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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I had a great uncle like that. Forgot his name, though.
There are plenty more like Prajna living in my neck of the woods, including Dale Vince, the founder of bird-slicer installer Ecotricity.
Wonderful stuff! Britain’s finest. I am sure the USA can find equivalent in any Walmart store.
Prajan, never smoke crack on an empty head old son.
…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….
Actually, Whittle invented the Jet Turbine in the 1920s. I think Ram Jets were proposed by the French in the 1910s.
In the days when we had REAL engineers…..
Ironically the most rational person from the link given was the druidess. Place like that can cause a lot of anxiety and other negative emotions that can bubble out of control. Giving a “time-out” space is the most responsible thing I’ve seen there.
Like many people I am not totally happy about fracking, especially after watching the film ‘Gasland’. I understand though, that a lot of the film was exaggerated. Also it would appear that some of the problems were caused by unscrupulous companies not lining the wells properly which may allow pressurised fracking fluid to escape. does anyone have knowledge if it is the same few firms which allegedly are causing the problems? I also firmly believe that if we had a safe and secure electricity generation system which doesn’t rely on unsuitable renewables like wind or solar then there would be less of a need for fracking. However given that billions (perhaps trillions) of pounds have already been wasted on wind, we now need fracking in this country to prevent millions of deaths from hypothermia.
How many brain cells do you think they havebetween them?
I pity these types I really do. And to have these “big thinkers” interviewed and broadcast on nationwide TV, then spat out over the internet just makes me laugh my head off at them and their preposterous claims. As has been pointed out up-thread, his inventions were actually invented long before he did. I guess this “Einstein” forgot to patent his inventions, probably after smoking something odd. His finger nails are the same colour as the inside of the cup…needs a lot of smokes to do that…
Pranja looks as if he has just snorted a couple of lines. Certainly sounds like he has.
These idiots protest about pollution yet many drove there in old poorly maintained vehicles that spread pollution wherever they drive. Hypocritical Luddites.
Is Pranja still living in his Mom’s basement?
Never mind, folks – school’s back in the UK next week, so they’ll be back at their desks – or their teaching posts…
A better interview topic would be how they got along with their parents. The regular “set” who show up for these dos appear to have unresolved family issues that they try to redress on the larger stage. I’m know of a few. Wearing Ghandi’s costume or whatever it is gives the opposite effect to what they think it does. Its a gathering of the disenchanted and a celebration of themselves at a venue about which they haven’t the faintest clue – this includes the MP in all the above. Interviewer, ask her if she hates her father. Most amazing of all is how these damaged empty vessels get so much traction.
There are types that seem to ascribe some sort of meaning to names. On a hunch I typed “Prajna” into Google and found;
http://babynamesworld.parentsconnect.com/meaning_of_Prajna.html
Maybe because I now live “downunder” I can consider the meaning to be the exact opposite? Where am from originally, sadly the same country as this fellow and not too far from the location of the protest, most would simply call him “Prat”.
rabbit says:
August 21, 2013 at 2:28 pm
⌂E⌂t ≥ h/2π , but good luck trying to use it.
Protests of this nature are evidence of the prosperity of the culture.
If things were not going well, these people would have to be hustling the obtain the necessities of life. All of them are taking advantage of the industrial culture we have. The vegetables in the vegan stew pot were undoubtedly shipped from somewhere, to say nothing of the pot itself, a product of a mine, shipping, and metallurgy.
Albert Einstein spent some time as a clerk working for the Swiss patent office. He was doing so as he was formulating his four papers published in 1905. One of his principle tasks was to reject patents for perpetual motion machines. I’m sure those receiving the rejections thought themselves persecuted by the ‘powers that be.’
After reaching my limits with one acquaintance claiming to have a perpetual motion machine, I told him to just build it. His fame would be everlasting if he could overturn the 2nd law of thermodynamics. I would say the same to anyone with free energy devices.
If someone were looking for financing such a system, try http://www.indiegogo.com/. You just might get funding for the project in this age of scientific ignorance.
They’ve discovered the Great Truth: If you consume enough psychoactive chemicals, the Rules of the Universe don’t matter anymore! 🙂
IMO, the minimum number of moving parts in a conventional 2 stroke IC engine (Excluding all others, fluids, pumps, switches, transmission etc) would be 3. The piston, the conrod (Ignoring the little end moves on the gudgeon pin, the big moves on the crankshaft) and the crankshaft. You could argue it is actually 5. If neither of these components moved an engine in that state would be considered “seized”.
Sometimes I think these people behave like this on purpose to awaken my inner Eric Cartman.
Here’s some irony:
“I have a working device utilizing perpetual motion.”
“Cool, let’s see it.”
“Easy. Here’s the Youtube link.”
“Wow. That’s impressive. It really works?”
“Yup. I got the schematics and everything.”
“You’re gonna be rich!”
“Nope. Industry is suppressing free energy.”
“Really? Why?”
“Because they’re greedy and don’t want to lose their monopoly.”
“So, why not release your plans to the world. Somebody’s got to be interested.”
“No way. Somebody would steal the idea and I wouldn’t get any money.”
Seems like a lot of folks here prefer to post off-topic ad-hominem attacks against Mr. Prajna rather than address the issue of fracking. This, in my view, tends to cede the “moral high ground” to a most undeserving element by in effect “lowering ourselves to their level”. That said, fracking may pose significant trade-offs which would be imprudent to make at this juncture, as the jury is way, way, out on the risk/benefit in proposed fracking/pipeline activity proximate to high-value aquifers.
Roger Ramjet and his Proton Energy Pill:
http://www.toonarific.com/show.php?show_id=3067
“Jonathan Pulliam says:
August 22, 2013 at 7:48 am
Seems like a lot of folks here prefer to post off-topic ad-hominem attacks against Mr. Prajna”
“Prajna” won’t be his family name on his birth certificate (Assuming he is British and born there), so you can’t call him Mr. Pranja (Legally without a deedpoll). Regardless, he assumes some sort of, as you say a “moral high ground”. Why? Why is *HIS* opinion and view more valuable that any other?
Zoom, Zoom, we’re going to the moon
Zoom, Zoom, we’re leaving very soon
Wow… actually, he looks rather harmless. I’m pretty sure he’ll never cost his country a lot of shed blood & £100bn+ listening to some wack job named Dick Cheney. Who btw cost his country a lot of shed blood and maybe 6 trillion.
Ttyl, locate that barf bag.