Hydrogen Transmission Network: Integrated Clean Energy, Clean Water Solution

As most governments are considering harmful solutions like nuclear energy and piecemeal solution like clean coal, there is now an invention that stands to provide both energy and water to everyone, while in the process consuming no irreplaceable resources, generating no waste, and replacing two infrastructures - electric grid and water system - with a single elegant network whose efficiency is significantly greater than that of the electric grid. This solution solves two resource shortages for foreseeable future while significantly reducing their burden on the environment and having the potential to both stimulate the economy in the short term and realize great savings in the long term.

The proposal is on the Climate change website of the Australian government, and it has been introduced to governments worldwide. It is called The Hydrogen Transmission Network (HTN).

Here is a summary of what it does and how it works:

How it Works

Solar energy is to power electrolysis of ocean water. The oxygen is to be released into the air; the hydrogen is to be sent through pipes to every home, every city, every farm, every industrial and commercial installation, to be reacted on the spot with oxygen in the air to produce energy and water at once. The basis of energy will move from the electric grid, with its current mix of coal, nuclear, and hydroelectric sources, to the abundant energy of the sun and the energy of the ocean. Meanwhile water needs will be provided from the oceans, reducing the burden on the freshwater resources in countries where they are inadequate to meet the needs of the growing population.

Environmental Advantages

At the price of one, round the clock, people will get on-demand clean energy and clean water, without destruction of anything that cannot be replaced and without production of any harmful byproducts. More area will become capable of sustaining farms, human habitation, and forests, creating more food and clothing for internal use and export, accommodating the population growth, and creating green area to absorb atmospheric CO2. The sources for energy – currently mostly fossil fuels – and for water – currently freshwater, which is in many places inadequate and running out – will become the sun and the ocean, neither of which are polluting and neither of which are at any risk of running out for centuries. The process will produce as its byproduct only water, which will then go back into the environment to create greenery and replenish the water taken from the ocean.

Economic Advantages

The HTN will create huge numbers of jobs in the short term for its development and construction, putting back to work the people dislocated by industrial flight abroad. It also will lift the economy out of the financial crisis. In the long term, it will save huge amounts of money by replacing two infrastructures – electricity grid and water – with a single efficient network of hydrogen pipes. The fossil fuel resources will last longer and be used for higher-end goods. The greater farmland will be able to sustain greater population, reduce world hunger, and produce more farm products for exports or internal use. More forestland will become possible, creating more area for CO2 absorption and for regeneration of the planet. A sustainable, well-supplied, population will become possible in places such as Australia, Israel, the American Southwest, the Arabian Peninsula, and ultimately the deserts of Central Asia, India, China, and Africa. The deserts will become farmland and forest land, reducing hunger and absorbing the atmospheric CO2, and tipping the balance from disaster toward sustainability.

Technological Feasibility

The technology for all three parts of the HTN exists already. The energy efficiency of the mechanism has been computed at 50% to 70%, which is far more than the current electric grid. The RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) report proposes a special type of pipes – steel pipes with internal glass pipe – to make sure that the hydrogen is delivered safely and on demand. With solar-powered electrolysis plants at the point of input, and fuel cells or special engines at the point of output, this will create a single environmentally clean, economic, elegant and reliable infrastructure to provide for the energy and water needs of houses, cities, towns, offices, and commercial and industrial installations of any country that implements the Hydrogen Transmission Network.

The original proposal was made for Australia and described for Australia, but it can be useful just about anywhere. It is found in greater detail on

http://www.users.bigpond.com/adda1234/HP.htm

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Sri Lanka Genocide: What If It Happened In Texas?

Imagine the following scenario.

As a result of the Texas governor's call for succession from the United States, American government declares a war on Texas. American government raids people's houses, jails people who have expressed the desire for succession, and heavily discriminates against Texans residing on the territory of the country.

A paramilitary group called the Texas Jackalopes forms to protect Texas. The Jackalopes gun down marketplaces and blow up buildings in American cities. At home, they demand of their people complete loyalty and execute those who are suspected of treason. The US government brings NATO troops into Texas, after which a member of Texas Jackalopes blows up the head of NATO in a suicide bombing.

The Texas Jackalopes are named a terrorist organization. Now, every time someone thinks "Texan," he thinks "terrorist." People come to America saying what a lovely, peaceful, spiritual country - except those terrible terrorists in Texas. As the fighting continues and the conditions in Texas get worse, the international community is totally apathetic. Some say that it is an internal dispute not theirs to arbitrate. Others say that every country deserves its government, that every place and every person has their own journey, that what is happening is a result of negativity in the consciousness of the Texans, its karmic lesson, or a punishment from God for its sins.

After two decades of low-grade civil war, the government puts in place a final solution. The army surrounds Texas while denying access there to foreign observers, killing two UN personnel stationed in Dallas to prove the point. It then sends missiles all over Texas, gasses Waco, and pounds all areas of habitation with rockets, ostensibly under the claim of fighting the Jackalopes. The people are caught between the bombing by the military and the extortion and brutality by the Jackalopes. Denied access to food and sanitation, people die in droves.

The Texas immigrants living in other countries stage demonstrations and hunger strikes, but the media ignores the issue. The stories begin to appear in the news as the government has driven the Texans into a tiny area around El Paso, where they continue to be bombed. As some Jackalopes flee and others kill themselves, the government declares victory, while telling the world of the casualties on both sides of about 10 percent of the actual number. The Texan-run businesses all over America are shut, and Texans living on territory of the rest of United States are exiled abroad.

Sounds far fetched? Yet this is exactly what's happened in Sri Lanka.

Most likely the world will never know the number of dead in the ugly campaign of extermination of Tamils waged by the Senghalese majority of Sri Lanka. As far as genocides go, this one is quite clear-cut, more so than many other events that have been declared as genocides and prosecuted as such. The Serbs against Albanians in Kosovo, for one, do not begin to compare in the number of dead or in deliberateness of genocidal intent. The world needs to see this crime for what it is and deal accordingly. Genocide must not be acceptable in 21st century, whoever carries it out and against whom.

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"Claire," Charmyne Palavi, and Australian Football Gang Rapes

After a woman who, fearing for her safety, called herself “Claire,” revealed the disgusting details of a gang rape that was perpetrated against her by an Australian football team, 100,000 people responded in support of the man who orchestrated the gang rape against her.

Charmyne Palavi, who also went on TV to reveal the reality of the football gang rape scene, was denounced on the Internet as a “lying head case,” and hateful messages were written toward her both by women and by men.

“Claire,” Charmyne, and everyone else who has experienced this and similar crimes: This is for you.

In an Internet discussion, an Australian man referred to Muslim men who gang rape young women in Sydney as “imported Muslim scum.” While that is indeed a fitting description of those people, I pose a question. Why is not the same epithet – minus the imported Muslim part - being applied to Australians who do the exact same thing to Australian women and teenage girls?

The people who are behind the “lying head case” statements are clearly abusers and liars. They are seeking to discredit and beat down the person who is coming forth to tell the truth. Telling the truth is a part of character and a part of integrity. So then why would the people who claim to have character and integrity be against it?

There is a single reason for it. They have neither of the preceding.

To women who have been joining in the attack on Charmyne and on “Claire”: Perhaps you deserve to go through what “Claire” had gone through. You would inflict it upon your fellow woman, so then why should it not be you that is being gang raped? This woman is somebody’s daughter, as well as a human being. As a man, and a father, I say quite clearly that if anyone did anything like this to my daughter, I will not rest until they all are in jail.

Now there are many football types who think that they’re real men who deserve to do this to women, and there are many women who think that they are real powerful men who will protect them and give them status and power. I pose this question. What are they up against a nuclear bomb? The French, whom they see as cowards; the Chinese, whom they see as blockheads; the Russians, whom they see as losers; the Americans, whom they see as conmen; and even a tiny nation like Israel; has enough real power to wipe them off the face of the Earth. The Taliban in Afghanistan, who believed that a man who does not beat his wife “does not have a penis,” thought they were real men as well, and for the same reasons. They did not last very long against real power.

And it is only the nobility, the self-restraint, and self-discipline, of those who have real power – the self-restraint and self-discipline which history shows repeatedly to be the necessary component of real power - that allow thugs like the Taliban, the military dictators, the “imported Muslim” as well as Australian football gang rapists, to get away with thinking that they are kings.

This laissez-faire attitude on the part of real power allows for creation and perpetuation of all kinds of hideousness and absurdity. Petty despots, criminal organizations, terrrorist groups, paramilitaries, thugs, and all kinds of barbarians, then start claiming that they are the real men, or the genuine article, or the true culture of the places that they infest and use this usurpation to commit horrendous violations against the people whom they are claiming to represent. Gangsters start thinking that they are the true black people; militias start thinking that they are true Americans; Taliban starts thinking that they are true Middle East; and groups like the Black Shirts and the football gang rapists start thinking that they are the true Australian men. All of these are wrong. They are not the truth of the people they claim to speak for, they are the worst and the ugliest in the people they claim to speak for. And it is time that the people for whom they claim to speak stop letting them get away with this usurpation of their authority. There are far better men in Australia than Black Shirts or gang rapists, just as there are far better black people than gangsters, far better Americans than militiamen, and far better Middle Eastern people than Taliban; and it is time that these better men in Australia start to speak as true men of Australia and put these degenerates in their place.

The people – and I use the term loosely - who think that it is part of manhood to brutally gang-rape teenage girls and young women – or to beat their wives, or to molest their daughters, or to assault women who've left men who beat them and molested their children - are not real men that they claim to be. What they are, is swine. And like swine flue is infecting people, so are these swine the leading cause of death and disability in Australian women. It is time that better men speak for Australian manhood and put a stop to this vile affliction that is eating away at the soul of this beautiful country and the people who live in it.

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