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  1. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Yes yes, but I'm also very resistant to taking money out of my investments to pay for things that I stubbornly refuse to admit that I can't do myself ;) (Did a test of some *very light, very-protective-of-my-leg* gardening today. Will see how I feel tomorrow...)
  2. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Satan's Spawn hasn't turned into lamb chops yet, but they will soon enough, as it's very much getting into fall here. ;) Need to get the not-yet-ready-to-plant trees that are sunning on my land into shelter within a month or so. BTW, related to that, I had an idea this year (delayed by the...
  3. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Hey all - just thought I'd drop by, as I'm working towards a botany degree now, and there's been a lot of interesting things that have come up that shed light on the above, which I thought I'd share: Icelandic soil is quite unusual. Volcanoes that erupt under thick glaciers (not a common thing...
  4. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Hi all - I just stopped by to post a couple updates :) Up until about a week ago, I've been planting up a storm - used up 80% or so of the willows and cottonwoods. The worst place was that I finally planted the high landslide-risk area with the "oubliettes" that just suddenly appear, hidden...
  5. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Particularly around the spruce, I plant low strandavíðir (tea-leaved willow v. "strandir", which makes a dense windbreak but maxes out at around 3m, to give the spruce some shelter as it grows. That said, I'm not always paying great attention; here I planted one willow, only to discover that...
  6. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Several days ago: I first drove on this newly paved section of road. Sure looks rather slick, I thought, but I pushed that aside, because surely they know what they're doing. Two days ago: I thought I was getting a head start heading out early after work. Nope - road closed. Had to take a...
  7. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Well, that's the best deal - 37 trays (a trailer's full), about 56 cents per tree. Not bad! They're from Flóra, the place with the grubs and worms, but this time I random sampled a lot of them, and didn't find a single grub or worm. Unlike last time, these ones were on plastic mats, which...
  8. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Just a few pics from the first two planting days. Loading up on cottonwood, rowan, elm, a few birch and a handful of spruce. Rowans were planted most near the house site, blending into a row of cottonwood in a gentle, always-moist channel that cuts across half the land and heads toward the...
  9. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Well, Youtube is annyoing. I uploaded the >6Gb file and waited all day for Youtube to process it.. but because apparently I clicked the wrong thing during the upload, it was presented as a "premier", was only visible live, not possible to view again, and impossible for me to change settings to...
  10. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Video uploading.... although it's long and 4K HDR, so it won't finish before I go to bed. ;) Need to decide what to do about trees. Kjarr - the place with the moderate-sized trees - hasn't had a chance to check yet, but they said that they don't think they have a ton of appropriate trees this...
  11. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Okay, the person who made the Paypal donation today... you know who you are... wow. You just bought a at least half a trailer full of trees :) I'll either go this Friday or early next week! :) A few pictures. Just finished the fence the other day, working through the rain. Today I built...
  12. KarenRei

    TMC Iceland Meetup 2020!

    Yes. :) Hopefully will be getting a new batch later this week or next week. I think I'm ready to switch from fence work to new planting. First need to build a "inner pen" to hold all the trees (a second line of defense just in case sheep find a way in), but that's really easy. Also need to...
  13. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    It'll happen to any long fence over time, but it's the forces on a fence that trigger it, and obviously here, we get a lot of forces on our fences. It also happens the easiest in weak, shallow soils, for obvious reasons. Solutions can be a combination of concreting and lateral bracing, the...
  14. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    While I finished the barbed wire, and cementing the posts on the east / inland side, and got the big tools and posts and wire down to the damaged section by the river on the rest, I've not felt good enough to do the hard work of hammering in posts and the like (will probably do that in a few...
  15. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Just thought I'd stop by to post a few more pics from the past week :) Here the wobbly section of the fence (a couple others less wobbly) that I really need to get a Round Tuit and fix ;) Hadn't taken any pictures of the easternmost / waterfall-adjacent tree yet. Note how green the trunk...
  16. KarenRei

    TMC Iceland Meetup 2020!

    You can get flights through Boston. Seems that the problem is with a number of US airports, not the Iceland end. My mother had a flight out for just after the planned gathering date to meet me for my birthday, from Chicago, and her flight got cancelled too. But we were able to rebook her...
  17. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    The oak trees "look alive" (at least the sturdier / lower branches - looks like there's some tip loss of higher / weaker branches), but there's been no bud break thusfar. Being a more southern species, they probably have stricter soil temperature requirements than most other plants here (it's...
  18. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    A walk through a fairly heavily planted area nearing the fence, showing the amount of winter damage and new spring growth thusfar. This area is probably somewhat less than average damage, but not dramatically... maybe 40th percentile on the damage scale.
  19. KarenRei

    TMC Iceland Meetup 2020!

    Okay, let's make plans for "loosely a year from now". Yes, AirB&B did hit me with hundreds of dollars in "fees" for their "fully refundable deposits", and even though they're ostensibly waiving all cancellation fees due to COVID, because they're only applying it to COVID-related cancellations...
  20. KarenRei

    TMC Iceland Meetup 2020!

    There's a number of "maybes", but the majority have cancelled. My main concern this whole time has been worries about people who had already made reservations to come - I don't want them losing out on cancellations or whatnot. I think that this point we should just say that there's no plans...
  21. KarenRei

    TMC Iceland Meetup 2020!

    So, of the people who are still "maybes", any more clarity as to whether you'll be coming? I still have one house reserved, with three of four slots of it booked with "maybes", but need to decide whether to keep or cancel it within the next week or two. Thanks! :)
  22. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Meh, let's toss in a few more, taken at various points in the fence-building this year. :) Top one is the most recent, others are out of order. Most are self-explanatory. The reason the one reel of fencing is jam-packed full of debris was it had washed into the river over the winter and I had...
  23. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    I'm really hoping to get them to the point where they're big enough to "stand united" ;) The "easy" way would have been a thicket of only trees like birch which are bulletproof against our winters, but sheep loved to try to ruin that possibility. But with a canyon-side fence now... :) Still...
  24. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    Unfortunately, building above the floodline has its own problems. The river runs close to a crumbling cliff, so if you move away from the river, the ground is made of large rocks atop shallow bedrock. Thankfully I don't need to bridge across the river :) Yeah, there's a thread about the...
  25. KarenRei

    Sequestering carbon by land restoration and reforestation in Iceland

    I'll try to get back to posting in this thread at some point :) Some brief catching up: The force of those river flood waters must be insane. The spot where the fence runs up next to the river (near the waterfall on the west / seaward side of the property) snapped three posts off at their...
  26. KarenRei

    TMC Iceland Meetup 2020!

    Based on some feedback, some people need more time to figure out details, which is understandable, so I'll check back in a week. If anyone had previously expressed interest in coming and still has interest, or no longer has interest, but I haven't gotten in touch with you, by all means please...
  27. KarenRei

    TMC Iceland Meetup 2020!

    Airline service is operational.
  28. KarenRei

    TMC Iceland Meetup 2020!

    Lol, timing. I just sent out a bunch of messages asking people about attendance, and in my messages I mention that it's not clear who will have to pay for COVID testing of passengers, but I assume it would be passengers. The instant I finish sending them, I go read the news, and see this...
  29. KarenRei

    TMC Iceland Meetup 2020!

    Well, it's official - borders will be back open on or before 15 June :) Iceland to Open Borders on June 15 Apart from any potential whitelisted countries, visitors will have three options: 1) Get tested before you leave (documentation required) 2) Get tested after arrival (our government...
  30. KarenRei

    TMC Iceland Meetup 2020!

    So, I've been informed that Audubon is no longer here, who was the reason why I had to leave. I'll try to post occasionally updates and let people know how things are going. :) We're now about 1 week away from the first round of prospective relaxations of quarantine rules for foreign...
  31. KarenRei

    TMC Iceland Meetup 2020!

    One post, since this was left unfinished - I'm posting status updates to this here: Nafnlaus on Twitter Miss you guys. :)
  32. KarenRei

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    BillWright on Twitter I don't know about the Tesla side, but the Panasonic side planning to start ramping down operations next week and being down for 14 days seemed pretty authoritative: Tesla partner Panasonic is shutting down its operations at Nevada gigafactory – TechCrunch
  33. KarenRei

    Coronavirus

    Even the experts are debating the IFR right now, and the exact details matter a lot, so I hesitate to speculate. All that can be said is... the more common the disease is in the general population relative to the number of hospitalizations and deaths, the sooner this ends and the lower the...
  34. KarenRei

    Coronavirus

    The rate of infection will not be the same everywhere in the world at the same point in time. The small number of deaths (these days, I would expect most people who die in western countries with flu-like symptoms to be tested) would suggest that Alberta lags behind many other places in terms of...
  35. KarenRei

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Getting a bit OT for this thread, so I'll try to be brief: Iceland has a company named deCODE Genetics, which was designed around doing whole-population genetic studies for disease modeling, so the company has been repurposed into doing randomized sampling of the population to look for COVID-19...
  36. KarenRei

    Coronavirus

    Can we not take, say, South Korea, or Taiwan, or other Asian countries as examples of good responses to the pandemic, if we don't want to trust Chinese data? And if we don't want to trust the fact that WHO (who is operating in China) seems to believe that China has successfully fought off the...
  37. KarenRei

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    China is going to make a killing on medical exports over the next month or so.
  38. KarenRei

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    I don't unfortunately. If I remember right it was just a one-word response to a question from some one else, so it'd be a PITA to find.
  39. KarenRei

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    All I can do is shake my head at how many places are reacting to this disease. Shutting down the least likely means of transmission while keeping the most likely ones open. NYC doesn't even plan to crack down on parties, for god's sake. Here's the upside: they're going to find themselves in...
  40. KarenRei

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    It depends on how quickly "run its course" is. I'm increasingly being convinced (by the Iceland deCODE and Italian Vó random sampling studies) that those who've said that the disease is widespread but with a low IFR are correct, and those who've said that it's not yet widespread but has a high...
  41. KarenRei

    Coronavirus

    I fully expect that he's just buying and importing them from China.
  42. KarenRei

    Coronavirus

    Progress in antibody testing: New blood tests for antibodies could show true scale of coronavirus pandemic Although I kind of worry about this. If you're in an area that managed to avoid a hospital overload (either through better control in the hospitals against nosocomial transmission, or...
  43. KarenRei

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    No, with great power comes great I²R.
  44. KarenRei

    Coronavirus

    Very interesting. Perhaps this is just my confirmation bias talking, but that's how the disease has been "feeling" for a while - higher R0 (but R able to be effectively lowered by control policies, such as in China and South Korea), and a low IFR, with the CFR being misleadingly high due to how...
  45. KarenRei

    Coronavirus

    Few if any are advocating for "no flattening of the curve whatsoever". But there exists a real danger of, if you go to far and there's no visible stressing of the hospitals, people interpreting the resultant mass unemployment and disruption in their lives as an intrusive government abuse of...
  46. KarenRei

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    I watched that last night as it just randomly popped up in my feed (I don't watch that channel). Already up to 624k views. The comments seem very positive; Hammond's childlike joy about the vehicle is contagious, even though he almost runs himself out of charge ;) The banter between him and...
  47. KarenRei

    Coronavirus

    Interesting thread about coronavaccines (general, not COVID-19 specific), and why your dog can get one but you can't. Peter Kolchinsky on Twitter
  48. KarenRei

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    Interesting question as to whether Tesla will start exporting for broader APAC markets in Q2 from GF3 rather than Fremont. I could imagine, say, sending out customers an email along the lines of, "Due government-mandated shutdowns in our plant in California due to the COVID-19 outbreak, US...
  49. KarenRei

    Tesla, TSLA & the Investment World: the Perpetual Investors' Roundtable

    For whatever it's worth... Tesla's deliveries here in Iceland continue like gangbusters. 234 registrations so far this quarter. About to pass VW as the #2 highest auto sales in Iceland: Tölfræði Might possibly pass Toyota to become #1 by the end of the year. We're not talking about "Model 3...