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I would be interested in your reaction to the Gabe Brown vid I linked to above? One of the Permaculture type books I read talked about when Paris was entirely self sufficient for food. I can't remember how long ago but 18thC maybe? As more people wanted to live in the city the land for growing...

Gabe Brown is well worth listening to. Creating soil with no dig, no weedkiller, no funghicide, combining continuous live root structure with cash crops and grazing giving more profit for less input. Also Dr Elaine Ingham on how to build soil health.

China winding back on coal?? Winding back on their rate of expansion maybe! The thing is that truth is not a majority sport. 99% can be wrong, science requires that it only takes one to be right. Today I don't see how a layman can know which is right if both sides of any argument are proven...

This is an intersting picture with nice colours. It is titled as an energy flow chart for the UK in 2020 so I don't know if the figure for petroleum for instance is only including that imported to produce energy rather than made into something else? But, as shown in nice big blocky shapes, to...

I've read that with both turbines and solar panels, most of which are made in China mostly using coal power, will produce the same amount of power in their lifetime as their manufacture requires. Big turbines have a very large oil lubrication requirement changed annually. The blades supposedly...

Pollution not CO2. Thrid World countries do not want to be low carbon, they will burn every source of energy to get to where we are. The quicker they get there in the least poluting way the better surely?

I said pollution not CO2. That book and another Peterson discussed, "Ten global trends that every smart person needs to know" by Bailey, at least paint some aspects of todays world in a positive light. Depressed emotional teenagers may not win over the majority, the msm have not shown themselves...

But if when you get to the petrol station they swap you for a better less poluting model then the sooner you get there the sooner your pollution output will drop and your standard of living may increase. If India stop burning wood and dung and turn to coal the suggestion is less pollution will...

I recently watched Jordan Peterson and Michael Shellenberger talking about the latters book Apocalypse Never. Hopefully it was within that it was said it's not so much big industry eating the rainforest for instance but the very poor on the edges hacking a subsistance lifestyle. The poor...

I believe it was Cambridge City council who installed posts with rubber seals at the front boundaries of houses on the River Cam (Maybe Mariners Way just looking at a map?). Sectional ally boards were dropped in when flooding was expected. But I seem to remember they didn't change the drains so...

That's really helpful thank you. If the wall at ground level repels the water does that mean that rain water running down it will be repelled back upwards? ;)

Opening the window was indeed a tongue in cheek comment on reducing condensation if leaving the bath water in until it dropped to room temperature. But that is the reality because it makes the bathroom too moist IMHO. But I was just thinking if I cut something like a bin bag to the water surface...

The thatched house we used to live in had some sort of electric damp proof course, not sure what it actually was but the walls weren't damp. Currently we have an old stone built building that one day I would like to make habitable. Within the walls is rubble and clay but the inside and outside...

Opening the window fixes that :)

We bought a dishwasher in a previous house because running the tap to get hot water wasted more water than a dishwasher used in the entirety of a full cycle! More than 20 litres IIRC! Some mad plumbing going on there.

It would be sacrilege to put tea in a flask obviously! Stick to just hot water then make cuppa soup, tea, hot chocolate whatever in the mug. That particular flask keeps the water so hot it seems no different to just boiled from the kettle. Brodies do Earl Grey in a pocket friendly sachet if out...

1 We have a plastic kettle because it's light. I bought a similar kettle for my Nan years back and was amazed at the difference in kettle weights available. She could then make tea much more easily. More weight means more material needs heating as well as the water. 2 I bought a new thermos...

My Father in law did this but ducts from the ceiling in the heated room to the floor of an adjoining room, and the fans on the floor outlets rather than the ceiling inlets. His reasoning was there was no power in the warm ceiling area and he couldn't see any difference where the fans were...

This is an interesting chart showing last years total energy mix in the UK https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1006380/Energy_flow_chart_2020.pdf

Also, far infra red heaters heat you rather than the room and might be nice aimed at you in a workshop or cold room as an idea?