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Yes of course the cycles of war and peace, feast and famine, health and plague tend to come in decade or generational increments so a few years between prediction and result are to be expected but not by impatient youth.Vortex2 wrote:Can you believe that this topic is now becoming important, several years later?
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I have moved from this thread a number of posts about tree planting for drying out wet ground.
Those posts may be found in the permaculture forum as they were of limited relevance to this thread.
http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/vie ... 732#305732
Those posts may be found in the permaculture forum as they were of limited relevance to this thread.
http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/vie ... 732#305732
"Installers and owners of emergency diesels must assume that they will have to run for a week or more"
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Indeed, and some years on, "something" has indeed happened. And I am glad that I have kept a low profile.clv101 wrote:There is, and has been for years, a non-trival chance of 'something' happening. There are dozens of scenarios for which adam2's advice could be useful.
The something could be sharply localised and short lived like flooding, or a village losing it's electricity for a week right through to... well anything you can image tsunami up the Severn estuary, nuclear accident, economic collapse (we wouldn't cope anywhere near as well as Russia did in the '90s, and that wasn't nice!), war...
"Installers and owners of emergency diesels must assume that they will have to run for a week or more"