Farting Camels and Making Money from Hot air

Today I read one of the most amusing stories I have seen for a while, the story was in The Register and can be found at this link:

farting carbon camels

Essentially the story is about an Australian who has made a proposal to cull feral camels. The buisness case is that as each camel emits around 45 Kg of methane per year (which is about 25 times more harmful to the enviroment than carbon dioxide) it roughly the equivalent of 1 tonne of carbon dioxide he has removed from the atmosphere and so he should be issued with 1 carbon credit for each camel culled by the government.

Carbon credits can now be sold and exchanged and I believe that the current is around $20 per credit (or 1 tonne of carbon dioxide). I think that is a fantastic idea and believe that it could easily be taken one step further.

My proposal is this, a dairy cow emits around 120Kg of methane each year (equivalent of about 3 tonnes of carbon dioxide). Therefore for each dairy cow that I don't breed I should be credited with 3 carbon credits per year of life of the cow. As cow can comfortably live to 10 years old I think that a value of 30 credits per cow is perfectly acceptable.

I would happily agree in writing to not breed 50 cows a year in exchange for a total of 1500 carbon credits. To help with the economy I would be more than willing to sell these credits for $10 each to UK companies to me a give a modest supplementary income of $15000 a year!!!



Workplace Loafers

Have you ever had to work with people who just don't care, I have and it one of the most frustrating things in the world. I am not someone who lives for work, but someone is paying for my time and effort so I always try and give the very best work performance that I can.

Unfortunately not every body I work with has this attitude and there seems to be so little that can be done about it, I have no authority over these people and when challenged they just shrug their shoulders and say tough.  Their idea of meeting timescales revolves around not working one more second than necessary.

Management simply asks me not upset them as they will simply claim stress at work and stay home for six months on full pay if they feel that I am pressuring them to do their job. I am not sure that their absence for six months would really be noticed and it may be worth the risk to see if their posts are really justified.

The only real pleasure I gain from working with these people is imagining what  their expression would be if I beat them around the head with the mounds of unfinished paperwork and wasted project plans.

Theme Parks

I love taking my family to theme parks, however with 3 school age children it inevitably means we have to go at peak times. I hate long queues but appreciate that they are a fact of life at theme parks. I have always taught my children to be patient and not push in. Therefore this last weekend I was outraged at how many people feel that they can queue jump because they have a friend or family member holding a place for them.

I have to say these people get very upset and angry when you don't let them past you in the queue, they seem to think that it is some sort of right to push past everyone and not wait in a queue.

I would urge everyone to stand up to these people, do not be embarrassed or afraid to say NO to them, they are wrong and you are right. People not standing up against things like this cannot then complain about falling standards or poor manners or any other woes of society

My First Blog

This is my first attempt at a blog, my main reason for this blog is simply to rant at the things that annoy and outrage me as a normal family man .

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