Parliament Sits -our 43 rd.
September 30th 2010 09:37
The 43 rd Parliament Sits
Today was the day- or was it? From the little I have heard not a lot was actually done today. The usual welcoming to all members of the House, the Speaker situation sorted out, a very good speech by our Governor General, a short sharp row between Take-Away-Tony and Simon Crean and a promise by Tony to make life as miserable as he possibly can for everyone with his very aggressive approach to anything the Govt may wish to do.
I can’t write much tonight, mostly because there is really not a lot to write about.
Therefore I shall offer some suggestions to the beurocrats and politicians alike with regard to some specific subjects which are dear to my heart and, I believe, essential for our country’s progress into thee future.
Climate Change – 28th August 2010.
The climate is going to change no matter what we do, or don’t do. My suggestion is to research all methods of:
a. Water Conservation
b. Methods of growing food with minimal water and hotter temperatures
c. Generating Electricity without a National Grid to distribute it.
A, We humans are 65% water, so we need it to survive. Currently only a small percentage of our water usage is to keep our bodies hydrated. Therefore shouldn’t some organisation be searching for ways to ensure there is enough of that precious stuff to go round so that we can have enough to keep us humans alive and well.
B. I know the framers need water for stock etc and the irrigation farmers need water for their crops but does anyone know how much water there will be next year – or the year after? No? Neither do I. But I do think there should be some Department of Govt without ‘Party’ affiliations looking into it. How do we live with less water and hotter temperatures. Certainly not by irrigating thousands and thousands of acres of farmland to grow cotton. There must be a way of growing crops, such as cotton, without using billions of litres of water. Someone should be researching ways of growing all crops with less water than is used at present. Simply saying that improved infrastructure will save enough water is a fallacy. During the recent drought Nature gave us all a warning, shouldn’t our elected representatives be researching ways to live and feed ourselves in such times when water is scarce?
C. Electricity has become a necessity of life for all developed countries, it’s a must have product. Please correct me if I am wrong, but; I have heard that the National Grid for distribution of electricity, those thousands of miles of it, use about one third of the power generated just to keep the Grid alive. Is that economically sustainable? I would think not. Prices are increasing all the time and cannot keep on rising at their present rate without having a detrimental effect on our society. Why not use the energy of the sun? The harbingers of the Climate Change doom tell us we are going to have plenty of it, so we could use it to advantage – or could we?
Imagine every Town west of the Great Dividing Range with its own Solar generation plant and not requiring those miles of High tension wires to get its electricity supply. Farms and small towns and villages would be a piece of cake to supply, even with today’s technology. Certainly it would cost money and lots of it to supply and install all this but, it may well be cheaper than maintaining all those miles of high tension cables. A spin off could be that all power users would pay the same price for their power. The Big users pay less per unit than the small users do at present, even though the total power used by all the small users is far greater than those who use a lot for their businesses. The little guy subsidises the big guy. Not fair mate.
Today was the day- or was it? From the little I have heard not a lot was actually done today. The usual welcoming to all members of the House, the Speaker situation sorted out, a very good speech by our Governor General, a short sharp row between Take-Away-Tony and Simon Crean and a promise by Tony to make life as miserable as he possibly can for everyone with his very aggressive approach to anything the Govt may wish to do.
I can’t write much tonight, mostly because there is really not a lot to write about.
Therefore I shall offer some suggestions to the beurocrats and politicians alike with regard to some specific subjects which are dear to my heart and, I believe, essential for our country’s progress into thee future.
The climate is going to change no matter what we do, or don’t do. My suggestion is to research all methods of:
a. Water Conservation
b. Methods of growing food with minimal water and hotter temperatures
c. Generating Electricity without a National Grid to distribute it.
A, We humans are 65% water, so we need it to survive. Currently only a small percentage of our water usage is to keep our bodies hydrated. Therefore shouldn’t some organisation be searching for ways to ensure there is enough of that precious stuff to go round so that we can have enough to keep us humans alive and well.
B. I know the framers need water for stock etc and the irrigation farmers need water for their crops but does anyone know how much water there will be next year – or the year after? No? Neither do I. But I do think there should be some Department of Govt without ‘Party’ affiliations looking into it. How do we live with less water and hotter temperatures. Certainly not by irrigating thousands and thousands of acres of farmland to grow cotton. There must be a way of growing crops, such as cotton, without using billions of litres of water. Someone should be researching ways of growing all crops with less water than is used at present. Simply saying that improved infrastructure will save enough water is a fallacy. During the recent drought Nature gave us all a warning, shouldn’t our elected representatives be researching ways to live and feed ourselves in such times when water is scarce?
Imagine every Town west of the Great Dividing Range with its own Solar generation plant and not requiring those miles of High tension wires to get its electricity supply. Farms and small towns and villages would be a piece of cake to supply, even with today’s technology. Certainly it would cost money and lots of it to supply and install all this but, it may well be cheaper than maintaining all those miles of high tension cables. A spin off could be that all power users would pay the same price for their power. The Big users pay less per unit than the small users do at present, even though the total power used by all the small users is far greater than those who use a lot for their businesses. The little guy subsidises the big guy. Not fair mate.
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