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Post by milspec on Oct 3, 2021 12:09:01 GMT 10
When I looked into carbon credits (soil or trees) for my last property ... it made my head hurt. feralemma did you use a consultant to set it up?
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Post by tomatoes on Oct 3, 2021 13:12:13 GMT 10
I notice all over the net and elsewhere this whole crypto thing is being pushed really hard at every opportunity! YT now is seriously cluttered with crypto promotion and I'm thinking like what ther faark is this sicko obsession with Crypto currency? Then the penny dropped for me! The more you promote it the more valuable a commodity it becomes the more people want to buy into the illusion the more holders of Crypto can sell it on to others! Actually, perhaps you searched for it or clicked a relevant link at some time. Crypto currency doesn’t make much of an appearance on yt or anywhere for me. Maybe it will now though!!
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Post by milspec on Oct 3, 2021 17:10:18 GMT 10
To be honest we are still in the (relatively) early days of uptake for crypto and that suits me because it remains cheaper for me to continue to buy in. When we see daily ads on tv the 'cheap' phase will have passed.
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Post by frostbite on Oct 3, 2021 19:38:43 GMT 10
My son mines bitcoin.
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Post by lost on Oct 3, 2021 22:28:35 GMT 10
How does one mine bitcoin, isnt there great amounts hardware and power consumption that ties directly into it?
I remember watching a video back in 2012 or abouts of a person who had all these mini computers attached to eachother, like atleast 100 computers all piggy backed to each other, i just remember seeing how many power cables he had plugged into the wall. The cost/benefit ratio would want to be good i suppose, if not then whos paying the power bill?
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Post by norseman on Oct 4, 2021 6:37:16 GMT 10
Might have to look into that on my retreat. Plant fast growing trees, get money from government as carbon credit, then cut down trees and burn as firewood, releasing all that stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Bwahaha, this Woke crap is awesome. If they were insured and got burnt in a bushfire wouldn't the owner get a better return on his investment (just asking for a friend)?
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Post by frostbite on Oct 4, 2021 7:04:57 GMT 10
How does one mine bitcoin, isnt there great amounts hardware and power consumption that ties directly into it?
I remember watching a video back in 2012 or abouts of a person who had all these mini computers attached to eachother, like atleast 100 computers all piggy backed to each other, i just remember seeing how many power cables he had plugged into the wall. The cost/benefit ratio would want to be good i suppose, if not then whos paying the power bill?
He has 3 or 4 old gaming pc's that he upgraded (apparently some parts were in short supply). I've asked him for an update, but from memory last time I asked he was making $125 to $150 a week, depending on the value of bitcoin. Don't know what increased power usage is, but I've asked. He's no dummy, he would have done his sums.
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Post by feralemma on Oct 4, 2021 11:56:19 GMT 10
When I looked into carbon credits (soil or trees) for my last property ... it made my head hurt. feralemma did you use a consultant to set it up? We bought the property cheap (paid $200k for 3500 acres) as it already had the trees on it and they are owned by the company that planted them so sadly we don't get the benefits from them.....and we are not allowed to clear them. Unless they die tho, then all bets are off! 700 acres of the property had wattle regrowth on it which the carbon mob weren't allowed to clear to plant trees on but we could so we now have 700 arable acres as well as 2800 acres of light grazing in the trees. I'd love to biochar the whole lot of the trees and pump them back into the soil, it would store more carbon than the trees themselves, greatly improve the soils and produce better yields than this place has ever seen 🤣
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Post by feralemma on Oct 4, 2021 11:58:00 GMT 10
Might have to look into that on my retreat. Plant fast growing trees, get money from government as carbon credit, then cut down trees and burn as firewood, releasing all that stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Bwahaha, this Woke crap is awesome. Biochar the trees instead, better carbon storage. And crap is definitely an appropriate word for the levels of wokeness going on 🤣🤣
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Post by Joey on Oct 4, 2021 14:18:25 GMT 10
Expect a lot of arable farming land to be locked up in the future as farmers will soon be under the knife post the upcoming UN meeting on "General Assembly, High-level meeting on Climate Change" and "UN Food Systems Summit" later this month
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Post by frostbite on Oct 4, 2021 14:26:27 GMT 10
The UN is a paper tiger, a circle jerk w@nkfe$t that nobody of substance takes seriously.
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Post by Joey on Oct 4, 2021 16:51:58 GMT 10
They may be, but where does all this "electric cars for all by 2030" type waffle come from? The UN Agenda 2030 (formally Agenda21) and climate change stuff we are forced to comply with now. Our pollies will do what they are told by the UN masters so they can feather their nests at the UN for a golden retirement posting as a UN delegate once they retire from politics.
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Post by Beno on Oct 4, 2021 17:28:28 GMT 10
Expect a lot of arable farming land to be locked up in the future as farmers will soon be under the knife post the upcoming UN meeting on "General Assembly, High-level meeting on Climate Change" and "UN Food Systems Summit" later this month It will be locked up for average Joe. People like Bill Gates can’t get enouh agricultural land at the moment. They know what is coming. Bill is also running the laboratory meat racket as well. The super rich own this show, no one can get into farming without big dollars to back them. Why? Control the food, control the people. UN = GMOs, Corporate farms, restricted means of production i.e. no seeds for punters and crazy regulations, Impossible or expensive “humaneness” targets, lab meat, subsidised mega ag and eventually soylent green.
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Post by frostbite on Oct 4, 2021 17:30:57 GMT 10
The UN are morons. How will electric cars work in a vast country like Australia? Where you could go 500km between towns? Is the government going to put massive recharge stations all across the outback? Will my electric car drive the 350km to my retreat without recharge, whilst towing 1.5 tonne? Will the government provide a recharge station on my retreat that is off grid? Not going to happen hete.
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Post by malewithatail on Oct 4, 2021 19:47:49 GMT 10
You will be confined to the city where range isnt an issue. No long distance drives will be possible, so u will need to move to yr retreat before this happens. Then u will be stuck there. Time to design and build your woodgas generator, and stick the middle finger up at bureaucracy when you can drive 500 km to town and back, using wood as a fuel in a standard spark ignition engine. Note, it has to be old school with a carby, or able to be modified to use a carby, or have some way to switch off the fuel injection without causing an error to appear and the car to stop. A lp gas conversion kit should be able to do that. Then, u use a homemade mixing valve (a LP gas mixer is too small as woodgas is a very low energy fuel and u need a lot of it to get anywhere). Diesels can run off wood gas, or lp gas, but the injection system must be modified to provide a pilot ignition only of a small amount of fuel to fire the gas. Timing has to advanced quite a lot as wood gas is a slow burning fuel, so the ignition has to happen earlier in the cycle. Catalytic converters in the exhaust system will eventually get clogged up, especially if you use a design that doesn't get hot enough to 'crack' the tars into gas. As for pollution, wood gas can easily meet the current standards for emissions as it burns very cleanly when set up properly. There are issues in starting up, as it takes time to get the pyroliser up to temp before starting (using a small sucker fan to create a vacuum and pull the gas through without the engine vacuum to do it whilst running). Ive experimented with water injection, both on petrol and wood gas engines and vehicles, and on wood gas its an advantage as the heat of combustion breaks down the water into hydrogen and oxygen and gives more power, but, at the expense of a cooler running pyroliser that tars up quicker, so its a double edged sword. I have a manual that I bought many, many years ago that describes how to build a vertical updraft and a horizontal downdraft pyroliser, and several other types. My first unit was fitted with several thermocouples and I managed to get it to over 800 deg c, more than enough to burn off the tars and oils. I did run my Mitsubishi Triton 2.6 4wd ute, duel fuel, from it for a test run, but it used a lot of wood, just for a run around the block. Better quality wood would help here, but I only had some old hardwood pallets, and it chewed up several boards every km or so. Still, it worked and I gained experience with wood gas, experience, and knowledge that I can put to use. Now have a diesel tractor and heaps fuel stored, but for running a generator, I am building a new one as the original was destroyed when the tractor battery shorted out and burnt down the shed, sawmill etc. (Hence the reason I now have my own on farm fire truck/trailer combination with 1,550 liters water and pump, hoses etc). Always have a fire extinguisher or charged water hose around when playing with wood gas, as backfire from air leaks can happen and set fire to the vehicle. Enough ramblings, I hope Ive inspired you all to do something.
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Post by frostbite on Oct 4, 2021 20:14:59 GMT 10
I'll just buy black market petrol.
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Post by bushdoc2 on Oct 5, 2021 5:55:59 GMT 10
The UN are morons. How will electric cars work in a vast country like Australia? Where you could go 500km between towns? Is the government going to put massive recharge stations all across the outback? Will my electric car drive the 350km to my retreat without recharge, whilst towing 1.5 tonne? Will the government provide a recharge station on my retreat that is off grid? Not going to happen hete. Not their problem.
This is just rationing (and a power/money grab) in the name of the environment, so you can't criticize it.
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Post by feralemma on Oct 5, 2021 15:31:37 GMT 10
Return to the days of horse and cart 🤣
Who is going to run their corporate farms for them and produce the food? Also the corporations that are buying up arable farming land in Australia are banks, and the agricultural companies they own. There's a couple of different farming companies in WA that are owned by Maquarie bank, they are spreading ownership around betwen different companies so it doesn't look like they are aiming for a monopoly but it's what they are doing. We are aiming to expand and buy another property soon so that we can benefit from the economy of scale that comes with more productive land and have a bit better foothold in our area.
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Post by spatial on Oct 5, 2021 16:26:42 GMT 10
The UN are morons. How will electric cars work in a vast country like Australia? Where you could go 500km between towns? Is the government going to put massive recharge stations all across the outback? Will my electric car drive the 350km to my retreat without recharge, whilst towing 1.5 tonne? Will the government provide a recharge station on my retreat that is off grid? Not going to happen hete. Not their problem.
This is just rationing (and a power/money grab) in the name of the environment, so you can't criticize it.
There is not enough lithium and metals to make enough batteries to replace all liquid fuel cars. It is a pipe dream that is not realistic. Battery cars actually don't save that much on fuel or energy. Europe, China, India all all now in an energy crisis, coal has gone parabolic to never seen before prices $240/t, was at $55 a ton this time last year. US oil hits 7-year high after Opec+ resists calls to accelerate production: www.ft.com/content/ccd6f6d6-6045-4f0c-8638-9b0e01fee1c5
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Post by malewithatail on Oct 5, 2021 17:03:43 GMT 10
When worked for BHP, I could buy coal for $5/ton at staff rates in the 1980's. Wish I had put away a few 1,000 tons then !
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