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sawdust will rot down eventually won't it? I've mixed some into my heap

Hi Oldfella - any chance of a pic of this? ... I'm just building a hen-house !

apart from trying different brands of sweetener - dunno. I'm sure I read somewhere once about which sugars were fermentable and which were not... never made the connection with EC at the time... any biochemists on here? I presume also that if these recipes do indeed work, (and I have seen many like ...

This is the recipe that I use for Elderflower Champagne: 8 pints of water 1.5lb sugar No added yeast required and can be very POTENT the longer you leave it. If all that sugar gets turned into alcohol I make that about 7.3%. !!! If it doesn't you will have a yucky syrup. And it looks like you are f...

yes indeed - compare it to the alternatives "cradle-to-grave" .... I can't believe recycled bottle insulation is particularly good either !
But you also need to compare with the amount of energy you can save with it. All difficult questions to answer unambiguously.

I use a long-handled pan-scrubber to clean mine.... I got the tubers off ebay... left them too long before planting, but they still came up... 6 foot high, no flowers. I tried choke chips, but preferred them as water-chestnut substitutes in stir-fries. As chips the middle bits come out too squishy, ...

and what are the recommended methods of producing large quantities of biochar?

Anyone tried charcoal-enriched earth for veggie growing? What does best in it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta

yes - VERY expensive... the wikipedia article gives some idea of the production process - doesn't look particularly poisonous... Aspen Aerogels is the US trade name that comes up from googling. I am at a loss to understand why shedloads of research isn't going into bringing the price of this stuff d...

Has anyone got any experiences, good or bad, with aerogel insulation in the UK? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel I am interested in finding a polycarbonate (?) greenhouse/conservatory roof material with aerogel as the "meat in the sandwich"... to get transparency with insulation. I can...

I have been looking in to solar power lately, is it something i can DIY? Any of you built a solar panal? dose it work? how hard was it? Eve Yes I have built my own 36-cell (crystalline) solar panel. And it worked/works I bought broken solar cells mail-order from the USA. First mistake - for the eff...