Recent content by andymack

JanFan Im surprised to hear you're having trouble renting out an IP on the Sunshine Coast. What type of property is it? where abouts is it?

I'm no expert, but it is common practise. I think its called "waffle pod" It is however an inferior slab. Wouldn't have one in my house.

Young hardwood often is pulped as its more difficult to mill. As pulp wont get you very much, depending on dia. of logs (say you had 10" of wood) , you may persevere with trying to mill timber out of it. Tallow-wood had a greasy nature which makes it an easy wood to work even after its...

Hi RC I did some research into tree plantation recently. I hope to plant my own sometime soon. Tallow wood is a valuable timber but I don't know much about it in a plantation etc. What you do need to ask is what is the diameter of the average tree at 1 metre from the ground. At what...

To answer "what is carbon trading" from a foresters point of view. Is where a company is willing to pay the Forest owner for a certain amount of carbon (by the tonne) in live trees to be kept for a 100 years. This company is most likely a CO2 emitter as in a power station etc. The idea is...

Carbon credits can be interesting from a forestry perspective. The NSW government has facilitated the trading of credits in some fashion such that there is at least one company which will pay landowner for the carbon credits of there forest. The catch is that you have to lock up the carbon...

Geez Acey, you're making me work :) 1. Ofcourse Fossil fuel is the easiest and cheapest source of energy in today's economy. Nowhere is it being costed in for the damage it is doing to our environment and green house ramifications. Big business won't change until it runs out or our...

I agree, the biggest obstacle is our governments lack of interest and opposing interests of big business. Ofcourse nobody wants to factor in the enviromental damage/costs our current energy economy is based on. I do see that bio fuels are likely (if anything) to be bridging sources of energy...

Richard It seems Sweet Sorghum is a good propect for ethanol production as it can grow in marginal areas. A few links: http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1993/v2-394.html http://pune.sancharnet.in/nariphaltan/seedworld.htm The other big question; is there enough land...

Richard I'll try to get more info. I suspect Acey and others are much more knowledgable on this subject. I don't know about Sorgham but Brazil uses sugar cane and they do use the Bagasse to power their ethanol production and they have surplus energy that they feed onto the grid. Don't...

Hi Acey I see that Brazil produces Ethanol using sugar cane (as we would) and it seems to be far more efffecient than using corn that the US use. Surely we could replicate what Brazil is doing, it would also be a lot more Green House friendly.

Malcom The question that should be asked is "what is your objective?" You could keep on turning over real estate to create additional income (capital gains) or you could work on creating your own neutral to positive geared portfolio. Others are correct in saying that if you keep moving...

I've seen articles indicating it cost more energy to produce Bio-fuels than it produces. But I have a problem with this. If this is the case then why does Brazil produce so much ethanol for fuel, surely they'd run out of petroleum (or cost them heaps in foreign exchange). Also I beleive...

Hi Malcom you have to be very careful what you post on these forums as most are far too quick to react.

Ok, for whats it worth, here's my approach. I'll not use option formulaes because i want to keep it simple and i'll presume a low volatility. Presume that the current markt value is 200k, and that it has already seen a lot of growth, so I'll assume a 5% growth over the next few years. I'm...