August 18, 2015

+1- Hey Octafish- check out what is going on in the UK

There's a Bernie Sanders that might be about to get elected to lead Labour named Jeremy Corbyn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn#Political_views



This guy wants to - among other things- RE-NATIONALIZE the British Railways - the current prices of tickets is insane and the system is a mish mosh of different companies all trying to make trains run on time. People are realizing that privatisation has its downfalls.

All kinds of hell is breaking out- people are coming unglued because this guy might just win

This is a great debate- John McTernan:“If Corbyn wins, he should be removed on day one”

Jeremy Corbyn on his 'toxic' rivals & Labour's future | Going Underground



Lord Mandelson's failed 'mass resignation' bid to attempt to stop Jeremy Corbyn winning Labour leadership

It also emerged that Liz Kendall urged Yvette Cooper to stand down because Andy Burnham is the only candidate who can win - but Miss Cooper refused.

Lord Mandelson tried to persuade the three mainstream Labour leadership candidates to quit en masse to stop leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn and force the party to suspend the election...snip

...Gordon Brown, the former Labour Prime Minister, effectively begged hundreds of thousands of party members and supporters not to vote for Mr Corbyn when they receive their ballot papers in the next 48 hours;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11806498/Lord-Mandelsons-failed-mass-resignation-bid-to-attempt-to-stop-Jeremy-Corbyn-winning-Labour-leadership.html

ROFL

PS: Goldman Sachs was partly responsible for the British Government selling the postal service for a few billion less than market value. Strange, isn't it.

August 16, 2015

Sugar

If you're eating sugar in the US and it's not labeled "Pure Cane" or Organic you're most likely eating GMO sugar from GMO sugar beets.

Obviously this includes candy.

Sugar beet industry converts to 100% GMO, disallows non-GMO option

The US sugar beet industry coordinated an industry-wide conversion to genetically modified sugar beets, thus eliminating a non-GMO alternative for food manufacturers and consumers. Meanwhile, production of GM sugar beet seed is likely to contaminate organic and conventional vegetable seed production in Oregon’s Willamette Valley...
http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articles/jun08/sugar_beet_industry_converts_to_gmo.php

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In the United States, genetically modified sugar beets, engineered for resistance to glyphosate, a herbicide marketed as Roundup, was developed by Monsanto as a genetically modified crop.

...In 2005, the US Department of Agriculture-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) deregulated glyphosate-resistant sugar beets...

This GMO Sugar beet invasion is a recent phenomenon.

Perhaps the anti-gmo-labelers (anti info) would prefer no labels at all. Why did Obama campaign on labeling GMO's (and then do a 180)



Obama in 2007: "We'll let folks know whether their food has been genetically modified because Americans should know what they're buying"



Green: Mandatory labeling
Red:Ban on import and cultivation of GMOs 64 countries as of 10 May 2015.
Source: Center for Food Safety
http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/issues/976/ge-food-labeling/international-labeling-laws

August 9, 2015

Can hydrogen harvested from seawater secure Japan’s energy future?

There’s growing demand and political will to develop commercial-scale hydrogen infrastructure in Japan and a group of students may have discovered a way to make this a reality.

DNV GL 7 August 2015: Japan has a vision of becoming a carbon-neutral, hydrogen-fuelled society by 2040 - one of the most ambitious hydrogen energy plans in the world. How could an efficient hydrogen energy plant work in reality, given Japan’s limited, densely populated area? Over the summer, a team of international students descended on DNV GL’s Oslo headquarters to develop an innovative solution: harvesting hydrogen from seawater in the windy waters north of Japan, using floating offshore wind turbines.



Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. As an energy carrier, it’s a zero emission fuel from creation to consumption. But until now, the infrastructure has not existed to produce and store hydrogen at scale, making it too expensive to be a viable option. With Japan’s commitment to integrate hydrogen as a key fuel, there’s growing demand and political will to develop commercial-scale hydrogen infrastructure. The timing was perfect for the summer students to investigate more efficient ways to source hydrogen.



The students’ solution - presented to Japan’s ambassador to Norway, new DNV GL president and CEO Remi Eriksen, DNV GL staff and other industry representatives at the company’s Oslo headquarters this week - is called Jidai: Japanese for “new era”. Jidai offers a smart way of harvesting abundant off-shore resources and facilitates a complete value chain of clean energy. Floating turbines in the deep waters off northern Japan take advantage of strong and stable winds. It creates the energy needed to purify seawater, which goes through a process of electrolysis, extracting hydrogen and oxygen from the water. The extracted hydrogen is then compressed, keeping the energy loss close to zero. Finally, the hydrogen is stored, waiting to be transported by tanker to land...snip

Feasible within 15 years

The Jidai concept combines and uses existing technology in new ways. Global installed offshore wind energy capacity has doubled from 2011 to 2014...
Full: http://www.theguardian.com/dnv-gl-partner-zone/2015/aug/07/can-hydrogen-harvested-from-seawater-secure-japans-energy-future



Det Norske Veritas/Germanischer Lloyd
https://www.dnvgl.com/

August 9, 2015

BBC: Scotland to ban GM crop growing

BBC August 8, 2015

Scotland is to ban the growing of genetically modified crops, the country's rural affairs secretary has announced. Richard Lochhead said the Scottish government was not prepared to "gamble" with the future of Scotland's £14bn food and drink sector.

He is to request that Scotland be excluded from any European consents for the cultivation of GM crops...


Green: Mandatory labeling Red:Ban on import and cultivation of GMOs 64 countries as of 10 May 2015. Source: Center for Food Safety

...Mr Lochhead added: "There is no evidence of significant demand for GM products by Scottish consumers and I am concerned that allowing GM crops to be grown in Scotland would damage our clean and green brand, thereby gambling with the future of our £14bn food and drink sector.

"Scottish food and drink is valued at home and abroad for its natural, high quality which often attracts a premium price, and I have heard directly from food and drink producers in other countries that are ditching GM because of a consumer backlash."...snip
Full Article: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-33833958

Obama in 2007: "We'll let folks know whether their food has been genetically modified because Americans should know what they're buying"

August 6, 2015

Here

Sep 9, 2009: President Barack Obama told Congress Wednesday the public option would be part of an insurance exchange for last-resort coverage. Obama said the Congressional Budget Office estimates that less than 5 percent of Americans would sign up


Harry Reid



Uploaded on Oct 26, 2009

Majority Leader Harry Reid says health care legislation headed to the Senate floor will include an option for government-run insurance.

The health insurance mandate in the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, is an idea hatched in 1989 by Stuart M. Butler at The Heritage Foundation in a publication titled "Assuring Affordable Health Care for All Americans". This was also the model for Mitt Romney's health care plan in Massachusetts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation#Policy_influence

August 4, 2015

Panasonic has developed a catalyst that uses sunlight efficiently to extract hydrogen from water

Panasonic moves closer to home energy self-sufficiency with fuel cells
Tetsushi Yamamura | Asahi Shimbun | August 02, 2015

Panasonic Corp. said it has developed a catalyst that uses sunlight efficiently to extract hydrogen from water, a technology that could lead to energy self-sufficiency in homes powered by fuel cells.


Device that uses solar energy to produce hydrogen from water
(Tetsushi Yamamura)

The company said it tested photocatalysts consisting of niobium nitride that can absorb 57 percent of sunlight, a rate far more efficient than the titanium oxide photocatalysts used today that absorb only ultraviolet rays, which constitute 4 percent of sunlight.

Using this catalyst, Panasonic plans to develop products, such as panels similar to solar cells, for installation on rooftops. These products in turn will create the hydrogen that fuel cells use to generate electricity...snip more-
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/sci_tech/technology/AJ201508020014

Related: Panasonic has sold over 100,000 Ene-Farm home fuel cells in Japan

The future home is where the hydrogen power generator is
Nikkei Asian Review | Teruaki Hirasawa | July 11, 2015



OSAKA -- Panasonic is developing a household fuel cell system using hydrogen that can power homes and vehicles. It is doing so in part to help the government create a "hydrogen society."

The company aims to have a hydrogen generation system market ready by around 2030 to replace solar batteries.

"We are committed to developing technology that can play a part in the household hydrogen-based infrastructure," Yoshiyuki Miyabe, Panasonic's senior managing director in charge of technology, said July 3 in Tokyo.

Water is made of hydrogen and oxygen. The conventional electrolysis method for splitting water costs money as it uses electricity. Hydrogen does not produce carbon dioxide when it is burned, making it a clean source of energy. But when hydrogen is produced from water by using electricity, it is not as clean...snip more-
http://asia.nikkei.com/Tech-Science/Tech/The-future-home-is-where-the-hydrogen-power-generator-is

Related: Hydrogen is ideal energy, says Toshiba
May 3, 2015


Hisao Tanaka, Toshiba

TOKYO -- Technology companies are increasingly tapping hydrogen to create new energy infrastructure, one example of the resource being put to use is Toyota Motor's recent release of a hydrogen-fueled vehicle.

Hisao Tanaka, president of Japanese electronics maker Toshiba, said in a recent interview with The Nikkei that hydrogen is an ideal energy and Japan has a leg up over the rest of the world in developing the field.

Q: Hydrogen, which can fuel cars and generate electricity, is rapidly attracting attention as an alternative clean source of power. What kind of new business is Toshiba planning for the gas?

A: Toshiba has been involved in hydrogen-use research for roughly half a century, starting in the 1960s...snip more-
http://asia.nikkei.com/Tech-Science/Tech/Hydrogen-is-ideal-energy-says-Toshiba

How can this be?
A Lithium salesman told us all that "Fuel Cells are SO BULLSH*T"
We were also told that home hydrogen production would never happen.

Bullsh*t!

In Japan (and everywhere else in the universe) H2 is #1



The light at the end of the tunnel is a Hydrogen Freight Train

August 3, 2015

Wagging the Moondoggie

Wagging the Moondoggie
Part I of 11 October 13, 2009 by David McGowan

"I am very well aware, by the way, that there are many, many people out there – even many of the people who have seen through other tall tales told by our government – who think that Moon hoax theorists are complete kooks. And a whole lot of coordinated effort has gone into casting them as such. That makes wading into the Moon hoax debate a potentially dangerous affair"

(snip)

...I found a new source of inspiration, however, when my wife e-mailed me the recent story about the fake Dutch Moon rock,

'Moon rock' given to Holland by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin is fake
29 Aug 2009: Curators at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, where the rock has attracted tens of thousands of visitors each year, discovered that the "lunar rock", valued at £308,000, was in fact petrified wood...


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/6105902/Moon-rock-given-to-Holland-by-Neil-Armstrong-and-Buzz-Aldrin-is-fake.html

which I and many others found quite amusing, and which also reminded me that I had a lot of other bits and pieces of information concerning the Apollo project that I had collected over the nine years that have passed since I first wrote about the alleged Moon landings. After taking that first look, back in 2000, I was pretty well convinced that the landings were, in fact, faked, but it was perfectly obvious that the rather short, mostly tongue-in-cheek post that I put up back in July of 2000 was not going to convince anyone else of that.

Ooopsie- Moon landing tapes got erased, NASA admits
Jul 20, 2009: The original recordings of the first humans landing on the moon 40 years ago were erased and re-used...NASA admitted in 2006 that no one could find the original video recordings of the July 20, 1969 landing...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/07/20/us-nasa-tapes-idUSTRE56F5MK20090720

So I contemplated taking a more comprehensive look at the Apollo program. Toward that end, I pulled up my original Apollo post along with various other bits and pieces scattered throughout past newsletters, threw in all the newer material that had never made it onto my website, and then combed the Internet for additional information. In doing so, I realized that a far better case could be made than what I had previously offered to readers...snip

...Such sentiments made me realize that the Moon landing lie is somewhat unique among the big lies told to the American people in that it was, in the grand scheme of things, a relatively benign lie, and one that could be easily spun. Admitting that the landings were faked would not have nearly the same impact as, say, admitting to mass murdering 3,000 Americans and destroying billions of dollars worth of real estate and then using that crime as a pretext to wage two illegal wars and strip away civil, legal and privacy rights.

And yet, despite the fact that it was a relatively benign lie, there is a tremendous reluctance among the American people to let go of the notion that we sent men to the Moon...
Read more (much more- there are eleven pages)
http://davesweb.cnchost.com/Apollo1.html




Plenty of room for a fold up dune buggy


It's Electric!




Under the lander: Where's the evidence of rocket thrust?




No lunar dust on the landing pads, eh?




Interesting antennae!

A low budget sci-fi scene or Astronauts lifting off from the moon:
NASA allegedly filmed that final lift-off



NASA claims that the camera was mounted on the abandoned lunar rover... and that the pan and zoom functions were operated remotely by the ground crew back on Earth. You couldn’t control your television from across the living room in those days, but NASA could pan and zoom a camera from 234,000 miles away. Awesome! ...Apparently there wasn’t any delay in the signal...

What Happened On the Moon? - Analysis of the Lunar Photography