the Microsofist

to all you CO2 haters: don't watch this video

2009-11-05T11:44:00.007+01:00

To all you CO2 haters: don't watch this video. But if you do, be warned; you will be subjecting yourself to actual science. You do remember science don't you?

Turning garbage into energi

2009-04-23T11:43:00.008+02:00

A great article from NewScientist about plasma gasification. Simply put: zap your garbage at 10,000 degrees celcius and you get a gas that when scrubbed can be turned into methane, ethonol or a diesel-like fuel. The waste product is an inert glass-like substance that can be used in the building industry.
Gasification can also be achieved without the plasma arc. Running at 1,600 degrees in a machine the size of a shipping container, it can gasifiy 3 tons of garbage and create energy enough to heat and power an office building for 500 people.
Maybe we aren't so far from "Back to the Future" than we thought?

Politicians fighting for more expensive plane tickets

2007-12-07T20:02:00.007+01:00

Oh boy, this is really going to get funny. It appears that the politicians feel they have the public support necessary to start milking another industry.

Jet travel will be the next victim of the tax the crap out of everything in the name of reducing CO2 emissions circus.

The argument is that the travel industry has not been subject to CO2 quotas. So now that has got to change.

One little problem though, adding a tax on plane tickets won't reduce flights and consequently CO2. It will just be another income source for the government.

This is all in tune with what Al (the kiddies pal) Gore has suggested. He advocates the abolishment of all income taxes and wants to impliment a CO2 tax instead. Each citizen should pay taxes according to their carbon footprint. What an idiot. Please give me a break, you don't care about the facts in this issue, you are just interested in another form of taxation.

This brings me to the ultimate dilemma. How can I support a cause so absurd as to NOT abolish income taxes?

Eventhough the noise of taxation change have come from the voice of the opposition, Climate Connie agrees. She even wants to go further, yes Denmark and the EU should double their effort to tax plane fares! This is all very logical in a perverted kind og way, considering we are the highest taxed citizenry in the known world. We already pay the highest income taxes, the highest VAT (25%), the highest energy taxes and the highest car taxes. Let's find a new tax and then double it up. Go team, go!!

Quite the stance for a young minister from the Conservative party!

Politikere til kamp for dyrere flybilletter - dr.dk/Nyheder/Politik

More green must be good?

2007-12-04T22:45:00.001+01:00

An interesting article in today's paper. Turns out that plants really, really like CO2. Told you so. Yes I did.

It turns out that they like it so much that they grow leaves faster now that there's plenty of CO2 in the atmosphere. The leaves stay up there on the trees where they belong even longer too. This has to be good. At some point they'll stay on the trees for good. Then you won't have to rake leaves or threaten your neighbor when he's using his leaf blower to blow leaves back onto your lawn.

It even turns out that crop yields will increase by 15-20% within the next 50 years. More green and more food, doesn't that mean fewer starving people? How can this be a bad thing?

Can't wait til chatty Connie the Minister for Climate sets her people to spin this into something evil. Maybe she'll have to give big Al a ring. We could turn this into a full-blown catastrophe.

Connie the climate warrior

2007-12-03T15:59:00.000+01:00

In Denmark we have a Minister for Climate. Her name is Connie, she loves to hear herself talk. As an ex-talkshow host that would come naturally.

Connie loves Al Gore. She thinks Al is a really insightful guy. Connie loves to talk the tough climate talk just like Al.

All that’s ok, I guess, if you keep in mind that Al Gore is a self serving dufus who can’t explain the simplest little fact without exagerating it into some sort of catastrophe or another. Here lies the problem, Connie doesn’t think Al exagerates, even a teensy weensy little bit.

So the combination of chatty ex-talkshow host and failed president candidate looking for something to do (thanks Al, we could have done without Bush) makes for some interesting rhetoric.

Take for example her first radio interview where she called CO2 for air pollution. I’ve heard this one before and let it pass. But does the minister for climate really think that plants regard CO2 as air pollution?

Just because you trust my judgement....

2007-12-02T14:45:00.000+01:00

Just because you trust my judgement doesn’t mean I should trust yours.
Simple enough; trust is either earned or given. Although I can choose to give you mine, I expect to earn yours.
Because as the late great philosopher Groucho Marx once said: “I would never be a member of a club that would have me as a member.”