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Pirellithecat

Joined: 05 Aug 2019
Posts: 3

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 19 8:33 am Post subject: Hi

Hi,
I'm Ian, live in the wilds of West Cumbria, I've a few acres of land, have planted about 1500 trees and want to develop a wild flower meadow on about 2 acre. (and if it "fails" I'll plant some more trees). I like ponds and wetland, plant trees, burn wood, am about to start growing stuff to eat and want to do more for the environment and biodiversity. Can't be fully energy independent as we get no sun for 50% of the year - but keen to look at alternatives.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45664
Location: Essex

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 19 10:41 am Post subject:
Welcome on board Ian

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46184
Location: yes

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 19 10:42 am Post subject:

hello, enjoy the archive and chatting.

re energy , do you have moving water or gravity that could be used to provide moving water.
most types of water movement can be harvested fairly simply for leccy

afaik biodigesters only start to become useful if they are big , ie very expensive,they should have a constant consistent feedstock as a bit of this and a bit of that and none of what it had yesterday confuses the microbiology and they run a continuous cycle so any gaps in the feed supply leads to quite a long restart period.

iirc west cumbria has water in abundance, wind might be a possibility if you have an area with a decent smooth wind and a reasonable budget.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 19 4:49 pm Post subject:
Welcome aboard.

Rusticwood

Joined: 01 Dec 2009
Posts: 2154
Location: All over the South West

Posted: Mon Aug 05, 19 6:07 pm Post subject:
Hello

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15943

Posted: Tue Aug 06, 19 7:14 am Post subject:
Hello, hope you enjoy it here.

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28231
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Tue Aug 06, 19 6:03 pm Post subject:
Welcome to downsizer Still the place where any question tends to get a decent answer.

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 9075
Location: South Wales

Posted: Wed Aug 07, 19 7:30 am Post subject:
Welcome.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Mon Aug 12, 19 9:11 am Post subject:
Hello and welcome.

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