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Given New Zealand's potential to grow trees for biofuel on marginal land unfit for other purposes, Scion believes this fuel can replace 50% of our imported petroleum products by 2030. Such volumes wou ...

guess what the status quo is always changing.

try some research on water

nz will have abundant water and electricity

liquid fuel is more difficult but not impossible

are you sure shi ...

yeahbut check the latest fert applications for 08

guess what urea is produced from

water might be a problem now but won't be in the future

doesn't mean it will be cheap

maybe you sh ...

What's your degree in? If you've still got two years to study you could maybe change it a bit couldn't you? What parts of NZ are you interested in?

I'd rather be in NZ than Australia. I won't be surprised if we start seeing a reversal of the NZ to Oz immigration trend in the next decade or so, due the the fact that Australia's expected to really ...

Well, how about Aussies moving to NZ? We're facing more extreme weather in the future due to global warming, but nothing compared to the droughts and desertification of Australia. I've occasionally ...

I have no intention of moving down under. How would I be any better off there than here?

I went to Pennsylvannia a few years ago. It was pretty nice.

You probably are better off there, especial ...

Ageing hippies breed tomorrows consumers. The less the better...fewer malls etc. So I vote No!

I agree that the big box shopping centres, malls and suburban Noddyland of modern New Zealand are pret ...

Increasing numbers of Americans, Europeans, Brits and others seem to be taking an interest in migrating to NZ due to the perception that we'd do better than most in a peak oil world. How do people fe ...

If anyone is interested I've set up a Peak Oil Kiwis group on Facebook.

Like a lot of Facebook groups this might just end up being another boring group with very little traffic, interest or contrib ...

Even assuming a 75% drop in production due to a lack of fertilizer, fuels and technology, this drop would be made up for by the fact that we wouldn't be exporting much of our food at all. We'd definat ...

A New Zealander wrote:

Cashmere, you said "you produce much less food than you eat" but I'm having difficulty believing this. Where did you find this out?

I did read somewhere that about 80% of ...

Cashmere, you said "you produce much less food than you eat" but I'm having difficulty believing this. Where did you find this out?

I did read somewhere that about 80% of the food in New Zealand s ...

Palmerston North?

One to keep in mind is that just north of China is Russia's Siberia. Low population density, huge natural resources and much easier to invade than Aussie.