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Skriven 2007-07-04 11:31:03 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Hap Newsom
Ärende: A SORRY LOT WE ARE 70704
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 -=> Quoting Hap Newsom to Glen Jamieson <=-

 -> Good morning Hap,
 HN> Morning? Why son it's the middle of the afternoon! (grin)

I slept in!
 
 -> During WW2, with a lot of hard work, my parents' garden supplied a
 -> large proportion of the food for a family of 4.  We are a lot lazier
 -> now, and kids are strangely reluctant to desert their electronic toys
 -> for the joys of collecting manure and digging it into an onion plot.
 ->  
 HN> Yes, and as I aged I became less and less interested in doing that
 HN> same  chore myself! (grin)

I did enough of that during my teen years to last me out.
 
 -> At present I pay Aus$1.09 per kilolitre (say, $5 per 1000 gallons), and
 -> the price is expected to increase considerably in the future.
 ->  
 HN> I'd have to ask what our rate is but I'm sure it's not 1/20th of
 HN> yours. 

So as you can see, there are real long-term savings to be made here by
using rain-water tanks.

 -> For which, Arnie's mob can be thankful, and hopefully enough of the
 -> present generation will have similar forward thinking to provide for
 -> the future generations.
 ->  
 HN> Well, they don't have nearly as many "forward thinkers" now as they
 HN> did  then...and the fact that they have "brown outs" every summer and
 HN> have to  buy power from us and the Canadians and anyone else who's got
 HN> a watt for  sale.

Maybe it is all the film stars needing to air condition their huge
mansions who are not worried about the costs of power...

A new, 10 storey building going up in Adelaide for SA Water will be the
first six Green Star rated building in the state.  80% of construction
and demolition waste is being recycled, the builder is using rain water
for flushing toilets, and waterless urinals.  The completed building
will incorporate a black-water treatment plant to reduce potable water
consumption, photovoltaic roof panels and a gas fired cogeneration
plant, and is designed to use mainly natural lighting.

 -> 
 -> That area of South Australia actually has quite a high rainfall, and
 -> the swamps were kept wet by rows of ancient sandhills between the 
 HN> swamp
 -> and the sea.  Drains were cut through these sandhills 80 years ago, to
 -> turn the area into pasture, and dairy farms.  It would be easy to block
 -> off these drains and allow the swamps to re-form, but would displace
 -> the dairy farmers now living there.  The whole area is very flat, so
 -> dams cannot be built.   A difficult problem.
 -> 
 HN> No dams perhaps but earthen dikes could be built with little
 HN> difficulty. The  real problems come from maintaining them!

It is an area of several hundred square kilometres.  Filling in the
drains would retain the water and return the area to swampland, but
collecting water from that sort of formation would be difficult.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: MARSHMALLOW ZAPS
 Categories: 
      Yield: 6 Zaps
 
      1    INFO
 
  Arrange a ring of six lg (not miniature) marshmallows, upright and
  well separated, Stonehenge style, on a microwave-safe dinner plate.
  Zap in the microwave oven on high, while watching through the window
  as the marshmallows balloon to several times their size. Stop the
  oven when they have developed brown, volcano-like holes on top, after
  about 1 1/2 min. Remove the plate carefully (it will be quite hot)
  and place it on the counter to cool completely, during which time the
  marshmallows will deflate and flatten. Remove each "zap" from the
  plate (it will be quite sticky), dip its bottom into a plate of
  confectioners' sugar, and place it on a serving dish or platter. It
  will be crisp as a meringue on the outside and chewy on the inside,
  with a layer of brown caramelized sugar in the middle as if it were
  an inside-out fire-roasted marshmallow.
  
  How does it work? In the interior of the marshmallow, the microwaves'
  energy converts water into steam, which first puffs up the
  marshmallow and then, when the gelatin's elasticity limit is
  exceeded, breaks its way out though a hole it punches in the top.
  Meanwhile, the dehydrated interior sugar caramelizes under the
  influence of the heat. Because dehydration is the first step in the
  complex series of chemical reactions involved in caramelization, the
  interior, dehydrated sugar caramelizes first. The outer parts of the
  marshmallow, still saturated with steam, would not caramelize unless
  heated longer. As the marshmallows cool, the steam condenses and the
  foam collapses. They may not look pretty, but you'll want s'more.
  
  Robert L. Wolke Washington Post, 20 March 2002. U/L by Michael Loo.
  MM'd by Burt Ford & U/L to NCE 01/03.
 
MMMMM
 

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