Today I received a somewhat distressing text message that I would like to hear by quote,
"Over half the country is 40c. Fire storms hit Victoria last night killing over 40 people and wiping out 26 towns and the heat wave in Adelaide still hasn't stopped; nearly two weeks of 40c there. Death toll picking up there in a big way."
After thinking about this for approximately 60-odd seconds, I propose the following response, as a viable solution, to the above problems which appear to be emerging around the planet.
Shut up and deal with it! These are the consequences of your actions, i.e. driving your 2L+ motor vehicle to the shops around the corner just to pick up a can of Cola, not taking a "real" active interest in your home power usage.
Instead you "choice" to spew out your constant worthless propaganda that has absolutely no effect at all on climate change!
You also make the choice not to educate yourselves in any of the relevant matters only to uses others 'opinions' in newspapers from people who really don't have a clue instead of reading something more worth while, such as, for example, The New Science magazine, which has been written by people with real "understanding" on the highly complex matters involved in large scale ecological changes.
A quick test to prove the above point would be to ask a 'climate change propaganda fanatic' what the base units are of a kW ( 1,000 J/sec ) or about the materials used in the manufacturing or disposing of low energy usage fluorescent lighting.
I also like to throw this one point in about the usage of non energy responsible software - something we will be strongly innovating with AuroraUX. Take antivirus type products as an example: I ask the reader to take it upon themselves to work out the amount of carbon put into the atmosphere per year purely from the power required in the usage of a Norton AV running over 40min, once per week on a 350watt system running XP (noting that AV max's out CPU and Disk), thus putting the system under stress and waking the CPU up out of its C states while spinning up the disk over all the installs in the UK alone. You may get an estimate from BroadBand user numbers for PC's in the UK that maybe running AV software like the above.
Another hot topic is that of Nuclear power. This is something that few people have any real comprehension about and what our power requirements "really" are in cities such as Sydney, London, etc...
People would rather have a 20-30 year old reactor running than an updated, safer reactor that could meet our exceedingly high power demands. As Coal and Nuclear are the "only current" viable solution to meet our demands, the following "must" happen:
A) Drastically reduce round the clock power usage.
B) Use more Nuclear based power generation or continue to burn metric tons of Coal per min!
Feel good campaigns, such as turning off all your lights for an hour each year (Earth Hour), mean nothing at all apart from pissing off power companies.
You can NOT spin down the massive multi-phase generators used in power electricity production. Power companies will simply have to find other ways to waste hours worth of Coal generated electricity and the likes instead of making good use of it!
In summary,
People who spew constant uneducated, non-researched propaganda should shut the hell up and stop complaining about the consequences of their actions. Go research a topic in depth and then make a productive contribution to the matters at hand. Try taking a real and active interest in your own power usage.
Note that the Victoria fires and Queensland floods could be considered 'bad examples' although this has no effect the above points.
Thank you for reading,
Edward O'Callaghan.
-- Update 09/02/09 --
Death Toll up to 111 people in Victoria.
