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jean's avatar

So let "them" ban mandatory lock downs word salad speech and executive gobbley gook speech and above all stupidity. That will help me confront my fears.

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Stegiel's avatar

I doubt myself anything changes with human folly elite to pauper. Just be advised there is a Surrealist warning out on that. https://youtu.be/8Tyg5SJDpiQ.

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Sez77's avatar

Electricity is a weapon, just like food is a weapon, just like water is a weapon.

Pushing to make inroads on banning such things as wood stoves and gas heaters "for your safety due to particulate matter" is a soft sell for soft heads.

They don't want you having alternatives once they move to sunshine and windmills, and their entirely predictable failure, and entirely predictable blackouts.

After the last 4 years, I'm surprised people not only still fall for their disingenuous double-speak, but actually cheer it on.

The Government does not care about your safety.

They care about sticking to the U.N plan to deindustrialise every country and reduce your standard of living.

They want you de-populated, and until that time, want you uncomfortable and controllable.

You really think people who want this for you, care about particulate matter in your lungs??

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Fay's avatar

No, they are not talking about banning cars here in Australia Stegiel…well not yet!

We have a love affair with our cars.

Sorry Richard! I would like to bike everywhere, but our sun would burn me to a crisp.

Those who cycle, are mostly out quite early in the morning for the enjoyment and camaraderie.

Banning of wood-fired heaters is on the agenda as you have read because it has been found that there was ‘no safe level of air pollution’ from them.

There is some resistance with letters protesting in the papers. Groups are forming and ready to

fight, as they are ‘outraged over this push’.

Many have a romantic attachment to wood fires as they find them comforting.

We hardly need them in sunny Queensland where I live but come our mild winters, the air changes to the fragrance of smoke. Those with respiratory problems suffer quite badly with many aLao experiencing sneezing fits from the fine particles emitted.

The banning has been a long time coming as there have been complaints and talk about

this for years.

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Richard Seager's avatar

I just want proper bicycle lanes without cars or pedestrians Fay. And the ability to get everywhere. Noosaville seems ideal for them. Not sure how to get them into Noosa proper but that road that goes up and over into Noosa is reasonably wide....

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Fay's avatar

Every thing is ideal except the intense Sun! If you could put a large

umbrella over the bike, so that it didn’t obscure vision and flap around

It may be a solution. However, it’s not only the sun, but the heat and humidity.

Dripping wet walking into the supermarket !

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Richard Seager's avatar

I shall have to test this out. I mean I can imagine that 45º C in the outback would be too hot but 31 in Noosa. Give me a few months to get back to you.

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Fay's avatar

Sorry, I put it in the wrong spot. 31 degrees is acceptable. We have been

experiencing 35- 37 degrees for weeks. Plus high humidity. I don’t mind

the heat and do not have air-conditioning because I like all the doors and

windows open. The intense sun is the issue.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Those temperatures seem a little high for Noosa.

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Richard Seager's avatar

Seems to be contradicted by this as well.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/IDCJDW4081.latest.shtml

Maybe it's a little hotter inland a little?

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Richard Seager's avatar

And having electric cars in Australia when the electric grid is mostly coal powered is somewhat insane.

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Fay's avatar

Anyone who thinks fossil fuels are on the way out - should listen to my

nephew who is earning a large amount of money driving gigantic trucks

loaded to the hilt with coal. I asked him if coal mining was abating.

He replied, ‘not in the slightest’.

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Richard Seager's avatar

No of course it's not. When I looked at a Shell Report about 5 years ago they did not expect their share of the energy market to go down, on the contrary they expected an increase in their share from somewhere in the 80s to maybe into the 90s.

Shell also took the Green Party co-leader in NZ, a certain James Shaw, from Vic Uni maybe 1/3 or 2/3s of the way through his BA and trained him up (mostly in the UK) to be a Green Party leader!

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Richard Seager's avatar

It's all a rich man's trick.

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jacquelyn sauriol's avatar

Wood heat is my favorite, and I have heard radiant actually healthier in some ways at least. Even though I live in the city, there are lots of trees and I find or make firewood all the time. The hypocrisy of this new push, with the DEW/HAARP/Chemtrail created wildfires and things like the Ohio and other derailments...yeah, they're real worried....ridic uncomparable pollution/damage levels compared to city home woodstoves. They have attained supreme ridiculousness, indeed. But I digress....The thing you need is the time to wait for green wood to season. I have a modern woodstove, but it's in a sauna and not the main house. Still, awesome and sadly a bit underused lately. (The sauna has spiders because someone put wood with bark on it inside the sauna, which is frustrating as they had been warned.!...) I spend a lot of time watching bushcraft vidoes of people making shelters, usually with some sort of fireplace, but sometimes crude and smokey, I would guess. Alot of others have manufactured small wood stoves, some no bigger than a toaster oven, really. And of course, some folks making them out of tin cans recycled. Most of them are really quite effiicient and low smoke. I also own a small twig stove from Aprovecho. It's a bit too heavy-12 pounds or so-to lug around though. So the earthstove that you dig into the ground, done for stealth camping where you don't want a fire to be seen, is a good one to know about. Will add if I find it. And this very very small homemade low cost stealth setup is pretty genius and cheap. https://youtu.be/ldwxNX1VBSA...

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Fay's avatar

31 degrees is acceptable. We have been experiencing 35- 37 degrees fir weeks.

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