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carbon sinks are a short term solution, but probably the best one we have at the immediate time To answer the question of what becomes of the stored carbon, one must determine a time frame and end use of the wood. If one makes a covenant stating that the trees can not be chopped down for 100 years, you have effectively stored that carbon for that time. How ever a better solution is using tree plantations for carbon sequestration as agro forestry, the timber is milled and used in products. The timber has then been utilized in a secondary carbon sink such as housing and furniture. this will have a further lifespan of up to and over a hundred years, at the end of which it can be recycled into a tertiary carbon sink The bonus of agro forestry is that the trees will be harvested at the top of its optimal growth curve, and the area replanted meaning that more carbon will be sequestered compared to a stand that is not being cleared and replanted every 20-30 years With agro forestry there will also be a higher survival rate than those plantings used for windbreaks etc or just for grants/tax breaks due to the intrinsic value of the timber To be successful these plantings must be maintained. If one were to set up a carbon sink and wanted it to be recognised as one, there will be requirements that the sinks must be looked after and if lost through fire/disease etc replanted and any subsidies withheld till the planting reaches an equivalent level as before There is already a national carbon accounting system to help people properly account for carbon stored in carbon sinks and the different end uses which encompass agro-forestry, farm forestry (wind breaks etc) and biodiversity outcomes (plantings for erosion/salinity control, reveg, aveg, wildlife corridors etc) Certainly not all of Australia is suitable for carbon sinks, but there are lots of different species that respond well to different environmental conditions. For example, the New England tablelands will receive these plantings in the near future and using the right species of eucalypt will result in effective carbon sequestration, where the average family will have to pay for/plant 30 trees per year to offset their carbon emissions at a cost of 5-10$ per tree

ditto, and it wasn't informing me of new messages either But think its all good now

yeah, it would be an outdoor job, probably a heavily manured and mulched garden bed, worth a shot anyway, outdoors is much more fun than indoors anyways Nature seems to do a pretty good job

LOL Any prints ZW? I remember finding some on coronet peak one february down there, its cool being able to find cold climate fruit all year round!!

Essentially 99% should be used in blends and can also be used as a straight fuel at 99% and above There is a thing called hydrated ethanol which is about 93% ethanol and 7% water at these concentrations they form an azeotrope and this fuel can be burnt alone and only at this ratio

As a side note, this is also why the move to fluorescent lighting is thought to be a red herring, as most lighting is used at night and with present power consumption we are not using the base load (that 70%), changing light sources will have absolutely no effect on power consumption until a way to significantly reduce the base load is found. All we are doing is fattening the light producers pockets and increasing the mercury finding its way into land fills Before i found this out, I changed about half my lights to compact fluoro's and have had the same number of incandescent and CF' bulbs fail to date!

When using a tree as a source of fuel, one must remember that the carbon in the fuel is actually already sequestered from the atmosphere. That means you are basically recycling carbon and your net emissions are nil (as long as you have not cut down a forest to plant these trees and are not mechanically harvesting) I suppose that is true with fossil fuels too, except the return is a hell of a long time where as the Copaifera sp is producing and therefore sequestering that 40 lts of terpenes carbon per year

LOL And the neighbors cat!

That is cool! Would love a seed or two if you found many ? Would make a cool ornamental if pruned right!

I got these people waiting on cacti cuts (pach) Ace Ayahuascara Harry Scuboh BOB-BOB I took a few last week, but cant find a couple of them (I'm pretty sure I took some anyway) So I have taken more, some will go out tomorrow, the rest Friday, sorry for the delay, just been on the road a bit and working hard!! If there is anyone I have missed out please let me know ;) FB

Na, but its roots don't come from this community and a cross with a scop produced at least one interesting offspring, don't know if the mother or father gave up the good genes ;)

Ta dude! Lucky for some but not foe all!

A shoddy piece of jounalism She has cited extreme examples and figures She has focused on corn where there are much better sources of sugar which require very little processing and all byproducts can be used, corn however can be used to make bioplastics where all these problems would arise, I think she may be a little confused as she hasn't mentioned any of the other sources for bio fuels Farmers can incorporate techniques to reduce most of the damaging practices she has cited, it is unlikely that huge expanses of land will be opened up for growing ethanol fuels, more of a land use change which will result in little change of the environmental footprint the land use already creates. No biofuels are not the future, but it can be done in a way where it is far less damaging than she makes it out to be. Organic content of the soil is not really a limiting factor of erosion, but the level of ground cover which can be easily managed by tillage practices (ie minimal) As she indeed stated, only a small portion of the crop is required for the fermentation process (which she says makes far more evil and unusable byproducts than is actually an issue) which would leave the remaining cellulose based plant material to be reincorporated into the soil as stubble to maintain soil structure I could pull most of what she has said to bits if I did a full critical review of that paper, the most interesting part she has not mentioned at all is that actual waste can be utilised to make a large portion of bio fuels which would otherwise end up in a land fill breaking down and producing CO2 anyway. If it is completed in an anaerobic double ferment including a bacterial ferment the waste would end up almost microbiologically inert and the biproducts would have multiple end uses Her energy accounting is poor at best and some of her sources pretty questionable, non the less, it gets one thinking about the energy debate.

Cool! glad your happy! guys Harry looks like you got a tip cutting when it gets there ;) FYI This pach seems incredibly resistant to the black rot, never ever had an attack, and I've even put cuttings in wet ground uncallused and they took easy with no disease at all, so yeah a great stock for grafting or cross breeding!

Champagne yeast is basically a superstrong fermenter and is often used for restarting stuck ferments when there is high alcohol already present (inhibiting factor) basically what happens when making a champagne anyway. It will work better than most if there is inhibiting components in the brew, and mead is usually pretty low in nutrients so the stronger fermenter is probably a good thing, but If you use champagne yeast you will have to keep the temperature considerably lower than if using a beer yeast ie 12-15 C compared to 25-27 for a beer yeast otherwise it will just roar through and you will probably loose a lot of the nicer flavors and get less extraction time. I would use a champagne yeast if I could keep temps down, or a plain old beer yeast if I couldn't (and your aiming for about 5% v/v alcohol in your final product)

some were tip cuts, some mid section, some were a bit smaller than 20cm some a bit bigger (I just eyed them), aya got one of each cause he got 2, but its luck of the draw really, I packaged them then named them all anyone who got a smaller one can remind me next time we trade and I'll make sure you get a bit extra ;) FB

All went out yesterday SORRY for my TARDINESS!!! Time just seems to fly! I looked at the date of this post and it's 2 weeks already! seems like only yesterday! Cheers guys FB

Thanks!! VVVVVVVVVVgets 20cm pach cuttingVVVVVVVVV

I used to get them all the time when I lived in NZ, was in rotorua, and we had plenty of rain there, heaps of mycology! all sorts of pouches etc

SAB's bank details are on the site. You can walk in to any ANZ (I think thats who they bank with) and make the deposit if you don't use internet banking (which doesn't involve giving your details to anyone) Here's the SAB bank and postal address details Hmm that link doesn't go to the right page. Click on ordering info, then Australia and then in the box #2 there is a link that says snail mail/transfer, its all in there

Hey! One day you'll look back on this and probably a handful of experiences just like it and realise that it made you who you are. You might realize you miss, just a little bit, those teenage years when emotion controlled your actions and thoughts and not logic, a place that you will only be able to revisit in your dreams once you are past all of that shit that befalls that young heart. Maybe one day you'll be wearing the other shoe, and be responsible for causing the pain you now feel in another person, Just remember it is only an experience, and every experience is worth living as long as you learn from it c'est la vie

I heard on the news this morning that Mossman council is banning smoking in any public place. Hows that for a restriction of human rights. I am not a smoker and have absolutely no problem with smelling a whiff of smoke. I can understand the rule in enclosed places or a sports stadium, but parks, car parks, bus shelters etc, I don't understand? Whats more a pole on sunrise has more than 50% of callers agreeing with this? Aren't people worried about their civil liberties? Furthermore, the non smoking public is being urged to dob on smokers who do light up in public, seriously, I can just see the hate crimes starting, and revenge attacks I can name 2 things straight away I would rather see banned, dogs outside at night (three of my neighbors have dogs that regularly wake me up at night and dirt bikes used in suburban areas as everyday vehicles (also waking me up at 2 in the morning regularly), Why aren't these banned? I'm not advocating that they should be banned, just asking why other things that are more intrusive on ones life are ok? A blatant case of discrimination!! Enter the police state! Mosman council bans smoking

I think new zealand public schools receive a fair bit of funding by offering places at a cost to overseas students, obviously cheaper than private education, but more expensive than, well, free education. On a whole these students try harder than the average Joe new zealander. New Zealand is also very multi-racial, Auckland in particular. I believe different races hold their education at different levels of esteem, and there is a definite correlation between results achieved in school and the background/race of a student Having said that, there was very little difference in results at the time I was in school between public and private I think we had the brainiest boy in NZ at our school. In seventh form (year 12) he recieved 100% in all exams except for one (99% in that one) for bursary. To put this into context an average of 60% across five exams in bursary will get you a place in any medical college in Australasia, I think you need a fair bit higher than that in the Australian equivelant final year exams to get into Medicine. I got an average of 55% in my bursary exams which was the equivelant of 87% average here.

Did you go to a private school? Pakuranga college is a public school in Auckland Maybe NZ education is better? I remember for my 3rd form or 4th form (year 8/9? first/second year of high school) biology project analysing the effect of alpha amylase on degradation of food cooked to different degrees vs uncooked and fermented/pickled products, pretty standard sort of project at my school, also public.

Yes thanks mate!! sory I should have let you know! Thanks!!