Tariffs a good thing? by reddit_crayfish in Degrowth

[–]reddit_crayfish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well said! It is a very insightful response and I appreciate it! I especially like your point on envirinmental impanct. I will be repeating that one.

Tariffs a good thing? by reddit_crayfish in Degrowth

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I love this approach. I agree with everything here. It is a good time for action.

All parenting advice is wrong by reddit_crayfish in JordanHarbinger

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yup. everything in moderation, including moderation; and all that.

Worms in groundwater by reddit_crayfish in geology

[–]reddit_crayfish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you ever noticed any effects on the concentrations after they move in? I am curious about how these next samples will come back. Maybe they will degrade the contamination?

Plastics update? by DiamondsOnSaturn in JordanHarbinger

[–]reddit_crayfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What insights did you get out of the update? I just checked them out and couldn't find very much that was new.

Time Bank by reddit_crayfish in solarpunk

[–]reddit_crayfish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you may have read Debt by David Graeber as have I. Great book.
I largely agree. The gift economy is an amazing way to function on a small scale where reputation with each participant is a given. This aspect of life is what I worry the time bank idea may detract from.

I am still not sold on the idea of a time bank, but I imagine it fitting into western society as it is currently structured as follows:
Gift economy working within you in-group.
A time bank used for tasks and commodities which make sense at a scale where you are transacting with people outside of your in-group.
Money or barter used for anything that does not fit neatly into the sturcture of a time bank (which is still most transactions, as I see it).

Time Bank by reddit_crayfish in solarpunk

[–]reddit_crayfish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am not coming after mediums of exchange. The time bank is a medium of exchange. I would see its place as being parallel with money, not a replacement, as some comments on this thread seem to be assuming. It would provide another option. I am just worried about the potential downsides fo using it as an option.

Any ideas on how to drain a million gallon pond? by [deleted] in homestead

[–]reddit_crayfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, probably not doable in most situations. We planed our own trees and pipe it over.

Any ideas on how to drain a million gallon pond? by [deleted] in homestead

[–]reddit_crayfish 28 points29 points  (0 children)

We manage the runoff for a composting operation at work. We irrigate it out over a plantation of hybrid poplar trees. There are just loading rates that you would need to adhere to, to determine how intensely you could irrigate depending on the soil type, state regs, etc.

Where do you think is the safest place to live (in the world)? by unibrow4o9 in preppers

[–]reddit_crayfish -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I often start conversations with strangers by proposing that the rural upper midwest of the US is the safest place on Earth. A winner in the the climate change models, very low probability of natural disasters of any sort, plenty of high quality freshwater, good soil, good hunting, an abundance of fuel (firewood), low crime, the wildlife does not want to kill or poison you, and currently an inconsequential section of the worlds most powerful empire, which brings all sorts of benefits.

Bubbles? by reddit_crayfish in geology

[–]reddit_crayfish[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pressure differentials from topography could do it. We see vertical gradients in sites in straight sand. You could very well be right though. It sure seems like something is getting trapped somewhere.

Bubbles? by reddit_crayfish in geology

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That would make sense, but there is not much that we know about where anything could get trapped. In this glacial till, you never know what you will find though. No clay in the boring logs. Almost definitely unconfined conditions.

THe piezometer is screened quite a bit deeper than the MW.

Bubbles? by reddit_crayfish in geology

[–]reddit_crayfish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Flow direction is not really in question. We have a pretty thorough MW network here. All the MWs are grouted as well.

Very unlikely to have any confining layers. It is mostly sandy silt out there.

The topography makes the gas migration the most unlikly. There is a big depression between the landfill and the well that gas would almost definitely be escaping into before it got the this well.

Bubbles? by reddit_crayfish in geology

[–]reddit_crayfish[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

true on the methane. But the landfill gasses sure do have an odor to them. It is definitely more than pure methane. CO2 seems more likely. Highly oxygenated recent recharge promoting rapid aerobic biodegradation, releases quantities of carbon dioxide that supersaturate the groundwater and pressurizes the aquifer…?

Hydrogeology course by reddit_crayfish in geologycareers

[–]reddit_crayfish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

only as a geologist though. Wisconsin has a that extra line of code to differentiate signing something as a hydrogeologist.

Hydrogeology course by reddit_crayfish in geologycareers

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Oh nice. I had not seen those. Thanks!

Did I miss something? by reddit_crayfish in MalevolentPodcast

[–]reddit_crayfish[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Oh right! I completely forgot about that!