I'm curious now... what kind of problem did you (probably) solved ?
Thx for fortix tho :C
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I bet it was a practical problem, not something like "What is beauty?", because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy.
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Oh i'm disappointed, so no "Ehy guys Ketchup or Mayonnaise ?" :C
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I (and another person, it's not all my doing) looked into methods for dealing with all the waste that is produced on the island (as in garbage and other things that don't go down the drain). Tried to find a cost effective way of dealing with it that does not result in a lot of it being thrown in a large pile somewhere, so we basically designed the framework for how to make fertilizers without a large amount of moisture in it out of it all. While all the individual steps in our process are well known and used in other places, I don't think anyone has put together a facility quite like ours before.
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Well, that's some serious real life achievement. :-) Congratulations, and may it turn out to be "economically viable". :-)
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Wow! Amazing job, hope the facility gets made and its as efficient as planned! Kudos to you good sir
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That's really awesome, being able to make a change for the better in the world. Kudos to you for your hard work!
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Congratulations! It's so funny, that I'm currently learning environmental managenement, about material flow analysis and life cycle analysis, it's quite closely linked to the project of yours :D
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That's great! More people need to understand how to do a life cycle analysis. Now if we could only get the people in charge to actually learn something about it we might see them back projects that are sustainable, not just projects that don't produce as much waste when they are active.
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Politicians have their ownagendas and objectives. Even those without the personal profit as a goal.
Congratulations, and hope it gets done!
Had all the games so only let a couple comments which didn't pop in your mail :D
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Quite often when it comes to sustainability though, it feels like the ones that want to do something environmentally friendly are doing rather basic mistakes not because they want to or have other goals than what they say they have, but rather because they simply don't know better. I have a friend who is a local politician (for a political party that won't get anywhere...) who things that building wind farms everywhere will solve our energy problem, because wind turbines don't create any pollution when they are active. I've tried to explain to him that building the turbines takes a lot of material (and energy), so you need to be careful with where you build them, or otherwise you might actually end up with a net loss of energy. He is not very good at seeing the big picture though. I get the feeling that there are many other politicians (in parties that do get somewhere) that have exactly the same problem.
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I'm proud of having someone like you as a fellow SG user.
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Sorry, just noticed you requested not to post, I deleted my comments.
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Ah no, that was not quite what I meant ;) (And I did have time to spot two of your posts, they were fine), it's just the long line of copy-pasted "Thanks" that I don't want.
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Congratulations for the engineering achievement. Now you can bake some pitas ;-)
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That's an excellent ideas! I should make gyros with home made pitas today. That solve the "what should I eat for dinner?" problem, thanks!
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Well done on the report! I like those kinds of sustainability problems. I was recently out and about doing some sampling for a land reparation company - which isn't quite the same, but still deals with contaminated land and so on.
Will refrain from saying thanks lots of times and clogging up messages. So thank you!
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That's still very important things though. A lot of land is dreadfully contaminated, and not only due to the reasons most people think of (old factories, harbors and such), but simple things like isolation material in buildings can make land so contaminated that you can't build new apartment buildings on it (in case a child decides to eat dirt around the house). A lot of prime land can't be used because of it.
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I totally agree. We had a guy come in, because he was in a bit of financial trouble and was offered $300k for a loan against his land by the bank. If it was 'safe' he may have got more, but when we asked what it used to be... he was a bit hesitant to say. We told him that we'd find out eventually anyway, and he eventually confessed that it was previously an old battery factory. Obviously the place had never been remediated (since it was built over a few decades ago), so...
We pretty much told him to take the $300k and run, because that kind of land needs a lot of stuff to make sure it's safe to build on. Even if it was actually safe, the cost in making sure would have been money this guy couldn't have paid anyway (because he was obviously going out of business).
Simple things like old petrol stations also need some work, so any future land investors should be very careful haha!
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Thanks, glad to see you also solved the "what should I give away" problem successfully, and in an economically viable way :)
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That's crazy cool and rest is well deserved. Thanks for your contribution to the world and to a few people's Steam libraries.
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Thanks bump, if writing thanks is "banned" under GAs :D
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Doing your job right is always a pleasure, thanks for the ride !
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Must be a great feeling, knowing your work positively affects so many lives. :)
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It was expected to take about 400 work hours (so 200 each), but we did it in a bit less. It's in the end just a feasibility study, but it contains the groundwork needed if they actually decide to build something.
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Congratulations on a job well done, Fnord! :D
Hopefully, they'll go for it, both for your sake and for the environment. :)
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congrats on the project, hope it will be approved!! and thanks for the train :-)
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Wow. That sounds really important. Lets hope they realiize the difference between short-term costs and long-term benefits. Congratulations on being in a postion that could positively affect thousands of lives.
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Thanks for the train, and congratulations on your job!
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Åland. That place is autonomous, which is a bit of a problem, as it means that they are expected to pay for these things themselves (and with the small population it means that they don't swim in money.
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Congrats Fnord! I hope they accept the project ^^
And thanks for the choo chooo!!! :D
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I just sent in my first serious report as an engineer, and with a bit of luck (depending on if they think it's economically viable or not), I might have helped solve the waste problems of an island with 30 000 people living on it. Or they'll just say "it's too expensive" and throw it out, time will tell.
Anyway, I'm exhausted, so here is a no-effort train. Pretty please don't just write thanks in any of these GAs, it quickly floods my message feed. I would much rather see that you don't post anything at all than "thanks" (or similar).
The ride starts here
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