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Reducing Emissions or Saving Fuel?

There is a lot of talk about the importance of reducing emissions in mainstream media but almost none about the importance of conserving the remaining fuel resources that we have for as long as possible to attempt to provide the semblance of a smooth transition away from fossil fuels. Is this reluctance on the part of mainstream media a deliberate attempt at covering up the awful truth about how close to complete disaster we really are now? All reasonable and knowledgable scientists agree that we have less than 10 years fuel reserves at the current exponentially increasing rate of consumption.

Is it just a case of mainstream ignorance of the scale of the issue that we are facing as a civilisation? Are the editors scared to voice an opinion that is outside of the conventional norm? Are they waiting for someone else to say the truth so they can quietly and subtly let the cat out of the bag without having to take responsibility for being the bearer of bad news? Is it just too scary to contemplate the truth of the matter? Or are they just not able to comprehend the entirety of the picture in one foul swoop?

We lay it out again just in case there are people reading who have not already grasped the gravity of the situation.

The world is consuming more fuel everyday. The rate of consumption has increased exponentially for the past 100 years. We are now at the point that is otherwise know as 1 minute to midnight. The point at which the remaining resources will be consumed by the time the end of this period of doubling consumption is reached. The end of the current period is within the decade. What that means is by the end of this decade we will consume more fuel than we have available to consume. In other words we have almost completely run out of petroleum based fuel.

The drive to convert the remaining fuel reserves into other forms of energy harnessing technology like solar, wind, hydro, thermal, etc… is only increasing the rate of consumption of the remaining fossil fuel reserves. We will have to be very careful to use what is left as efficiently as possible in order to make the most intelligent use of it for the future generations to look back on and sing our praise.

The announcement today of the US commitment to achieve 54.5 MPG by 2025 is a pointless waste of breath. As useful as saying we pledge to do nothing about our consumption of our valuable fuel reserves until all the fuel has run out and then we will start to make some plans for what we can do to sustain our society with no fuel resources.

They have left it too little, too late. It’s the equivalent of the fixation with increasing the debt ceiling. They have no money so what they are going to do is lend themselves some more money to pay off the debt that they owe to themselves and everyone else instead of just admitting that they have no money.

Unfortunately fuel is a tangible product and when it runs out in the next 10 years there will be no way they can just increase the fuel reserve ceiling. If American’s don’t realise the mess they are in now when it is just stupid money that is on the line what are they going to do when they actually can’t eat because they have no fertiliser to produce their food and no petrol to transport the little amount of food that they can produce?

Until everyone is able to answer these hard questions with tangible solutions and not just meaningless political puffery the stability of global societies are going to get worse not better… and now that we are all connected that means everyone is affected in one way or another.

Thorium in China

RT are reporting on the Chinese push towards Thorium over Uranium/Plutonium. As discussed previously the Thorium option is significantly less dangerous than the existing nuclear power infrastructure. Thorium is abundant and there is enough material available to provide thousands of years of constant supply. The only problem is that it can’t be used for nuclear weapons proliferation which means the military industrial complex is not interested in pursuing it when they have the option of getting more bang for their buck out of the existing Uranium/Plutonium solution.



Solar Power in North Africa

There is a puff piece in the New York times today outlining the corporate PR for why North Africa is the right place to build the solar energy infrastructure to provide power to Europe once the fossil fuels run out.

According to the article “North Africa’s solar energy potential equals 1 million barrels of oil annually”. With this number we can extrapolate some actual statistics on the actual usefulness of this much energy.

According to indexmundi in 2009 Europe consumed 18,823.59 thousand barrels per day which is 18,823,590 barrels per day.

So we can see that the amount of energy to be obtained in one whole year from all of Northern Africa by harnessing the power of the sun is equivalent to approximately 1.5 hours of oil use in the whole of Europe.

What amazes me is that the New York times doesn’t even bother to run this simple statistic. Oh wait, no it doesn’t. This is the NYT we are talking about here…

The Case Against the Oil Wars

We all know by now that the world is running out of fossil fuels. In particular the oil that provides energy for all our transportation, most of our food production and a lot of our electricity is being consumed quicker than we can replace it with any other source of energy. The Western powers have embarked on a campaign to effectively control the remaining reserves that are not already in the power of Russia, China, Brazil and Venezuela. The result is we have perpetual wars in the Middle East and now moving into Africa via Libya.

There is a significant problem with the use of war as a means of controlling the oil distribution and extraction process. The main problem being that wars create unbalanced societies. They also destroy infrastructure and tend to result in a lot of violence and human carnage. These issues are long term and are not easily or quickly solved. They also happen to be the last thing that a rampaging Army has on it’s mind once the action is over. They are not actually interested in creating balanced peaceful societies. That is like asking an addict to take care of your drug supply. It’s just not going to result in a positive outcome for anyone involved.

One of the core ideas behind controlling the supply of oil is that the people in power i.e the Banksters printing the money to fund the war machine, can control the energy supply in the coming years as the competition for the remaining oil causes massive spikes in prices and only the uber wealthy, Governments and Mega Corporations are in a position financially to justify the expense of using up the remaining energy for their business and personal use. However this idea falters when war is used to secure the supply as they effectively decrease the supply of oil to the market by destroying infrastructure and creating unstable environments where no one with the expertise and experience to rebuild the infrastructure is prepared to put their lives on the line in order to fulfill the original plan of controlling the supply. So the end result is that the oil wars create a net loss in terms of available supply of oil to the market and considering that we are running out at an exponential rate anyway this only serves to drive up prices faster and further unbalance the global economy.

Hence the desire to remove from the consumption process a large number of oil consumers who would otherwise be competing for the remaining reserves. Otherwise known as the Bilberberg plan for reducing the population of the world to 500 million people. This is a negative, self destructive cycle that we are now being subjected to by the Banksters and their Corporate and Governmental cronies. The outcome of such a cycle is only a negative result. However it is often found that once an addict hits rock bottom and there is no where else to go they have to face the hard truths about their situation and make some changes for the better. Either that or they die and everyone that is affected by their actions can get on with their lives.

In this regard we are at a crucial point in the history of modern civilisation. Do we sink or swim? Who gets to loose out or is it a case of everyone looses permanently?

Three Reactors Melted Down

It’s official! TEPCO have now stated that three of the reactors at Fukushima melted down. Of course we have been saying that four of them went into meltdown for the past two months now but it has taken them that long to admit to the world what we knew all along. They are still projecting that it will take upto 9 months before they get things under control at the facility. That number has been solid for the past 6 weeks. The truth is that it only provides enough time for the cores to melt their way through the earths crust back to the mantle. They don’t actually know how long it will take to get there though.

And we can see that the Northern Hemisphere continues to fill up with cancer causing radionuclides. Many of them have not been created since the Earth was formed over 3.5 billion years ago. The potential for damage that the radioactive elements can cause is unprecedented. Apart from the damage to human health and the food chain across the globe that will result from the continuing exposure to unprecedented amounts of radionuclides, they will literally change our DNA over the coming years.

Fuku’d in Japan

This footage shows a timelapse of the emissions from the Fukushima facility getting worse not better as the Japanese Government and Mainstream media would like us to believe. Along with todays announcement that the reactor core in reactor number 1 did indeed meltdown we are seeing a slow release of information about the true state of the facility. Eventually they will have to officially admit that they have created an unprecedented disaster of global magnitude and we are facing a global extinction event with every passing day of inaction.


Surface level Cesium-137

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Underwater Footage from Fukushima

Remote controlled robots have been sent into the spent fuel rod pools at Fukushima to assess the damage that was done by the heat of the rods while they were exposed for two weeks before they could cover them up again.

What we are all waiting for is the official footage of inside the reactor chambers showing the massive holes in the ground where the reactor cores melted through the containers to being their descent into the earths crust. Of course we will probably never get to see inside the reactor chambers as that would mean admitting that they have been lying to us for the past two months. Now they have created the myth they can hardly go back on it without loosing face and showing the reality of the situation. A complete cover up is underway and millions of people and animals are going to suffer horribly as a result.

The Apollo Myth

We note that www.pravda.ru is reporting the Apollo missions were a hoax and various military-industrial complex shills are trying to bury issues raised in contribuutors letters. What is needed is an excellent discussion of the Apollo program and its hidden history.

There are some ‘defences’ the anti-hoax shills keep bringing up that need to be shot down:

1) Laser reflector installation (alleged): Even the best lasers have a beam divergence of around 0.02 degrees. While that is much better than a flashlight or spotlight, it is still a long way from zero when you are talking the vast distance from earth to moon and back. The spot size of any laser beam reflected from the moon is not going to be affected in the slightest by any man made objects placed there but on the albedo over a large area. (Some of today’s focused laboratory lasers, in a vacuum, can achieve a smaller divergence, but the argument above still holds)

2) Moon rocks: There are two types of moon rocks – real ones and fake ones. The real ones are held under security similar to the Hope diamond. The fake ones were stored in an ordinary office in Clear Lake Texas. Guess which ones come from the Apollo program? From time to time, due to lack security, some of the fake ones are stolen and sold, or attempted to be sold, on the black market to collectors. The frauds and busts due to this recurring phenomena make the news from time to time.

There are also some issues that need to be raised that everyone seems to miss, e.g.

The Saturn V first stage engine, the F-1 engine:

NASA’s claims of its Specific Impulse (a measure of rocket quality/efficiency) was from 260s to 304s, higher than any rocket engine ever made now or since. You would think such a great engine they would have kept the blueprints for, or had measured (say at AEDC or Stennis) data for, or reused in other boosters. Other NASA documents provide enough numbers to calculate the specific impulse and it results in a number lower than the claimed specific impulse. Either way, there is a curious lack of records (that any US Military aerospace propulsion engineer can verify).

The LEM, even if had been made of the mythical substance impervium (infinitely strong, zero mass) and the chemical engines 100 percent efficient, a vehicle that size could have not transported the mass of two men (not to mention equipment) to the lunar surface and back up to lunar orbit.

Peoples belief in the so called moon landings is intimately tied up with their belief in fiat currencies and justifications
for wars based on staged events (i.e. Tonkin Gulf, 9/11, 7/7). That nuclear radiation is ‘good for you’ and nuclear reactors are ‘safe’ is perhaps another part and parcel of this belief system.

The Corruption of Rationality

With the recent decision by the Obama administration to retire the Osama Bin Laden character created by the CIA as part of a long term plan to create fear, uncertainty and doubt in order to be able to justify their perpetual wars it seems that the people of the world are buying their story, at least for now.

Prior to the announcement of the “killing” of America’s number 1 enemy the price of silver and gold was at an all time high. Oil was also edging up further every day to crest at just under $130 per barrel. Since the announcement the price of silver has dropped dramatically loosing almost half of it’s value in less than a week. A process that took approximately 2 months to build. A trend that started with the Japanese Tsunami disaster and continued to rise as the emissions from Fukushima spew forth from the facility.

Apparently the death of a fictional character invented to promote terrorism as the global threat to humankind is enough to stabilise the world markets. A character who was held responsible for approximately 4000 deaths over the years by the worlds mainstream media. Apparently this characters death is more important than the unprecedented scale of disaster that now awaits us all as the Toxic Cloud of Death emitting from the Fukushima Facility is absorbed into the food stream and biosphere where it will have a permanent affect on the human race. The fact that we are witnessing a mass murder in the process, a kind of long drawn out global genocide, has no value to the mainstream media.

They would rather focus on the story of a fictional character and the made for TV scenario that was concocted by the Obama Administrations Media Apparatus to make the most of the timing available and also coinciding with an appropriate period of instability and declining performance in Obamas first term. Just the right timing for it to be written in the annals of history as the perfect kill. An extremely well executed mission authorised by none other than President Obama and witnessed in silence as the world fretted over the nuclear fallout blanketing the globe and protested wholeheartedly against the powerful nuclear industry while the price of food is continuing to rise and the US dollar slips further into hyper inflation due to printing so much of it as part of the latest round of Quantitative Easing (QE2). At a time where there was nothing that could be done by the US Fed to provide any assistance as they have fired all their bullets and substantially missed their target.

In the meantime the Toxic Cloud of Death continues to spew forth blanketing the globe with the most dangerous radionuclides, over 5000 in total, for hundreds of thousands of years. If the romans were mad because of lead poisoning this will surely be considered as the most gullible period in human history where we believed everything that was told to us in the mainstream media and killed ourselves off with Nuclear fallout and painful death by cancer…

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Laser Spark Plugs

Revisiting the concept of leaner fuel mixtures to run Internal Combustion Engines is a favorite topic here. Latest news released today has lasers as the solution to the problem of igniting leaner ratios ex. gasoline to water. The claims are that the new advance in laser technology enables smaller lasers to fit inside the space that is normally reserved for spark plugs. Whether they will be drop in replacements or not is yet to be released. Without saying what the comparison is the researchers discount plasma spark plugs saying the problem with plasma (or as they refer to them – “high energy”) spark plugs is wear on the tips due to the metal being worn away after a relatively short period of usage. We have documented such issues with plasma plugs built using conventional spark plugs tips but the Firestorm plugs claim to have solved that issue by using a non conventional metal for the tip.

However the really interesting aspect of using lasers for ignition (apart from the obvious reference to Stanley Meyers Water Vehicle) is in the following quote…

Lasers inject their energy within nanoseconds, compared with milliseconds for spark plugs. “Timing – quick combustion – is very important. The more precise the timing, the more efficient the combustion and the better the fuel economy”

With nanosecond control that would provide much greater efficiency for energy usage. The lasers will most likely need to be powered with battery technology so every possible energy saving that can be achieved will contribute to the mileage of the vehicle. Being able to run an engine at leaned out ratios of 80:1 or even greater would certainly make a big dent in the short term issue of global energy supply. It might even allow us the possibility of being able to grow or manufacture enough combustible fuel to replace oil and gas when it runs out. However the increase in efficiency will only result in another 3 – 4 times more mileage for the amount of fuel consumed. That definitely gives us all some more time but only if every vehicle was converted to use this new laser technology today. Unfortunately that is not going to happen.

Due to the way the current system structured and run it will be at least 10 years before every car in the world could be retrofitted with this technology and that is simply too little too late. At best the laser spark plug technology will provide a couple of years extension in the global fuel supply but as the only people who could afford to buy fuel anyway will be the ultra rich or governments and corporations that won’t mean anything to the average person.

However if for some amazing reason the technology turns out to be relatively easy to replicate and people are able to build and install their own components then we will see a very positive step for global transportation issues. Of course that doesn’t solve the issue of what to use for fertiliser on the mega farms that feed the world but at least the people who survive the coming period of mass starvation will be able to drive their cars literally on the smell of an oily rag.