And Slaters Go Plop

After a recent conversation with a friend who has been quite taken by a couple of the many water-powered car / free energy concepts I decided to research the topics properly.

Common traits amongst people who make free energy claims are:

• There is a grand conspiracy – the CIA has been making people ‘disappear’ or some such
• Scientists are too set in their ways to accept revolutionary ideas
• Big industry is suppressing the technologies

Something else all of the free energy people have in common is that they are not willing to release their discoveries to the general public for verification.

Here’s my advice to any would-be free energy proponent: Make your discovery public.

It’s that simple. If you reveal your secrets all your problems with the CIA will go away, scientists will be put to shame for being so hard-headed and the big petro-chemical corporations will be brought to their knees.

You’ll win eternal fame. Your name will be held in higher esteem than Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein. You will change the planet (for the good) for all time.

I guess what I’m saying here is “Put up or shut up”.

According to China’s demographics they’re going to have about 30,000,000 extremely edgy young males hanging around looking for something to do in the next ten years or so. What happens to young human males when they are unable to find a partner to mate with? There is a huge increase in aggression. What happens when you take 30,000,000 aggressive young males who, as part of their culture, don’t question authority and combine that with suggestions that the USA can’t afford to pay the debt they owe to China due to a generation of baby-boomers who are now going into retirement? I don’t know – it’s not really my area but it might be worth thinking about.

Over the last three months or so we’ve been aerosol-less. We’ve taken to using matches and I have to say that, in my opinion, they are more effective than the sprays we used to use which add a perfume layer to what continues to be a fairly hefty undercurrent of turdiness.

As an experiment I splashed some matches with a range of different perfumes and aftershaves and it seems to work well.

Is it more environmentally-friendly? Does burning a match put more carbon into the atmosphere than a spray from a can?