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OHM MY GOD! Move over graphene, here comes '100% PERFECT' stanene

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Re: 100 percent efficiency?

Room temperature super conductivity could enable efficient artificial van Allen Belts to be fitted to interplanetary spacecraft, thus protecting astronauts from solar particulate radiation from flares.

This would remove at a stroke the most significant obstacle to space colonisation- over to Robert Bigelow et al?

The solar system would undoubtedly be the most major advance imaginable for a species endangered by Malthusian and Orwellian ideas based on supposed shortages of energy, materials, and living space

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EDF: We'll raise bills 11% - but only 2% is due to energy costs!

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There is no case or point in promoting ANY new energy technology which does not outperform the present best and cleanest ( eg natural gas produced by fracking)

The hard pressed public has a right and duty to punish ANY politician who by his policy avoidably raises the cost of energy for households.

Renewable energy sources are unreliable and require heavy subsidisation by legalised Governmental theft ( ie hidden subsidies and price rises).. When these sources are naturally as inexpensive, independent of foreign suppliers, and as reliable as gas, let us consider them, Until that day, their political/ideogical proponents should be ejected from public office of any kind. We can no longer afford to tolerate fools and knaves in charge of our lives.

Such dishonesty is a characterisitic of politicians in general and of "Green" ones in particlar, since their true agenda is NOT the welfare of millions of human beings, but the creation of a new class of impoverished subjects, over whom they may prevail as a self imposed elite..

They must be made to pay the price of rejection and ostracism by an oppressed public. It is no good waiting until revolution is the only cure.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent

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Error found in climate modelling: Too many droughts predicted

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Time to rethink looming dictatorial moves

Before we allow advocates of "De-Growth" and "De-Peopling" to sacrifice the lives and prospects of Billions of our fellow humans in order to "Save the Planet", now may be a good time to admit that this is likely to prove a fraudulent, "Faustian" bargain built on misplaced fear.

History shows that ideological zealots and politicians calling for authoritarian measures to combat a looming danger are mendacious merchants of terror and oppression, and result in far greater misery than the dangers they point to in justification.

Whatever the merits of climate change with or without AGW, I fear the hazards of anti-human totalitarian rule far more!. At least Mother Nature is impartial and free from malice. Human ideologues are not!

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Eco-nomics: Was Stern 'wrong for the right reasons' ... or just wrong?

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Re: Regressive

Privations imposed in the name of Green ideology will not, of course, affect our rulers. As they become more "authoritarian" we can be quite sure that their immunity from hardship will increase in inverse proportion to the hardships they impose on the rest of us.

An early example is the aviation carbon tax, to be imposed soon on all European travellers- except those officials and functionaries (nomenklatura) engaged in official EU business and rules enforcement!.

It is an axiom that an early step towards tyranny is the exemption of a ruling class from privations or taxes imposed upon their subjects.

Watch this space- Greens are the new Reds- social "engineers" can be dressed in Black (SS) Red ( Commissars) or Green yet to come- but beneath the pretty colours, they are all the same - would-be tyrants devoid of empathy for people at large. The higher the Cause, the more bestial the reality.

To those who say the UL cannot produce such folk- observe the activity of Traffic Wardens in our city centres, and the genesis of concentration camps guards is clearly discernible. Dress them in misanthropic Green and all will be clear!

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"Saving the Planet?" a new route to Hell on Earth!

Small wonder that over the past few years influential Greens have increasingly called for the "Abrogation" of hardwon Liberties and standards "to Save the Planet". The true costs of Green policies are now so feared that only a dishonest global dictatorship could possibly succeed in pushing through the measures that Greens increasingly call for, which would of course fail anyway!

My contribution "Can Space Save the Planet?" - A wrong and Dangerous Question was given to the British Interplanetary Symposium in Mar 2009, and can be accessed by typing this title into Google.

In this I predicted that Greens would openly express increasingly anti-human views, and that Humanity needed to find a sense of value and defend itself vigorously against its would-be destroyers. Genghis Khan , that well-known lover of Humanity, is upheld now by the Carnegie Institute as a great Green precursor. We can and will do better, given a Green opportunity!

The essential fraud, corruption and mendacity of ALL would-be dictatorships, particularly those driven by ideology, was fully understood by Fyodor Dostoyevsky amd expounded in Ivan's famous Grand Inquisitor's Speech in "The Brothers Karamazov".

It is truly depressing that this fallacious Faustian bargain can still be offered to free people, and considered even for a second. Have not enough people been done to death already in the past 150-200 years?

Conserve Earth- Colonise Space!

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