Wednesday, May 24, 1989

When Drs. Pons and Fleischmann announced a month or so ago
they had seen evidence of fusion in a tank of cold water, the
world’s scientific community went gaga. I said, “So what’s so

-. new already?”

For years the tank of cold water at the back of our toilet has been
burbling away producing encrgy like crazy.

When the bubbles began there was some pressure to get rid of
them.

“Look, cither you fix it or I call a $40-an-hour plumber,” Bluc
Eyes instructed. She said it sounded like a nest of snakes in heat,
and I said she’d never heard a nest of snakes Ict alone when they
were in heat, and she started for the telephone, and I said 17d fix it.

While jabbing away with wrenches and hammers under the glare
of one of those basketed light bulbs which all handymen keep
-handy, I noticed its cord was not plugged in, But the light was on.

Whilst I’d thrashed about in the tank, the cord had fallen. .
unnoticed into the water. The plug had jammed against one of
those metal rods that has something to do with how a toilet works, -
And there was light.

So I slung the light basket from a hook in the ceiling and left it
there. Now our bathroom light dims slightly when we flush the
toilet but regains strength when the tank fills.

And you can run appliances using this free energy source. We
have a long cord which runs from the bathroom to the kitchen
where we, using toilet power, are able to boil walter, fry eggs and |

make toast. As long as no one flushes.

A-second way to lower your home energy costs is to borrow your
neighbor’s power

‘VICTORIA. — Despite my
# personal dislike for polls, I real-

“ize that from the time the first.
“pollster ‘asked the first unsu-..- .
‘ specting bloke how ‘he would —

] ‘vote if an-election were held: the
|. next day, polls were ‘destined to
fe be an integral Dart of. Politics...

: A couple of weeks ago, ‘Angus ae PAN
E Reid. conducted:a;poll.on. behalf. -°.'
1 Of the, Vancouver: Suns. While the. 73

My toilet discovered this years ago

fthe, poll.conectty. eienects :

THE REVIEW 9781-2nd St., Sidney B.C.

Next winter, purchase a long, white extension cord, plug it into
your neighbor’s unused outside electrical outlet (it’s behind the
bush to the left) and cover the cord with snow. You can overload
your end of this electricity source and never blow a fuse — in your
home.

If your area receives little or no snow, you may wish.to dig a
trench for the cord. This is best done at night with a well-muffled
shovel because it would be un-ncighborly to wake a friend from a
deep slcep.

A third source of free energy is your compost pile. Split one end
of a simple lamp cord into its two parts. Bury one split end in the
north side of your pile and the other in the south side.

You’ ve just created a battery from that disgusting rotting mess in
your backyard. Do not touch the other end of the cord with a bare
hand or you will fly to the moon.

If no electricity comes out when you flick a switch, the trouble
is that you have an east-west compost pile instead of a north-south
one. Turn your pile 90 degrees and there will be light.

If you are a landlord, there are two energy savers you should be
aware of,

Onc is to jimmy the building’s thermostat with a handful of
srewdrivers until the furnace is unable to raise the inside
temperature above 60 F (or whatever that is in. metric). Tell your
tenants to wear thicker socks.

The second saver is to disconnect —- or better still completely
destroy — the water heater. Tell your tenants cold showers are
healthy. A side benefit is that over an extended period, cold
showers have.a dampening affect on the production of children,
and there are already far too many of them in your building as you
well know.

One final suggestion — vigorously oppose the current move to
pipe natural gas from the mainland to Vancouver Island. Contrary
to what you may hear, such a move will not result in cheap fucl for
anyone,

Islanders will. discover that politicians will tax such gas
sufficiently to raise its cost at least to that of oil, electricity or
whatever.

Mainlanders should oppose the line because it will reduce the
supply of available gas to them thus raising the price of what’s left.

If all else fails, sell your house and move to South Seas where

people believe energy is a dirty, six-letter word and never touch the
stuf f.

> as an alternative to the: present
government is, in part, the result

tion.

‘members of his caucus go for the

-. Of clever strategy by the opposi-

“The NDP has been careful not ~
“ to make its leader appear as a
shrill critic. of the government.’
- ‘Harcourt comes across as a quiet, »
“ reasonable. politician. While.

“ government’s jugular, Harcourt: |

Lobe suspect, Angus Reid.is ‘a quite
‘respectable: polling firm ‘whose

|. -analysis of public opinion has a_

3 reputation for being Tight on the
‘money...

“Angus Reid found: More than
50-per cent of decided voters in
British. Columbia favor NDP -
| leader Mike Harcourt and his’

New Democratic Party over Bill
Vander Zalm and his Socreds.

The poll showed that 53 per. -

cent of the decided vote supports
the NDP, while the Socreds have
the support of only 32 per cent.
About 10 per cent of the decided
voters favor ‘the provincial Lib-

eral party.
As for. public opinion of the

| two major leaders’ personal per-

formance, Harcourt left: the

‘premicr in the dust, The poll:

showed that 54 per cent approved

of Mike Harcourt’s performance,

while 30 per cent disapproved.
_ Vander Zalm’s performance was
approved by only 28 per cent of
those surveyed and disapproved
by 66 per cent, —

= Sun’ $ motives for, commission--
| ing the poll in the. first: place may.

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“dian products, even if we have to

pay more, (Use the boycott period

to save up thatextmecash if the |
Japanese change their minds, we
can always return toe their prod.

ucts) .

The result, even though. the
events are in the future, is easy. to
predict. (AM predictions: are easy
to make, of course, The trick is to

make an accurate one and this ane >

1 think is!).

Andividual retail outlets will

seduce their stock of Japanese

products, to make way for alterna.

ss tives (because the demand will be
non-existent), Orders jo = and

ofits for = Japanese companies —
will drap. They then will have two

~ choices: a) Japanese businessmen
and businesswomen will put polit»

 ieal pressure on the Japanese gov.

ernment (oo alter the attuudes
“towards. marine life and laws gove
~ ering Japanese fishermen, or b)
Japanese companies start cutuing
~ back on-either wages or personne]
(ar both), a
Wf choice b) is followed, eeu.
“nomic chaos will set in, and the

Japanese populace will- be made

“aware of the rei won for our boycott,

ol opinion —~-and'- polls

-usually:do.— ‘the Socreds :are

“still. in deep trouble. In fact,
. they’re:in it more deeply than

. -began their downward slide, some
two years ago. .._-

In ‘interpreting some aspects of
the poll, Reid speculated that
even a change. in leadership
might not necessarily pull the
Socreds out of their. slump..

“With an approval rating of 54
per cent (of Harcourt’s personal
performance) that would scem to
Suggest that.a lot of this talk

about replacing Bill Vander Zalm_

with somcone: else to lead .the
Socreds will not: necessarily
~ result.in.a victory,” Reid said.

erable strength and 1 think this

seems to fly in the face of some -

of the speculation that Harcourt
has no following in B.C.”
Harcourt has made the most of
the poll, Voters, he said,-are not
just turned off by. Vander Zalm
but by the Social Credit Party,
“T think we are being seen as a
new generation New Democratic

(By the way, this boycott is not

only put into action: in North ©
_ America, but worldwide, In effect
there is an abstract analogy inthis:
“to the horror that hit Hiroshima:
“and Nagasakis but this time lives ~

Le eteenanhedtninninreemdadeanesaent

“they ’ve. ever: been: since: they:

“Harcourt docs enjoy consid-.

_ will be saved, yo

‘pity putting forth positive. posi: °
~ lions. We're not just .a tired old»
party of the past like the Socreds ©
arc. We're seen as a party of the ©
future representing ue people. of

British Columbia.”

Harcourt may not be far off the 4
mark... The: most. significant

aspect of: the poll, one which.

‘Reid didn’t even address ‘in his
“analysis, was the timing, The poll -
was conducted more than a-
-month after the provincial budget .
“was introduced, and the results
were definitely not what the~

government expected.

One of the conclusions that
can be drawn from the poll is that
the public docsn’t seem to give a

buget-or worse, docsn’t belicve
that it was balanced,
The Socreds were expecting —
and not totally without justifica-
tion — that the. budget would
turn things around for them, even
if it- involved some creative
bookkeeping, It didn’t happen.
To be sure, not all of the
government’s misfortunes are of

its own making. The public's |

apparent acceptance of the NDP

More can be said on this matter,

“but suffice it to. say -that the
Japanese. will catch on fast, and.

that six months after we begin the

boycott, they, will pull m nets for 2

the last lime,

‘offers the public. his. positive’. :}
‘Nision’ ‘Of British’ Columbia’ sop
: future under the NDP: _—

-The NDP. has also: been mov-:
“ing closer to. the centre of the... |
- political spectrum. Gone are the = |
‘days when socialist dogma dic-. |
tated. the NDP’s every political -°{.
move. ‘Today’s provincial NDP. : }
occupies most of what uscd to be |
~‘the Liberal party’s position — a

drift made: possible by the
‘demise of the provincial Liberal
‘Party. .

‘The Social Credit government
is running out of options. Calling

-an election now. would be tanta-
mount to political suicide. Wait- .

“ing until next’ year probably
tinker’s damn about the balanced

won't improve the odds,
And now, according to-Angus

7 Reid, not cven.a change in Iead-

ers would brighten the govern-

“ment’s prospects of being re- . |
elected, Still, the Socreds will .

have to make a choice —-- go to

‘the polls now, wait-it out with

Vander Zalm or change lcaders..

Vd stil put my money on the
latter option, The possibility of
Vander Zalm resigning is not the
worst of bets,

Hon.

This obvious if you take time 10:
think, and snecessfil im seale
eqqtnal to the per cent of participa.

John Moysey of
“Salt Spring Island |
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