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Bacteria are the life force of this world, they help us digest, they breakdown our waste and of course they create our alcohol.

But Genetic experimentation has taken things just one step further this week.  Scientists have made and tested a bacterium that will eat a common produce, possibly even garbage,  and excrete pure petroleum.

Not only that but for all you Carbon footprint nuts out there this bug actually has a negative carbon footprint, that means that when these bugs are working they will infact consume more carbon than they excrete while creating the petrol. So could this really be a carbon reducing, garbage reducing, environmentally safe way to create petrol and remove America from foreign oil dependence?

Well yes, currently, ermmmm…. one catch though…

You would need a factory the size of Chicago to do so.

The good news is that the scientists who created the fuel pooping bacteria are working hard on refining the bug to increase its productivity and growth.  Who knows in a couple of years we could have home garbage disposal units that make petrol for us!

A man can dream…

written by Oli \\ tags: Environment, Future Technology, Gasoline Excreting Bacteria, Global Warming

As an ongoing penchant of the EU to run with the Global Warming Debacle they have once more made another uninformed and politically ridden piece of legistlation to try and increase costs to car users who drive cars with poor fuel emission ratings.

This is a move which has severly handicapped disabled and older people, as well as the agriculture industry and people who live in rural areas.

Many older or people with slight physical difficulties require larger cars, and the agriculture industry is on the verge of being reduced back to the ‘horse and cart, ox and plough’ era as tractors are announced to be non environmentally friendly.

But its nice to know that a European Conference of some of the worlds greatest minds spent hundreds of thousands of pounds of EU taxpayers money to decide that since requiring fuel efficiency to be included in advertising was not having the desired effect it should infact take up a minimum of 20% of the advertising.

Now did it ever occur to these people that many people need larger cars, whether its because tey have a family to move about, friends to give lifts to, goods to transport, people need big cars and no matter how large your advertising is it will not change the fact that a person looking for a people carrier will still buy a people carrier and a single person living in the city will probably buy a smaller car.

Don’t get me wrong, fuel efficiency is important and useful information when buying a car, but automobile advertising accounts for a massive percentage of western advertising, outflanked only by credit cards and followed closely by mobile phones.

Now imagine if these car companies are suddenly forced to  increase their advertising space by 20%, thats 20% more paper used, 20% more trees cut down.

This is scarily close to another recent move on Ethanol, a fuel only transportable by vehicles, where it was decreed by those up on high that gasoline/petrol created for road use must contain at least 5% ethanol, the governmetns even subsidised ethanolproduction world wide.

The result?  The speed the rainforest is being cut down has increased dramatically, with rainforest being burned down (Not logged) at an alarming rate for Palm Oil crops. Transportation of this fuel has greatly increased pollution in these areas and since 20% of worldwide farms are now given to Ethanol production third world countries have seen food prices rocket.

My position in this fiasco is clear, global warming has been proven to be part of a natural cycle caused by the Earths relation to the Sun.  It’s a simple fact that the Earth is in fact leaving an ice age, so bound to be warming up, its also a simple fact that carbon released by the sea increases as it warms up (Creating a nice relational graph, you can do an experiment in a lab to prove this)  and its also true that the graphs and data used to support global warming were debunked well over 25 years ago.

The money spent so far on ‘reducing carbon footprints’ numbrs in the hundreds of millions, and the new EU fund proposed on tackling this looks set to massively increase that.  This is money that could be used to help Britian pull itself out of recession and bankruptcy, it could be used to build new recycling plants, finally researching ways to make them more effective.

It could even be used to feed all those starving families in thirld world countries who have been condemmed to death by western incompetancy.

It seems however that we will just see more insane laws and advertising teling us to be ‘green’ while more and more of us fail to pay mortgages and thirld world countries slide into oblivion as they cannot even afford to eat.

written by Oli \\ tags: Carbon Footprint, Debacle, Environment, Global Warming, Government, Politics, Recycling

I have kind of a love/hate relationship with Greenpeace, and for that matter a lot of environmental organisations. On the one hand I agree with a lot of their goals, I think what they stand for is a worthy cause and so forth. But unfortunately they are all just SO fucking stupid.

Take for instance the latest debacle. They have today protested outside several Unilever buildings for using suppliers of Palm Oil, used in food and ethanol production. Now it was not that long ago that greenpeace along with pretty much every other environmental agency caught up in the latest fad was proclaiming palm oil to be the saviour to the environmental problems we were facing. They completely ignored sceptics who pointed out what would happen, and as it turns out the sceptics were right.

Due to subsidies enforced thanks to the environmental agencies efforts the rainforst is being cut down at record speeds, not even for lumber just burned down to make farmland. Ethanol cannot be transported by pipeline so is moved in Cargo ships and trucks and world hunger and poverty is increasing as basic food product prices have tripled in recent years.

Of course all this could have been avoided, but all the self righteous ejits in charge jumped on the carbon causes global warming freight train and managed to get their way by creating a public panic over a disproven theory of current global warming. Thanks to their actions a great deal of injustice has been rained down upon our planet, thanks fucktards.

Instead of media grabbing hype promoting idiots in charge of this so called charity I really do think they should tackle some real issues of pollution rather than continuing to support the global warming nightmare that was disproven in the 80s.

Take the mass destruction of the rainforest, the money spent on ’sponsored’ research into global warming could have paid for the protection of huge tracts of the rainforest.  Not a fan of jungles?   Perhaps the hundreds of millions invested in the global warming vote buy in could have cleaned up the great barrier reef.

Global warming is all well and good for votes and donations but personally I would be more concerned about the biological miracle providing our oxygen than a degree or two temprature change.

written by Oli \\ tags: Environment, Global Warming, Green Peace

It seems as if the new English Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, is currently looking to be incredibly short lived in his post.  Today he revealed he was going to disregard the advise of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, set up specifically for the role of classifying drugs and their risks on society.

So if Gordon Brown is going to disregard the advice of those who actually know about the subject (Rather like Tony Blair in the recent wars we have entered) Why are we paying hundreds of thousands to keep these bodies in existence?

Now don’t get me wrong, I like the people in charge to have strog opinions and convictions. I think its a good thing that we have people with a strong sense that tehy are doing the right thing in charge.  However I do think these people should look at information presented to tehm and base their stance according to that.

This year I will be voting conservative.

I quite liked Scott Adams take on the current presidential candidates in the US.  In it he reports how every presidential candidate is backing Ethanol in fuel.  However every major scientific group is pointing out that Ethanol, which cannot be piped, so needs to be flown or driven to destination, is responsible for massive rainforest destruction (Since 20% of american farms now use their farms for feul production more rainforest is being cut down to accomodate), and gives out as much pollution as normal gasoline per distance travelled is actually not such a good idea.

If you are voting in people who are that ignorant how in gods name do you expect them to make informed decisions on important issues?

written by Oli \\ tags: Conservative, England, Environment, Gordon Brown, Labour, Maerica, Politics, Voting