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POPSPorridge: A Good Source of Energy For Your Body & Your Factory A FIFE factory is to become one of Scotland’s greenest when it begins generating all its own energy from oat husks. Quaker, which produces Scott’s Porage Oats at its Uthrogle Mills plant near Cupar, is to invest £6 million in a combined heat and power biomass boiler which will make it carbon neutral. The husks, removed from the oats during the milling process, will provide 9,709 MWhrs of electricity and 10,902 MWhrs of steam a year, reducing its emissions by 9,000 tonnes a year. “This innovative approach by Quaker to cut carbon emissions through investment in new low carbon technology will be a powerful signal to other businesses that reducing carbon emissions and looking for sustainable energy sources makes business sense.”
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POPSThe Poison Arrow: Climate Change So shouldn't we stop chattering, agree that whatever is causing potentially problematical climate we should have the sense to look ahead and resource whatever protections we may be able to?
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POPSHolland: Build an Amphibious House for a Floating Future Who says you have to live on dry land? Try a floating house... Building floating foundations is a snap. Just fill a concrete box with some kind of plastic foam, flip it over, and you've got a stable platform that's ready to float. And the more of these platforms you join together, the more stable they are. Zevenbergen's company has already built floating greenhouses and has plans for houses that not only float, but also move. His idea is that you can move them along the river, and go to a city which is close to the river, and park your home there in a special harbor which is constructed for this type of boat. A nomadic way of living, that you can change the area where you live depending on the season or whatever.
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POPSClimate Debate: One site, all views A few people may be interested in all the data, facts, interpretations, theories, debates, arguments etc about climate change. The rest of us can just go on shouting at each other!
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POPSReal warning signs on climate The weather is a barometer we must heed - we allow an environmental collapse at our collective peril. We have little option but to address the situation with urgency.
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POPSthis is very important This is such an important issue, and we cannot afford to ignore it any longer. Ignorance may be bliss, but what is going on will change the world as we know it, even if we take action now. Check out the page for more interesting facts and information on what you can do to help.
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POPSU.S. Economy--Recession, Depression, or Collapse? The "analysis" and the "connecting the dots" is what our new company Open Intelligence is all about. It will be free and largely constructed by its users. We will be kicking off with the Energy Centre during the first half of next year. It is necessary to face the reality of the bigger picture for responses to be at all effective. I have been using ClipMarks to collect indicators for our prototype. To get a taste of some source material, search my clips for 'peak oil' or 'climate change'.
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