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I want to stay at Kenneals farm and cob house again!!!!!

Lanthanam, though a 'rare earth' is not particularly rare. It's about as common as copper but is usually spread out very thinly instead of concentrated into useable ores. China may be the only country with significant production just now but it can be produced in several countries. Im sure your rig...

Newsnight were talking about two precious metals in particular that are vital components needed to produce some important green technology like hybrid cars and wind turbines etc. The metals are Lanthanum and Neodymium. Video link below http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8366603.stm soun...

Vortex wrote: I've now found out after some major effort who RGR is. RGR wouldn't happen to be Mr TR Klett of Central Energy Resources Team, US Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado? He has co-authored a book in 2003 entitled Giant Oil and Gas Fields 1990-1999 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mrghwz...

Good post Snow. I suppose the question would be who are TPTB? Are they really the governments? or are they large cooperations/ bankers/ agribusiness or both. It is almost impossible to know and the complexity of our system does not lead to answers easily. I would add that TPTB may be in agreement ab...

Leroy wrote; Fast forward two months and I was thinking about taking a couple of Neurofens with my liquid lunch in order to faze out the reality of my environment somewhat. Weddings, heat magazine, babies, Primark....' god I wanted to kill myself. Not saying that being surrounded by an entire room o...

Last week I had the pleasure of spending a few days on Kenneals farm with him and his lovely family. Their cob built house is a sight to be seen and is an amazing construction built from the clay on their land. I spent my time helping to build a huge new Pollytunnel and prep the new composting loos ...

Totally baffled wrote; And then is the complete contradiction with Browns Co2 reduction plans, and Bush's less reliance on foreign oil plan. If they meant it , they wouldnt give a stuff what OPEC could do! They will never mean it as there is too much at stake for BAU. Only once forced to do somethin...

RalphW wrote: Or maybe they just happen to a have a reworked oil field finally coming on line after delays, so now they have some capacity to increase output again, better declare it as a voluntary increase whilst they still can, before depletion in other fields erodes it in a few months time... Thi...

Vortex your lucky to have a family that you can communicate with. My family are appaled that I am changing from being a chartered surveyor to an electrician and will not support me financially. Im on my own for this career change but know that for me its the right thing to do. Ill make my own plans ...

John B "So if prices will bottom out in 2011 and TS will HTF in 2012, does that mean I should keep travelling until 2011 and then buy a cheap house? Or will the financial system collapse before then so I lose all the money to buy the house?" Well if you want to put down roots and purchase ...

Greg

Boris does have more of a sense of humour than Ken.

Stating the obvious. Cannot wait for Boris and his circus.........

The lunatics are taking over the asylm.

Hopefully this will be the beginning of the end of the Junta.


Pray emoticon.

The corporal wrote

You could describe voting as a good walk wasted.

Precisly sir (salute)