Hump Day Hilarity: Great moments in planet saving energy engineering

I have to admit, I sent this missive to Caroline Lucas (Green Party MP for Brighton), to open her eyes to the environmental devastation that she and her party have been ignoring for years:

Dear Mrs Lucas,
I have to ask – why you are protesting about hydraulic fracking taking place, despite the fact that it is far safer than the manual fracking that has been carried out throughout the world for decades, with little attempt to reduce it?
Manual fracking is considerably more hazardous than hydraulic fracking, as it involves sending a workforce into the locale to fracture the substrate; it also involves the use of many extremely dangerous chemicals – some highly explosive, and many known carcinogens – the removal of large quantities of substrate, despoiling vast areas of the surface, ruining many habitats, destroying environments, and creating huge risk of local tremors, many of which have been known to damage property and endanger life. Indeed, entire landscapes have been radically altered by manual fracking, resulting in the destruction of many environments. As I said before, this has been carried out in this country for decades, yet you have done nothing to control or prevent it, yet feel incumbent to interfere with the considerably safer process of hydraulic fracking – there are about 500,000 hydraulic fracking sites in the USA alone, and there has never been one instance of harm or damage to any individual, community or the environment. At the hundreds of manual fracking sites in this country, there have already been thousands deaths recorded, including many children, yet you are not making any protest about this devastation!
Yours sincerely,
Radical Rodent

I suppose I could have added more, but I wanted to keep the message short.
Originally posted this on Bishop Hill, where at least one person liked it.

Same sort of people at the “Line 9” pipeline protests in Hamilton, Ontario:
http://youtu.be/ArIV6XOmDHU

It would be funny if it wasn’t so dangerous. As somebody said in comments somewhere else, in 1984/5 the police were roaming the country stopping flying pickets to enable businesses to continue to operate. Today, the exact opposite appears to be the norm. What went wrong? One answer to that question is the lack of balance.

Guinevere is Eric Idle. Regan could be Michael Palin. Karl Marx in the first picture needs crutches now? Poor fella.

They vote.

I’ve debated “free energy” advocates many times before. Many seem to hold two conflicting beliefs at once: (1) The laws of thermodynamics hold. (2) If you’re really clever, you can confuse Mother Nature enough that she gives up extra energy.
Must be a psychological term for this phenomenon.

Dodgy Geezer says (August 21, 2013 at 2:00 pm ): …”Frank Whittle invented it during the 1920s. We call it the ‘Jet Engine’…”
‘Ram Jet’ if I remember correctly.. and as OldWeirdHarold says (August 21, 2013 at 2:12 pm): “…I got that beat. A turbine is an internal combustion engine with one moving part.”
That seems to cover the cases for both zero and one moving part. I’m a bit dubious about Prajna’s design with two though.

I’ll venture a guess on his college major: environmental studies, sociology or psychology. Presently, living in mom’s basement, unemployed and on the dole.

Saw this on Bishop Hill. I laughed.
Then I felt guilty.
These people are not reaching their potential… but they are still people.
Prajna, for example, appears to have been damaged somehow. Maybe it was his lifestyle choice (dope). Maybe it was bad luck.
But I felt bad for laughing at him.

“Rhoda R says:
August 21, 2013 at 2:18 pm
They vote.”
Worse than that Rhoda – they breed.
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