British fracking protestor Prajna has it all figured out. Tom Wilson interviewed this guy at the fracking protest in Balcombe England. A cartoon from Josh follows.
Prajna
Have you protested before on energy issues?
Prajna: “Well, no. But I’ve designed a few energy things. I’ve designed an internal combustion engine that only has two moving parts, which is far too efficient to produce, otherwise oil companies would kill me.
I’ve had some top engineers working on it. My great uncle designed a perpetual motion machine. But he was busy looking for something that would insulate between magnets in order to produce it. Well actually I’ve had a look at the design since. I looked into buoyancy. I did all the maths on buoyancy.
It never seems to quite work, does it?
Prajna: “Well, this is the thing. It does work. It balances perfectly.”
Are you against the extraction of all fossil fuels in the UK?
Prajna: “Do you know, it would be a wonderful start if they just stopped suppressing free energy and starting encouraging it. But they’re not about that.”
Read the rest of the brilliant set of interviews here: I met the fracking protesters
Josh also has an excellent cartoon on fracking here
No smiles in that group.
OK, so they’re fruitcakes. But something about holding them up to ridicule leaves me feeling uneasy. A bit like picking on a disabled child at school. Does that sound cruel? It’s not meant to. I’ll just shut up now.
He could easily release the design for his engine into to public domain and then multiple companies would start to produce his “free energy”.
Either:
a. He is lying and there is no such design, or,
b. He wishes to monopolize the production of “free energy” for himself.
You really can’t make this stuff up.
The reason that it’s fair to hold them up to ridicule is that THESE are the people being used by the warmist establishment to try and pretend that there is some great grass roots movement that supports their anti-energy, top down controlling agenda.
No – their only real foot soldiers are hangers-on who hope to scam a buck or two, ideological loons, and the mentally incompetent. That needs to be repeatedly pointed out, and ridicule is the best tool to do that with.
My mother always told me. “Don’t mock the afflicted.”
Perpetual motion machines?
Only one small problem. They don’t seem to produce any extra energy to do useful work.
Perpetual motion. AKA “drinky bird”.
Oh dear, and they have the temerity to psychoanalyse skeptics and call us “nutters”!
Meanwhile in Australia, the greens are promoting solar thermal in the desert just 500km from the nearest large city. Apparently they don’t know about line losses. By desert I mean uncleared rangeland and dry lake systems that cannot be cleared except after serious environmental assessment. So they want to despoil a near pristine environment to generate electricity in a place that means over a third of it would be lost before it can do any good.
Hippies are such dorks. What is the next best thing to free energy? How about 3c kWh from coal powered plants, and 2d gal gas? Voluntarily purchased and used as seen fit?
Anyone who has free energy to offer the world had better do so now while there is cheap abundant energy and means of production and distribution.
However, claiming that the economy must be destroyed first reveals that these activists are in reality waging economic warfare on free nations.
Is there any other free stuff he wants, besides energy, while we are on the subject? Free doctors, free college tuition, free contraceptives?
They wage war on the economy just like the US and EU administration. A.O, EPA and the European Environmental Bureau (EBB) back up these protestor with hard cash. http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=84268
We are at war. Time to behave like that.
OldWeirdHarold says:
August 21, 2013 at 3:55 pm
> Perpetual motion. AKA “drinky bird”.
Thermodynamic system. Works by creating a thermal gradient thanks to evaporative cooling. I don’t know of similar systems scaled up enough to do useful work.
I don’t get why people even want a perpetual motion machine, when there is so much energy available.
If you could somehow cheaply tap earth’s orbital velocity or say the geological heat of the Earth- that would be different.
Considering that we can tap the past energies of supernovas by using nuclear decay [fission reactors- which capable of providing nearly a infinite source energy]. The issue isn’t some lack of energy, it’s do people actually want to use it.
Perhaps he has a new religion for us, and a new organic vegetarian diet? Do we need to destroy the agricultural sector, along with electricity generation? Nationalize or destroy churches for a new religion which he likes better to just break out? The possibilities are just endless when you are a progressive with a plan.
@sevad
Don’t feel sorry. He doesn’t feel sorry for you either. What he is doing is not innocent. He wants you and me to get poor and live in misery. This kind of people need to be exposed. They live in lala land and want everyone else to go there too. No way!
Yet another example indicating the shallow end of the gene pool needs a little more chlorine……
R. de Haan;
Yep. Hand me my resolver.
Zeke says:
“Is there any other free stuff he wants, besides energy, while we are on the subject? Free doctors, free college tuition, free contraceptives?”
I say:
Please, please give him free contraceptives!
Latitude says:
August 21, 2013 at 1:33 pm
are these the same people?
The thing I noticed was that every car was on the wrong side of the road. How are pedestrians supposed to look out for the obviously wrong?
(Thats sarc by the way)
His chair has more moving parts than his combustion engine.
There is an IC engine with NO moving parts-a varient of the pulsejet (WW2 German V1 engine). Instead of flapper valves, the geometry produces pulsating air intake and exhaust thrust. Also excellent at converting fuel to noise…
RHS said:
August 21, 2013 at 2:50 pm
Wonder where he got the double wide folding chair…
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No, it’s a love seat. A folding love seat.
(For folding love,… I reckon.)
Ok, I’ll shut up now too.
Re Prajna pose:-
That is not tea or coffee in the mug/cup. There is no liquid in the mug/cup, that is just the colour of a well used, on site, contaminated (dirty) drinking vessel. Interesting how variable “contamination” can be?