Joe Public

Right vs Left

2010-10-24T12:59:00.000-07:00

Lifted from commenter "Charlie" on Biased BBC blog "Spending Cuts In Word Clouds"

If a Rightie doesn't like guns, he doesn’t buy one.
If a Leftie doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.
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If a Rightie is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat.
If a Leftie is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.
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If a Rightie is gay, he quietly leads his life.
If a Leftie is gay, he demands legislated respect.
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If a Rightie is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A Leftie wonders who is going to take care of him.
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If a Rightie doesn't like what a media bod says, he changes channels.
Lefties demand that those they don't like be shut down.
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If a Rightie is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A Leftie non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.
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If a Rightie decides he needs sickness care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A Leftie demands that the rest of us pay for his.
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If a Rightie reads this, he will pass it on so his friends can have a good laugh.
A Leftie will delete it because he's "offended".

Hadron Collider

2010-09-21T12:19:00.000-07:00

Why do we never hear or read anything about the Small Hadron Collider?

Climate Change is now even less than the last over-prediction

2010-09-07T12:03:00.000-07:00

Remember when IPCC predicted that Himalayan glaciers would have melted by 2035. Then they embarrassingly had to admit they were wrong after proper scientists pointed out flaws in their data?

Now, yet another of the nightmare scenarios mankind is supposedly facing, rapidly rising sea-levels, has been debunked.

Delft University of Technology has established that the predicted Arctic & Antarctic Ice-Melt rate has been overestimated by a factor of 3.

It now turns out that the original predictions were not properly corrected for glacial isostatic adjustment, the phenomenon that the Earth’s crust rebounds as a result of the melting of the massive ice caps from the last major Ice Age around 20,000 years ago

http://www.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=7a6c3d15-1c1e-4869-b378-840a000c6803&lang=en

Those of us living near the coast can sleep a little sounder in the knowledge that imminent flooding is that much less likely.

You couldn't make it up.....

2010-05-16T05:15:00.000-07:00

Two convicted ETA terrorists (1 x M + 1 x F) are allowed conjugal visits in their Cordoba prison.

It's worth remembering that they have 3-digit sentences.

He's been unable to make her pregnant, so now they are demanding expensive IVF treatment; and likely to granted it because denial would 'breach their rights'.

It will be Spain's taxpayers, via its Health Service that pays. [The cost sometimes exceeds that of Cancer treatment]

What a wonderful environment any progeny will experience.

AGW still defying CRU-UEA predictions of its existence

2010-03-28T14:04:00.001-07:00

Spring is postponed as snow forecast for parts of UK this week.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8591688.stm

An unfortunately-named author!

2010-03-26T10:22:00.000-07:00

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7065824.ece

Air lifted to hospital, but waits 3 hours in A & E.

2010-03-24T13:24:00.000-07:00

British SuperBike rider Stuart Easton crashed his Swan Honda whilst testing at Cadwell Park, Lincs, today. It was quite a serious injury, so he was airlifted to hospital.

He then waited 3 hours in A & E for attention.

His team could probably have repaired his bike & ridden him pillion to hospital in that time.

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/sport/sportresults/British-Superbikes/2010/March/mar2410-stuart-easton-crash-update/

Politicians / Lobbyists - A Gravy Train on the Circle Line.

2010-03-22T10:48:00.000-07:00

First they make crap Laws & Regulations, and Trough expenses whilst doing so.

Then they charge exhorbitant fees for correcting the errors they've created.

A Gravy Train on the Cirlce Line.

Great Viral visuals, pity about the music......

2010-03-21T16:31:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w

Reminiscent of the Honda Accord Ad "The Cog"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ve4M4UsJQo

Important Notice

2010-03-10T13:53:00.000-08:00

Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight

Still not warming.....................

2010-03-09T12:40:00.000-08:00

Barcelona hit with heaviest snowfall in 25 years

Global Not Warming

2010-03-06T03:41:00.000-08:00

The worst freeze for over 30 years has affected the Baltic, trapping many ships in the ice.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/7374495/Ships-stranded-for-hours-in-Baltic-Sea-ice-freed.html

myLabourPoster posters

2010-03-01T13:41:00.000-08:00

http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2010/mylabourposter-p1.php

Washing Prescott's Smalls

2010-03-01T10:19:00.000-08:00

Oxymoron of the month from Iain Dale. And it's not yet March 2nd.

http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2010/02/washing-prescotts-smalls.html#links

Heating Appliance-Efficiency Con

2010-02-27T05:17:00.000-08:00

To deliberately mislead consumers, appliance manufacturers quote their appliances' efficiency at Net cv (calorific value) or ncv. This enables them to quote a higher number, & so con purchasers into thinking their energy use will be less than it actually will be.

A manufacturer that states his appliance is, for example, 95% efficient (ncv) misleads a purchaser into thinking that only 5% of the fuel / energy is wasted into the flue.

Not so.

Net cv is only a theoretical figure. It is thermodynamically impossibility to buy fuel / energy at Net cv, so by definition, all energy is supplied at Gross cv. The relationship between Net & Gross cv (in the UK for Natural Gas) is that Net cv is 1.11 x Gross cv.

e.g. An appliance that is quoted as 95% efficient at Net cv has a Gross efficiency of only 85.595%. In other words, a consumer who buys 100 units of fuel / energy, gets not 95 but only 85.595 units of useable heat.

The fact that manufacturers can quote efficiencies at Net cv means they can quote a figure greater than 100% for modern condensing boilers. (Could be approx 104% Net cv.) Hands up those who thought that at 104% efficiency, that boiler gave them 4% more heat than they purchased.

That boiler quoted at 104% Net cv efficiency is only 93.704% efficient and loses 6.296% of energy by case & flue losses.

AGW is obvious. Innit?

2009-12-28T13:04:00.000-08:00

If a world-renowned professor at this country's leading climate-research university (UEA) could not prove it is occurring, and had to fiddle the figures to make it appear to be occurring, then no further comment should be necessary.

Yob alert, but we can't say who, or, what they look like!

2009-10-02T15:31:00.000-07:00

Our local paper reports two Yobs have been given ASBOs, preventing them from entering specified parts of our town.

Yob1's photo is prominently displayed, so us townsfolk may recognise the miscreant if he sets foot inside the banned area.

Of Yob2 there's no photo because he's under 16 "and can't be identified".

So how are we supposed to know if he's in town?

F@cking brilliant joined-up thinking that is.

If he's old enough to be a Yob, get caught & get an ASBO, he's old enough to be publicly identified.

Biased Carbon Trust - misleading some Industrial & Commercial energy users.

2009-09-15T13:08:00.000-07:00

Carbon Trust's Promotional Materials - lack of impartiality:

ECA766 - Radiant heaters vs ECA767 - Warm air heaters

http://www.eca.gov.uk/etl/promotion.htm

As a company funded by the Taxpayer it should have no remit to be biased towards one particular technology whilst simultaneously discriminating against a competing technology in the same field [Industrial and Commercial ‘large, single open space’ heating]. As it highlights some benefits of Radiants vs Warm Air in ECA766, it has an equal obligation to highlight the many benefits of Warm Air vs Radiants in ECA767.

1 The Carbon Trust's propaganda in ECA766 ignores the fact that modern, well insulated buildings can, as a rule of thumb, be heated and ventilated using less energy with a warm-air system than with a radiant system. The following benefits should be mentioned in ECA767.

1.1 Total appliance input is lower with warm air heaters.

1.2 Generally, fewer warm air heaters can provide the required comfort. (Less energy used in their manufacture and subsequent installation). Their illustration below confirms that multiple radiant sources are necessary to avoid asymmetrical radiant discomfort.

1.3 Modern buildings are generally designed not to have air-infiltration. Most warm air heaters can be installed as room-sealed, requiring no additional (cold-air entraining) ventilation for combustion.

1.4 However, to comply with BS 6896:2005 Clause 5.2.2.2.1 buildings having radiant heaters must have additional (cold-air entraining) ventilation for combustion at both high and low level. [Unless every burner has combustion-air ducted from outside.]

1.5 Buildings requiring heating & ventilation need have only a warm air system. Radiant systems are incapable of ventilating, so an additional system, with its own carbon footprint, has to be added.

1.6 Warm-air heaters can recycle & recirculate some of the “free” heat emissions from people, lighting, processes and solar-gain. Radiant heaters are incapable of recycling their own substantial upward emissions (>40%) or other heat emissions.

1.7 Warm air heaters maintain a high efficiency throughout their life. Reflectors of radiant tubes tarnish relatively rapidly, and so their downward radiant efficiency diminishes.

1.8 Warm-air heaters may be supplied with 2-stage or modulating burner control to further reduce energy consumption. It is impractical to fit modulating burners on a radiant heater; and, a 2-stage burner is suitable only for a (flueless) plaque heater that can have ½ its plaques at 100% (to maintain maximum emissivity) plus the other ½ at 0% (i.e. rather than all at 50%). But being flueless requires even greater cold-air ventilation.

1.9 Warm air heaters are available as continually-condensing appliances with a net thermal efficiency of up to 104%. Radiant heaters have a net thermal efficiency of only just above 86%.

2. The illustration on P2 of ECA766 Radiant Heaters deliberately misleads readers into believing all the heat from a radiant heater is projected downwards.

The downward radiant efficiency of a radiant tube is only about 60%, so nearly 40% rises.

(Source:-http://www.eca.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/B0FB3F89-8962-43EC-A50A-9E534B5240EB/0/09RWAH_RadiantHeating.pdf)

That 40% of wasted, irrecoverable heat must also be indicated on their illustration.

The Carbon Trust should therefore amend one or both of their ECA766 - Radiant heaters and ECA767 - Warm air heaters on-line pdfs to better reflect the true comparisons, and actually assist users to make an informed decision based upon facts, so that energy consumption & carbon emissions can be minimised.