I'd say no in general, but I hold the reins very loosely . . .

fwiw, this story is also covered here, imho a more credible source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/1/palestinians-demand-international-inquiry-after-mass-grave-found-in-gaza

I note that only one of the photos accompanying the article features PLASTIC rubbish. curious

The article mentions hydrogen from electrolysis of water, but I think a bigger source in the future could be steam reforming of biomass. That is, when you heat biomass (plant matter, sewage sludge, maybe even municipal garbage) to about 300C in steam, the organic matter breaks down into simple molecules like hydrogen, carbon monoxide (highly flammable!), methanol, elemental carbon (biochar) and miscellaneous others. Some of those molecules can be recovered for important chemical feedstock (since we won't have petroleum or natural gas as feedstocks anymore, right?), and the gas can be fuel.

In the early days of natural gas use, towns would "reform" the methane (CH4) by reacting it with steam to make carbon monoxide (CO) and 3 molecules of H2 - a mixture known as "city gas". It is not new technology.

Have you tried your hand at biochar? I know composting the chips for mulch is high value in a farm operation, but a few tons of biochar can work like a permanent upgrade - improving the soil permanently with one addition - though ongoing permaculture operation continues. I am about to make a biochar cooker out of two steel barrels - inner fuel chamber and outer draft shell. It would probably be more effective with wood scraps than chips though - some air passages through the fuel.

To test it out for myself, I made a miniature version documented at https://github.com/jcadej/TLUD-biochar-reactor (uses a gallon paint can for the fuel chamber. You could test it small and see how it does with wood chips. When I make my bigger version, I will add it to the github project. My rough idea is to cut one barrel down the side and squeeze it smaller and bolt it so it fits inside the other.

I have heard this, and I can imagine it is true, but have you seen any analysis? There must be a large crew traveling and lots of equipment - transportation is a big user of petroleum in general -- for entertainment. Though they say the entertainment is good.

In that case, Krasnodar and Rostov to Ukraine as buffer zones - maybe Belgorod and Kursk too?

I declare the weeds to be wildflowers and then I just have to deal with them if they actually over-run something else. Then my tool is a machete.

It is VERY sour. The pulp is full of black seeds. Some people put the pulp with sugar and some water in a blender and liquefy. Then strain it to remove the seed bits. My wife just puts some in a glass of water and lets it stand for a while; then she drinks it. But I do not like the whole pulp texture - the fruit-coated seeds have the consistency I imagine for tadpoles. This week we made banana-passionfruit breakfast scones and just left the seeds whole; they crunch easy; no particular taste to them.

We've had a bumper crop here in Puerto Rico, where it is known as "parcha". Elsewhere in the Caribbean you will hear it called maracuya or chinola, too. They are not ready to harvest until they fall off the vine. Even then, they are not at maximum sweetness. They decay from the outside, so let the fruit dessicate some; even collapse and turn black and maybe a little mold won't hurt (though not strictly necessary!).

When I used to live in Florida, we'd go once a year to visit the Keys and eat some "bugs" - they were Caribbean Spiny Lobsters. If you think about it, they are pretty closely related - insects and crustaceans. If you are ever confronted with the option to tuck into a big bowl of insects, consider it like a big bowl of shrimp! (full disclosure: I have not had this option, this is only my intellectualization of how to think about it. It is related to my intellectualzation of pretending spiders are crabs, to overcome arachnophobia - though this only extends to not screaming when touched by a spider rather than trying to catch spiders to eat them)

Yes, banana plants grow where ever they wish. Through concrete, steel, lead shielding on nuclear reactors, you name it. You can cut the roots into little bits and each bit will grow into a new banana. The only way to kill them is to wish fervently and daily for bananas to eat.