Archive for January, 2008
Biodiesel
IT JUST GETS WORSE!! Chaps who have been making biodiesel from waste chip shop oil for almost three years have been refused the same playing field as others.Another tale of woe from the Irish farce of cleaning the damned place up.
Is the quota system for fuel producing permits anti-competitive under Irish [...]
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Free Range or Barn?
Do you really have to ask? I raised both chickens for the table and for egg laying and never did I have a customer question the merits of the free range produce that I supplied.Properly raised and fed birds produce better tasting meat and eggs and no closed-in birds can possible match this.Why? You [...]
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Mediterranean update
Further to the earlier item on the Medi. has anybody check to see if it was rising or falling maybe this has some bearing on it.A new active fault is pushing up the sea bed right next door.Active Fault under Adriatic
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What sort of world would we have if these people ever took it over? I doubt if the Islamic courts would have much time for old Environmental hippies and they most definitely would class Ecology as a satanic ritual.From the BBC
“An Afghan journalist has been sentenced to death by a provincial court for distributing “blasphemous” [...]
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Geothermal Update
Geothermal power seems to be an under reported source of clean energy but the link below is a good news item.From Washington State down to California there is hot magma near to the surface under the Cascade Mountains but 10-15 years seems to be a long time to wait for it to be harnessed.The Italians [...]
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A proposal to build a plant for the “anaerobic digestion” to break animal by-products generated by the Irish meat-processing industry into “biogas” which would then be used to create “green” electricity for the national grid is being examined by Bord Pleanala [the Irish Government planning/zoning appeals board]Tallow (fat) from the rendered animal waste would [...]
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“In the Mediterranean Sea, and in the Adriatic as well, surprisingly the
sea level rise seems to be recently decelerated (Douglas, 1992; Orli} and
Pasari}, 1994). This behaviour may be related to the building of the Assuan
Dam which reduced the Nile discharge, and consequently increased the salinity
of the Mediterranean.” [Ivica Vilibi GEOFIZIKA VOL. 14 1997]
The Med.would dry [...]
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Organics
Organic farming is a precarious livelihood at times and using all the resources to hand is one of the keys to success.Come to think of it all farming is under stress right now.The wasteful and pointless killing of male calves is a case in point and to the read this item in The Gurniad [...]
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Whaling
Despicable as whaling is ,those gobshites from Sea Shepherd need a kick in the arse for acting as they did in boarding the Japanese hunter boat.Life at sea is dangerous enough without thicko landlubbers acting as if they were John Wayne clones.There are unwritten codes and customs on the high seas and the skipper of [...]
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Wave power
Wave power gets a boost in Ireland this week with a price of €220 per megawatt hour guaranteed and an investment of €26m from the government over the next 3 years.Overdue and not enough considering the vast amount of cash handed out for spurious wind projects.
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