The Extinction Rebellion

[Black Orchid]

Not satisfied with stopping traffic on bridges and roads, Extinction Rebellion has taken the climate change protests to the next level.

An Extinction Rebellion protester glued himself to the top of a British Airways plane at London City Airport today.

The man, identified by Extinction Rebellion as former Paralympic cyclist James Brown, was seen clinging to the aircraft in a video streamed online by the protest group.

Mr Brown, who is visually impaired, was arrested at Heathrow last month after a protest which saw some Extinction Rebellion activists try to fly a drone near the airport.

The 54-year-old, who won a bronze medal at London 2012, glued himself to the top of a British Airways Embraer 190 jet.

“Here I am on top of a f****** aeroplane at City Airport. I hate heights, I’m s******* myself, I managed to get on the roof. I am so shaky,” he said in a Facebook video.

“This is all about the climate and ecological crisis, we’re protesting against government inaction on climate and ecological breakdown. They declare a climate emergency and then do nothing about it.

“In fact they go the opposite direction, they sanction the expansion of airports, Heathrow, Bristol and others. We can’t let this go on, we can’t have our cake and eat it.”

He later noticed security were approaching and said, “Oh good security are coming. I hope they don’t take too long because this is f****** scary.”

He was eventually removed. A spokeswoman for British Airways said, “We are investigating what happened as a matter of urgency.”

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These idiots should be banned from social media as well.

[Black Orchid]

Meanwhile another protester managed to ground a flight from London City Airport to Dublin today — to the fury of the passengers on board.

The Aer Lingus flight this morning was on the runway and about to take off when a smartly dressed man stood up and gave a lecture on climate change.

Filming himself on his phone, the man said, “I don’t wish to travel with you, but I don’t wish to get off. I’m extremely sorry for the inconvenience.”

Furious passengers responded saying, “You’re not sorry at all.” As their flight was held up, travellers pleaded with crew to remove the bespectacled man from the plane.

Continuing to address those on board, the man said, “We have two generations of human civilisation left if we carry on doing what we are doing.”

Another passenger then asked him, “Why are you filming yourself?”

“The final irony of the climate protest on our flight. We cannot take off until we have taken on extra fuel … to replace the fuel used up during the protest, our pilot notes with humour.”

Those arriving for flights were redirected to a second terminal entrance by security workers and were not allowed to enter the building without showing their boarding cards first.

Taxi driver Jason Lempiere said that the protests had disrupted his work in and around the city. “It’s disturbing everyone’s everyday life — working, travel in and out of the airport. Yeah, have a voice, but not disrupt people’s lives like this,” he said.

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If we only have 12 years left there is no hope for us whatever we do or don't do so how about letting the rest of us just get on with our lives and our work (something these people don't appear to do) for the 12 years we have left.

[Black Orchid]

As climate activists wreak havoc across the country this week, Mark Latham is calling for jail sentences for disruptive protesters.

Activist group Extinction Rebellion caused chaos again on Tuesday, with one man suspending himself from Brisbane’s Story Bridge while multiple protesters attempted to block roads in Sydney.

Brisbane ringleader Eric ‘Serge’ Herbert faced court again yesterday, once more escaping without a conviction.

NSW One Nation Leader Mark Latham tells Alan Jones the public has had enough and it’s about time magistrates started imposing tougher sentences.

“They’ve got to jail them!

“There was a guy yesterday on his seventh offence who was given 30 hours of community service… it renders that system a joke.

“These people who go out of their way to disrupt and hurt the livelihood and the convenience of others, well they should be locked up.”

Mark Latham

Can't say I disagree!

[Black Orchid]

By glueing themselves to roads, blocking traffic in city centres, rolling makeshift barricades in front of cars and scaling bridges, climate change rebels have certainly made a lot of noise.

Extinction Rebellion protests continue across Australia this week as activists seek to “disrupt” people’s everyday lives to put pressure on governments.

The goal is to drive action on climate change. But is it working? Or is the movement just pissing people off?

Brand, marketing and communications experts say the broader climate change cause is at risk of being damaged by the actions of Extinction Rebellion members, with people’s growing frustration turning them away.

And not only is it likely the protesters won’t achieve any real change, but they could actually delay progress.

‘A MOB IS A MOB’

Extinction Rebellion bills itself as a peaceful, nonviolent movement and apart from the odd scuffle with police, it has remained that.

But its unapologetic disruption tactics are giving all the appearance of an angry mob, Amanda Lacey, director of the consultancy POPCOM, said.

“Shouting at people doesn’t work — it puts them off,” Ms Lacey said.

“Shutting down cities, blocking traffic, chaining yourself to things, halting public transport — you can say you’re nonviolent but it looks like an angry mob.”

She believes there’s a way of getting a message across without being “a public nuisance” and alienating people who might have otherwise been open to a cause.

On Tuesday night, vision of a woman crying hysterically behind the wheel of her car while Extinction Rebellion protesters blocked her path was broadcast on Channel 9.

The motorist was trying to get to her late mother’s home, after she died on Sunday, to begin packing up her belongings. It was a potent and damaging image.

“That’s the thing — it’s putting people off,” Ms Lacey said.

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I couldn't put up the pics but why do these people always look so grubby?

[Black Orchid]

[Bobby]

These protestors are not in touch with reality.

If Australia cuts its coal exports we'll go broke very soon.
We also export high quality coal.
The buyers such as China and India will just source cheap coal which creates more pollution
and that will make the problem worse.

[Nom De Plume]

These protestors are not in touch with reality.

If Australia cuts its coal exports we'll go broke very soon.
We also export high quality coal.
The buyers such as China and India will just source cheap coal which creates more pollution
and that will make the problem worse.

Oh, ffs, What we need to do is go nuclear as we ween ourselves off coal and oil. It is the next major project in our nation building future and, the sooner we realise this, the sooner we are to a sensible solution to the impending economic downturn.

[Texan]

These protestors are not in touch with reality.

If Australia cuts its coal exports we'll go broke very soon.
We also export high quality coal.
The buyers such as China and India will just source cheap coal which creates more pollution
and that will make the problem worse.

Oh, ffs, What we need to do is go nuclear as we ween ourselves off coal and oil. It is the next major project in our nation building future and, the sooner we realise this, the sooner we are to a sensible solution to the impending economic downturn.

Nuclear does make a lot of sense when it is done right. If you build the reactor in a seismically stable area with access to a small lake for water and the water is not sourced for drinking. It's very cheap electricity. The waste can be stored and as technology evolves, the waste can be used. You can't build it on a fault on the beach like Fukishima.

Wind is great and you have lots of room for wind farms, but wind is not stable enough to be a primary source. Texas currently gets 15-16% of it's electricity from wind. Off the top of my head, we have about 24GW of wind generator capability.

Solar is good, but it is not as easily stored or transmitted. It's best if used where it's made. That makes personal home solar golden.

[Bobby]

These protestors are not in touch with reality.

If Australia cuts its coal exports we'll go broke very soon.
We also export high quality coal.
The buyers such as China and India will just source cheap coal which creates more pollution
and that will make the problem worse.

Oh, ffs, What we need to do is go nuclear as we ween ourselves off coal and oil. It is the next major project in our nation building future and, the sooner we realise this, the sooner we are to a sensible solution to the impending economic downturn.

China and India are spending a large amount of money investing in Thorium reactors.

The start of the glorious Thorium Age

The fact is that Thorium is all around us -
it's abundant in our soil - it's in bricks.
It's hardly radioactive at all -
even a banana is more radioactive however
Thorium is a fertile element & can be changed by neutrons into Uranium 233
which can undergo fission to produce massive amounts of energy.

Therefore we have all that untapped energy around us all the time but
instead we prefer to burn lumps of stinking coal.
We're primitive at the moment.
Mankind will look back in 1000 years from now at how we almost wrecked the entire planet until
the power of Thorium was discovered & used.

I really believe that we are at the start of a glorious
Thorium age that will produce wonders we can only dream of.
With unlimited power we could do almost anything - even control our climate.
We could make unlimited amounts of fresh drinking water
& water for agriculture.

Cheap & abundant energy is staring us in the face -
hidden in plain sight -
yet most people don't even know about it.

[Bobby]

The short-lived Molten Salt Reactor Experiment is far from forgotten
https://www.ornl.gov/news/msres-50th


October 15, 2015

October 15, 2015 – The Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE), which ran a brief four years in the 1960s but earned an enduring legacy as an innovative reactor technology concept, this year marks a half century since its June 1965 startup.

A workshop on molten salt reactor technologies, "From the MSRE to a New Emerging Class of Reactors 50 Years Later," is being held October 15-16 at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which developed the reactor.



Alvin Weinberg, then the director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, marks 6000 power hours performance of his brainchild, the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment, in October 1967.