A DIESEL IN THE SHED
Welcome to a new contributor, Viv Forbes founder of Carbon sense. This is an organisation formed to debunk the misleading myth that carbon dioxide is responsible for our “Climate Change”, which this monkey, and anyone, man or monkey, with an operating brain, can see is a hoax of giant and sinister proportions. I know my readers will enjoy this tale of a diesel in the shed…… Gibber! Gibber! Chugley A Diesel in the Shed. You can have your solar panels and your turbines on the hills; You can use the warmth of sunshine to reduce your heating bills. You can dream you’re self-sufficient as you weed your vegie bed; As long as you make sure to keep A diesel in the shed. When I was a kid living on a small dairy farm in Queensland, we relied on green energy – horses and human muscles provided most motive power; fire-wood and beeswax candles supplied heat and light; a windmill pumped water and the sun provided solar energy for drying clothes and growing crops, vegies and pastures. The only “non-green” energy used was a bit of kerosene for the kitchen lamp and the dairy lantern, and petrol for a small Ford utility for a trip to town every fortnight. Our life changed dramatically when we put a diesel in the dairy. This single-cylinder engine drove the milking machines, the cream separator and a small electricity generator, which charged 16 lead-acid 2 volt batteries sitting on the veranda. This is the exact same diesel engine (built in Toowoomba) we had in our dairy in the late 1940’s: Our 32 volt DC system powered our “modern” marvel – bright light, at any time, in every room, at the touch of a switch. There were no electric self-starters for diesels…