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Post by MyTurnNow on Nov 27, 2003 14:34:28 GMT 7
Resurrecting a very old thread here.
On my recent train trip from Shanghai to Hong Kong I went past mile after mile of small ponds. The surfaces of these ponds were festooned with matrices of plastic bottles. I've seen free-floating plastic bottles used as crude "trot lines" for catching fish, but I don't think that's the case here. The surface of the water would be thick with them and they were neatly secured in rows and columns.
Anyone know what this means?
MT
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Post by Steiner on Nov 28, 2003 1:00:10 GMT 7
Raising shellfish?
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Post by Gonzo Journalist on Nov 30, 2003 14:31:56 GMT 7
Lady Macbeth: These things must not be thought after so; they will make us mad.
Certainly worked in your case, MT.
I've given up on WH questions here. We get a stream of short-term teachers from our partner college in Australia here, who keep asking these damn fool questions. My stock response: "Who knows, who cares?"
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Post by George61 on Dec 30, 2003 5:10:17 GMT 7
Mundane, probably, but could they be oyster beds??? In and around Huangzhou, they have the same..for growing cultured pearls. I know it's not as clever as baby bottles, but probably more lucrative.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jun 8, 2005 18:10:03 GMT 7
God help us! George got something right! Don't stand out in the open where the lighting, molten lava, and plagues of frogs can get you!
Steiner was on the right track...but we're used to that.
Finally got an answer: they're oyster beds. Southern Jiangsu province is the freshwater pearl capital of the world, and they are grown all down the south China coast.
Next question?
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jun 8, 2005 18:15:29 GMT 7
It took 18 months to come up with that?
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Post by Ruth on Jun 8, 2005 18:19:04 GMT 7
Obviously a lot of research went into it.
Good question. Good answer. I thought this thread was going to be about litter. There appears to be lots of plastic bag farms around here. Just garbage caught in the trees, though.
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Post by Lotus Eater on Jun 8, 2005 18:27:30 GMT 7
There are some really good plastic bag farms in Ningxia - they surround tiny trees in the desert to keep the moisture in. Couldn't work out why people would semi-bury hundreds of pink plastic bags until I took a look. Should try the same in Oz for tree planting in dry areas.
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Post by George61 on Jun 8, 2005 21:06:00 GMT 7
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jun 8, 2005 21:25:13 GMT 7
"Plastic Bottle Farms" it evidently remains. Thought I could change the thread title but this uppity new software won't let me, even under the old MTN handle that started the thread. We can start another questions thread...
Ruth: Not so much research as finally encountering the right bit of info at the right time...
Mr. N: Yeah. Bite me. ;D
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Post by con's fly is open on Jun 9, 2005 0:12:38 GMT 7
A meaning informative contribution? George, here's a beer  ... and an umbrella: pigs are flying.  |
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jun 9, 2005 0:18:24 GMT 7
alright, I have a similar question. All around Guangdong I see these places that are apparantly some kind of aquaculture, fresh water, and they have these spray things in them. What are they farming? Some kind of fish? What fish?
See ya all in another 18 months.
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Post by con's fly is open on Jun 9, 2005 0:26:01 GMT 7
Water treatment plants often have fountains at the end to spray the water into the air to reoxygenate it. But I haven't seen the thing you're referring to, so maybe it's something else.
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jun 9, 2005 0:29:18 GMT 7
Nah, they look like family farms of some kind and cover whole areas, right next to highways and so on, and sometimes as far as the eye can see. And there isn't the pong I would expect from that. Except, of course, TIFC.  |
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