a two tank digestor system will create enough biogas (methane) to power their homes 24/7!
Alan B,
Yes, I have seen a similar setup in West Papua & was told it has been running for many, many years, no problem.

Graham,

It was with some sadness I read this article.

In the past I have always read anything you presented as relevant and dynamic You seemed to have the intellect and identified with great accuracy and depth issues we've faced.

To be forthright, while acknowledging and being conscious of your knowledge, intellect and expression, and without malice or intended disrespect, I think your writing here deals with the results of a fundamental problem.

I think you are very accurately dealing with and discussing the symptoms rather than the disease.

I'd suggest it isn't 'the west' that has lead us to the position we are in and the dangers we face.

It isn't our working people or our small business people who have led us to the disastrous and perilous situation we all now face.

It is our ruling 'elected' elites and the unelected and protected elite government bureaucrats and national and international corporate elites who have created todays environment.

The vast majority of these elites are University trained, in career and professional disciplines.

Most have not been taught to think ... they have been trained in roles .. only.

It follows their actions are dominated by the 'rules' and thinking of their professional educations.
They genuinelly lack the depth of thinking and understanding of 'the common man' and are often quite out of touch with what these people face in their lives.

It is the state and federal laws, trade regulations, banking regulations, business controls, labor market regulations, media controls, education curriculums and other social controls that interest and benefit these elites and which they create and talk about.

The vast excluded majority of the 'governed'; the working people and small business people do not share the consensus and concerns of the elites.

This group have little influence or interest in the issues of these elites.

This group gained control of their lives and society under the following leaders: Roosevelt, Menzies, Reagan Thatcher, Abbot and Trump. These took on and defeated the evils that had developed from socialism. (Abbot not so much but given time ...)

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I'd very respectfully suggest you read the American commentator and intellectual James Burnham. Particularly The Managerial Revolution (1945) and The Machiavellians (1949).

I have them if you'd like to borrow them.

His ideas of the future, from 1945, are quite deeply relevant and reflect the causes of our circumstances rather than the symptoms. I feel after having read him our problem is the focus of our education system. It's focus is on learning skills and valuing such rather than a focus on thinking and intellectual innovations.

Kind Regards

Keith Kennelly

Thanks imajulianutter- James Burnham has been on my reading list for a while.

"I'd suggest it isn't 'the west' that has lead us to the position we are in and the dangers we face".
imajulianutter,
The West started WW2 & if not reigned in, WW3.
The West has become a cultural & philosophical No-man's land. I don't think it can hold out much longer if they're not focussing on coming to their senses !

I'll bring National Service up again. Does anyone still believe we don't need it ?