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[John Arton]

The UN have just released a report on climate change saying that the world has got around 10 years to take action to limit temperature rises to less than 1.5 degrees or we are all in deep doodoo.
Immediately our esteemed politicians, especially the one who sounds like he is speaking through his nose, has jumped on the telly claiming it was his party that phased out coal fired power stations and that we all should have our houses super insulated and fitted with new boilers but hang on, these boilers will still be powered by gas, something the report says we should be stopping the use of. Also we should be reducing our meat consumption as cows etc produce methane gas, which is harmful to the atmosphere. Instead I think we should be increasing our meat consumption but inventing ways to capture all that methane in order to turn it into useable fuel.
Sea level rises could cause the loss of much of low lying land and the huge wild fires burning throughout Greece, America, Peru should, I think, be faught using sea water. Send powerful fire fighting guys to the areas of these wild fires and use their pumping capacity to either feed into the local fire fighting facilities or run temporary piping from them to the fire areas, this could have the side effect of lowering sea level.
Give it some thought or lateral think as sir Edward bonio called it and the problem can be solved, leave it to the politicians and they will only call for more conference in exotic countries, only reachable by air, flying first class of course!!
Rgds
J.A.

[Tony Taylor]

What are these batteries made of?
Have seen a few programs lately citing the danger of charging Lithium batteries es. in places like garages where they can ignite unseen and literally burn down houses.
Then there were those mobile phone batteries flash burning in peoples hands.....has me nervous ever time I charge any item in the house that relies on rechargeable batteries.

Lithium Ion Victoria, i think the first instances of this problem occurred some years back in aircraft; now there's a scenario for panic if you like?

[Keith at Tregenna]

When Boeing Co. unveiled plans to build the 787 Dreamliner, the aircraft
was touted as revolutionary, a major technological shift in the way a plane
is made and in the way it operates.

[happy daze john in oz]

Methane can be produced for the price of a tin of baked beans, So as all that fibre is good for you get stuck in. Then we can get back to the Gas bag cars again.

Here in Oz we have landfills where all the household rubbish goes.
Millions of tonnes of Methane there and some councils tap it as a source of energy, Singapore being a bit smarter burn theirs to create energy.

[Tony Taylor]

Here in Oz we have landfills where all the household rubbish goes.
Millions of tonnes of Methane there and some councils tap it as a source of energy, Singapore being a bit smarter burn theirs to create energy.

It has been going on for years here John, and not in any small way. My son worked for a company which specialized in generators running on landfill gas and the power generated was sold into the grid; we are not talking about tiddly little things either, some of these sites were running V24 engines (Jenbacher for those interested) knocking out several megawatts of power.

[happy daze john in oz]

Yes mate, there are some smarter than others who know how to make use of this source of energy.
All that is apart from the Greens wo for some reason think their way is the only one.