What The Toot!

A major part of Australian economy depends on its exports to China, which includes various minerals and even uranium.

Recently, due to excessive use of water and lack of rainfall, Australia is facing a shortage of water. I have come up with a good way for Australia to solve its water problem once an for all.

Australia can make a deal with China through its mining export. By exporting minerals to China, Australia can demand China to pay for the minerals in the pee all the Chinese produce everyday. Yes, you heard my right, PEE.

There are 1.3 billion people in China, as oppose to the mere 21 million Australian population. This means there are approximately 62 Chinese for each Australian. Let’s assume that on average, the Chinese pee 6 times a day, 300 ml each time, that will be about 111 Litres of pee for each Australian each day! That’s about the standard of a water efficient person.

Alright, I am not trying to tell Australian to drink, cook and bathe with pee. The pee, of course, would be cleaned by RO (reverse osmosis). Rest assure that after the RO process, the water is of high standard and safe to drink and use. It is probably even cleaner than your tap water.

Hopefully, the Australian government will realise that the answer to water shortage lies not in cutting down the usage, but in opening up a new source, and that source is Chinese Pee.

I am a strong proponent and advocate of green and sustainable living and I try to lessen my damage to the environment every day. Recently, I have changed several habits of mine regarding the use of electricity and the results are clear with my recent electricity bill. I have scanned portion of it for your enjoyment:

If you didn’t notice anything, look closer at the graph and the Electricity used for the month of April 07. It clearly indicates from the graph that I have used a negative amount of electricity, -434kWhs for the month of April. The way my brother puts it, it’s as if “we are practically generating energy and selling it back to the grid.” It means that the electricity company has to pay us back instead, which is what they did. The charges for this month is -AUD$30.35.

The second graph on the bottom shows my greenhouse gas emissions for the month of April. Again, this shows an amount of -0.56 Tonnes of greenhouse gases released. In other words, we are un-releasing the gases. We are as if taking in 0.56 Tonnes of greenhouse gases, generated 434 kWh of energy and sold it back to the grid. This technology is in fact, available.

So, my advice to save the environment are:

1. Use less water by taking less bath, or shorter showers, or better yet, none at all. If you don’t feel you are dirty, there is no need to take a bath. Water heating constitute one of the biggest part of your energy bill. Less showers = less energy.
2. Use Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL). The initial investment will pay off soon as they use less energy, last longer and gives better lumen to price ratio. That means it is cheaper to produce the same amount of light compared to incandescent lightbulbs. Incandescent lightbulbs produces about 95% heat from the energy supplied to it.
3. Use energy efficient appliances such as washing machines, oven, refrigerator and others around the house. This will help save the environment as well as bring the electricity bill down.
4. Switch off your appliances completely by turning off the switch. Do not use the remote control to turn your TV or DVD player off as they will be on standby mode, which may use more electricity in total than when you are watching movies. The same applies for microwave ovens. Why waste energy putting them on standby mode?
5. Ask Google about it and it will reveal more truth about how to save the environment as well as use less electricity.
6. Watch An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore.

By the way, I did not alter the photo of my electricity bill in any way. It is how it is. The reason for it, I shall reveal in future post. Stay tuned!