My uncle builds methane generators at Dairies. They run off the methane from the cow shit which is stored in big vats outside, methane otherwise sneaks up and into the atmoshphere. I believe it's a win win. Free electric for farms, less pollution for all of us. That being said there isn't enough readily available shit.
There you go again,do you have keyboard tourette?
Yes that's all well and good and if you already have a situation like a dairy or pig farm it's a good use of what you have and good for the environment but it won't solve large scale problems,same with capturing methane from land fills. I use to work on a dairy farm as a kid during the summers and it's quite a smelly problem too.
I'm a huge PBS fan and have watched it since I was a kid. The news is just propaganda now,I don't remember the exact numbers but it was something like 600 different Corps controlled the majority of the media in this country and now it's more like 6. I used to love the National Geographic channel but it was recently taken over by Roger Ailes so I won't watch it any more. Your right about politicians,they are all corrupt and just serve their masters and not the people.
They serve the people that put em in office, their donors
That's a huge problem,climate change is probably the biggest problem we have but it probably won't be fixed without campaign finance reform and getting rid of Citizens United and anything like it. It almost seems hopeless,they don't even try to hide the corruption anymore,they seem to know there is nothing we can do about it,they and their corporate masters write all the laws.They serve the people that put em in office, their donors
I'd be pretty mad if I gave someone a million dollars and they DIDNT do what I wanted.
I'm much more a pessimist about that. I've been to China and India, I don't see either country giving up fossil fuels for a hundred years. And since their population combined is almost 8x what ours is, what we change won't matter as much. We should lead by example, but I'd prepare for prehistoric warmth.
guys, please... first of all Scotts is not Monsanto. Neither does Monsanto own Scotts. HGC is a subsidiary of Scotts. HGC took a 75% interest in Gavita. Scotts merely has the marketing rights for roundup in the gardening market. There is no involvement of Monsanto whatsoever. To say Monsanto owns Gavita is like saying Apple owns Microsoft. That is simply not true.
Furthermore: We did not need HGC just for the money. We are a very healthy organisation with a TO in excess of 100 million USD with double digit grow figures, so big money is not the issue either . However, we have grown really fast over the last few years and being part of a group of A-brands opens some doors a lot quicker, helps us to enter markets faster and enables us to expedite our development programs a lot faster. Also, it helps structuring our company a lot faster as we are still growing very fast and need to localize our business. This will result in more local service and support for our horticultural customers, but also for our retailers and end users world wide.
25% of the shares are still in the hands of the Dutch management and they will remain at the helm, which is logical as HGC nor Scotts have a background in horticultural lighting. So we see only very positive developments as we will be able to have a faster time to market and even better products with better support.
As for Jair: Why would we want to get rid of Jair? Jair is responsible for our US sales and he is a shareholder. It would be really stupid to get rid of Jair
Yea fine and dandy but what if some asshole is growing GMO and pollutes my genetics with something I didn't want and the Monsanto sue me into bankruptcy.
I told you we're on the same side; I agree with the fact that corporations have too much political power. That's a printmaking solved in our government and justice system, and we certainly should.
It's certainly part of the renewable equation and powers agriculture. That's also known as food security.
one reason I frame it that way, in terms of the geo political argument, and indeed proves your point as well, about coal usage for most current Electricity use in the States, is that here in Oregon, we have 1 stinking coal plant and it is in the process of being phased out, even after they spent 150+ million retrofitting it with scrubbers a few years back...
Good stuff, I enjoyed that. Thank you!one reason I frame it that way, in terms of the geo political argument, and indeed proves your point as well, about coal usage for most current Electricity use in the States, is that here in Oregon, we have 1 stinking coal plant and it is in the process of being phased out, even after they spent 150+ million retrofitting it with scrubbers a few years back...
I grew up in the Columbia basin and Oregon is self sufficient on hydro power from that alone. So self sufficient in fact, that a good chunk is being sent to California along the Pacific Intertie [google it] right down to LA.
One could make the argument that Oregon is paying the penalty for California's poor use of infrastructure, while California gains a cheap power source, from the grid. Oregon's bills are paid as a positive, possibly, since it is excess and we have very little population statewide.
Oregon is also a part of a bi-state effort that effectively wiped out was was known as the Salmon Superhighway, so there is that to contend with in terms of hydropower....
I sat four years on a state board that was re-licensing a Native American Tribes dam on an Oregon river. The dam makes a fair amount of power, but was originally intended for irrigation as parts of Oregon are in the Great Basin [sad but true]. It also wiped out an indigenous bull trout run that was one of the most prolific on a inland Western United States river. The re-licensing addressed this fact, actually was basically an integral part, with new techniques never used before in dam for fish passage. If you have read the news in the last ten years, the USF&W has had a serious boner for bull trout habitat restoration.
So know we really have this fish issue tied up in the electricity issue and makes this thing that much more complex. Hell, there is a plan in works to remove the lower 4 dams of the Snake River, a 2,000 mile long trib of the Columbia. Hell's Canyon, baby!
My point is, even though this is a state by state issue, would be be better off with less reliance of the grid, no matter the source of input?
Community grids seem more apt, more repairable and even possible more DIY in times of trouble, god forbid.
I also advocate for more efficiency, less redundancy, less of profile, etc etc, passive heating for all homes etc etc...
and another low impact source could be Solar mirrors focusing on Stirling Engine prototypes. The stirling was developed in England and can use solar and just about anything else combustible really, as a fuel source. It is a two cylinder engine which uses hot and cold to repel each other, basically making an engine/piston motion in the process.
I believe that somewhere along the Ca/Nv border is a proto field online currently or was.
lastly......
I am very skeptical about the free power and magnetics theories, but I wonder how in the hell we are not tearing apart Tesla's concepts on Earth grounding and magnetism as a viable power source. Is it possible? perhaps, me thinks more than perhaps, but that is another conversation unto itself. Is it fucking kooky beyond all belief? perhaps.
I hope I didn't come off with a snarky vibe. You are one of the good RG's yo! RG4L
A majority of coal use for electricty in CO right? I lived in Aurora for a year in 87, ah Fitzsimmons army hospital, I was a brat.
no child is even better, serves the inner nihilist in me quite well. also no explaining to do why we fucked everything up when the little one is old enough. AND THEY WILL ASK as long as you dont rise them up stupid.
They don't actually do that all the time. The only guys I know of in the United States who got sued replanted seed they harvested the prior year. they violated a contract they signed to not replant seed they buy. They wanted to save money on the planting next year. Monsanto proved in court that the genetics of what they planted were 100% from the batch they had sold them prior. If was just drift you wouldn't find an entire Monsanto strain in their field, it would be a mix of genes. There are bags of seed out there with no contract to sign. It's just not the newest fanciest stuff.
The beheadings suck too though lol. Cali has been in drought for 6 years. My neighborhood looks like it's rd to burst into flames any moment. But I'm sticking around. Syria is a proxy war over oil pipelines is my theory. America once again supporting jihadi wars, because it helps us against old Russia and Iran. Kinda like Afghanistan in the 80's.
