When I read the quote
“We expect to produce at least 1,000,000 litres of bio-diesel per year from Blenheim”

I did a double take, and a couple of sums on the back of an envelope, and frankly I would have written it off as a hoax or a bunch of dreamers…

… but it’s Barrie Leay who’s saying it. Vicki Buck is also on board. These people are not flaky freaks.

Of course, you need to know more about the economics, and especially the energy inputs, of their process, but if it’s viable it’s a bleedin’ miracle.

Bearing in mind that Bleinheim has about 35000 inhabitants (and assuming that they are all hooked up to the sewers), that represents something like 300 litres of diesel per year from every man, woman and child! (DON’T throw that nappy in the rubbish… scrape it out carefully into the toilet!)

And with 300 litres of diesel per year, with a suitable small efficient diesel car consuming say 2l / 100 km, we’re looking at a seriously interesting post-peak-oil transport option.

led me to: no demonstrable hits for ecofeminism; time us females got ourselves in print!!
Being a non-car-owning, occasional driver, I guess Google wouldn’t have much interest in what I have to say about peak oil and the global market in slightly dowdy vehicles (now if we could get this trend report in Japanese, there might be a linkage; middling-aged ecofeminists favour second-hand imports from land of rising sun…..)

Actually, Google doesn’t show any trend report for “feminism,NZ,2006″, either, so the whole Louise Nicholas media frenzy hasn’t made it past the filters in their system; says a lot about GIGO filing these days….

just a thot from my essay writing block enjoy!

what about comparing the four major parties in NZ searches only…

or how about global warming versus climate change

which shows that global warming is by far the more popular term so we shouldn’t read too much into what climate change shows, but also NZ is a leader in global warming searches as well.

More importantly this only in the english speaking world. I bet in Sweden and Denmark and Holland et al they search for global warming and climate change much more than us, but in their own language so we appear at the top of the table.

Anyway its time to stop searching and start acting.