The Age of Lunacy

 

We are living in an era that will one day be recognised as the age of lunacy. There are so many views held by society that have become distorted and divorced from reality, from multiple genders to fear of doom due to global warming (since changed to climate change because the ice caps did not melt, and land masses did not sink under rising seas.) Gender questions are simply answered by a person’s genes, every cell in your body, except red blood cells, has either XX or XY genes. A very few people might have XXY and develop as a hermaphrodite but that is very rare and medical staff may have to decide on allocating a gender and whether surgery is required. They will not be as suggested by the cartoon South Park where Mrs Cartman was both her son’s Father and Mother.

Gender dysphoria is a mental aberration and should be addressed as a mental problem, many people with this condition are prone to suicide, this propensity is not diminished by gender reassignment surgery. Surgery may in fact make the condition worse and increase the risk of suicide. Part of the problem comes from trying to create greater equality between the sexes by making them more alike. Being identical doesn’t make people equal, that comes from understanding, people are equal but different, enhancing the differences can lead to much better balance and greater equality. Recognising the strengths and weaknesses of each gender can lead to better support and cooperation, and more balanced individuals. Cultures that provide this support find that couples work together when they have defined responsibilities and duties to the family and the community.

Gender confusion is a societal problem and disrupts the community, climate extremism is an economic and ecological problem which is moving to destroy everything that has made western society, successful and wealthy, in addition it is based on a false premise. It is also leading to serious damage to the ecology of the world. It is time to take note when even the CEO of Toyota is warning that EVs are a scam. We have spent decades removing lead and mercury from the environment but are now producing voluminous amounts of cadmium, cobalt and lithium (which can be so much worse) to replace them. At the same time, we are not only risking the environment unnecessarily but destroying economies by banning anything that produces carbon dioxide.

The fear mongering that has surrounded carbon dioxide is totally misguided; the world can benefit from more CO₂ in the atmosphere and despite the opinion of many climate scientists the world’s physicists and geologists agree that CO₂ is not the driver of climate that some would have us believe. There have been periods during ice ages when CO₂ levels were far higher than they are today, solar cycles, long term climate cycles and volcanic activity can all have a profound effect on climate. We are pushing the poorest members of society to invest in expensive electric vehicles and have pushed up power prices so high that most production has moved to parts of Asia where production is so much cheaper. The difficulty with that is that all goods must then be transported, mainly by ship to the end users. This necessitates the use of large container ships, any five of which will consume more fuel than all the cars on Earth, running for a similar period; and there are thousands of these plying the oceans twenty-four hours every day.

Western societies are rushing to do away with all fossil fuels and replace power generation with wind and solar. The wind and solar “farms” that are being built actually do enormous damage to the environment, they very often are built on productive farmland, reducing the area available to grow food; or are resulting in the destruction of pristine wilderness. The wind turbines and solar panels all have a limited lifecycle and after 15-30 years will cease to function. They cannot be recycled and so will wind up in landfill, compared to many old coal fired or hydro plants which have been operating for over a century. Replacements will be imported, probably from China, again in large container ships, the construction of the towers requires coal and steel, the blades use balsa wood from the Amazon Rain Forests and fibre glass and carbon compounds. During use, dust and particles in the air degrade the fan blades on the turbines causing them to shed micro-plastics into the environment.

The large windmills look graceful turning in the wind but are so large the tips of the blades are travelling at over one hundred kilometres an hour, which can be deadly for birds who mistakenly believe they can safely fly past a turbine. The wind is not enough to start these monstrosities turning, they must draw power from the grid before they can even commence rotating, often it is not the wind turning them but power from fossil fuels. I am not against wind power, in fact I think it is a good alternative, but my knowledge of physics says we are using one of the most expensive and inefficient designs that could have been chosen. A Savonius vertical axis rotor would have been far more efficient and could have been from recyclable metals. These type of rotors have been used to pump water in the Middle East for thousands of years, many of them with wooden blades, which are easy to replace, are renewable and old blades can be utilised as firewood. Smaller generators could be built nearer to the end users of the power negating the need for thousands of kilometres of transmissions lines.

The cost of producing a wind turbine is so expensive that it is probable many of them will not recover that cost in their limited lifetime. It is also probable that the CO₂ saved by wind generation will be less than the CO₂ produced in constructing and transporting the turbine. The only thing that has made wind power attractive to investors is the taxpayer subsidies that so many governments hand out. There is a point at which these will cease and then the companies operating the turbines will go bankrupt, as some have already failed.

Solar panels are great but really have limited versatility, they are hampered by a short lifecycle like wind turbines, but additionally they do not work at night, in winter when days are dull or sometimes the panels might be covered in frost or snow limiting their effectiveness, they are least efficient; at the very times they are most needed. By far the most logical and reliable pollution free method of power generation today is nuclear power. One kilogram of uranium can produce as much power as three thousand tonnes of coal, small modular nuclear generators are extremely safe and can be constructed near the cities and factories where this level of power is required, again negating the need for thousands of kilometres of expensive transmission lines.

Governments will hopefully one day regain their senses and make reliable and inexpensive energy available, enabling industry to flourish locally and manufacturing to resume near where markets exist. This action will eliminate the vast amounts of fuel required to transport goods halfway around the world to reach consumers. Although I have stated that CO₂ is not a problem for the environment there are still steps, we can take to better control carbon and take advantage of the increased productivity that comes from higher carbon levels. One geo-engineering project that was mooted in Australia in the 1950’s was the opening of a channel from Spencer Gulf to Lake Eyre.

The lake is well below sea level and is quite seasonal, when it dries leaving large salt flats and the water becomes very saline. When the rains fill the lake, it becomes a haven for wildlife and rapidly fills with fish. When the lake is full good rainfall is experienced in many of the crop producing regions and even the Australian Alps benefit with greater snow coverage during winter. This of course means more runoff in the spring and increased water in the fruit and vegetable growing areas of the Goulburn and Murray Valleys. A channel opening Lake Eyre to the sea would mean the lake would become permanent and stable, providing an inland sea and drought proofing most of Australia’s crop producing regions.

Central Australia could again become the tropical rainforest that it was five thousand years ago. The inland sea would also provide additional fishing resources and a new industry should develop. Personally, I would like to see fish such as endangered sturgeon imported and released, enabling Australia to create a caviar producing industry, while protecting the endangered species. The tidal flow in the channel could also produce a large amount of hydro-electric power to service the nearby states and industries. Unfortunately, most governments do not look beyond the next election, and this is why this project has been put on hold for the last sixty years. While proper education is lacking, and governments rely on fear mongering to win elections nothing is likely to change until people are starving and homeless, and then realise what governments have done to them and how they have been conned and let down. While war looms on the horizon the chances of an awakening is also looming, I only hope that sufficient people survive to make the effort worthwhile or will Einstein’s prediction that WWIII will blow us back to the stone age prevail. Be prepared.

 

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