Car Runs On Air? - Don't Fall For This!

The other day a guy at work sent me this link to a story about a car that runs on air.  Compressed air motors are nothing new.  Our boys had little cars that shot across the room after they pumped up the air tank.  Before there were tiny gasoline engines that powered model airplanes, they used compressed air.  I have read numerous articles about compressed air motors for years, some of the inventors making amazing claims about how far and fast they can travel on a tank of compressed air.

What got me about this video were not the claims by the inventor but the ridiculous conclusions by the reporter.  Anyone who has filled an air mattress on a camping trip or blown up one of those huge inflatable swimming pools knows first hand that compressed air is NOT FREE!  It comes with a price, and sometimes a huge price depending upon the volume of air or the pressure of the air that is required.  Can you imagine blowing up the tire of your car with your lungs?  Compressed air is not free!  Not only is it NOT free, but it is also not an efficient way to power a motor, like the motor of a car.

The main inefficiency comes when the air is compressed.  Wherever this takes place, there is a huge energy loss due to the heating of the air during the action of compressing the air.  It is the same when you pump up your bike tire with a hand pump.  The base of the bike pump can get so hot you can't touch it without burning yourself.  All that energy that is used to heat the air is lost into the atmosphere.  It takes a lot of electricity to compress air.  A lot more energy that you get out of it in the motor of a car that runs on air.

It is a scam!  Don't believe it, especially at the end of the video when the reporter starts talking about perpetual motion and using compressed air to generate more compressed air.  It is ridiculous!

http://www.flixxy.com/zero-pollution-automobile.htm

Global Warming Alarmists Keep Out Of Sight As The Earth Freezes

As the Earth experiences one of the coldest winters in recorded time, the Global Warming folks are nowhere to be found. Most of them have wrapped themselves in their electric blankets in their expensive homes and are trying to ignore what is happening outside in the world around them.

Some of them are still snow bound in Coppenhagen waiting for the airport to open so they can return to their lavish homes in one of their private jets.

Al Gore is in seclusion counting the money that he made from selling carbon credits to unsuspecting souls who thought they were helping the environment.

Most of the idiot politicians refuse to believe their senses and are still trying to pass Obama's Cap and Trade legislation. They just recently passed a new law which defined Carbon Dioxide to be a pollutant. That's right! The very air you breath out, is a pollutant gas. The expect us to believe that WE ARE POLLUTING THE EARTH EACH TIME WE EXHALE!!! These polititians are so stubbornly stupid that they will keep passing Global Warming legislation until their hands are so cold that they can't push the voting buttons at their seats in the Capital Building.

Coppenhagen was a farce and all the attendees who dared to show their faces after they returned are laughingstocks. It has finally became apparent to everyone with eyes in their heads that Global Warming is only about money. Al Gore and his gang are out to get rich. NASA's James Hansen and other climate "experts" are only trying to keep their jobs through fearful forcasting. Global Warming researchers have been exposed as lying cheats who have deceived the public through faked data and faulty math.

Dozens of people have died this past week from freezing conditions and some have been forced to burn furniture and books to keep warm.

As their temperature of the earth continues to drop some wonder if we may be entering another ICE AGE. As huge sheets of ice accumulate at the poles, the water level of the oceans will drop and additional coastal regions will be exposed. Land bridges will form. Animals and people will be able to walk on land that was once under water.

What will be the next scam that we should expect?

Will Al Gore and his buddies show up on our door steps asking for money to pay for heaters so that we can raise the temperature of the earth? Will idiot polititians pass new legislation promoting green house gas production? Will they encourage dairy farmers to feed their cows special food which increases methane gas through cow flatulation? Will we paint our houses black so that they absorb sunlight? And where will all the polar bears and penguins live when they are forced towards the equator as the polar regions become uninhabitable?

There will be an increased demand for fuel oil and gas so that we can heat our homes and work places. This demand will naturally drive up the price of oil and natural gas. The greedy oil companies will be accused of taking advantage of the situation. (They can never win!) The government will impose price caps and try to force the oil companies to limit profits or maybe even to give oil away for free for the good of mankind. Where will it end?

I wonder how we will respond? Will we have learned our lesson from the current global warming example? Hopefully we will act smarter, but I suspect many probably won't! We'll just keep electing the Al Gores and the Obamas and giving them Peace Prizes. We'll keep paying the James Hansens with our tax dollars. The poor countries of Africa and China will still come to the U.S., France, Germany and the U.K. for handouts and then become angry when we don't give them our money, just like happened in Copenhagen last month.

Things never change.....do they?

"Hide the Decline" - The Biggest Fraud of Our Time

Here are a couple great videos based upon "Climategate".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hftsk4gWqI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEiLgbBGKVk

Enjoy!

Climategate Heats Up - ABC, CBS & NBC Ignoring the Story

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ci.Climate-Gate+Heats+Up+But+Mainstream+Media+Ignore+Firestorm.opinionPrint

Author of Global Warming Emails Told to Leave University

Here are a couple more news articles on the email leak that occurred recently at the University of East Anglia, UK. Apparently the University has now identified a professor who wrote many of the embarrassing emails and are demanding that he leave the university. What is strange is that this professor is one of the true believers. He is on their side in the debate. The reason they want him to leave is because he was naive enough to send the emails which are now embarrassing the university. When you "cook the books" the last thing you want is for someone to write down the recipe!

printingpage="'true">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230635/Scientist-climate-change-cover-storm-told-quit.html?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/24/hiding-evidence-of-global-cooling//print/

Drinking Birds Solve Energy Crisis?

I am sure that most of us have seen one of those cute drinking birds like the one pictured here. You fill a cup with water and get their foam head wet. Then they can run for hours. I discovered recently that few people, however, understand the principles upon which these adorable birds operate. It is not perpetual motion or free energy…these birds employ simple laws of physics and thermodynamics.

As soon as the foam head of the bird gets wet, the water begins to evaporate (provided the humidity is low enough). The evaporating water cools the bird’s head and as well as the sealed glass tube inside the foam head. As the pressure inside the head decreases with cooler temperatures, the colored liquid is drawn up from the body of the bird and into the head. This makes the head of the bird heavier than before, and the bird tips forward to maintain balance. Once the bird tips forward, the liquid is able to flow back out of the head into the body, whereupon the bird stands back up to maintain its balance. This cycle is repeated as long as there is water in the cup to keep the bird’s head wet and the humidity is low enough to evaporate the water. The energy which propels this little bird comes from the sun which maintains air temperature and humidity.

The other day at work, a co-worker suggested that we could attach an electric generator to one of these birds and have them produce electricity. “Pure genius!” I responded. We quickly ran through some rough calculations and figured that if we had 42,000 trillion (4.2 x 10^16) birds running, we could supply the electricity needs of the entire United States! The quantity of birds seemed larger than he had imagined, so he suggested that we build giant birds and position them around fresh water lakes in dry, arid regions of the United States. We envisioned thousands of these giant birds drinking from pristine lakes in Yosemite Valley, California, and other lakes in Colorado and Montana. And who would object to such a solution? Certainly not the environmentalists. What could be more natural than a giant bird drinking from a lake? No pollution. No noise. All natural!

Montana Bears Joining Democrat Party

I was talking to a co-worker the other day about the water controversy in the state of California. You know the story. It's the problem that the environmentalists have created in their efforts to save a sardine size fish that lives in the Sacramento River Delta. They have cut off water to the farmlands of California and turned much of the state into a dust bowl like they had in Oklahoma in the 1930's. The environmentalists are hurting the people, the economy, and the state, and still they haven't figured out how to save this tiny fish. Meanwhile the price of vegetables is rising and we are forced to buy more of our food from foreign countries including China.

Soon our conversation wondered over to the subject of how Man is impacting the behaviour of wild animals such as dear, bears, and wolves, by feeding them in our National Parks. He mentioned that it is now legal to hunt wolves. I reminded him that most wolves are big and bad, like we remember from the story of The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood. He rejected my claim that wolves are bad, and we went back to our separate cubicles to work.

When I got back to my desk, I had a new Email from a friend of mine. It was related to the discussion I had just finished and I was amazed at the timing. The Email described the problem created as people are feeding wild animals in our National Parks. The poor animals are becoming dependent on the food they receive from people in the parks, and they have forgotten how to forage for themselves. The Email included the photo below, which shows evidence of this disturbing trend.

Animals such as this black bear, that were previously self-sufficient are now showing signs of belonging to the Democrat Party. They have learned to just sit and wait for the government to step in and provide for their needs. In the Email it claimed that the Democrat black bear in Montana, in the above photo, had been nicknamed "Bearack Obearma". I am not sure I believe all of this, but he sure looks helpless sitting there at the table waiting for his dinner.

"The Trees Are Not Indigenous"

Several years ago as a Scoutmaster, I took a small group of young boys on a camping trip. We drove to a location that I had visited myself decades earlier, as a young Boy Scout. I remembered the mountains and the stream that wondered through the camp, surrounded by large towering pine trees. These were wonderful memories and I was excited to have the scouts form similar memories of their own.

When we arrived at the camp I barely recognized it. ALL the huge pine trees had been cut down and replaced with tiny scrub oaks protected from the hungry deer and rabbits by chicken wire cages. The campsite had changed from a cool, shady retreat with the sound of quiet breezes rustling through the pine trees, into a veritable desert, wasteland.

When the camp ranger came to collect our fees, I ask her what had happened to all the trees. Her calm, environmental response sent chills down my back...

"We cut them down because they were not indigenous," she stated.

"What do you mean, 'not indigenous'?" I responded.

"Pine Trees are not indigenous to this area," she replied, as she tried to straighten out the folded dollar bills I had handed her. "That is why we planted those Oak Trees. They ARE indigenous." She explained to me.

"Those trees must have been over a 100 years old!" I emphasized. "Some of these stumps around here are over two feet in diameter!"

She was obviously not impressed with my sincerity as she handed me a receipt and put the money into her pocket. Then she calmly responded, "Or even older," and then walked back to her truck.

Later the next day, after I had taken all the boys home, I made a special visit to the local US National Park office in town. I didn't bother to change out of my Boy Scout uniform, as I thought it would make me look more official. After explaining my complaint to the receptionist behind the counter, I was soon greeted by a 60 year old woman who had obviously survived Woodstock as a young hippie. Her long gray hair lay naturally down over her dark wrinkled neck and partially covered her sun-dried lips. She scanned my uniform with her make-up-less eyes and calmly asked me what I wanted.

I related my story to her about the missing trees and expressed my disbelief that the US National Park Service would cut down those old trees. She gave me the same party line that I had heard from the ranger...

"Pine Trees are not indigenous to that area," she repeated to me.

I started to get angry. "Who are YOU to decide what is or is not indigenous?" I asked her. I soon realized that no amount of logic or reason was going to change her mind. Besides, the trees were already gone and nothing I could say was going to change that sad fact. However, since I had lost the agrument, I figured that there was no harm in leaving my mark on her stubborn, environmental brain. As I prepared to leave, I changed the subject...

"I have hiked all over the Santa Monica mountains and they are so beautiful," I said.

She was touched by this comment and responded, "Oh yes, I certainly do agree with you. I have hiked them as well."

I continued, "Once I found sea-shell fossils near the top of those mountains!"

She sensed my enthusiasm and responded, "I know. I have seen them as well. Aren't they wonderful?"

"I would venture that the entire mountain range was once under water," I suggested.

"You are probably correct," she agreed, her dry lips and wrinkled skin trying to form a difficult smile.

"You know," I began, "Instead of planting those tiny scrub oaks, you should probably be planting seaweed or plankton."

Her dry, cracked smile transformed into an angry frown. "This conversation is OVER!" she growled as she walked off.

"Yes it is," I said quietly to myself. "Yes it is."

Are You A REAL Prius Owner?

The other day I was following behind a Prius on the Ventura Freeway. The highway was four lanes wide at that point and traffic was pretty light. For some reason the driver kept putting on their brakes. They weren't really trying to stop since they barely slowed down each time they tapped the brake pedal.

I have driven a Prius and I know what a thrill it is to watch the video screen which shows the driver which way the electricity is flowing and whether the engine is running or if it is just running off the battery. Then there is the average MPG numbers as well as the instantaneous MPG reading. Now that is the impressive number! The instantaneous miles per gallon! When you let off the gas you often exceed 100 MPG, much like you get when you drive down a hill. I also like the screen which shows you the battery charge. It is a bar graph which depicts how much power is stored inside the battery. The bar changes length when you draw current from the battery and when you generate electricity with the gasoline engine or with regenerative braking.

There is a term that you don't hear everyday...."Regenerative Braking". What it means is that when you apply your brakes you run the motor backwards and generate electricity that would normally be lost to heat from brake friction. It is perhaps the single most important aspect of an electric or hybrid car. Without regenerative braking, there is basically no benefit to an electric car and especially to a hybrid car. All the energy in a hybrid car comes from the gasoline engine with all the efficiency losses of the engine as well as the generator and the electric motor.

With my short driving experience in a Prius I finally figured out why the guy in front of me kept putting on his brakes. You guessed it!!!

USING REGENERATIVE BRAKING HE WAS PRODUCING ELECTRICITY TO KEEP HIS BATTERY TOPPED OFF!

Now is that a Prius driver or is that a REAL Prius driver?

City Violates Its Own Water Conservation Law

This afternoon I was driving down the main street in our town and I happened to notice two sets of sprinklers running. Apparently they had been operating for some time, as the area was soaked and excess water was running down the street into the storm drains.

Now don't get me wrong. It wasn't a river of water large enough to wash away children and pets. No homes were in danger, and nobody was filling sand bags nearby. But when a man floated by in his rowboat I knew we had a problem.

To make matters worse, the state of California is currently in a drought situation. The water supply to Southern California has been drastically reduced to maintain the habitat of the small Delta Smelt fish that live in the Sacramento River Delta. Our city has gone one step further. They have instituted a new city ordinance wherein a citizen can be fined hundreds of dollars for wasting water. It is now against the law to wash off your driveway or to run your lawn sprinklers for more than 15 minutes. It is against the law to water your lawns between the hours of 7am and 5 pm. Showers are limited to 5 minutes. Citizens are even encouraged to report violations in their neighborhoods and to call a special hot-line if they see one of their neighbors wasting water.

Being a good law abiding citizen I was alarmed to see the city watering at 3:45pm in violation of their own ordinance.

My first reaction was to do nothing. After all, it was possible that someone else had already complained to the city. In addition I didn't have the telephone number of the hot-line, anyway. Besides it's not my responsibility to enforce the city's ordinances. Right??

But as I continued down the hill next to the river of wasted water I started to get angry. They city wanted me to report on my neighbors, so why shouldn't I call them for violating their own law?

When I reached my destination I asked for a phone book and quickly looked up the telephone number of the city's 24 hour hot-line.

When I dialed the number on my cell phone, a man answered, "Can I help you?"

I told him about the two sprinkler systems and the water running down the hill into the storm drain. His response was typical of a government employee so it should not have surprised me.

"So what's the problem?" he snapped back at me arrogantly.

"Take a look at your watch, buddy!" I responded. "You guys would fine me a hundred dollars if they were my sprinklers!"

My angry voice and his corresponding vision of me standing there with a pitchfork in one hand and a baseball bat in the other, must have had a calming effect on him, and he answered, "I see what you mean."

He took down the location of the sprinklers and my telephone number, and told me that someone would be dispatched immediately to turn off the water.

About 3 hours later I just happened to drive up that same hill on my way home from Home Depot. To my surprise there was a city truck parked on the side of the road in the river of water. The city employee had just turned off the water and was wading through the river to get to his truck.

I felt good inside.

Not only had I done my civic duty and helped to enforce the law, but I had also saved the Delta Smelt from instinction.

A Big Investment For Only 70 Cents An Hour

The other day a friend of mine installed a series of solar collectors on the roof of his house. There must be about 35 of them up there. And they are on the front side of his house so that everyone can see how nice and dark blue they look. I estimated that he spent nearly $50,000.00 to have them installed.

We have a law in California called the Solar Rights Act which allows you to install solar collectors on your roof just about anywhere you want and nobody can stop you even if it looks bad and lowers the property values of nearby homes. Now, some people might argue that a red tiled roof covered with black or blue solar panels is very attractive and has a sort of high tech appeal. Others might disagree and contend that it looks ugly and detracts from the appearance of the neighborhood. I don't feel strongly one way or the other.

Well, the other day I approached my neighbor and inquired about the performance of his system. After all, it had been running long enough to provide some indication of how much money he was saving.

My neighbor proudly told me that he was "saving lots of money." In fact just the other day he said that he had reached the phenomenal output of 7000 Watts! He explained that while it was just for a moment, it had actually reached that incredible level.

"Hmmmmmmm," I said as I digested this new information. "Let's see now, electricity in our neighborhood in the first tier of our billing schedule is about 10 cents per kilowatt-hour. That means that at the moment you reached 7000 Watts you were producing about 70 cents of electricity per hour."

"Only 70 cents?" my neighbor gulped.

I didn't want to hurt his feelings so I backed off a bit. "Maybe I made a mistake," I suggested. "Let's do the math together. 7000 Watts is 7 kilowatts, right?"

"If you say so," he agreed.

"And 7 times 10 cents is 70 cents, right?" I continued.

"That sounds correct," he mumbled under his breath.

"So at that moment when you reached the peak of 7000 Watts you were making 70 cents per hour, right?"

"You must be right," he said, but then he began to complain, "How come it seems so low? I thought I was going to make much more than that. What is wrong?"

I could see that his vision of making millions of dollars from "free" sunlight was fading, so I figured I would finish him off completely.

"Did you say that 7000 was the peak?" I asked.

"Yes," he replied.

"So the average amount of money you are saving is somewhere between zero and 70 cents per hour. Let's assume it is 35 cents per hour. That's the average of zero and 70," I reasoned out loud.

I continued, "Lets assume that you can collect sunlight for about 6 hours per day. Does that seem reasonable, given the shade from your trees and the fact that you put your panels on the western slope of your roof?"

My neighbor nodded his head, "yes."

"So that figures to be about $2.10 per day," I calculated in my head, as I prepared to deliver the final blow.

"How much did you say you paid for the solar panels including installation?" I asked.

"About $45,000," he gulped again. "But I got a 30% tax rebate from the State of California," he beamed.

"That's good," I responded. "Let's see now, 30% discount means you paid about $30,000. right?"

By now my neighbor had removed his I-Phone from his pocket and was helping me with the calculations.

"More like $31,500," he corrected me.

"Good," I responded, "It is important to be accurate."

I continued, "If we use simple math, and divide $31,500 by our daily rate of $2.10, how many days will it take before you pay for your investment?"

His fingers raced over the chrome plated I-Phone as he performed his accurate calculations. "15,000 days," he responded.

"And how many years is that?" I continued to pressure him.

"A little over 41 years," he quietly responded. "Gee, that's a long time, isn't it?"

"It seems kind of long to me," I said as I watched him sink into deep depression. "But that's just my opinion. And look at it this way, at least you didn't have to wait 41 years to pay for it. You can pay for it right now."

"Yes," he gulped again, "Right now."

Delta Smelt Pair Arrested - Judge Says No Bail

After a lengthy investigation, police have arrested a pair of Delta Smelt fish and charged them with conspiring with environmentalists to deprive 25 million Californians of life sustaining drinking water. In addition a second charge was recently added which accuses the pair of conspiring with fish biologists at UC Davis and the Bay Institute to withhold water for 750,000 acres of cropland which produce food for export to starving nations of the world. The two fish are being held without bail pending their arraignment before a federal judge next week.

A large team of lawyers representing the two Delta Smelt fish have been hired by PETA and members of the ACLU to defend the tiny fish at all costs. Lead lawyer for the ACLU, Noah Respawnski, held an early morning press conference and leveled his first volley against those who are holding his clients when he said, “My clients are innocent of the charges that have been made against them. I am confident that over the coarse of the trial we will prove that this is nothing but an attempt by conservative and right wing extremists including Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh to deprive my clients of their constitutional rights.”

PETA was quick to defend the fish as well, and pointed to a history of harassment, torture and murder by right wing extremists towards “Sea Kittens” such as the “innocent Delta Smelt”. PETA lawyer Pippi Limpet explained, further, that it is time that we stop calling these intelligent creatures “Fish” and begin to refer them as “Sea Kittens”, thus holding them in higher esteem and protecting their constitutional rights.

The case against the two Delta Smelt “Sea Kittens” came after a 400 page “Biological Opinion” was released recently by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Commenting on the report, the Obama administration noted that “We all need to get along better together and establish a far reaching compromise between the human population which needs to eat and drink to survive and “Fish Kittens” such as the Delta Smelt who just want to live out their simple lives in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta with their wives and children.”

LA Times contributor and author of “The Battle Over the Meaning of Everything”, Gordy Slack, identified four reasons that the Delta Smelt should be protected (ref. LA Times, October 21, 2007):

1- It is the law! – You can’t harm, harass or kill an endangered animal without a permit.
2- Saving the Delta Smelt also protects the ecosystem upon which they depend.
3- They are “impressive” fish that can tolerate both fresh and salt water.
4- “The Torah says that if you save an individual, you save an entire universe.”

Many Southern Californians fail to recognize the powerful logic shown by Mr. Slack, and believe that the rights of human beings to have drinking water and food is more important than the vague constitutional rights of a 3 inch sardine. Mrs. Joy Fishnet explained it this way, “How can a feed my children without food and water?” Mrs. Fishnet was also quick to include the fact that she and her family love to eat sardines on saltine crackers with a glass of milk after her kids come home from a hard day at school.

Meanwhile the case against the two Delta Smelt continues to build as members of the public are forced to cut back on water consumption. Fines are being levied against those who water their grass, hose their sidewalks or have leaky water pipes. Thus far only a handful of citizens from California have died as a result of the water restrictions, but their deaths are surrounded in controversy as the World Health Organization and the Center for Disease Control have also claimed that the deaths actually resulted from Swine Flu.