other contributions to help our cause are welcomed. For more information visit our web site at www.carbon-sense.com Please spread “Carbon Sense” around. Climate Cargo Cult Circles the PacificThe World Economic Forum in 2015 had a prophetic vision that unless the world mends its wicked ways “global warming will become catastrophic and irreversible”. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2015/11/15-quotes-on-climate-change-by-world-leaders / In July 2016 the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, claimed that global warming was as dangerous to the world as Islamic terrorism. At the recent G20 summit in China, the world leader of the Global Warming Religion, Ban Ki-moon, canonised two new ministers – Father Obama (who seeks political sainthood in his after-life), and Father Xi Jinping (who seeks to crucify western industry on the climate cross). Both signed the Paris Pledge. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=54841#.V9Jowfl97IU Lights Out
For yonks they waged a war on coal The land was closed to oil and gas Poles and turbines all in ranks Then all the factories fled offshore Then one still night the lights went out To view or print the whole newsletter plus images click: Daring to Doubt by Tony Abbott:
– Tony Abbott, 2017 Annual GWPF Lecture, London 9 October 2017 https://www.thegwpf.org/tony-abbott-daring-to-doubt Escaping the Renewable Energy Trap The Paris Agreement Serious Defects in Australia’s Energy Policies Personal Viv Forbes To view or print the whole newsletter plus images click: Top 5 Best Laser Hair Removal at Home DevicesToday, laser hair removal at home is gaining much popularity. Laser hair removal is a permanent and long term process and has many drawbacks. In this article, we will review the Best Nose hair Trimmer removal devices for home use.
Most laser hair removal systems do not work with dark toned skin. However, this gadget is ideal for dark toned people. Here, ELOS technology is used to remove unwanted hair. More or less it is similar to IPL pulse technology; the only major difference is that the former is color blind.
It does not use laser flash; it uses quartz light from an ordinary glass bulb. It uses IPL pulses to remove hair. Generally, IPL pulses take more time than direct laser. However, it is tricky to use it at pinpoint areas. It covers a large area but with less accuracy. It comes with a skin tone sensor. However, this model might not suit the dark skin toned user or the user with light unwanted hair. Treatments for adverse results of laser hair removal are less painful because direct laser is not used.
Tria Laser hair removal system was the first LHR system that got approved by FDA for effective and safe use. Most lasers won’t work with dark skin tone. However, this model comes with a built in skin sensor and works with almost all skin tones. It comes with an awesome digital interface and strength settings. Due to its small size, you will be able to use it in small target areas. It is a cordless device.
It is yet another laser hair removal device which uses IPL pulses for hair removal. It is a corded device. It is the least expensive model in our list. It comes with a skin sensor and is not appropriate for dark toned and light skin users. It comes with a wide head so the concentration of flash is less accurate for pinpoint areas.
As the name suggests, this device uses IPL pulses for hair removal. The best thing is it is affordable. It comes with slide & flash mode that lets you glide the device over your skin. It flashes IPL pulses on its way. Basically, you won’t have to deal with each and every patch of your skin like other laser hair removal devices. It comes with 5 skin intensity settings and might not work for dark toned users and users with soft unwanted hair. Waves and TidesWatching Weather Waves, but Missing Climate Tides. By Viv Forbes, 17 July 2018
Earth’s climate is never still – it is always changing, with long-term trends, medium-term reversals and minor oscillations. Humanity is best served by those who use good science to study geology, astronomy and climate history searching for clues to climate drivers and the underlying natural cycles and trends hidden in short-term weather fluctuations. For the last 10,000 years Earth has basked in the Holocene Interglacial which is the latest of many warm cycles within the Pleistocene Ice Age. There are small warm and cool cycles within the Holocene. Today we enjoy the Modern Warm Cycle (which started about calendar 1900) following the Little Ice Age which bottomed in about 1750. What does the future hold? The past gives clues to the future. Thought Bubbles from Canberra – more useless energy policiesBy Viv Forbes The Australian Minister for Promoting Useless Energy thinks that hydrogen fuel, carbon capture and storage, soil carbon and biofuels are priorities for energy policy and greenhouse gas reduction. If that’s the best our leaders can come up with, Australia should have voted Green last election to speed the inevitable recession and blackouts that will eventually kill this tsunami of energy nonsense.  “Hydrogen” does not supply net energy – burning it can return some of the energy used to produce it from hydrocarbons or electrolysis of water. It is an expensive explosive gas that makes less sense than Snowy 2 – more energy in than out! Moreover, we have no infrastructure that can safely store, distribute or use hydrogen in our transport fleet, energy network or smelters. Governments should not force energy consumers or tax payers to promote Canberra’s thought bubbles – let the “green hydrogen” entrepreneurs risk their own or shareholders’ money. “Carbon capture and storage” is another dumb idea. To capture CO2 emissions from coal, gas or biomass power stations consumes a lot of energy to separate, store, pipe and pump it underground (hoping it will stay there). It would be far better leave non-polluting CO2 in the lower atmosphere and surround every power station with crops and forests hungry for the CO2 plant food so essential to their growth. Trying to extract CO2 from the atmosphere is even dumber because the mighty oceans will quickly release CO2 from their huge stores to restore equilibrium between atmosphere and oceans. Even if it could be done, it is a bad idea – why steal plant food from grass, crops and forests? “Soil carbon” is green-speak for what every sensible pastoralist tries to do – increase the humus and biological activity in soil. The quickest way to do this is via keyline/contour ripping to retain water in the soil (as shown in Australia by P A Yeoman), and by managed periodic heavy impact of grazing animals to promote pasture growth (as shown in Africa by Alan Savory). But it is total nonsense to turn “carbon farming” into a costly rural rort run by a bureaucracy of soil samplers and modellers who think it will cool the climate. “Biofuels” are another way to waste energy, food crops and trees to do jobs better done by coal, gas and oil – a crime against humanity and the environment. If our Minister for Promoting Useless Energy is determined to sequester and store carbon, there is only one sensible way – restore the forestry industry. Harvest mature forest trees for poles, posts, sleepers, paper, cardboard or dance floors. Then replant with new trees. Young trees grow rapidly and extract much CO2. But old trees reach a stage of carbon equilibrium when the CO2 they extract in summer is equal to what they lose as leaves, branches and trunks fall to frosts, droughts, bushfires and termites. Reading: Simon Benson “Hydrogen provides lift in post-Covid tech recovery”. The Australian – Page 1 & 4 : 21 May 2020 The Carbon Capture Con: “Livestock are the Solution not the problem”: Regenerative Farming: P A Yeomans, 1965: “Water for Every Farm”, K G Murray Publishing. Viv Forbes is a geologist, financial analyst, weather watcher and pastoralist with long experience at maintaining the health of pastures and soils. He and his wife have used a Yeoman ripper for about 30 years and have studied and practiced Savory animal management techniques for a similar time. He is Executive Director of the Saltbush Club. “No Regrets” is the Best PolicyManhattan Conference on Global Warming Indicates that “No Regrets” is the Best Policy. The Carbon Sense Coalition based in Australia, says that the science and empirical evidence on Global warming is now clearly indicating that a “No Regrets” policy is the best course for the world to follow. The Carbon Sense Coalition was one of the 52 organisations from 20 different countries which co-sponsored the recent International Conference on Climate Change in New York. Al Gore was invited to address the conference (he was even promised his $200,000 fee) but he declined to appear. Jim Hansen of NASA, another prominent alarmist, was also invited, but declined. (Contrast this with the Bali conference when a delegation of prominent sceptical scientists sought to present their petition to the UN. They were denied admission and refused an audience.) The Looming Collision between Electric Vehicles and Green Energyby Viv Forbes Two green-dream fantasies are heading for a massive and costly collision. Firstly they dream of generating all grid power from wind/solar propped up by battery storage (such as lots of giant Tesla batteries and pumped hydro). Secondly they dream of replacing all petrol/diesel/gas cars, trucks and buses with electric vehicles, powered by more batteries. (more…) |
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