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The man's Carbon footprint is probably 400 times bigger than mine, yet he lectures us all on what we are doing wrong. Is it? By whose calculations? Have they considered how many acres of woodland he "owns", and how much carbon that is sequestering? Or are they just looking at the gross co...

Neily at the peak wrote:This is tosh, there is not $180 dollars in the system just $100 if you lend out 80% of something and retain %20 overall there is still 100%

But the system includes the $100 that the bank owes to the original lender.

Adam1 wrote:Is that true? We would need more than 200 people to continue the species, wouldn't we? Genetic diversity and all that?

Incest increases the rate of mutation, mutations that survive increase the gene pool.

I was thinking about this. Why haven't we got these digesters everywhere dealing with sewage? I don't believe it is difficult. I understand that there is a minimum size before it becomes practical. The lions share of your water bill is for dealing with your sewage, so surely there is a market for co...

In order to claim land you need to fence it off (or create other boundary), to the exclusion of all others for 12 years. We have a plot of land behind our house which we (a group of the neibouger) have requistioned, however because we use it as a playground for the kids from all four houses no-one ...

It's always rape with you people isn't it. You people? Yes, you people who refer to the reasonable harvest of a natural resource as rape. Think you might find we're very similar.... You are probably right. You said you wanted an argument; I was being argumentative. ;) Can't envisage the concept of ...

who said electric plane? Trains run on electricity? So where are you getting all the electricity from? Can't all come from wind & wave; tidal has it's own problems, and the simplest, easiest way of using solar is to run it through a plant and burn the proceeds. It is precisely that attitude whi...

Meanwhile you are doing the work running around trying to locate the owner? I had read into your post the implication that it was likely to be a joint venture. You're very unkind to my neighbour for some reason I can't entirely fathom. It was just a question. I can see how you may have read that to...

Hi Hairy, Well come to the forum. Sorry, gonna start with an argument :lol: Jolly good. ;) What I think is we need is some means of hoovering up these blooms, so they can be used as fuel. er,, no! The oceans currently soak up 90% of all the carbon that gets put into the atmosphere. The other 10% is...

It's not irrelevant. He may not have any better legal claim, but he has the better moral claim in the sense that if I somehow got ownership of the land when I know full well that he wants and needs it more than me, it would be very bad form indeed. Also he's better equipped to manage it than I am -...

My neighbour has the better claim to it as it adjoins his land not mine. That's irrelevant. Neither of you presently has any claim on the land. He'd like to run an access track through it to his property (and thence to mine if I pay for it), but doesn't want to make the expenditure without clear ti...

Andy Hunt wrote:Hi Hairyloon, and welcome to the forum!!

Hi Andy & thanks.
I'd forgotten that was my first post here. Not the sanest introduction I don't suppose.
Ah well, may as well start as we mean to go on.

The US have been researching this for at least 30 years and there are a few start-ups there, and in the Netherlands, that are just beginning to get going on a commercial scale now. Part of the problem (as I understand) in the US is that most of the fleet is petrol powered, algae is easily converted...