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Originally Posted by Draven  Not really my solar panels generate power even on cloudy days, it just generates less power then on a sunny day, but I have 8 panels generating 36 watts of power & charginf 8 marine batteries which store my power not used in the house for night time. Plus I have a 64 watt wind genie in the system as well... |
How much do you produce in comparison to how much you use?
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Originally Posted by shetlan "Biodiversity" doesn't have any bearing on being able to cut down trees. If you're cutting down a canopy tree, then you plant a canopy tree - if you're cutting down an oak tree, you plant an oak tree.
As for the farm land - what do you have against farm land?
God forbid we should feed people and provide jobs for the locals.
Note: Rain forests still cover a full 6% of the planet's surface - 3.45million square miles (roughly the same size as the continental Unites States). |
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Originally Posted by shetlan Since we've established that they're cutting them down to clear space for farmland, that doesn't really matter.
None the less, the presence of 300 different species of trees doesn't make any difference in reference to being able to plant more. If you know the proportional number of each tree (1 in 100, etc) then you buy a proportional number of seeds and mix 'em up before planting. |
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Originally Posted by shetlan The logging companies that cut down "the rainforest" plant new trees where they cut down the old ones - if they didn't, there would be nothing to cut down later.
That has nothing to do with "balance" it's just sound business practices. |
You can't really be that stupid to think that that is how it works. Less than half of the world's rainforests are still there so obviously the loggers aren't planting a tree for everyone they cut down. And as for the farmland, when the rainforest is cut down for farmland in the Amazon rainforest the land is only sustainable for farming for five to ten years before all the nutrients are depleted due to the fact that the plants aren't putting anything back into the soil since they use everything.