This sort of thing should be mentioned by RVAFers a lot. Being more environmentally-friendly makes RVAFers seem like the good guys rather than the absurd cannibal-image the more hysterical mainstreamers have of us.

I always mention that in conversation and about how many hours a day are freed up if no food cooking, but it doesn't seem to sink in.

A friend of mine who has an interest in history said this: "The use of this stuff in wattle and daub architecture goes back a long, long way. Those Tudor style houses are examples."

Having said all of this there are concoctions made in Ayurveda using mercury. It is prepared ina a certain way and used for certain applications. One man's meat is another man's poison.

http://isha.sadhguru.org/mystic/rasa-vaidya/

Since the issue came up there has been a lot of water under the bridge. Dr Wakefield's point was that it needed more study. They give a vaccine to 1 day old babies. That's one of the reasons why my daughter and plenty of others are opting for the non-hospital route.

An allopathic Doc friend's wife had both births at home for that reason.

Re: mercury, it is one of the worse neurotoxins on the planet. Now they are using aluminum which is just as bad. There have never been science done to prove anything and especially the safety of giving this to infants.

They are slowly but surely forcing this crap on everyone and especially on the weakest of all the very young and the very old.

First of all Tyler, the study was not done by Dr Wakefield. He was in this with a group of other scientists.

Take the time to listen to his story. There are many excellent interviews with him on Youtube.

Tyler,
I'm afraid I can't agree with you on that one. For starters if you want to make a few extra pounds in your retirement, Robert F Kennedy has offered anyone 100,000 USD for anyone finding or doing studies on the safety of mercury in vaccines. No takers as of yet. Also there was a very well done documentary called "Vaccines Revealed" that completely refutes all culpability on Dr Wakefield.

You have experienced what it's like to be vilified in the press and so should have an inkling of what happened with Wakefield. The press is owned in the US by four corporations. Follow the money.

Then there's the scandal regarding the CDC scientist who participated in changing the results of a study done about 15 -17 years ago on autism which showed that there was a very real autism connection and that it was double in the male/black population. This guy's conscience got the better of him after all those years, but the problem is that the government is not obligated to do anything unless he is subpoenaed to testify. Interestingly Trump has tapped a Democrat from a family that included a President and congressman etc. to head up a real investigation about vaccines. RFK Junior.

Britain has sadly been implicated very deeply into this medical malfeasance regarding Wakefield and the whole issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=titN2bZYlUU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jxujaa0wDE

There is a mountain of evidence that vaccines simply have not been scientifically proven to be safe or effective.

A physician friend's daughter recently was vaccine injured. Coma shortly afterwards.

One of my grandchildren was vaccine injured with an eye turning inward.

One of my friend's son is autistic shortly after being vaccinated.

Here you can sign up to watch a free showing:

https://go.thetruthaboutvaccines.com/?a_aid=58b71e2649e8d&a_bid=62acb2d5

Alive,
Back when I was hang gliding I flew from a place where when the sun was getting low the cold air would slide down the mountain side, filling the valley and actually causing rising air, so you'd run like h#ll off to smash through the layer of subsiding air (subsidence) close to the wall and dive out of it and then once you got out a short distance you'd be in what we used to call "Magic" air. Lift everywhere in fact it was a bit difficult to land because you had to dive through it to the landing zone (LZ).

Hmm, i live just 1 km away from the nearest wind turbine; we have ducks, hens, bees, people nearby have dogs and cats and we don't notice any ill effect of these turbines. There are plenty of wild animals around, mongooses, mice, birds, etc.

The wind doesn't stop at night!

Most large thermal power plants use steam or gas turbines which, AFAIK, can work at full power immediately after starting without any problems. Diesel and gas-engines generators can be also started and stopped at will. There's more wear when they are often cold-started, but it's not such a big problem.

This post signed Alan looks like complete bullshit to me.

Belief is a wonderful thing Iguana.

The wind does indeed 'not' normally make it to the earth at night. Yes it does sometimes and in some locales this may not be true but normally it doesn't. Close to the equator the air is rising and so there is very little wind period, low or high. I've seen it blowing 30 to 50 knots, even at 1000' AGL (350 M) (Above Ground Level) and zero on the ground more nights than I could tell you. It is very strange to be coming in to land (130 to 140 knots approach speed) with a crab of 30 degrees or more into the wind and a major headwind on final and just before touchdown the wind dies to nothing so you suddenly have to straighten out and add power to keep from slamming into the runway. In some locales on the ground, you can even hear the windshear which sounds like a distant roaring from up above. Windshear is the change in windspeed with altitude and is often used to determine where it will be bumpy by pilots, because where there is a stronger wind as you change altitude there is mixing and thus turbulence.

What I have noticed is that often when the wind is 'howling' meaning speeds in the Jetstream in excess of say 80 knots it is often practically dead on the ground.

The theory of why the wind dies at night that I was taught, which may have changed in the intervening years is that during the day the sun heats the earth causing the air next to it to warm up and thus become more viscous and have less mass or inertia, so it sticks to the earth less and can move more quickly and thus windy and also the wind is gusty because it is deflected by everything from trees to mountains to houses etc etc making it tumble.

Conversely in the nighttime the sun's heat is missing, so the air cools, becomes heavier, denser, more resistant to being moved and in essence sticks to the earth, thus no wind and it falls or settles.

Maybe where you are in France, the prevailing wind off of the ocean is incessant because there is less friction on the ocean and diurnal heating/cooling is less. Where I am next to the Pacific we have a mountain range between us and the prevailing westerlies, so the friction is again at work.

Meteorology is a huge topic that PPL spend a lifetime learning. Some books to read that are unusual but fascinating are written by an American hang glider pilot whose name escapes me but he wrote on micrometeorolgy, which is about the winds/air movement below 3000'or 1000 M to the surface.

Re starting and stopping powerstations, I was repeating what a number of electric engineers that ran diesel etc powerplants told me. When they run the powerplants at low speed they puff out a lot of smoke because they are not efficient at low speeds. Basically they would get complaints from the locals about the smoke dirtying the laundry on the clotheslines.

The turbines that I flew were basically damaged by starting and stopping them. This damage is essentially caused by the expanding and contracting of the vanes etc during the temperature changes of starting and stopping, causing the vanes to rub at the tips and stressing them with speed changes. Basically Pratt and Whitney once said to us on a training course, that someone had figured out that each startup caused (probably in today's prices) about 75+ dollars.

What I said about wind turbines being all over the place in regards to output was told to me by friends who did training at a large facility in the US where they trained on simulators. They complained about these wind turbines because at the time they said they were useless. You cannot have inconsistent power on a grid, plain and simple.

I recall discussions at the university where the electrical engineers were discussing the variable output of WT and things were discussed like doing what they were at the time planning in Iceland where they were planning to convert the electricity from the geothermal sites to produce hydrogen and running local cars on it.

There are maps of North America where the wind speeds are given and thus can guide planners to where the wind is most consistent and strong and when I was leaving work, they were constructing a lot of these windmills near the site I lived at, because they had the strongest most consistent winds in NA and it is basically uninhabited.

I heard of one scheme where they have basically a pipe that sticks up in the air and has a sort of drum spinning around it with vanes sticking out to make it spin, sort of like a squirrel cage air fan. I saw pics of it on a Popular Science cover being used on ships to assist to power them.

PPL will always be attracted to what seems like free electricity and will hope and dream that it will work but reality steps in.

I knew that wind turbines cause beehives to exhibit all of the symptoms of problems, such as
very angry bees, which means that the farmer cannot get even a bit close without being completely suited up (I and lots of beeks work with no suits at all)
low honey production
Swarming which means loss of a massive amount of bees when they basically flee
death of hives completely
etc

But I was not aware of the devastating affects (death blindness spontaneous abortion etc.) on livestock, wild birds, pets of all sorts,
Deaths of humans and physical misery

I used to work at the largest underground hydroelectric power plant in the world, so I knew from talking to the control room guys that these wind turbines are not far from being useless as they only produce intermittent power and it is a crazy fluctuating power. In other words when you turn on an electric item it requires basically rock steady power or you will have devices constantly burning out from too much power or no working from too low power. That is why they have to have so many turbines, to smooth out the power. Additionally the turbines do not produce at the early times in the day/evening when the power is need and some days they produce nothing so the regular power plants still have to be there and they don't like running at low power so intermittently turning them down does no good only harm.

However this report outlines the reality. Starting with the PPL who live in cities and buy the propaganda and then onto the PPL in rural areas who know the reality. It is financially and environmentally a disaster. Some species are actually being put on the edge of extinction by these windmills.

I personally have read the books on global warming, but now serious doubt has been cast upon it by other PPL coming in who talk about climate cycles being associated with sunspots…

Alan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef6bb-S1CLo&feature=em-uploademail

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-22/mould-on-food-prevented-in-murdoch-university-research/8377378

What think ye?

and hence the expression fresh-air salesman or saleswoman in this case. Apparently fresh air does nothing for appearance.

This winter is a very cold one here, probably 10 degrees Celsius colder than usual.