Global Warming Panic Inducer: 2012 Olympic Torch Not Low Carbon
**Written by Doug Powers
Massive construction projects are taking place in preparation for the 2012 London Olympics, when athletes from a couple hundred countries will jet in from every corner of the globe, as will countless spectators. With that in mind, this latest eco-concern is a little like worrying about the carbon output of the Zippo you’re using to light Burning Man.
From The Australian:
The relay will begin at Land’s End on May 19 and the torch will be carried to every corner of Britain, including the Channel Islands, Northern Ireland and the Outer Hebrides.
However, the failure of designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby to produce a low-carbon torch was criticised. “We tried really hard to do that. We were very close, but we just ran out of time,” Mr Barber said.
The Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 said that was a poor excuse. “The promise of a low-carbon torch was made in 2007 and so the excuse of ‘we ran out of time’ is not acceptable,” chairman Shaun McCarthy said.
Al Gore will soon be sending the IOC a bill for the “green fail” offsets.
Would it really have been so difficult to come up with a solution like this?
**Written by Doug Powers
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Truly pathetic. They just can’t resist destroying anything other people find enjoyable.
Oh and FIRST !
Doug, you know that is a bad idea. You failed to consider the carbon emissions in the manufacturing process of a 500 mile long extension cord.
I’m very, very disappointed.
My Zippo ( with the American flag raised logo embedded) can kick arse against your “Flick your Bic”
So there.
Oh wait..here’s the solution.
*exasperated sigh*
Some people just have too much free time on their hands. Yet another problem with the Obummer Recession.
Oh, the humanity!!!!!
I’m guessing the legume diet runner powered methane torch thingy didn’t pan out.
What did the orginal Olympican’s use for fuel to light the torch? Maybe it didn’t smoke so bad?
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I’d be completely on London’s side in this- if I didn’t find it kind of pathetic that they made the promise of a low-carbon torch in order to land the Olympics in the first place.
The creepy mascots might have killed ’12 for me anyway.
Why not use a glow stick?
They could get a box of them off ebay and save a bundle, then recycle them
“Ran out of time”, haahaha
Yeah I’m sure they were hard at work on a low-carbon alternative
Just like most liberal improvements, we all die waiting on their fix
Or is that the real idea
I think they should use whale oil. There is a plethora of whales out there!! Doug, your light bulb idea is good except for that extension cord thingy…oh, and if one of the runners tripped and broke the bulb, they would have to evalucate entire cities. Back to the drawing board.
A low carbon Olympic torch?????!! Sometimes I just cannot believe the crap liberals come up with to make themselves feel good.
How about Doug`s idea, but follow the torch-runner with a Chevy Volt (or fleet since they have such short range) covered in solar panels to keep the squirrelly tailed bulb lit. It wouldn`t require a long cord then !
Goofy wasteful ideas seem to be the norm for this bunch of eco-hypocrites, right !? So why not ?
I like it! OR, they could just stop for a rest and get recharged at one of those recharging stations they will be using for the electric cars. I know, that would delay the run, but we ARE talking about the survival of the human race! Oh, and they haven’t built the recharging stations yet. But they will…any day now. Right?
Dear me, I believe I’m going to have the vapors.
Off topic…read it and weep, folks. The 2011 Conference is going on right now as we speak. This could be a key gathering as they are accelerating their plan. Creepy and true!
http://michaeljournal.org/bilder.htm
It is going to rain there every other days. Torch are useless in the wet weather but like June 6, 1941, meterologists will hope to have better weather for duration of the game.
A short quote from the website I linked. Knowing about this group answers practically EVERY question you might have about what is going on these days and WHY.
“Think of money. If you had your choice, if you could pull a genie out of a bottle, and the genie could grant three wishes, what would your three wishes be? Remember your goal is to make the most money possible? Number one, give me control over the sun. Number two, give me control over the air. Number three, give me control over water. Now, leaving our little genie aside, we know we cannot control the sun, nor can we control the air, but we can control water. On the scale of things that are required for human life, it is the most important element that can be controlled”.
By the way, as we know, controlling the sun and the air is also on their agenda.
Crappy media coverage and whiny,lying and drug using athletes soured me on the Olympics. What good does it do to have an eco friendly torch when the entire games has a massive footprint? Let the media covering the games use solar panels and wind mills.
I have a bad feeling about the 2012 games in Londonistan. After the arab spring might come Munich revisited.
Some unusually bright envirofreak finally figured out the recharging stations would get their energy from burning coal.
They aren’t for electric cars because they have a lower carbon footprint than regular cars. They are for electric cars because no one wants to actually drive them.
I consider the Olympics something to be endured. I am happy when they are over. They dominate the news and pre-empt some of my favorite shows. Am I interested in seeing someone sweeping the ice so a big metal blob can slide down the rink? Do I want to watch people running around a track? I realize these folks work hard for their sport and I admire that. But the Olympics is totally political and we all know it.
I had a conversation with one of those know-it-all wackos a while back. I think I even talked about it on one of these threads. He is a college student and was bragging about buying an electric car for $18,000. Oh, he didn’t have one yet, but was saving his money. I asked him where he planned to plug it in. His parent’s garage. I told him that his parent’s electric bill would go sky high, and by the way, where does the electricity come from? I mentioned all the new coal mines they would have to start in order to meet the new electricity demands. I also mentioned that the electric cars would not cost $18,000 and he probably wouldn’t get one cheaper by buying one used, as there aren’t any! He had no comment, just walked away. I don’t know if I made a dent in his thick skull, but maybe, just maybe, he will think about it a bit.
If you really want see an enviro-nutjob’s head explode, ask him/her/it why Minnesota has so many lakes. Or why The Sahara Desert was a lush, green area 5,000 years ago.
If these gw idiots were getting their shorts in a bunch, they should really be bent out of shape by the fires in AZ, headed for NM and TX! The smoke is all over the states moving east. My heart goes out to all the states and the citizens for homes, livestock distroyed. We had the fires here in TX a month or so ago and we may be getting them here again if the fire isn’t stopped. Only God can help with a huge rainfall to stop the fires. I haven’t seen any rain in the forcast though.
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O/T for those interested=dear nan and the FL gal with two last names say that the ‘hot dog’ needs to resign!
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I just heard that! Stick a fork in that weiner. He is well done.
Whooped up on him pretty good happy. Here are a few more bullets for ya if you run into him or another eco-idjot:
* A Volt costs $42K – not 18K. I think the cheapest is the Nissan Leaf @ +/- $34K.
* At present over 50% of electricity in the US is coal fired. It takes about 1 lb of coal to generate one KW/hr. The batteries need about 24 KW for a full charge. Picture a 24lb lump of coal smoldering all night so you can drive your “clean green machine”.
* As for a used electro/econo box – the battery packs are Lithium Ion (same as in your laptop/cell phone. They wear out after about 5 years and have to be replaced. Fasten yer sealtbelt: $9000! So add that to the cost of a used electric. The theory was the eco/elec cars would be so wildly popular the cost of the batteries would come down with the demand. Heh. N.O.T.
Thanks for the laugh, letget.
He’s hurting the Democrat brand name.
Since the damnfool idiots who elected him in the first place will just replace him with another nutjob who isn’t politically damaged, I would prefer he hang on, but in the spirit of bipartisan compassion
I would say he should do whatever his wife wants.
What’s the carbon foot print for a roasted Weiner?
If they want to be totally low-carbon:
1. Don’t have the torch lit (no emissions).
2. Don’t have the relay (no excess CO2).
3. Cancel the Olympics (0 carbon footprint).
4. Sane people laugh out loud over this while AGW nutters will think these are valid ideas!
Thanks Swede! I will save these talking points for future reference. Great arguments for those conversations with the uniformed- but-think-they-know-everything idiots out there.
Unless those electric cars can manufacture their own energy, they will be sitting in garages after the electricity prices necessarily skyrockets.
Does anyone seriously read things without either doing a quick check of their calendar to make sure it’s not April 1st, or double-checking that they’re not accidentally reading The Onion?
What’s most scary and troubling is how totally committed and conviving they are about making us live their way without a struggle.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
A roasted Weiner would have zero carbon offset. But once consumed by his buddy congrescruds, the flatulance could melt the ice cap fer good!
I almost forgot. Under certain conditions L-Ion batteries also have a rather nasty tendency to burst into flames – So don’t forget to pick up some flame proof jump suits for the kiddies in the back seat!
Won’t work Doug unless a HAZMAT team member follows the runner in case of a stumble. Sorry!
And how much carbon was produced by the efforts try to make the new device?
Eco-follies like this prove that this side is anti-science and that this issue has absolutely nothing to do with actual CO2 output.
The Olympics. When athletes from a hundred nations gather in the spirit of competition in a politically free atmosphere.
Bwaaaaaaahaaaaaaaa..
What a joke. In 100 years, everyone will be laughing at this crap. What was London 100 years ago… a cesspool of human crap! Seems the environment survived…
Isn’t there also tax deductions and or rebates that go along with buying an eco-lemon.?
I predict some looney half-genius will design a torch with 12 glowing LEDs powered by batteries that are charged from electricity generated from the runner’s movements.
Yeah that’s it. Mission accomplished.
Now if we can only find a way to recover bureaucratic waste into energy…
The USA should just boycott the whole works.
I will be!
Great final comment for this thread!!! Good night.
Shamtupid.
Want eco friendly and America friendly, buy a VW Passat TDI diesel and get a 30 to 40 MPG vehicle made in TN and costing less than 30K. Bigger than a Camry, and 4k less than a Camry Hybrid. It also has enough umph to get out of it’s own way.
I think the motto of liberals is “The world would be a better place if everyone would just think and act like I do.”
I say we scrap the torch and instead mark the route with charcoal grills – lit and evenly spaced every 20 feet or so ~ Steak (or veggie burgers for the purists) anyone?
Well, this is easy. I simply couldn’t care less about his issue.
Nah..I like Doug’s CFL version. A beacon for all to see.
I know…we could make it solar powered! Shouldn’t be too hard. Let’s see: we could use a 60 watt equivilant CFL which would draw about say 13 watts. OK, so we need this thing to be a glowing testament to the wonders of green, so it better be on 24/7. So we’re gonna need 0.312 KWH/day to keep that bugger running. No problem so far. So europe isn’t a particularly sunny clime, but we’ll give them the benefit of the doubt at 5 hours of solar insolation per day. So we divide our 312 watt hours by 5 and we get 62.5 watts. Need it to be charging a battery for night use so we have to add 20% for charging efficiency losses. We’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they were smart enough to get a 12 vdc CFL so we don’t have to worry about another 10-20% efficiency loss to invert to 120 vac. So assuming that the PV panel that we get produces 100% of the nameplate rating (my experience is about 80% typically) a 75 watt, 2 X 4 foot, 17 pound PV panel will do the trick. Add about 2 pounds of Lithium Ion batteries for the nightime operation and we should be good to go…
I would postulate the the torchbearers’ flatulence would be more of a concern than this torch’s emissions…but I digress…
I would postulate that the torchbearers’ flatulence would be more of a concern than this torch’s emissions…but I digress…