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A mains electricity failure can hit in minutes and completely disable all high-tech sustainable energy usage - heating, communications...

It's a neat futuristic sci fi idea though. I like it! A sort of electric beehive of interconnected activity. I reckon the days of the...

People don't cut a tree and then pop off and plant another one. Sustainable forestry is all farmed with virtually zero virgin forest...

Yes the kerf slot will help. It's a handy way to split a board even if you could do the whole thing on a bandsaw. The slots guide the...

Most deforestation is down to farming, especially meat...

I know I know! But they say not good in urban environment but OK where population thinner. Also there are ways of running it cleaner -...

Wood stoves suit some circumstances and situations, but not all. Zero carbon low-tech solutions tend to get overlooked, whilst the...

Wood burning is carbon neutral if from sustained sources or wood waste. Every woodworker should have one, if they aren't living in a...

And yes we are drifting backwards. A good reason for getting a wood stove. With climate change disruption we are quite likely to find...

I do not trust the people who argue against the science. Vaccines have saved millions of lives over the years.

Not true. The science is well established. Do you have links to your story? SCR, EGR valves and catalytic converters have some effect...

Of course it does, and very effectively, by reducing the number of infected/infectious people in the community.

https://www.hydropower.org/factsheets/pumped-storage

Do some more digging People. The tobacco industry was clearly informed re smoking/cancer well before the early fifties publications...

We lose the winter fuel payment. Not too bothered myself but not a good move by a party supposed to be defending the 99% Tory party...