How did you find out about PO?

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 06 Nov 2010, 20:21

postie wrote: You all spell colour and fibre correctly... so I joined.

Indeed. We strive meet our doom maintaining the highest standards of English. Welcome aboard.

Kentucky Fried Panda · Post by **Kentucky Fried Panda** » 06 Nov 2010, 21:36

biffvernon wrote:
postie wrote: You all spell colour and fibre correctly... so I joined.
Indeed. We strive meet our doom maintaining the highest standards of English. Welcome aboard.

innit bruv

Vortex · Post by **Vortex** » 06 Nov 2010, 21:39

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We've just spent all day making a new chook run - whole family involved- you can't beat a day doing something practical.

Same here ... four of us spent the day fixing some wooden bits of chicken houses and also setting up electric fencing runs.

postie · Post by **postie** » 07 Nov 2010, 09:24

nexus wrote:
except for some chickens... so pop round for scrambled eggs after TEOTWAWKI...)
Welcome postie (are you a postie?)

Chickens are great. What have you got?

We've just spent all day making a new chook run - whole family involved- you can't beat a day doing something practical.

We started out in April with 6 chickens and since then have increased their number by 2. The initial 6 are all different breeds. The intention was to get 2 breeds as they were better layers but the lesson I learnt was not to take kids to the farm to select them... or you come home with the mish-mash of breeds we ended up with

The other two I bought as fertilized eggs on ebay, popped them in an incubator for 21 days and managed to hatch 2 of the 6 eggs. They're now almost full grown.

I used to be a postman, I'm not anymore.

Keela · Post by **Keela** » 07 Nov 2010, 13:42

Postie,

@ the kids choosing the hens!

Of couse, the beauty of loads of breeds is that they look different and so the kids can name them all.

The downside of that is when the fox gets one you can't fudge which one is now missing!

However, allowing a few random fertilised eggs to be hatched when one of the hens goes broody is also fun as you can then play the great game of "guess the parents"!

Ask me how I know all this! Have fun

AutomaticEarth · Post by **AutomaticEarth** » 08 Nov 2010, 00:19

This is my first post, so Hi all

I first heard of PO about 3 years ago. Like a lot of other people, I was directed to LATOC, and then another site called Wolf At The Door. I then picked up this site through a Google UK search on PO, and have dipped in and out ever since.

I've read Richard Heinberg's books The Party's Over and Powerdown.

When I first read into the PO subject, I had a bit of a doomerthon for a few weeks, and then got over it. Now, like many on this site, I'm looking for ways to counter the very serious threat to our way of life that PO poses.

Eternal Sunshine · Post by **Eternal Sunshine** » 08 Nov 2010, 00:29

Hey AtomicEarth, hello and welcome.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 08 Nov 2010, 10:29

AutomaticEarth wrote:Now, like many on this site, I'm looking for ways to counter the very serious threat to our way of life that PO poses.

Hello AutomaticEarth and welcome. What are you looking for specifically?

PO doesn't present a serious threat in itself - it's merely a point in time. It's the inevitable energy decline and how it's managed (or not managed) that needs acknowledging and tackling.

Fossil fuel energy is going to be around for a long time yet, just (possibly but not necessarily) getting scarcer and dearer. What is really needed is a shift towards sensible use of fossil fuels rather than burning it as frivolously as we currently do.

Remaining fossil fuels should be used to move society to a system relying purely on solar energy.

AutomaticEarth · Post by **AutomaticEarth** » 08 Nov 2010, 12:28

Hello AutomaticEarth and welcome. What are you looking for specifically?

Hi emordilnap, that's a great question

I think I was looking for some pre-packaged solution for PO like 'when peak comes, go and do this' when there is no solution, just sensible steps that can be taken wrt food, financial affairs, housing, etc. After taking the time to read deeper into this site forum, a lot of questions have already been asked, so I'm currently researching the answers to these, to which there are many.

PO doesn't present a serious threat in itself - it's merely a point in time. It's the inevitable energy decline and how it's managed (or not managed) that needs acknowledging and tackling.

Totally on board with this. In fact, about 3 years ago, when I first heard of PO, I didn't take it at all seriously. I do now.....

Remaining fossil fuels should be used to move society to a system relying purely on solar energy.

So I guess you do not want to rely on wind?

snow hope · Post by **snow hope** » 08 Nov 2010, 13:41

Solar energy actually creates the wind.

Some areas are better for solar PV and some areas are better for wind. Cloud and a daily occurrence of nightime are barriers to PV. Lack of wind is obviously a problem for Wind Turbines, but also urban environments aren't great for WTs in general.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 08 Nov 2010, 15:06

AutomaticEarth wrote:
Remaining fossil fuels should be used to move society to a system relying purely on solar energy.
So I guess you do not want to rely on wind?

Wind (amongst other things) is solar energy.

Eternal Sunshine · Post by **Eternal Sunshine** » 08 Nov 2010, 17:54

As are fossil fuels...

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 08 Nov 2010, 19:47

Eternal Sunshine wrote:As are fossil fuels...

Using solar energy as it arrives here is no problem, it's using stored solar energy that's the problem. Burning fossil fuels as they're made would probably be fine!

Eternal Sunshine · Post by **Eternal Sunshine** » 08 Nov 2010, 22:36

JohnB wrote: Using solar energy as it arrives here is no problem, it's using stored solar energy that's the problem. Burning fossil fuels as they're made would probably be fine!

I know.

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 08 Nov 2010, 23:46

Eternal Sunshine wrote:
JohnB wrote: Using solar energy as it arrives here is no problem, it's using stored solar energy that's the problem. Burning fossil fuels as they're made would probably be fine!
I know.

I know you know