Living Plastic free: Motor Oil
Last year I took the pledge to take transit to work so MyLittleCar and I could reduce our CO2 emissions. From my new home, the commute to work takes 45-60 minutes via skytrain and bus, one way. But that’s okay, ‘cuz it’s better for the environment.
Secretly, I’m also hoping, that by taking transit I might be able to prolong the life of MyLittleCar who in car years, is quite ancient.
Oh, I know, it would be even better for the environment if I traded in my 18-year old car for a ‘good-for-the-environment’ Prius or a SmartCar, but I’m also very conscious that a whole lot of Mother Earth’s resources go into producing a car. Is it ethical to get rid of a perfectly good car (that only has 150,000 kilometers on it) and use more of Earth’s resources just to have the ‘newer better’ model? One of my pet enviropeeves is the whole ‘trade up to a newer model every 2 years’ mentality. To me, it’s the ultimate symbol of excessive consumerism and our disposable society mentality that’s causing the devastation of the planet.
And truthfully, (hold onto your shorts, ‘cuz this is where, instead of sounding like a WhackedOutEcoFreak who has grown balls, as EnviroWoman often does, I sound like a WhackedOutCrazyLady who’s lost her marbles…) I LOVE MyLittleCar. I just couldn’t bear the thought of it ever ending up in the hands of some TestosteroneTwit who might use it for one of those crash-em-up car derbys.
MyLittleCar deserves better. It’s been a faithful companion through life’s adventures and transitions. Loyal. True Blue. Trustworthy. Dependable. So like an old race-horse, it deserves a nice quiet retirement in the parkade pasture, only being taken out for a ride on the weekends.
EnviroWoman is also hoping that MyLittleCar will last long enough that it can be replaced with an electric car when those become widely available and affordable.
In the meantime, I need to take good care of MyLittleCar. And I do. Every year it passes the AirCare Test with a wide margin so I must be doing something right.
Last weekend, when MyLittleCar accompanied me on an errand, it had a nasty knock in the engine. When I checked under the hood I discovered, not only did it need oil, but also a new oil cap. EnviroWoman had a FewFriesShortOfAHappyMeal moment and not returned the oil cap to it’s locked position the last time she checked the oil. Now it was gonzo.
This proved to be a blessing in disguise.
For months now EnviroWoman has been searching for plastic-free motor oil. All to no avail. I remember metal cans of STP motor oil years ago, but nowadays, all motor oil comes in plastic containers. Instead of continuing my futile oil search, it was now time to take action.
So, I phoned my trusted mechanic Jerry, and scheduled MyLittleCar for an oil change, oil filter, and new oil cap.
Now you might recall, when I took MyLittleCar to the autobody shop to get the dent from a HitAndLeaveANote repaired, I was told the repair and repaint wasn’t possible without using plastic. So I had to cancel MyLittleCar’s visit to the auto spa. It’s just gonna have to wait until 2008 to get beautified.
But, ya gotta love my mechanic Jerry, because when I told him of EnviroWoman’s NoNewPlasticPledge, and asked if there was any way he could do an oil change without using plastic he said ‘Sure, we have a big underground tank of oil, and that’s what we’ll use.’ (Ya gotta love people who get on board with a crazy chick’s New Year’s Resolution, don’t ya?)
And the HorseshoesUpTheAss good luck continued. Because Jerry even was able to find an all metal oil cap.
So now, MyLittleCar is all gassed up. And oiled up. With no place to go.
So here’s how things add up:
Category: Motor Oil
SAINT: Jerry at Granville & Avery Autobody, here in LaLaLand. Not just a wonderfully honest and excellent mechanic, but a guy whose willing to cater to a WhackedOutEcoFreak. If you ever need to shop for a new mechanic, call Jerry. I've been going to him for 13 years
Price: More expensive than changing or topping up the oil yourself
Quality: The same
SINNERs: Shell Nautilus/Formula, Motor Master, PJ1, Troy Bilt, Quaker State, Mobil, Havoline, Autolab, Pennzoil, Castrol, Valvoline
Lessons Learned:
- The real problem isn’t the car. We like to blame others for the muck our planet is in. We point the finger at cars and say ‘There’s too many cars, it’s their fault.' We point the finger at car makers and say ‘They don’t make green cars, it’s their fault.’ We point the finger at cows and say ‘There are too many COWS, that fart, it’s their fault.' Some whackos even say ‘There’s too many people making and using plastic, it’s their fault.' Silly us…the real cause of global warming, and disappearing ocean life, and pine-park beetle ravaged forests, and endangered species and probably almost all the other ailments in the world….is that there are too many humans. And that’s our fault. What we really need to do, each and every one of us… is just stop breeding.
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LOvEarTh Non-breeders UNITE!
LOvEarTh
Non-breeders UNITE! Alas, we need everyone across the planet, from all countries, and all races to reduce their breeding to only one per person. Then the environment has a chance.
Cheers, EnviroWoman
Plastic free. Cruelty free. Vegetarian. Chocoholic
Okay - here's a
Okay - here's a controversial one that I would like to put out for feedback.
Herman Daly - the Godfather of Ecological Economics - has suggested that the only way to curb populations is to bring childbirth into the market so that we can capture the environmental costs of human life systematically.
This would manifest like a cap and trade system. Each person would be allowed a certain number of children - say 1.75 - in order to reduce the total number of humans over time. If any person wants to have one more child then they must purchase the additional .25 on the open market. The market would set the price - likely quite high. It would be a great means of wealth redistribution, and would put the environmental costs to countries that choose to have higher populations.
One - perhaps - perverse side effect is that it means wealthy people will have more babies. But overall numbers would reduce, for certain.
I have two comments- Comment
I have two comments-
Comment 1: I'm so proud of you for taking good car of MyLittleCar and doing the responsible thing! I am doing the same (or attempting to).
2: Would it work if you re-used old plastic or metal oil containers? Could you get them filled at your Lovely mechanic's for top-ups between oil changes?
Free Battery Pickup Truck,
Free Battery Pickup Truck, another Battery Inventor allegedly assasinated
What had to be done to create the Free Battery Pickup Truck
First, there was Who Killed The Electric Car Cottage
Industry? Our suspect wasn't the usual one.
In arresting (couldn't resist the pun)
the decline of this particular electric vehicle,
we hadda' be creative, and think totally outside the box.
The link below will take you to the summary of the story
of the world's first revived battery licensed pickup truck,
which is also the world's cheapest truck to operate.
(Diagram of EV summary mods)
http://tinyurl.com/yo43h4
However, on another matter,
we're worried about the recent story at the Jeff Rense
website that alleges that a certain battery inventor was perhaps
"murdered". Here's the Rense article with the allegations..
http://www.rense.com/general79/murder.htm
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rense.com
A Curious Coincidence - Was
It Suppression Of The
Self-Powering Battery?
T. E. Bearden
12-6-7
The Incident
An incident that occurred in the Charlotte Douglas International
Airport in North Carolina earlier this month is at least a curious
coincidence, or it may possibly even represent assassination and
suppression of another highly important "energy from the vacuum"
(EFTV) invention. At least such a possibility should be considered,
and then if all the facts warrant questioning the autopsy finding of
death from natural causes, the incident should be more deeply
investigated.
The victim's name was M. DeGeus. DeGeus was found slumped in his car
in the long term parking area of the airport, totally unresponsive. He
was rushed to the hospital, and was pronounced dead very quickly,
according to <http://www.wbtv.com/>http://www.WBTV.com
The resulting autopsy indicated heart failure, and thus concluded
"death from natural causes". Hence police are not investigating it any
further, and they are not considering it as a possible homicide.
Some Background on the Victim and His Invention
DeGeus was in fact the inventor of a thin wafer-like material/device
that somehow specially aligned the atoms or electron currents ongoing
in that material, so that the wafer produced a constant amperage at a
small voltage continuous real power, or in other words a strange
kind of "self-powering battery". It is actually powered by the ongoing
and continuous tremendous exchange of energy by the active vacuum with
the charges of any material. This exchange is exceptionally powerful,
and normally our electromagnetic systems and devices only use just a
tiny bit of it.
But as is known in physics, even simple materials (such as a simple
short piece of ordinary copper wire) have extraordinary symmetrical
cross currents ongoing perpetually, even when no ordinary "net"
current is flowing since normally there is no asymmetry. E.g., quoting
Swann:
"Think of the cables which carry the telephone current in the form of
electrons. In the absence of the current the electrons are moving in
all directions. As many are moving from left to right as are moving
from right to left; and the nothingness which is there is composed of
two equal and opposite halves, about a million million amperes per
square centimeter in one direction, and a million million amperes per
square centimeter in the other direction. The telephone current
constitutes an upsetting of the balance to the extent of one hundredth
of a millionth of an ampere per square centimeter, or about one part
in a hundred million million million. Then if this one part in a
hundred million million million is at fault by one part in a thousand,
we ring up the telephone company and complain that the quality of the
speech is faulty." [W.F.G. Swann, Physics Today, June. 1951, p. 9.]
However, if by special alignment of atoms and basic constituents one
does provide an EM asymmetry in this naturally occurring "opposing
huge EM power currents" always ongoing laterally in the matter itself,
then a net lateral direct current (real EM power) can be freely
provided by that altered material at a resulting voltage (indicating
the asymmetry) because every charge in the material is continually
involved in an enormous energy reaction with its local active vacuum.
This continual giant energy interaction of every charge with the
seething vacuum is already well-known in modern quantum field theory.
E.g., quoting Aitchison:
"...the concept of a 'single particle' actually breaks down in
relativistic quantum field theory with interactions, because the
interactions between 'the particle' and the vacuum fluctuations (or
virtual quanta) cannot be ignored." [I. J. R. Aitchison, "Nothing's
Plenty: The Vacuum in Modern Quantum Field Theory," Contemporary
Physics, 26(4), 1985, p. 357.].
A Little Corroborating Information
Indeed, I found an obscure bit of information that seems directly
related to proving the concept. We urge other investigators to further
investigate this effect. Quoting:
"infrared Tourmaline is the only mineral to show permanent electricity
on the earth and is also a natural (non-manufactured) source of
negative ions and far infrared (FIR) rays.
Around 1986, it was found in a research station in Japan that, even
though tourmaline was broken down in smaller pieces, a positive and a
negative electrode existed on both ends of the crystal, and the
electrodes never disappeared unless tourmaline was boiled near 1000°C.
In addition, when the positive and the negative electrodes of a
tourmaline crystal were connected to each other, it was proven to show
low electricity of 0.06mA."
We suspect that the vast new phenomena uncovered in nanocrystalline
research will also probably have similar "self-powering DC battery"
capabilities in some cases.
At any rate, altering the layering characteristics of the wafer
material used by DeGeus provides a broken symmetry in its usual
equal-and-opposite cross currents. This asymmetry results in the
little DeGeus solid state wafer pouring out a net steady lateral DC
current at a given steady voltage. In short, it becomes a "perpetual
battery" type of device, gating and pouring out steady and directly
usable net DC power, and fed by energy from the seething vacuum
reaction due to that organized broken symmetry.
Proposed Explanation of the "Self-Powering Battery"
Physics already tells us that, when we have a broken symmetry, then
something previously virtual becomes observable. So when we have a
power supply using the normal proven asymmetry of opposite charges
(its dipolarity), it will be receiving input energy from the virtual
state vacuum, cohering it to quantum size, and emitting it as real,
observable EM energy. E.g., quoting Nobelist Lee:
"the violation of symmetry arises whenever what was thought to be a
non-observable turns out to be actually an observable." [T. D. Lee,
Particle Physics and Introduction to Field Theory, Harwood Academy
Publishers, Chur, New York, and London, 1981, p. 181.]
DeGeus Wafers and the Purpose of his Planned Trip
DeGeus appears to have readily achieved different voltages and
currents (different levels of power) by grouping, multiple-layering,
etc. much like connecting or grouping individual batteries. The
novelty was that the inventor had discovered how to build these wafers
extremely cheaply couple bucks each for a small one, with an
assembly of them for greater power just requiring multiples of the
basic cost.
He is believed to have been from a well-to-do European family with
significant assets in South America. His family is reported to have
claimed the body and officially tied up all his assets, effects,
records, etc. The legal ongoings are likely to permanently suppress
any and all technical lab notes, descriptions, etc.
Unknown to the authorities investigating his death, DeGeus was on his
way to Europe to receive very substantial funding to put his invention
into mass production and marketing.
Importance of the DeGeus Invention
As an example of the importance of this probably-now-lost "free energy
from the vacuum" invention, consider an electric car with a much
smaller DeGeus wafer assembly "battery pack" using self-powering
"batteries" taking all their energy output continually from the
seething vacuum. As can be seen, suddenly one has eliminated the
recharging of batteries for the electric car, and is now using a
"permanent, self-powering battery" instead. Thus one has achieved the
dream of a "self-powering electric auto", taking all its input energy
cleanly from the active vacuum environment itself, without need of
burning physical fuel to run the car or recharge the battery. In
short, a car also without harmful emissions that damage and pollute
the biosphere and contribute to global warming.
Use of a larger DeGeus battery, together with an alternator, would
also produce a self-powering unit capable of powering the average home
with AC power. Many other applications are obvious, as is also the
tremendous impact of such a developed technology upon our present
consumption of hydrocarbon fuels, nuclear fuel rods, etc.
If Assassination, Explanation of How It Was Done
So a question arises as to whether this was just a simple "accidental"
heart attack, or whether it could have been a very professional
assassination to suppress the inventor and his invention. While we
cannot definitively answer that question, we can explain exactly how
such an assassination could have been done, which would have given the
victim a massive heart attack or stroke or both, resulting in his death.
The standard method of assassination to provide a certified autopsy
report of "death by natural causes" is the little EM beam "shooter"
using the Venus ECCM technique i.e., warping of its wavefront to
destroy the body's control of its heartbeat. There are two basic
sizes: One is about the size of a dime-store pocketbook, and has an
effective range of something like 30 feet or so. The other is the size
of a bazooka (shoulder-held rocket launcher) and its beam is effective
at a range of about 200 feet or so. It also is often used with
infrared sighting, to fire through a wall at a person (say, in a room
on the second floor) by aiming at his infrared change and signature
detected outside the building.
A person struck by this Venus-technique warped wavefront beam has a
sudden interruption of all control of his heartbeat, and so his heart
goes into instant, uncontrolled, and violent fibrillation. Exposure to
the main beam for 10 seconds or more is almost certain to result in
death of the individual, by a resulting massive heart failure, stroke,
or both.
My colleague Ken Moore and I were struck with just such a beam from a
small Venus beam shooter, in the inside breast coatpocket of the
assassin, in a restaurant here in Huntsville several years ago. We
both felt the beam and the instant fibrillation. I personally saw the
assassin, about 20 feet away from us and well-dressed in suit and tie,
pull back his coat front and point that book-sized shooter at us.
Fortunately we were seated right beside the emergency exit from the
dining room, and I knew about Venus technique shooters and their
drastic effects. So we just immediately jumped right through that
exit, setting off all the alarms, but getting out of the beam in just
a few seconds. So we lived to tell the tale.
If this were indeed used in the DeGeus death case, it would have been
very simple for the assassin to simply approach him while he was still
sitting in his just-parked car, hit him with the beam and hold it on
him for, say, 30 seconds to a minute, then close his coat and simply
walk away. And no one would have been the wiser, till the victim was
found by someone in his car, either dead or dying.
There is the information for the reader's review. The reader will have
to make up his own mind as to what probably really happened, and
whether it was truly an act of nature (a normal heart attack) or a
deliberately induced heart failure (an assassination using the
standard Venus shooter).
Other Similar Incidents
There are of course other incidents similar to this. Stan Meyer, a
well-known inventor who apparently got his watergas working well,
rushed from a restaurant and shouted "They're killing me!" (Some
reports stated he shouted "They're poisoning me"), and then collapsed
and died. Simply Google on the web, for many articles on Stan Meyer,
his invention, the threats to his life, and his strange death.
An Australian researcher and friend of mine also had a colleague who
was assassinated in an upstairs room by a shot from the street below,
using the larger bazooka-sized Venus shooter. The other persons there
actually observed the assassin load the bazooka-shaped shooter back
into his vehicle and speed away.
In Conclusion
All we can state for certain is that (1) lots of inventors of
successful watergas, self-powering systems, etc. have been severely
warned or in some cases killed. (2) Many other "free energy from the
active medium" inventors have been threatened, bought out, or killed
or experienced a mysterious death (we tell neophytes to be careful,
else one can have a "sudden suicide" on one's way to the supermarket!)
(3) The Venus electronic countermeasures technique is well-known and
established. (4) I have personally experienced just such an
assassination attempt, with my good friend Lieutenant Colonel
(retired) Ken Moore with me and also experiencing the weapon effects
and our very rapid escape in the nick of time. So I have a
corroborating witness.
Nonetheless, the interested reader will have to take it from there and
draw his or her own conclusions about the DeGeus incident. Was it just
a curious natural heart attack, or was it a deliberate assassination?
Hopefully, time will tell.
http://cheniere.org/articles/Coincidence%20or%20Suppression
%20of%20the%20Self-Powering%20Battery%202.doc
http://www.cheniere.org/toc.html
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It sounds so simple, which
It sounds so simple, which of course means that it isn't. Consider this same proposal from a social justice perspective. The 1.75 children allowed have a much greater risk of dying in a given period of time in most developing countries than in most developed countries. That doesn't seem fair. OK, so we have to take infant mortality into account, or level the playing field in terms of health services and infant mortality across all nations. As it turns out, based on observations of the effects of exactly those sorts of efforts over the past decade or two, this latter measure alone would probably reduce population growth rate by a substantial amount, while reducing inequities rather than increasing them. Perhaps the original idea could be modified to address this issue somehow, though it is not obvious to me how (setting rates per country rather than per capita, and offering capacity building for health care and education in exchange for carbon credits?).
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I totally agree with you on
I totally agree with you on the whole breeding thing. That's why I don't plan to have children. Ever. Unless I adopt them. So many of these kids need homes, need someone to care and love them, unconditionally because a foster care center doesn't give the feelings a child should have.
So yeah, great job ^.^
.:Love and Peace:.
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