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Nuclear Plant in Malaysia?

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

Lately there’s alot of takings about Malaysia’s upcoming Nuclear Plant..

Isn’t it exciting for all Malaysian? We are going to have our very own 1Malaysia Nude Nuke plant. Our Media and people responded their unwillingness to adopt Nuclear Plant. I think it is fun for me to add a little bit of HuuHaa here pertaining to this issue (since I’m also a retarded energy engineer)

Reason for not willing to accept Nuclear as our additional power resources by most Malaysians?

  1. Devastating effects of nuclear technology atom-bombed during WWII in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  2. The case of Three Mills Island in the US in the late 1970s.
  3. The Chernobyl Nuclear reactor disaster in 1986.

The above reasons were implied by our beloved parti-pembangkang Pakatan Rakyat in the parliament. I think our politicians are really good in history facts (they can only get it in wikipedia and internet) since they can memories all the dark events so well, but they lack of future orientated knowledge that strengthen their point to go against the government to build a nuclear plant. Hereby, I would like to pen down a few of my state-of-the-art-retarted-tips to the politicians that plan to go against the nuclear plant.

There’s no point to convince the government that Nuclear plant is actually very harmful to us because…….

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Nuclear Plant is really GOOD!!

People who constantly implying the unpleasent historical events of nuclear plants are trying to convince us that the creation of Nuclear plants is a technology black-hole, It is the type of creation that human must dis-invent it. This is simply unacceptable.   Why?

If I tell you history shows that there’s plenty of casualties in Aviation Business, can we stop people to fly again? Accident occured during construction period, can we stop people to build more houses? Internet create negative problems to the youth, can we stop people to serve internet again? Shopping make ladies to go bankrupted, can we stop them to have credit cards?…. cannot right?  Nuclear plant is the same… with  care and love we will have plenty of safe energy.

Our government got all the sweet-talks from the technology providers from various developed countries. Obtaining nuclear plant is a national pride because they are comparing to country like France whereby 76% of its energy generated from nuclear, China has plenty of nuclear plants and currently there are 9 in construction, Japan and Taiwan are using it… Owning Nuclear plant is a STATUS because it is the state-of-the-art-expensive-sophisticated-environmental-friendly-power plant.

Clearly It is the kind of projects that the Goverment can take Money from the people when they execute it, also it will channel out our money in a very fast manner.

Why?

Malaysia nuclear project lead time kick-off is 10 years, this was informed by the “experts”.  European lead time is normally more than 10 years because they think building a nuclear plant is not easy and require a lot of feasibilities studies that will use up a lot of managment man hours to completed it, their government will personally involve in the planning stage whereby every details of nuclear plant erection + constrution will be very tedious. Construction standards will be set to a very stringent level. Construction period for a nuclear plant in Europe will normally take more than 10 years to complete (considering the fact that Europe has higher knowledge and experience of building a nuclear plant).

Now what if the above situation fall under Malaysian hands?

Who will commission the nuclear constructions?

What kind of standards will Malaysia come out with for the technology providers?

It is all $$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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It seems that we all have forgotten another ambitious power project!

Which is

Bakun Hydroelectric Power Station

The highly anticipated Hidro Project that was supposed to be meterialized decade ago is now still undergoing. How much billions was spent to this project already?

Still the government want to talk about Nuclear plant when this shit is not finished yet?

In additional to that, lately they want to award Sime Darby to build the submarine cable to transmit the Power from East Malaysia to the West? which later proven that Sime Darby overun the proposed price by 1 billion ringgit. No need to say more.

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Renewables

Besides Bakun project, how about our renewables program like Solar and wind? these are actually the real high-end energy solutions. Everywhere in the world, people are now focusing on Solar and Wind. But our government appreciate more on expensive stuff that brings no value.

Who are the people that approach Malaysia to build nuclear plant? US, France, Korean, China and many more.. these countries priority renewable energy like solar although they have difficulty in getting solar energy. But they intend to sell their unwanted/out-to-date technology to Malaysia when we can have abundant of solar, wind annually.

I would like to ask..

Which country has the most number of prestigious solar manufacturing companies in the world?

It is Malaysia! we have German Q-cells solar manufacturer (Putrajaya), First solar thin-film solar manufacturer (Kulim) from US, Sunpower from US (Melacca) and a few more coming. YAY!!

now ask again..

Which country has the most number of prestigious solar manufacturing companies in the world but have non Solar farm / Solar installed in large scale?

I can proudly say that it is Malaysia also.

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Why does this happen?

Our government subsidises so much money in raw materials such as natural gas (main ingredient to make solar cells), petrol, export tax to attract ang-mo to invest in us to build solar cells. But we are adopting the unwanted technology from the ang-mo.  At the same time The government cut down our subsidises and increase our living cost haha..




Pac-Man in ROME with Smart Car

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Happy New Year to all readers! I first played Pac-Man when I was still in Kinder Garden. I remember I used to play it in a Floppy Disc and the computer which supported the game was the predecessor even before 386, first Intel Pentium 1. Anyway, It was my 1st experience that allowed me to explore my gaming leisure in digital computer.  I experienced Pac-Man in another level of fun during my New Year Holidays.

What was it?

ROME

2 nights before the end of 2009, me and Princess Pipi were traveling in one of the most celebrated street in Rome called Spagna.

The city was decorated with Christmas stuffs and people were preparing to welcome 2010.

We bumped into a Mercedesshow room and saw this sparkling smart car

As we were going to take the picture together with the smart car, a sales guy came to us and say

Do you want to play Pac Man and win a SMART CAR?

Winning a SMART CAR is really tempting!

But I am not a go-go guy,  and initiative enough in participate in all these competition. although I used to participate in some stupid game with Yee Chong before:

But Pipi was so excited.

Pac Man in SMART CAR? Strange….

Generally, this game has to be played by 2 people as a team to compete with other teams from Rome.

One participant has to drive a smart car in Rome street to get 20,000 points at least to get a smart car

while the other participants need to direct the driver in the Mercedes show room by contacting the driver via handphone and a GPS screen to search for the smart car location

Our team was named… FIREMICE ,

the Italian pronounced it as  “FI-RA-MA-CHI”

GPS screen that locates FireMice in the screen

Pipi was the navigator, she played an important role to direct the smart car, to get as much point as possible, most important of all she had to talk to me in the phone (very very difficult)..

FireMice was the retarded-SMART car driver..

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So we started! Pipi was shouting non stop

Go GO go! why you not moving yet!!!!

I was like… ok ok ok

It is not easy to drive in Rome since I am a Malaysian (the other participants from Rome), and I have no-sense-of-direction… the driver seat was located at the left side of the car… all the direction was against what I used to drive with… and I AM  RACING IN A COMPETITION!

Pipi:

WOI!!!! Turn right ok!! TURN– TURN !

FireMice:

CANNOT TURN RIGHT OK!!

Drove to a few interesting place that promoted Smart Car to get extra points =)

Pipi:

Drive Faster!

Pipi:

Faster…. We are near to 20,000 points already

FireMice Pac man

At last, we got back more than 30,000 points

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our rank was 2nd among 8 people….

We are proud because we beat most of the others Romans!

but we were disappointed to find out we can only get a mini Smart car

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Little did we find out… Smart car actually was promoting their electric car… a Energy Friendly car

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We got a mini smart CAR!

Solar Fashions

Friday, December 5th, 2008

It is time for me to write MORE about my work. I have a lot of bad times in my job. But sometime I get to attach myself to some interesting substance. This time, I would like to combine my work researches with some FASHION material. How to combine? This is all Application science.

Diagram below details about how different varieties of renewable sources can be integrated  together to become an independent power system.

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I’m still a baby renewable engineer, I’d just completed some researches on several types of Solar Panels. Namely Thin-film silicon solar, Amorphous Thin-film silicon solar, Mono-Crystalline solar and Poly-Crystalline. ArgggHH ! sounds boring.. let’s get into the fun part! SOLAR FASHION!

Now let’s start with the Solar Fashion Parade!

288319326_ff99fe53c5I would like to start something mild. Well, these 2 ladies don’t really look fashionable. I doubt that those are solar also. But I would like to publish it to bring credit out from their commitment. Yeh Baby!Behave~~

solar-dressNow this one look relevant, glamorous and sexy. Note the black spots are the solar cells. It is quite small. solar cells are made from Crystalized Silicon. It look nice in fashion because it looks like crystal.

huchaThis one look fashionable. Got Style. Solar Crystals can be found everywhere.

zegna_07_solarkragen-smallNow it is men fashion. Picture above shows a simple solar patch found in the collar.

indarra-dtx-solar-jacket1This look simple. You won’t go out with this. It makes you look like a robot and you got powered by that solar panel.

solar_vestThis one look cool. It looks like the terminator robot from the future. This picture shows the solar vest can power the phone, camera and etc…

bogner_2sqBogner Winterspiele

This one look funky. You will look like aliens.

Gadgets

other than clothings, Solar do come in the form of other miscenalleous.

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Yes! Power Purse! hahaha

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Imagine you can charge your accessories while you travel.

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You can charge you phone everywhere under the sun.

Solar also bring Excitement in Fashion industry. It make ladies to take off their clothes to get powered also.. Technology is so interesting.. let’s go green girls!!

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solar_swimsuit

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YES YES!! it is solar BRAs, Solar Bikini, Solar Swimsuits… wooHoo! I wonder when will my boss allow me to execute this projects.

Feed your car with JATROPHA

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Have you ever thought that whenever you start your car, you are actually hurting our Mother Nature?  Petrol is meant to be buried deep inside earth. Since the very first day we started to dig petrol out from earth, we generated a vast amount of excess energy in heat form and also Trillions tons of CO2 to our atmosphere. In the end, global warming becomes more severe than ever. Earth temperature increases, Ozone layer becomes thinner, less ice in North Pole and South Pole…..

We GOT to do something!

Have you ever thought what kinds of things that can possibly replace petrol? My friend YeeChong once told me something that actually struck me when the other friend asked YeeChong to fetch him somewhere else. YeeChong rejected the request harshly by saying this……………..

Friend: YeeChong can you please fetch me to see my girlfriend at KTC College?

YeeChong: YOU SIAO AH!! NO WAY

Friend: Why?

YeeChong: You think Petrol is cheap?!?! You think I can just PEE into my car? And my car will move by feeding it with my URINE?

This is like Jim Carrey pee into a car in Me, Myself & Irene

That conversation struck me that day. It had an impact to me. As a baby engineer back then, I was so ambitious. I would like to participate in such breakthrough creations. I wish I can create an engine that is eligible to be powered by abundant resources like PEE PEE! When I hit my last year of my University, writing a thesis about the URINAL engine and do research about it was some of the proposals I wished to propose to my lecturer. Well, It didn’t happen..  But the idea was crystallized in me.

I’m proud to say that I’m a Renewable Project Engineer now.  My responsibility is to research additional green energy to save mama Earth. Me, Lowkei and Alex Kuek used to have the opportunity to execute research on a type of crop called Jatropha.

Jatropha curcus is a poisonous plant belonging to the spurge family. It is not eatable due to its high toxicity. But the good thing about Jatropha Curcus is that we can actually purge the seeds and get biodiesels. Amazing? Well, if you want to know more about Jatropha please ask Alex Kuek.

Alex Kuek was on the news the other day promoting Jatropha crop. It was published in The Star newspaper. He was explaining Jatropha crops to Prime Minister of Malaysia Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

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