Category: General

Some English guy tinkering in his shed has come up with a very useful way of storing energy using liquid air, and releasing it on demand. This, of course, addresses one of the main problems with windmills, i.e. they are never turning when you want maximum output from them and have to be turned off if the wind is too strong when demand for electricity  is low.

It would take quite a bit of investment in infrastructure to make this happen, but, all the pollies seems so keen on investing in infrastructure! 😦

It would also make a good petrol substitute  and there would be no need for expensive and cumbersome electric cars.

http://news.sky.com/story/991949/liquid-air-could-be-the-fuel-of-the-future

whether to laugh or cry…

It is somewhat ironic that the hooked Hamza spent 8 years in the UK evading deportation to the USA.

Considering how much hatred he preached in Finsbury mosque you would have thought he would have been delighted to leave our shores, wouldn’t you? Perhaps the free council house and benefits for his vipers nest of a family were just too good to leave?  Or our misguided sense of justice extended seemingly only to murdering wogs in our midsts? I gather all mod cons are extended to such in British holiday camps/prisons.

I am delighted to see the Yanks had a private jet tooled up with engines roaring at Mildenhall ready to whisk him away before he could speed dial his barristers in their wine bars on a Friday night.  I am delighted to imagine him in the regulation orange jump suit with full shackles in 23 hour a day solitary, because that is where its at currently and for the foreseeable future.  It is so fortunate that American ideas of hospitality in prisons isn’t quite what he will be used to.  My only regret is that they didn’t take him straight to Guantanamo and water board him very, very slowly.  Not only that, we got 5 for the price of one!

I wonder how long it will take of the rest of his life behind bars for him to come to appreciate his unwarranted hospitality accorded to him in the UK and so carelessly derided and abused?  When they give him his first bacon sandwich?  He once compared the UK to a toilet, personally I would drop him in an oubliette and fill it slowly with sewage and sell tickets to see how long he could swim, but then I’m a  marginally vengeful type of human!  Thank heavens the Yanks who run such places are not too overwhelmed with the milk of human kindness towards terrorists and are not going to indulge him.  I suspect that he will remember his council house and benefits with great fondness in due course.  What chance of deporting any other of his relatives?

One silver lining to having him in New York, we will be able to watch him wriggling in court in due course, somehow I really don’t anticipate him being done any favours! Unlike those extended to him within the European so called justice system.  For once as a tax payer we might just get some entertainment for our tax dollars!

Another heart-breaking story about tug-of-love children, this time from Australia.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2212640/Four-girls-dragged-aeroplane-Australia-judge-rules-return-father-Italy.html

It seems to me, from what I’ve read, that the mother should have sorted things out as soon as she took the children to Australia and decided to keep them there.  I’m sure the father would have objected, but being forced to return the girls to Italy after a fortnight’s holiday would have been less traumatic for them and then discussions could have been started between the parents.  Acrimonious discussions perhaps. But to subject the children to this – hiding out at granny’s and being forcibly removed by the police – is cruel.  The judge would have had no option, under the law, but to order the return of the children to Italy.  The mother must have known she was breaking the law, but did she stop to think about the consequences for her children?

G’day all. I’m back from Cyprus and I find that yesterday was World Blasphemy Day.

‘Anti-blasphemy laws exist throughout the world. In many parts of Europe and North America they have been overturned, although there are anti-blasphemy laws in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Liechtenstein, Iceland, the Netherlands, San Marino and the UK. There are also “religious insult” laws in 21 European nations.

In some countries, blasphemy is punishable by death, such as in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.[citation needed]
Six US states (Massachusetts, Michigan, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Wyoming) still have anti-blasphemy laws on their books, although they are seldom enforced.

My question is this; I am an atheist. I don’t believe in gods, fairies, leprechauns, djinns, or any other mythical creature, so, whatever it is, it’s not my god, so how can I take it’s name in vain?

I hate to be a bother, but I’ve recently been in contact with an old acquaintance’s sister who tutors autistic children. She is having difficulty in finding resources. Would it be too great a trouble if I put her into contact with you? Thank you.