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13 comments on The Bullroarer - Friday 9th May 2008

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Boof on May 9, 2008 - 2:55am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top

That Tassie oil strike will be a bitter pill for the tankers of poppyseed biodiesel as they drive past.

The export-only feed-in PV tariff is still paid for by battlers who don't have panels ie a tax on the poor and an investment copout by powercos.

I've tried making biogas and it's a lot of work for poor results. Not since my student days have I lived with pigs so I hope they don't want us to go back to that.

Great news that using brown coal for Vic desal won't cause GHGs. They have offsets.

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aeldric on May 9, 2008 - 7:53am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I've tried making biogas and it's a lot of work for poor results.

Yep. I created an anaerobic digester for our household waste. It made enough biogas to create a small "pop".

Great news that using brown coal for Vic desal won't cause GHGs. They have offsets.

What a relief. And here was me thinking it might be a bad idea...

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SP on May 9, 2008 - 10:29am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Are offsets the Indulgences of the fossil fuel age?

Are you a sinner? Have you sinned recently? Try here for all your Indulgences needs.

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Kiashu on May 10, 2008 - 3:12am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I liked CheatNeutral,

When you cheat on your partner you add to the heartbreak, pain and jealousy in the atmosphere.

Cheatneutral offsets your cheating by funding someone else to be faithful and NOT cheat. This neutralises the pain and unhappy emotion and leaves you with a clear conscience.

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Cretaceous on May 13, 2008 - 5:35am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Cheatneutral is a gem!

BTW Gav, the NZ OctaFuel Hybrid Fuel Cell sounds like a real find! Looking into it further, it appears to me that the main input is low-quality hydrocarbons in the form of NZ Polymer Banknotes... and the only output is hot air!
http://www.businesssale.co.nz/1408/own-an-octafuel-franchise--youll-be-f...

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SP on May 9, 2008 - 10:10am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

RE Biogas? China size it

By the end of 2006, the total number of families that use biogas reached 22 million, with a total annual biogas production of about 8.5 billion cubic meters. There were biogas pits built for 22 million households in rural areas, and more than 5,200 large and mid-sized biogas projects based around livestock and poultry farms. The typical eight cubic meter biogas pits are able to provide 80 per cent of the cooking energy for a four-member family according to The Energy and Zoology Division inside the Ministry of Agriculture. By 2020, about 300 million rural people will use biogas as their main fuel.

China is developing 2,200 power grid biogas engineering projects for wastes from intensive animal husbandry and poultry, treating more than 60 million tonnes of manure a year, that’s in addition to the 137,000 installed digesters to treat sewage.

Less sneer more cheer, please. ;-)

Were your biogas pits 8 m3?
Obviously it can be done and China, for all it's coal use, is at least trying something... 22 million 4 member families!
These are not insignificant numbers.

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