There is (of course) several videos of in on You Tube.

Here is but one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr19m8tRZ4g

I love the idea. If only there was a ‘clean energy’ way to compress the air.

You can find videos on how to do all sorts of stuff on http://www.youtube.com

Like

A permaculture mandala style Vege garden
http://www.youtube.com/user/STRONGBUILD#p/a/u/0/eHcL2fFQO54

Pickles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_vRu61oYho&feature=related

Build a deck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHq7dKjAmJA

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Ggang wrote:
Out of Labor and Liberal, Labor is the best of the bad bunch ………..

The Greens are the only party who will do what is necessary to combat climate change or PO but the average aussie is too brainwashed by major party propaganda to see it :shrug:

I really hate how we have this so called ‘Two party preferred’ system and I don’t…[Read more]

ahning wrote:

Dobly, Agriculture is about 10,000 years old. The average temperature over the whole of the planet has been within a range of about 2 degrees celsius for the whole of that time (about 14-16 degrees). It will be outside that range – hotter – for at least the rest of this century. How much hotter and for how long still depends mostly…

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Tamandco wrote:
I am socially retarded and a lingual imbecile. I so often get into the discussion of PO, only to become tongue tied and confused. Please someone, provide me with dialogue I can learn to recite parrot fashion.

Tamandco

The problem is not Peak Oil itself. Peak Oil is just a documented fact that is the point when any oil well…[Read more]

Andre wrote:

Dobly wrote:

Andre wrote:

🙁 Sadly, I think we still have heaps of coal- whether we choose to continue to use it is another thing. And don’t get me started on uranium 😡

It takes LOTS of oil to mine coal. When oil is 100 times the price it is now, there will not much mining of any type going on, other than by hand.

Same can be…

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Andre wrote:

🙁 Sadly, I think we still have heaps of coal- whether we choose to continue to use it is another thing. And don’t get me started on uranium 😡

It takes LOTS of oil to mine coal. When oil is 100 times the price it is now, there will not much mining of any type going on, other than by hand.

Same can be said for the mining and…[Read more]

ahning wrote:

Which brings me to my major disagreement about PO. I think that it was the only challenge we – human civilisations as they’ve developed over the last 10,000 years or so – were facing, we’d cope. But it isn’t. Apart from the other peaks – things like coal, arable land, livable land, fresh water – we face changes in the climate of…

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Andre.

You hit the nail on the head. If the governments around the world started talking about it opening and making plans (community farms, localization etc) the panic would be extreme and the markets would loose that all important thing, confidence. Think great depression 1929.

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Andre wrote:

(I would very much like to hear from those who don’t believe in PO.. and why they feel the way they do)

Is there really anyone who does not believe it? Peak Oil is not a theory. It is a fact. The term describes the point when an oil field or a group of oil fields have reach maximum production. Simple as that. You can’t ‘not…[Read more]

I’d imagine you could have a room with several (maybe 6 or 8) of these

…or something similar. You’d get tons of light in a climate controlled and stable environment.

Mind you, I’m sure there would be more cost effective ways to do the same thing.

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Allow me… PO = Peak Oil.

This link sums it up but google it for TONS of info online

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulxe1ie-vEY

I went to the Gardening Aust show in Brisbane yesterday, and Jerry was talking about how the UK imports 60% of all of it’s fruit and vege and that any day now there is going to be food shortages.

The difference between this and PO of course is that this volcano issue is temporary.

We have one of those single cooktop types that I bought off E-Bay for about $120.

It is AMAZING.

You can go from a cold pan to sizzling stir fry in a fraction of the time of any other cooktop.

Turn it up it get hotter, turn it down it gets cooler. Instantly.

Your pots need to be ferrous. That is, if i magnet can stick to them they will…[Read more]

Great Grandnanna can’t see him doing such menial a task at washing up.

Show her what Sebastian is really up to.. 🙂

becca wrote:
NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY FIVE DOLLARS!!!

Take more yourself. Digital cameras are cheap. Even pretty good ones are not that expensive. Take lots of photos. The most important photos are the ones of your loved ones doing what ever it is they do. Playing in the yard, laughing, dancing whatever. Not sitting posed in some studio…[Read more]

Geir

Just looking at your excellent blog again, I have a few questions if I may.

Did you put in all those transplanted plants before or after there was water in the system? I don’t imagine water loving plants living in long in dry gravel. But if you waited until the water was high enough in there for plants there must have been point where the…[Read more]

jodieandgeir wrote:

Ours is based on up to 7 people living in the house, using 115 litres per day. The reason for 7 people is that we have a 3 bedroom house (but with an office that the council classifies as a potential bedroom) and then our little cabin which we lived in whilst building the place.

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jodieandgeir wrote:
We’ve got one and using it for both grey and black water. Have a look at these entries in our construction diary:

http://www.pipshy.com/diary/Diary46.html and

http://www.pipshy.com/diary/Diary47.html

If you have any particular questions, just PM us or contact us through the details on our website.

Very happy to answer any…

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Check out what this single mum did…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgbORHvveTY