Hum dinger

[alacerus]

Having done all that training and the triathlon last week I've taken this week right off to stick my feet up and pop a few beers.

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[flitljm]

Borneo. I'm afraid its not going to help with global warming very much either, because the CO2 production from the process of clearing peat swamp forest is so high that it outweights any gains from using biofuels. Wetlands International has been campaigning on this: http://www.wetlands.org/ckpp/

[alacerus]

Geez, that's really depressing, you think all this production of bio-fuels is a good thing and then you find out that in fact there planting all of them on the one type of land that holds more of it - DOH! Thats just nuts, why do they do it, is it for the nutrient rich soils that the drained wetlands leave behind or is it economics?

[flitljm]

If you plant on forest, you can sell the timber straight away. If you plant on already degraded land, you have to wait until the oil palms start fruiting before you see any return. There have been cases in the past where plantation concessionaires didn't actually bother planting anything after they'd got the nice timber profits.

[alacerus]

And I don't suppose the people that clear these pristine patches of forest ever use there tidy profits to replant the lost rain-forest. Its the make money now worry about the consequences later attitude:-(

[andygates]

Recharge weeks are good. Must go train next week though..!

Biofuels = complicated. Where are the industrial-scale algae reactors, dammit?