Category Archives: Environment

Electromagnetic Frequency Radiation Shielding

· · Posted in Environment, Home Networking, Internet, Uncategorized ·

There are several methods and I’d recommend a combination.
For your home internet, use only ethernet cables to connect to the internet.

You can start by getting into your router and switching off the wifi setting and having your internet run through cable.
Use TP-Link or similar. TP-Link Adaptors do the job fine.

For walls there are two basic options, materials for walls and other large surfaces and areas or YShield paint.

A range of wall and surface covering products are available at Electro Smog Shielding

YShield

According to the manufacturer, YShield screening paint stops over 99.9% of incoming radiation across all mobile phone frequencies, TETRA, 2G, 3G, LTE (4G), WiFi and WiMax. Apply as you would any paint using a brush or roller. Yshield is water based and can be used inside the house, on walls, ceilings and floors, or on outside walls. One coat covers about 7 square metres per litre.

For walls Use YShield paint Click to buy

 

Rising sea levels are going to mess with the internet, sooner than you think

· · Posted in Environment, Internet ·

Snaking beneath roads and strung across oceans, hundreds of thousands of miles of cables and their connections make up the backbone of the internet. Despite its magnitude, this network is increasingly vulnerable to sea levels inching their way higher, according to research presented at an academic conference in Montreal this week. The findings estimate that within 15 years, thousands of miles of what should be land-bound cables in the United States will be submerged underwater.

“Most of the climate change-related impacts are going to happen very soon,” says Paul Barford, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin and lead author of the paper.

Read more/Source:- Popular Science: Rising sea levels are going to mess with the internet, sooner than you think

Scott Pruitt’s EPA Prevented A Major Water Pollution Study From Being Published

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Scott Pruitt’s EPA Prevented A Major Water Pollution Study From Being Published

Would you want to know if certain chemicals in the environment are more dangerous than scientists previously thought?

You would, right?

Well, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) disagrees.

In January, embattled EPA head (and mortal enemy of Captain Planet and the Planeteers) Scott Pruitt stymied the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service (HHS)’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry from publishing a major new study. That study revealed the newfound risk of exposure to certain toxic pollutants.

Read full article at Futurism: Scott Pruitt’s EPA Prevented A Major Water Pollution Study From Being Published

Tory Story: Plastic Bag Distraction

· · Posted in Environment, Science and Society, Uncategorized ·

The Guardian Reports on Tory Story Wednesday 10th January 2018

Tory Story. Plastic Bag Distraction

The Tory Green Strategy, intended to pull in the young voters, is out. It’s meant to reduce plastic waste, a matter which many young voters are worried about and which the Tories want to capitalise on to get their support and votes; You know, just like how Corporations worry about paying taxes and the Tories want to help reduce too. And of course it’s another bright idea that we ordinary people have to pay for, again.

Of course, the Tories could have increased Corporation Tax and locked down Corporate tax evasion schemes and used the extra income to support renewable energy production, or household subsidise solar panel, installation, or legislate against non-recyclable plastics, support organic farming.

Of course, the problem with these options is cost, and the Tory Government is not going to upset the people it truly cares about, its wealthy friends and supporters.
According to figures produced by the Institute of Fiscal Studies, “Corporation tax rate cuts cost at least £16.5 billion a year in the near term. Based on official policy costings, cutting the main rate from 28% to 20%, the small profits rate from 21% to 20%, and the (newly) combined rate from 20% to 17%, costs £16.5 billion each year in 2017–18 terms.”  (Source: What’s been happening to corporation tax?)

IFS Article: What’s been happening to corporation tax.

In November, The Guardian article “British government accused of being soft on tax avoidance.” exposed the reluctance of the government to commit to helping the majority of working people in Britain who helped these corporations get rich in the first place.

If the Tory Government really was concerned about the environment, they wouldn’t use cheap ploys they hope will have a mass appeal and be enough of a distraction from their real intention, to stay in power, keep up the ‘Austerity’ scam so the rich can keep siphoning off for themselves the wealth created by ordinary working people