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doodles by Charlie
When things happen or situations crop up that raise an eyebrow, or cause a smile or simple appreciation, they are often the catalyst for one of Charlie’s doodles. He finds putting writing them frees his mind to get on with something...
read moreThe question
If our mum was born with about 300 eggs and a Dad during his life makes half a trillion sperm & if to make one of us it took one of each - then the chance of our existence at all Is 1 in 1.5×10^9 .. add in the ‘not tonight dears’ the near-miss we had when learning to drive & that swim taken in water later found to house crocodiles… Then the chance of us even getting to read this page is microscopically small let’s say a fifth of that number 1 in 7.8*10^9 Now the chance for a pensioner in the US getting Covid is...
read moreTwo hands Distractions
To read about a strange leader in a country riddled with Covid or watch impotently as Brazil looks to overtake the USA. Why when I’ve never been to Brazil and I’m not about to change how the US runs itself. More CO2 was emitted here this year in a single bushfire season than Australia emits in an entire year. 80 percent of the Blue Mountains protected area were burnt areas that have clung on since the age of the dinosaurs. National conversation about climate change never happened. We remain in suspended animation waiting for the...
read moreThe SolAir plan
Climate change is real, cut vehicle emissions completely > solar powered car conversions. SolAir. I plan to get a 10 year old diesel ute, convert its engine into a 2 stroke air motor by altering its camshaft, then from cylinders in its tray, run it without emissions, from compressed air cylinders in its tray. Then put PVs on the garage roof, powering a compressor inside filling spare cylinders during the day. So when commuters get home at night, they can fill up their car’s cylinders from the garage cylinders – ready for the...
read moreSolAir – Home compressed-air car conversions
Cars are changing. Electric cars are becoming more common. And the Hyundai hydrogen car comes out next year as is the Tonnsley hydrogen station in Adelaide. We are developing a conversion for commuters’ cars to run with no emissions of fuel costs on home solar compressed air. Please contact me if you are interested on charlie.madden@internode.on.net.
read moreVegetable oil as fuel
Rudolf was right back in 1900 – fuel can be grown, & it can be carbon neutral. Diesel said that “In 1900 a small Diesel engine was exhibited by the Otto company which, on the suggestion of the French Government, was run on arachide [peanut] oil, and operated so well that very few people were aware of the fact. The motor was built for ordinary oils, and without any modification was run on vegetable oil By converting my Mercedes to run on vegetable oil I have saved 10 tons of CO2 in 5 years – a ball 68’ in diameter, and $5,000...
read moreRudolf was right – fuel can be grown, & its carbon neutral.
Rudolf was right – fuel can be grown, & its carbon neutral. A 1986 Mercedes 300D Settling tank for used restaurant frying oil filter •Refueling Written off last week-end by a 4WD. Not a single pane of glass shattered, and was able to open the door – just! - and walk away without a scratch… but She prove – carbon neutral fuel can be...
read moreClimate Contrast
Smiles and friendly people everywhere brilliant and powerful young articulate speeches much cheering and chanting… even loud applause from 5,000 when a young lass finally got her tongue round a long word in her speech - at the third attempt! Not ONE solitary member of government dared to show their face or offer any comment A tacit admission of their abject failure, so-far and lack of any plan for the future Then all 5,000 of us walked from Parliament house to Victoria square led by the youngest, which was charming in...
read moreKindness
The quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate.” Desmond Tutu said, “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” and Mark Twain: “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” — When I first came to Australia, – I went as a stranger to a new church, met some very friendly, kind people – and came out with somewhere to live! & they helped me learn all those unwritten rules here – there are loads, believe...
read moreI think it’s important
Hi Global warming is here, it’s feeding the flooding of millions within the next 3 decades – but it can be reduced if everyone looks at their own position re the 80 points in Frischmann’s talk below. I urge you to read it. We have a well insulated 8.5x house with heat pump water heating, a solar electric car and a car running carbon neutral on waste vegetable oil, with evaporative A/C installed. Sadly the house A/C uses HFCs but hopefully as it is seldom used will seldom need recharging. We still eat meat, and have yet to...
read moreFresh water – joint venture partners sought
Joint venture partners are sought in Australia, Vietnam and Bangladesh TideWater is planned to make fresh water from the sea by reverse osmosis powered just by the rise and fall of the tide And include a hydraulic multiplier to keep the length reasonable Scalable for outputs to meet the daily needs of 1 person, 10,100 and 1,000 people Detail design is sought by a marine engineer plus the building and proving of a prototype, then manufacture and distribution of TideWaters I will help as much as possible remotely from Adelaide by...
read moreRelentless
America hired a pilot who it seems couldn’t read - certainly didn’t rather played golf The rest of the world blindly followed some took action like Scotland and Germany to be sure But they were heavily outnumbered by those like us who didn’t with the result that at atmospheric carbon grew and grew relentlessly No down turn visible or likely So it seems we’ll shoot though 1.5C and begin to nudge 2 Will then the world wake up?! and slam corporation world into WW3 control-the-climate mode.. Because that’s what it will take to...
read moreMisled re Climate Change
We and our leaders have been consistently misled by the OPCC and the IPCC. By Katie Weeman, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, and Patrick Lynch, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center The rate of global sea level rise has been accelerating in recent decades, rather than increasing steadily, according to a new study based on 25 years of NASA and European satellite data. This acceleration, driven mainly by increased melting in Greenland and Antarctica, has the potential to double the total sea level...
read moreThe Very Model Of A Very Stable Genius
Song parody by Randy Rainbow Donald Trump’s brag that he’s a ‘very stable genius’ has long been nothing but a sad punchline. Now American comedian Randy Rainbow has taken the boast as the basis for a new song parody based on The Major-General’s Song from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance. It starts: ‘He is the very model of a very stable genius / of all the US Presidents he is the Mussoliniest. And makes jokes about the President’s ‘tiny penius’, Russian meddling in the...
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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. 
