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
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Richards in Vancouver says:
August 21, 2013 at 5:03 pm
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!
I am not paying for that. He can go out to New Mexico and live in a teepee off the grid with Rosy Palmer and her five sisters.
“I don’t know of similar systems scaled up enough to do useful work.” (Ric Werme at 4:47PM).
One travesty of an example proves your (underlying) point precisely: windmill farms.
s-c-a-L-E-D u-P,
and doing no useful work (given that their cost of production far outweighs their marginal energy production benefit).
SCALE THEM UP TO THE MOON, Alice!* ……….——— ^^^
It will result only in “dig(ging) our selves out of this hole.” (Dope & Biden and Co.)
*”The Honeymooners” TV show allusion
A NO moving part engine that would be perfect for our environmental activists:
the Valveless Pulsejet
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valveless_pulse_jet )
It has the added advantage to be a kind of super-vuvuzella… perfect for protests in front of embassies and such.
Goldie says:
Worse still, they don’t appreciate that Geothermal is Nuclear in Australia. They don’t understand that geothermal from radiogenic sources isn’t as well controlled as the operation of a man-made machine that exploits the same phenomenon more efficiently.
They’ll happily fracc for geothermal but not for any useful source of energy.
I think that that’s the key. To them, any useful source of energy is “bad”.
Rhoda R says: August 21, 2013 at 2:18 pm
Doug UK says: August 21, 2013 at 3:20 pm
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We have found a source for Paul Ehrlich to experiment with !
@Donald P. McCollor
“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…”
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Quite right.
The putt-putt boat engine has no moving parts either and is WAY more efficient than the gas-type because the working fluid has been condensed (heh-heh).
For those who don’t know about it, the putt-putt is an external combustion engine that uses shaped orifices to create water flow biased in one direction, which create a jet to propel the boat. They are often candle-powered.
IC engine with two moving parts = 2 stroke engine (piston+crankshaft). Huge ship powering variants (with addition of an exhaust valve, fuel, oil and water pumps and turbocharger are most efficient engines in existence at up to 53%.
>rabbit says:
>August 21, 2013 at 2:28 pm
>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.
Yes, Ignorance or Stupidity. Tanstaafl (There aint no such thing as a free lunch)
Even though it is not possible to build a useful perpetual motion machine, there is a device consisting of two brass bells, with a ball that keeps bouncing between them, which has been ringing since about 1840. It is a powered device, using a special type of battery.
http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i33/Old-Experiment-Even-Older-Curiosities.html (near bottom of page)
“Goldie says:
August 21, 2013 at 4:15 pm
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.”
Goldie, IMO you’re right about the transmission losses but the bad news is that most of these “pristine rangeland environments” are another green furphy.
Start with aboriginal fire management before the arrival of Europeans. Then throw in the changes since – e.g. grazing, rabbits, woody species expansion for a few – and they’re mostly about as pristine as a recycled virginity.
That fellow needs to work out with some rubber bands.
There’s another JANICE here! That is so COOL! (she even spells her name correctly #(:))
At first there were a washer and dryer in the room , later on the were gone MMMM
that was regarding the guy that Proxima put on with the pulse jet
Enjoy Sun News’ brilliant Ezra Levant as he skewers the professional protesters of Canada’s green left:
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/canadas-profess.html
M Courtney says:
August 21, 2013 at 2:54 pm
Prajna, for example, appears to have been damaged somehow.
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dono. quite liked him. definitely living in the now.
Feel sorry for Prajna ???
Give his type a little more power and a gun and he’ll forcefully relocate you and a few million of your friends to the country for a little good old fashioned, back to nature, agrarian reform.
rabbit says:
August 21, 2013 at 2:28 pm
“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.”
There is. It’s called “separation anxiety.” It happens when one is incapable of separating one’s self from mother. Mother then embodies all of nature. Rather common.
These people clearly need psychiatric help and should be in an institution rather than be allowed to wander free in public.
Crispin in Waterloo says: August 21, 2013 at 6:56 pm
… The putt-putt boat engine has no moving parts either and is WAY more efficient than the gas-type because the working fluid has been condensed (heh-heh).
For those who don’t know about it, the putt-putt is an external combustion engine that uses shaped orifices to create water flow biased in one direction, which create a jet to propel the boat. They are often candle-powered.
The Miyazaki film “Ponyo” had a pop-pop boat, magically enlarged, for the kids to adventure in. First I’d ever heard of them. The only YouTube video I found of it had a rather impolite rap sound track, so I’ll spare the url. Lots of other pop-pop videos on YouTube though.
These people are the remnants from the Cold War anti-nuclear protesters. After the Cold War ended they needed to find something else to protest about. Then came global warming and now fracking.
In the interview I read “My great uncle designed a perpetual motion machine” and this:
Is this what we are against?
Ramjet
Prajna:
My motto is ‘always say no to drugs’.
“Actually I don’t consider myself to be anything, because as soon as I consider myself to be something, the Government uses it to control me…..”
Wow! I have this problem too!
Looks more like a protest against reality than against fracking as such.
Thanks for these interviews it was great to see and hear the warmist intellectual heavyweights expressing their views. WUWT should do more of this as it gives better balance to the debate.
We do have a perpetual motion machine, with a single moving part. Called electric motor. Needs only permanent supply of clean electricity and that, uhm, comes from the wire, right? I wonder why these dudes can’t run their power plants on electricity.
Actually, no. I was five years old when came up with this smart solution while watching the small generator attached to my grandpa’s bike, but soon realized it would have never worked as expected.
What’s that brown stuff coming out of his mouth?
What an embarrassing individual. Sadly his green mates probably regard him as essential but eccentric, instead of what he truly is: a total liability.