A 'safe' version of a hydrogen airship

Working with Gemini,  I postulated an airship with a double layer gasbag. The inner gasbag would contain hydrogen. This would provide lift and act as a store of fuel for fuel cells powering electrically driven propellers. The outer gasbag would contain helium which provides fire risk insulation from the hydrogen. I asked Gemini if such a design was feasible.

Gemini: You've proposed a very interesting and conceptually sound design for a safer hydrogen airship! The idea of a double-layered gasbag with hydrogen inside and helium outside offers a significant safety advantage. Let's analyze its feasibility and discuss a possible cross-section design.

Feasibility: The concept is definitely feasible from a technical standpoint. The main challenges would revolve around engineering and material science rather than fundamental physics.

Material Selection: Choosing appropriate materials for both the inner and outer gasbags is crucial. The inner bag needs to be highly impermeable to hydrogen, while the outer bag needs to be strong and relatively impermeable to both helium and air. Modern materials like multilayer laminates with specialized coatings could meet these requirements.

Weight: Adding a second gasbag increases the overall weight of the airship, which reduces its payload capacity. Set against this is the increased lifting ability of  hydrogen. This is a key trade-off. Careful material selection and design optimization are essential to minimize this weight penalty.

Complexity: Manufacturing and maintaining a double-layered gasbag system is more complex than a single-layered one. This would increase production and operational costs.

Pressure Management: Maintaining the correct pressure differential between the inner and outer gasbags is important to prevent stress on the materials and ensure optimal performance.

Cross-Section Design: Here's a simplified cross-section concept based on the 1930s British R105 airship. I've shown an Airbus 380 fuselage for size comparison:

     Structural Framework (e.g., lightweight beams)

Key Features of the Design:

Outer Envelope: Provides the primary aerodynamic shape and protection from the elements. It also contains the helium.

Helium Layer: Acts as a buffer zone, preventing any potential ignition source from reaching the hydrogen. It also contributes to overall lift, though less than the hydrogen.

Inner Envelope: Contains the hydrogen fuel. This layer must be exceptionally good at preventing hydrogen leakage.

Structural Framework: Provides structural support for the gasbags and connects them to the airship's gondola and other components. This would likely be a lightweight frame made of aluminum or composite materials.

Advantages:

Enhanced Safety: The helium layer significantly reduces the risk of hydrogen ignition.

Redundancy: If the outer gasbag is breached, the inner gasbag still contains the hydrogen.

Disadvantages:

Increased Weight and Complexity: The double-layered design adds weight and manufacturing complexity.

Cost: The use of specialized materials and more complex construction will increase costs.

Conclusion:

The double-layered gasbag concept is a very promising approach to improving the safety of hydrogen airships. While there are engineering challenges to overcome, it is technically feasible and offers a significant safety advantage over single-layer designs. The trade-offs between weight, complexity, and cost need to be carefully evaluated in any practical implementation.

OK industrialists, you have the concept. Feel free to develop and make use of it but remember - I proposed it and you owe me for that.

If I were 'Jaydax Almighty' I would...

[Revisited December 2024. Originally posted 2009]

...re-educate laptop manufacturers who continue to design laptops that can't easily be used on your lap! Your personal laptop would redesign itself so that everything, keyboard, sockets and screen was all on the front edge of the laptop.
Let me give you a hint guys - buttons, optical drives and headphone sockets should NEVER be placed on the front edge of a laptop because they cause problems when it is used on your lap or - heaven forbid - in bed.
My Dell Inspiron 1720 is an example. If it's used on raised knees (in bed) then the front edge presses into you and several buttons are pressed which plays havoc with the sound system and for some reason stops some of the keyboard from working. The buttons Dell tells me are positioned there so I can play sound files with the laptop lid closed. Hey guys, if I want to listen to music I use an mp3 player or my mobile phone. I don't lug a laptop around!
HP Pavillion laptops have headphone sockets on the front edge which mean a jack plug sticks into you and which can give you a mild stinging shock if they touch bare skin.
Front opening optical drives? You have to move the laptop before you can change a disk. While I'm on the subject of computer design i WOULD CONSIGN TO AN ASSYLUM THE IDIOT WHO FIRST PUT 'cAPS lOCK' NEXT TO 'sHIFT'

[Update - For some reason laptop manufacturers seem to think smaller, thinner and lighter equals most desirable. I want a power laptop with bigger screen/s. Make me a 17" one with multiple folding screens and a detachable tablet which acts as a control surface/numeric keypad/extra screen. Those who produce tiny screens would be condemned to a laptop with a five inch screen for eternity.]

...Spray paint silver those who design paint on laptop palmrests. Don't worry about the paint on you guys - it will wear off just as it does when you use a laptop enough. It wears away even faster if you use a mouse on the palmrest. On my Dell the plastic under the paint is grey so it just looks scruffy when the silver paint covering it wears away but my HP has black plastic under it's silver paint scheme and looks awful after just a year's heavy use.


...give a permanent thirst and only £1.00 to soft drink manufacturers who think its OK to charge £1.65 ($2.67) for a bottle of Coca-Cola! You must be kidding. I stop buying the stuff at my local supermarket when its price goes above £1.00 per 2 litre bottle and that price I consider too high considering I can buy 'Cola' for less than 40p. How about a 1 litre bottle of water for 90p ($1.46)? I have a tap at home and water from it which has stood in the fridge overnight tastes just as good.
[Update - Those 2 litre bottles of Coke are long gone. Now we pay £2.49 for a 1.75 litre bottle! I would consign those soft drink manufacturers who think shrinkflation and exorbitant prices to Hell with a perpetual thirst and 50ml bottle of salt flavoured liquid.]

...fill the cars of people who litter roads with 100 times the amount of rubbish they dump. I live in the country on a main road which passes through a beautiful area of Northumberland. Each day I clean up rubbish thrown out of cars. Plastic bottles, fast food wrappers, beer cans, newspapers, plastic bags, used nappies (diapers) and cigarette packets all get dumped outside my house. Oh how 'Jaydax Almighty' would enjoy watching them try to dump their rubbish a second time.

...consign those who shrink wrap their products to an environment where everything was shrink wrapped and there wasn't a sharp object or fingernail in sight. I'm sick of plastic wrapping around DVDs. The stuff you spend ten minutes trying to get into. There already is a better alternative to preventing people removing the disks, those red tabs which are removed at the checkout.

[Update - Yes I know - who buys DVD/Blue ray now? It's all in the cloud now which really sucks if you have a slow Internet connection so I'll consign those convinced everyone has a lightning fast connection to 28 Kb/s dialup. (Microsoft please note)]

... at night I would enter the houses of supermarket managers and move everything in the house to a different location while they slept in revenge for them moving everything in the stores to a new location. I know why they do it - it's so that you have to look for it and hopefully you will see something else to buy as you do so ...but it's SO annoying! Lets see how they would like hunting for their car keys relocated to the bottom of the freezer, a shoe in the oven, the alarm clock in the garage and all their clothes in/on the front porch.

… consign all those politicians who talk about democracy to an eternity of watching party political broadcasts by their opposition. We in the UK and US do NOT live in a democracy where the majority rule. Our government is a minority government elected by a minority of the electorate. Currently in 2024 the UK's Labour government was chosen by 9,704,655 out of the 48,214,128 electorate. That's 20.13%. In the US in 2025 Trump and the Republicans got 74,983,555 votes but since the US electorate appears to be 209,240,895 that means he represents 36.92% of the electorate. 

… consign the person who came up with the idea of captured bottle tops to an eternity of trying to open an unopenable bottle or carton where the grip around the top is made of razor blades. I've lost skin on these things and the top gets in the way of pouring the contents out cleanly. In some cases the entire top of a carton twists off leaving a carton which can't be re-sealed. Fine, keep the captured tops on single serving bottles, that's being environmentally sensible, but there's no need for these on multi-serving containers.

Project 2025 - The hype and the truth

This is what Project 2025 is claimed to suggest. Is it true? The actual project can be inspected at https://www.project2025.org/policy/ It's quite verbose and I'm sure that Trump, being adverse to reading, won't know about most of it. Some of its policy is very reasonable but that can be expected. Most political groups are not wrong all the time. 

But this is what some people say it contains. Are these items really hidden amongst it?

The project is available as a printed book but is apparently not available as a proper ebook. It is available as a pdf file though and that is searchable so that's what I did - searched it. Here's the results The bold text is what is claimed to be in Project 2025, If it's red then I couldn't find any reference to it. My comments are in square brackets.

End no-fault divorce 

[Not found]

Complete ban on abortion with no exceptions 

[bans on the federal funding of abortion p6] 

FDA should…reverse its approval of chemical abortion drugs p284 p458

Prohibit Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds p471

Ensure that training for medical professionals (doctors, nurses, etc.) and doulas is not being used for abortion training p485

[For many people these steps will make abortion difficult but not a 'complete ban with no exceptions]

Ban contraceptives

[Not found apart from 'Eliminate the week-after-pill from the contraceptive mandate as a potential abortifacient.' p485]

Additional tax breaks for corporations and the 1%; 

[A search for 'tax ' (including the space) finds 203 mentions including:]

 Department of the Treasury: Implement all necessary regulations both to equalize taxes between American citizens and working visa holders and to provide DHS with all tax information of illegal aliens as expeditiously as possible. p167 

Clarify the critical importance of efficiency to food affordability, and why a failure to recognize this fact especially hurts low-income households who spend a disproportionate share of after-tax income on food compared to higher-income households. p293 

nonresident parents with child support orders can receive a nondependent, child support tax credit. p479 

Congress can propose tax credits for the renovation or repair of housing stock in rural areas so that more Americans are able to access the American Dream of homeownership. p511 

Second, the tax system should minimize its adverse impact on the family and the core institutions of civil society. Third, the tax system should be applied consistently—with special privileges for none—and respect taxpayer due process and privacy rights. p696 

The corporate income tax rate should be reduced to 18 percent. The corporate income tax is the most damaging tax in the U.S. tax system, and its primary economic burden falls on workers because capital is more mobile than labor. 17 Capital gains and qualified dividends should be taxed at 15 percent.  p696 

To encourage entrepreneurship, the business loss limitation should be increased to at least $500,000. Businesses should also be allowed to fully carry forward net operating losses. Extra layers of taxes on investment and capital should also be eliminated or reduced. p697 

The estate and gift tax should be reduced to no higher than 20 percent p697 

[Non-taxable benefits offered to employees in liu of wages would be capped at $12,000, the idea being to prevent employees from being trapped by being unable to give up non-taxable benefits p697]

 Fundamental Tax Reform would see lobbyists, lawyers, benefit consultants, accountants, and tax preparers incomes decline. p698

Higher taxes for the working class;

 [There are several suggestions which would have the opposite effect such as:]

The Treasury should work with Congress to simplify the tax code by enacting a simple two-rate individual tax system of 15 percent and 30 percent that eliminates most deductions, credits and exclusions. The 30 percent bracket should begin at or near the Social Security wage base to ensure the combined income and payroll tax structure acts as a nearly flat tax on wage income beyond the standard deduction. p696 

Universal Savings Accounts. All taxpayers should be allowed to contribute up to $15,000 (adjusted for inflation) of post-tax earnings into Universal Savings Accounts (USAs). The tax treatment of these accounts would be comparable to Roth IRAs. USAs should be highly flexible to allow Americans to save and invest as they see fit, including, for example, investments in a closely held business. Gains from investments in USAs would be non-taxable and could be withdrawn at any time for any purpose. This would allow the vast majority of American families to save and invest without facing a punitive double layer of taxation. p696

Elimination of unions and workers' protection 

[Not found. Related union issue were 'Congress should also consider whether public-sector unions are appropriate in the first place.' p82 'remove all unions in the department for national security purposes.' p135]

Raise the retirement age 

[Not found but retirement related items are: 'Reforming Federal Retirement Benefits'. p77 Seems that public sector should be aiming at matching federal retirement benefits! ie retire at 55 with $200,000 more than public sector], 

'Equalize retirement savings access across married households' & 'To equalize access to tax-free retirement savings for married couples' p588

Cut Social Security

[Not found]

Cut Medicare

[Not found. Reforms to medicare include:]

'Increase Medicare beneficiaries’ control of their health care.', 'Reduce regulatory burdens on doctors', 'Ensure sustainability and value for beneficiaries and taxpayers.' & 'Reduce waste, fraud, and abuse' p463 'Remove restrictions on physician-owned hospitals.' & 'Encourage more direct competition between Medicare Advantage and private plans. p464

Reforms to medicare and Medicaid p465-469

End the Affordable Care Act

[Not found]

Raise prescription drug prices 

[Not found although there is a reference to 'Medicare Part D Reform' on p465]

Eliminate the Department of Education 

Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Department of Education should be eliminated. When power is exercised, it should empower students and families, not government. & 'Ultimately, every parent should have the option to direct his or her child’s share of education funding through an education savings account (ESA), funded overwhelmingly by state and local taxpayers, which would empower parents to choose a set of education options that meet their child's unique needs' p319

Use public, taxpayer money for private religious schools 

[An ESA (see previous item) would allow this.] 

Teach Christian religious beliefs in public schools 

[Not found. However there is a suggestion that a communal 'day off', by default a Sunday, should be recognised and workers on that day should be recompensed with 1.5 times salary. There are exceptions though for hospitals and emergency services p598]

End free and discounted school lunch programs. 

[Not found. There is, in fact, a suggestion that funding for this may NOT be withheld p337]

End civil rights & DEI protections in government 

[Not found but there are: 'Safeguarding civil rights' p332, 'Pursuing Equal Protection for All Americans by Vigorously Enforcing Applicable Federal Civil Rights Laws in Government, Education, and the Private Sector.' p561 & 'Reorganize and refocus the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to serve as the vanguard for this return to lawfulness.' p562]

 Issue an executive order banning, and Congress should pass a law prohibiting the federal government from using taxpayer dollars to fund, all critical race theory training (CRT). p582] [The next conservative President must make the institutions of American civil society hard targets for woke culture warriors. This starts with deleting the terms sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”), diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”), gender, gender equality, gender equity, gender awareness, gender-sensitive, abortion, reproductive health, reproductive rights, and any other term used to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights out of every federal rule, agency regulation, contract, grant, regulation, and piece of legislation that exists. p4

Ban African American and gender studies in all levels of education Ban books and curriculum about slavery. 

[Not found but 'Divisive symbols such as the rainbow flag or the Black Lives Matter flag have no place next to the Stars and Stripes at our embassies'. p89 & 'Funding to institutions should be block-granted and narrowed to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and tribally controlled colleges.' p327]

Ending climate protections 

Eliminate carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) programs. p376

Consider whether to defund the civil nuclear tax credit program and hydroelectric power efficiency and production incentives established in the IIJA and administered through GDO p380

Increase Arctic drilling, Deregulate big business and the oil industry 

[Covered p521-523]

Promote and expedite capital punishment 

[Hardly promoted but 'Enforce the death penalty where appropriate and applicable' p554]

End marriage equality 

[Not found but there are a number of issues under tax to offer tax benefits in marriages]

Condemn single mothers while promoting only "traditional families" 

[No condemnation found but concern is expressed over single parent families several times]

Defund the FBI 

[The DOJ and FBI have been criticized p545-547 but no defunding of then has been found] 

Emphasize, fund, and reward field offices while shrinking headquarters staff p551

Defund Homeland Security 

[Our primary recommendation is that the President pursue legislation to dismantle the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). p133 The proposal is that it should be broken up and some parts combined while other parts are merged with other departments]

Use military to breakup protests; 

[Partly true. The only 'military' mentioned for this is the National Guard 'Transform how the National Guard is employed during extended operations short of declared war to preclude back-to-back federal and state deployments of National Guard soldiers in order to stabilize and preserve military volunteerism in our communities.' p110] 

[There is also 'Department of Defense: Assist in aggressively building the border wall system on America’s southern border. Additionally, explicitly acknowledge and adjust personnel and priorities to participate actively in the defense of America’s borders, including using military personnel and hardware to prevent illegal crossings between ports of entry and channel all cross-border traffic to legal ports of entry' p166-167 & p555]

Mass deportation of immigrants and incarceration in "camps" 

[Nothing found for mass deportation but 'Congress should mandate and fund additional bed space for alien detainees. ICE should be funded for a significant increase in detention space, raising the daily available number of beds to 100,000.' p143]

End birthright citizenship

[Nothing found]

Ban Muslims from entering the country

[Nothing found]

Eliminate federal Agencies such as EPA 

[Partly true] Back to Basics. EPA’s structure and mission should be greatly circumscribed to reflect the principles of cooperative federalism and limited government. This will require significant restructuring and streamlining of the agency p420

Eliminate federal Agencies such as FDA  

[Nothing found]

Eliminate federal Agencies such as NOAA and more 

['and more' is too vague but 'Break Up NOAA.' found p674]

Continue to pack the Supreme Court and lower courts with right-wing judges. 

[No references found]

Not mentioned in the claimed contents of Project 2025 

[How did the Anti-Project2025 people miss these?]

 Environment 

[The next Administration should also push for legislation to fully repeal recently passed subsidies in the tax code, including the dozens of credits and tax breaks for green energy companies in Subtitle D of the Inflation Reduction Act. p696]

Armament Industry

'The United States must regain its role as the “Arsenal of Democracy.” In fiscal year (FY) 2021, U.S. government foreign military sales (FMS) nosedived to a low of $34.8 billion from a record high of $55.7 billion in FY 2018.' p100. [The same was happening in Russia. In Feb 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine and arms sales immediately picked up again.]

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Well stopthecoup2025.org, spreading misinformation isn't going to help your cause. There's plenty in the book to object to but lots of what you claim just doesn't appear to be true. I'm sure most people with any sense don't want to see Trump re-elected but let's campaign honestly.

Perhaps there is a different Project 2025, the one suggested by those labeled 'conspiracy theorists'?

US - Do you like this political ideology?

 

There is a political party which produced a 25 point plan of their beliefs. Take a look and see if any of it appeals to you.

1. We want American people in the US

2. We want the US to be treated the same as other nations.

3. We want land and territory (dependencies) to feed our people and to settle our surplus population.

4. Only Americans may be citizens of the US. Only those of American races may be members of the nation. Their religion does not matter. No Muslim may be a citizen.

5. Non-citizens may live in the US, but there will be special laws for foreigners living in the US.

6. Only citizens can vote for Congress, Presidential, and state elections, or vote on laws. Everyone who works for the US government, a state government or even a small community must be a citizen of the US. We will stop giving people jobs because of the political party they are in. Only the best people should get a job.

7. We think that the government's first job is to make sure every citizen has a job and enough to eat. If the government cannot do this, people who are not citizens should be made to leave the US.

8. No-one who is not of an American race should be allowed to live in the US. We want anyone who is not of an American-race who started living in the US after 2 August 2000 to leave the country.

9. All citizens shall have equal rights and duties.

10. Every citizen should have a job. Their work should not be selfish, but help everyone. Therefore we demand

11.  • The abolition of incomes unearned by work. 

• The breaking of the slavery of interest

12. It is wrong for people to make money from a war. Anyone who made money from wars should have all that money taken away.

13. We want all very big corporations to be owned by the government.

14. Big industrial companies should share their profits with the workers.

15. We want old age pensions to be increased.

16. We want:

• to create a healthy middle class

• to split up big department stores, and let small traders rent space inside them

• to make State and town governments try to buy from small traders.

17. We want to change the way land is owned. We also want

• a law to take over land if the country needs it, without the government having to pay for it;

• to abolish ground rent; and

• to prohibit land speculation (buying land just to sell to someone else for more money).

18. Crimes against the common interest must be punished with prison.

19. Laws should be based upon the US Constitution.

20. We want to change the system of schools and education, so that every hard-working American can have the chance of higher education.

• What is taught should concentrate on practical things

• Schools should teach civic affairs, so that children can become good citizens

• If a poor parent cannot afford to pay for higher education the government should pay for education.

21. The State must protect health standards by

• protecting mothers and infants

• stopping children from working

• making a law for compulsory gymnastics and sports

• supporting sports clubs for young men.

22. We want to get rid of the old army and replace it with a people's army that would look after the ordinary people, not just the rich officer-class

23. We want the law to stop politicians from being anti-American, and newspapers from writing about them. To make an American national press we demand:

• that all editors of, and writers in the English language newspapers are members of the nation (of an American race);

• Foreign newspapers need permission from the government. They must not be printed in the English language unless they come from a country where English is the national language;

• Non-Americans cannot own or control American newspapers. Any non American who does own or control a newspaper will be made to leave the US, and the newspaper closed down,

• Newspapers which criticise the country or the government are not allowed.

• Art and books which support foreign ideas, should be banned.

24. We want to allow all religions in the State, unless they offend the moral feelings of the American race. Our party is Christian, but does not belong to any denomination. The party will fight the Muslim self-interest spirit, and believes that our nation will be strongest only if everyone puts the common interest before self-interest.

25. We will

• create a strong central government for America and its dependencies;

• give the President and Congress control over the entire government and its organizations;

• form groups based on class and job to carry out the laws in the various US states.

The leaders of the Party promise to work—if need be to sacrifice their very lives—to put this programme into action.

Does any of this appeal to you? Is it a policy of a political group you like? If so then I have news for you - You are a Nazi! This 25 point plan was produced by Hitler for the the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), Nazi Party, when it was founded in 1920. I have simply changed references to Germany and Jews to be more appropriate to the US today.

If you like it, particularly points 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 23, 24, you are probably a racist.

A reminder about the Reform Contract/Manifesto

 Reform published a document which they called a 'contract' but appears to be a draft manifesto. They asked for people's views on it but when I responded within 4 hours they said they had closed the process. So here's my response on most of their points I've added extra letters in some cases since Reform don't appear to be able to count properly. The original document can be found online at https://assets.nationbuilder.com/reformuk/pages/253/attachments/original/1708781032/Reform_UK_Contract_With_The_People.pdf

Reform Manifesto? Contract

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Can Reform count?

2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 243, 26, 27, 28, 29 Were these meant to be page numbers? In which case put them right aligned and check they go to the right pages.

Certainly, this is a trivial point but it doesn't inspire confidence when the first thing people see is an 'odd' count. Employ a proofreader!

 

2. Government waste - Certainly a good idea. (But make sure the PDF text can be read over the background) Proofreader again.

3. Economy - Personal (a Lift the Income Tax Start Point to £20,000 Per Year) Acceptable. Certainly, tax should not be paid by those on basic pension and benefits.

(b Cut energy taxes) Taxing energy is an evil tax. It's particularly hard on those with low income. Perhaps this could be done on a sliding scale?

(c Cut residential Stamp duty) If you've made the effort to buy a home why pay extra tax on this? Seems wrong.

(d Abolish the VAT tourist tax) I wasn't even aware 'they' had done this but I don't think it will have much effect.

(e Death tax) I approve. This death tax hits particularly hard in the South.

 5. Immigration. Reform seems particularly fixated on this. It may be your, racist priority but it's not the priority of most of the UK. Kind of reminds me of that quote "If you tell a lie, and tell it often enough then people will believe it." From Roman times the UK has benefited from immigration.

 5 (again) NHS. (a. Cut basic tax of all frontline NHS staff for 3 years as an incentive) An excellent idea.

(b Use Independent Healthcare capacity) Again worthwhile considering provided that the cost is not increased.

(c. Tax relief of 20% on all private health insurance) No - bad idea and unfair  to those without the means. But a discount of what is paid in National Insurance might be appropriate.

(d.Write off student fees pro rata per year over 10 years of NHS service for all doctors, nurses & medical staff) I would go further and scrap tuition fees for all UK doctors and nurses. Plus give them bursaries to cover housing costs while training.

(e.New NHS Voucher Scheme) Could prove expensive - Try to reduce waiting times by other methods first and consider introducing vouchers over time. (And a proofreader will tell you an ellipsis is three dots not two btw.)

(f) Cut waste and bureaucracy? Always desirable.

(g. Save A&E) I think this sounds an obvious step, but many A&E are being closed at night. Reconsider this.

(h) I'd like to see this. An investigation into vaccine harm would be useful even if is found that more lives were saved than deaths caused by the vaccines.

 8. Energy (a) DON'T scrap Net Zero. It's a target to work towards. We can't afford to burn the finite fuels we need as chemical feedstock.
BUT:
Put much greater emphasis on insulation and efficiency. For example, EVERY home in the UK could have its exterior walls insulated inside with a 1.5 mm layer of aerogel insulation which, in the worst quality housing, could save residents up to 35% of energy costs. It would cost less than three of those ten nuclear power stations and wouldn't take 10 years to complete.

(b renewable energy subsidies cancellation) Bad idea. We are not doing enough to promote renewables but building huge windmills may not be the answer. We need to put extra effort into wave and tidal power, vortex windmills in cities especially on dual carriageway central reservations, geothermal power, gravity power storage. By all means encourage solar power but not on agricultural land. Sheep are quite happy to graze under solar panels. Car parks are a good location for these too.

(c) Shale gas and fracking. Fine be aware of these resources but the time for them is not now. Leave them until we are desperate.

(d) Caution is needed for some 'clean energy' such as hydrogen. It has a potential  to cause disaster from accidents during transport or refuelling. It might have a use in aircraft. Nuclear power, unless fusion power becomes available, stores up problems we have no right to leave to our descendants.

9. Policing - I suspect this is another 'Tell a lie often enough' issue. Crime is low with the possible exception of Internet fraud. Violent crime is decreasing and will be lower still as lead works its way out of our environment. We do need to do something about police numbers though. The Conservatives lied by omission when they said "We've employed an extra 20,000 police (but omit to say 25,000 police left in the same period)"

 10. Huh? Where/what is it?

11. Justice - We do need more prisons and prison officers. The criminal justice budget does need updating. Hate crime needs public shame and you stressing this is much a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Public demonstrations need no new legislation. 'Life means life' can't be a general rule and needs interpretation on an individual basis. Organised crime? Yes - throw the book at them. Perhaps those trafficking illegal immigrants should spend 5 years working for subsistence pay before being deported if they are not British citizens.

Child grooming gangs? Is this as common as made out? Certainly a 'throw the book at them' crime on conviction.

Youth crime is a failure of society; fix that first.

12. ?

13. Education. The function of government here is to provide the funding needed and to stop interfering so as to reduce the stress on teachers. Teaching, especially in STEM subjects, doesn't need the input of politicians who only seem to have made matters more difficult. When I taught chemistry the government legislated that all children should study it. The immediate effects were an 80% increase in equipment breakage and disruption to those more capable of understanding the theory of valency.

Transgender ideology in primary school? I doubt if many would disagree here apart from a few who give 'woke' a bad name.

Critical race theory should be a part of the history curriculum so that students can learn from the mistakes of the past.

Labour has got it wrong on charging VAT on private education. It's likely to cause the closure of some schools and increase the load on public sector schools.

Student loans? I'd rather we brought back grants to those who have the ability to make use of a University Education.

Life skills classes? Yes this is a common sense idea and tremendously helpful

Smartphones? I personally wouldn't give a child under 14 a phone. Their developing skull doesn't need the radiation and their maturity lags behind in the responsible use.

 14. ?

15. Benefits - Sounds good but I suspect you would make a deeper mess of this. Not everyone is capable of working. Investigate Universal Basic Income first before tampering with the benefit system.

Two strike rule for job offers - Should a person with a degree in a STEM subject be forced to take a job flipping burgers? I suspect these people will take such a job while continuing to look for employment and won't need compulsion.

PIP face to face assessment? Have you any idea how stressful this would be to an autistic person?

16.  Brexit - a complete and utter disaster. A 37% minority made this decision based on lies and misinformation. A government elected by 29.1% forced it through. You are WRONG about this! The majority of the electorate now thinks this was a mistake. We should hold another referendum on re-joining BUT count those who don't bother voting as a half vote for the status quo choice which in this case would be remaining outside the EU. No decision by less than 50% of the electorate should be final. Less than 50% indicates we should investigate why people were unhappy with the EU and attempt to fix it.

17. Defense. Defense means exactly that - defense rather than offense. 2.5% of GDP is too much! It means every man, woman and child in the UK is paying an extra £230 to increase the profits of the 'merchants of death' - the armaments industry. 

18. By all means pay our armed forces and veterans better 

17 (again) ...but no one should profit from making the weapons that kill people! Introduce a windfall tax on armaments industries. 3% of GDP is ridiculous and will only help to make the world less stable, killing even more. In this respect item 12 of Hitler's 25-point-plan was correct. (12. It is wrong for people to make money from a war. Anyone who made money from wars should have all that money taken away.) Your 'Introduce incentives and tax breaks to boost the UK defence industry. Improve equipment self-sufficiency and manufacture world class products for export' is not just wrong it's EVIL!

19.  Housing. Suggesting that immigration is the cause of housing shortages is questionable. The idea that immigrants should go to the back of the queue for housing is wrong. Each case, immigrant or not, should be judged on its merit.

20. Children and families. I approve of supporting marriage through the tax system  and allowing mums to stay at home with young children but what about family partnerships? They exist.

Single sex spaces? Isn't this making a mountain out of a molehill? Are you going to have people at single sex spaces to determine if entrants are the right sex?

 21. Transport & Utilities? Scrapping HS2 and focusing on the North are  contradictory.

ULEZ does need further investigation. Perhaps making drivers more aware if their vehicle is not compliant.

We do need a national water  grid but I would remind you of the extensive tunnels dug from Northumberland to Teesside and then never used.

22. Agriculture. 'British farming needs reform to take advantage of Brexit.' Brexit has been an utter disaster for UK farmers. Things like  35,000 pigs were culled and tonnes of crops left to rot in the fields. If you want to improve agriculture then reverse Brexit.

23. ?

24. Fishing. The EU deal worked out wasn't beneficial to fishing. Our fishermen can no longer sell their catch to EU markets. This was yet another negative Brexit consequence.

25. ?

26. Pensions and social care. This section is complete and utter waffle. No suggestions other than setting up a 'Royal' Commission and looking at how Australia manages pensions. It's notable that UK pensions are Europe's poor relations. In a government report in 2019 the UK state pension compared to the average EU state pension was a ratio of 28.4:63.5 The recent removal of winter fuel allowance has reduced living standards of some UK pensioners by 1.73% Protest that!

27. Constitutional Reform. Many of the actions suggested here smell like Hitler's 25 point plan.
a) Leave the European Court of Human Rights within 100 days - Terrible idea unless you have something stronger in place which will take a lot longer than 100 days to formulate.
b) Commence reform of the House of Lords - OK some good ideas here. Let's get rid of political and religious appointees and make the Lords a body of successful non-political appointees worthy of peerages
c) Commence reform of the civil service. Did you copy this from Hitler's point 6? The civil service already has a structure where competent people can advance and the incompetent be dismissed or demoted. Don't try to fix what isn't broken.
d) Reform the postal voting system. You are again trying to fix a system which isn't broken. Voter fraud is practically non-existent. Voting should never be made more difficult. 

28. Reclaiming Britain. You did suggest, as other political groups did, some good ideas:
i) Proportional representation
ii) Bill of rights
iii) BBC and TV licence reform
iv) Anti-Corruption Unit
More dubious are:
v) Affirm British Sovereignty - Maybe useful after years of negotiation and external reform.
vi) Replace the 2010 Equalities Act - sounds like a good way of bogging Parliament down in years of argument.

29. Funding. A fanciful section reminiscent of the 'Savings to be made by Brexit'. 

Do you like this political ideology?

 There is a political party which produced a 25 point plan of their beliefs. Take a look and see if any of it appeals to you.

1. We want British people in "the UK"

2. We want the UK to be treated the same as other nations.

3. We want land and territory (colonies) to feed our people and to settle our surplus population.

4. Only British may be citizens of the UK. Only those of British races may be members of the nation. Their religion does not matter. No Muslim may be a citizen.

5. Non-citizens may live in the UK, but there will be special laws for foreigners living in the UK.

6. Only citizens can vote for parliament and councils, or vote on laws. Everyone who works for the British government, a state government or even a small village must be a citizen of the UK. We will stop giving people jobs because of the political party they are in. Only the best people should get a job.

7. We think that the government's first job is to make sure every citizen has a job and enough to eat. If the government cannot do this, people who are not citizens should be made to leave the UK.

8. No-one who is not of a British race should be allowed to live in the UK. We want anyone who is not of a British-race who started living in the UK after 2 August 2000 to leave the country.

9. All citizens shall have equal rights and duties.

10. Every citizen should have a job. Their work should not be selfish, but help everyone. Therefore we demand

11. • The abolition of incomes unearned by work. 

• The breaking of the slavery of interest

12. It is wrong for people to make money from a war. Anyone who made money from wars should have all that money taken away.

13. We want all very big corporations to be owned by the government.

14. Big industrial companies should share their profits with the workers.

15. We want old age pensions to be increased.

16. We want:

• to create a healthy middle class

• to split up big department stores, and let small traders rent space inside them

• to make State and town governments try to buy from small traders.

17. We want to change the way land is owned. We also want

• a law to take over land if the country needs it, without the government having to pay for it;

• to abolish ground rent; and

• to prohibit land speculation (buying land just to sell to someone else for more money).

18. Crimes against the common interest must be punished with prison.

19. Laws should be based upon the British Common Law system.

20. We want to change the system of schools and education, so that every hard-working Britain can have the chance of higher education.

• What is taught should concentrate on practical things

• Schools should teach civic affairs, so that children can become good citizens

• If a poor parent cannot afford to pay for higher education the government should pay for education.

21. The State must protect health standards by

• protecting mothers and infants

• stopping children from working

• making a law for compulsory gymnastics and sports

• supporting sports clubs for young men.

22. We want to get rid of the old army and replace it with a people's army that would look after the ordinary people, not just the rich officer-class

23. We want the law to stop politicians from being anti-British, and newspapers from writing about them. To make a British national press we demand:

• that all editors of, and writers in the English language newspapers are members of the nation (of a British race);

• Foreign newspapers need permission from the government. They must not be printed in the English language unless they come from a country where English is the national language;

• Non-British cannot own or control British newspapers. Any non Britain who does own or control a newspaper will be made to leave the UK, and the newspaper closed down,

• Newspapers which criticise the country or the government are not allowed.

• Art and books which support foreign ideas, should be banned.

24. We want to allow all religions in the State, unless they offend the moral feelings of the British race. Our party is Christian, but does not belong to any denomination. The party will fight the Muslim self-interest spirit, and believes that our nation will be strongest only if everyone puts the common interest before self-interest.

25. We will

• create a strong central government for Britain and what is left of its Empire;

• give Parliament control over the entire government and its organizations;

• form groups based on class and job to carry out the laws in the various British states.

The leaders of the Party promise to work—if need be to sacrifice their very lives—to put this programme into action.

Does any of this appeal to you? Is it a policy of a political group you like? If so then I have news for you - You are a Nazi! This 25 point plan was produced by Hitler for the the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), Nazi Party, when it was founded in 1920. I have simply changed references to Germany and Jews to be more appropriate to the UK today.

If you like it, particularly points 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 23, 24, you are probably a racist.

Shame on you Labour Party.

 I subscribe to political party emails in the UK. Here's the start of one I got today (28th Aug 2023). I think it's a fine example of how politics is being dragged into the gutter.

Shame on you Labour Party.

•  Yes, we all despise Nadine Dorries for her support of a known liar as PM.
• We despise her shameful resignation where she clung to her MP salary while not doing the work.
• We despise her for her belief that she should have been made a peer.

 It was enough that she did such a terrible job. It is enough that we are sick of the Conselfservatives dragging down their party. It is enough that they are divided. It is enough that the word ‘integrity’ no longer seems to apply to them. It is enough that they seem poised to follow the post WW1 Liberal party into obscurity, never to form a government again, but that won’t happen if you continue to write supercilious emails like this one.

 Instead of making fun of Nadine Dorries, who is no longer an MP and irrelevant. Try telling us what you will do better. Try listening to your supporters and do what they want.

• Promise to look into Brexit issues and what made 37% of our electorate vote for such a disastrous policy. Even go as far as investigating if another referendum should be held on it. However, don’t make it a disastrous binary choice one like the one David Cameron forced on us. If you must, then make it so that undecided voters count as a half vote for the current status quo – if they don’t agree then they can vote. UK policy should NEVER be instigated by less than 50% of the electorate.
• Promise to investigate electoral reform. It’s time MPs stopped squabbling in Parliament and used debate, negotiation, and compromise to represent their constituents effectively rather than scoring points against their opponents. I remind you members at your conference voted for proportional representation.
• Promise to set rules for Parliamentary standards. MPs should not accept gifts in any form and those who give them expecting to influence policy are guilty of bribery. There MUST be penalties put in place for deliberately misleading or lies in Parliament. Such actions should have a financial cost or even a vote penalty in the next election.
• Treat climate change sensibly. Concentrate on insulation and efficiency first, then alternative energy before nuclear power stations. Using something like a 1mm aerogel insulation layer on the inside of external walls could cut energy use by up to 35%, decrease household energy costs, especially for the lowest quality homes, can be done quickly and if applied free to every UK home will cost less than five of the ten nuclear power stations the conservatives have promised us. It wouldn't take 10 years and the benefits in energy reduction would be felt quickly. 
• Do something about our waste problem. In our technological age we shouldn’t have polluted water and seas. Use our waste plastics to replace the bitumen in roads. Toxic pesticides and herbicides are a disaster waiting to decrease life expectancy - just as in the US.
• Remember that when Aneurin Bevan inaugurated the NHS on 5 July 1948, he wrote to the whole medical profession: “My job is to give you all the facilities, resources, apparatus and help I can, and then to leave you alone as professional men and women to use your skill and judgment without hindrance. Let us try to develop that partnership from now on.” Keep that ‘from now on’ promise. Work with the NHS and give them some proper funding.

 I certainly won’t be contributing to the Conservative party election campaigns; they’ve had their day and have let us down. But your ‘Not Nadine Dorries’ email makes me inclined to doubt that the Labour party will be any different.