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  • richard
    I visited! And yes, got the site(s) in my ipad now.
  • macbros
    Yea Rick, Visit my site too will ya! I Just called you RICK because I can. (Mel: He hides on Twitter)
 

Apr 11
2011

Posted by richard

Is it just me or is the constant barrage of anti-pollution news and messages getting a bit over the top?

I’m not talking about the Japanese reactor issue (although that’s worrying; I still question why nations aren’t using pebble bed reactors or thorium reactors), but the news on the BBC site about nitrogen pollution costing Europe £280Bn a year. And they keep on finding yet more things we’re doing wrong…

What irks me and probably a lot of other people, is that all these ‘green’ people who tell us how to live, all still live in brick and mortar homes, they still drive cars, they still use electricity, buy computers, and so on. Them telling us it’s bad is one thing, but telling us and still doing it themselves is another!

I know for a fact we couldn’t go back to wooden homes, wattle and daub walls, no cars and so on, it’s impossible. So why don’t they give us solutions instead of just hammering on about what we’re doing wrong!?

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  • John W. Whitworth
    You're absolutely right, we need to iron out the wrinkles in these gigantic projects before we build more than 1 ...
 

Jun 26
2008

Posted by richard

The latest news in from yesterday is that the very progressive and ambitious project to build 5000 new “eco homes” in Manby has been scrapped. Can’t say I’m very surprised actually. Manby isn’t exactly the centre of things, and the transportation network is poor in that area.

Not only that, but as someone pointed out in my previous post, there aren’t the jobs to support that many people. Not just that but what about other services like electricity, water, sewage? This area might not be able to handle that without significant infrastructure investment.

Then again, I have to ask the question, why not build smaller projects that are eco-villages? 50-100 houses built around small wind turbines or eco-sewage plants etc? They aren’t beyond our capability or knowledge, and since we’re supposedly embracing eco- technology anyway, this would be a good point to start from to discover any issues we might have overlooked before scaling up.

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