Peru Governement To Press Criminal Charges Against Greenpeace.

ya greenpeace creates more pollution than it stops .. just a bunch if angry childish idiots. if they are going to be terrorists and halt commerce ,, they should lay on a railroad line to protest..

 

I went to several Greenpeace events in California in the 80s and caught 1 in Hawaii. Back then I had great respect for them. Their people seemed real and genuinely down to earth. Today I see suits, margins and stupidity with only a sprinkling of innovation.

The Ady Gil was a real puzzle. A radical design, powered by biodiesel and designed to scare the crap out of whales so they could avoid the Japanese harpoons. Yet, the ship was scuttled shortly after the initial voyage by steering it into the path of a whaler which cut the carbon fiber work of art in half. First of all, there's nothing "green" about carbon fiber technology. It's baked in an oven at over 400F for half a day to congeal all the toxic epoxy compounds. I also doubt they ran genuine biodiesel since it's a risk to use that crap unless you have a place to pull over safely. Like it or not, there is no globally consistent biodiesel formulation and most of it contains too much lye and ultimately destroys fuel systems. So the Ady Gil was probably a boondoggle designed to make a small cabal wealthy with donor money. It was probably destroyed to hide the truth about its construction quality. Who knows?

One thing I am actually glad to see for all of us is the improvement in emissions technology. Sure, it's job-killing. But we need a dose of that as we move to the automated age. I'd rather breathe clean air in a shack than choke in a mansion.

 

It continues to amaze me what is reported in the British and Australian press, among others, that isn't reported by the American media. They're too busy tracking down what Alex Trebek said in an email as part of the Sony hacking.