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Dear 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 emissions: Analysis: Global CO2 emissions set to rise 2% in...
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 filter and the clean water to a holding tank on top. If you would be interested in collaboration, please contact...
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 months How much faster can the world be transformed in the digital/robotic age?
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 our state safety belt against the things that follow temperature rise as night follows...
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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. 
