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With bits of Castrol GTX can stuck on with filler?they have run it into the ground, it's the nuclear equivalent to a morris marina with papier-maché sills
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nahh cardboard cataloy and blackjack round our wayWith bits of Castrol GTX can stuck on with filler?
mike os
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Not yesterdays Peckham echo ?
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So basically the same scam that lead to the banking crisis…
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Yup. Pretty much. Bailed out instead of jailed. Same as before.
Iceland had the right idea.
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Close anyway.. the right idea was seizing assets and a wall
"The issue with Nuclear is successive Govt namby-pambying around, and asking an ignorant electorate the wrong question "do you want nuclear power?", when they should have been saying "if we don't have nuclear power we'll run short of energy, and what there is will be hugely expensive".
20, 20 hindsight is a wonderful thing. Up to about 10 years ago "climate change" wasn't the national religion. Back at the turn of the century it was regarded as a possibility, so coal was to be phased out and gas, which we had in large quantities, used instead. The bill for decommissioning the first lot of nuclear power stations had just landed on the taxpayer and it was realised that nuclear was about the most expensive way of making power, still is. Also Chernobyl was a lot fresher in peoples minds. Once the BBC and Gretta had persuaded everyone (except me) that we had to decarbonise, government tried to restart nuclear but found nobody would take it on until they promised stupid amounts of money per kilowatt. Even then half of the original consortium got cold feet.
Before Fizzy starts coming in with what about cheap french nuclear, the french government have just made it illegal to have shop doors open and aircon on. Why should they care? Because the french taxpayer is subsidising the cost of that energy.
20, 20 hindsight is a wonderful thing. Up to about 10 years ago "climate change" wasn't the national religion. Back at the turn of the century it was regarded as a possibility, so coal was to be phased out and gas, which we had in large quantities, used instead. The bill for decommissioning the first lot of nuclear power stations had just landed on the taxpayer and it was realised that nuclear was about the most expensive way of making power, still is. Also Chernobyl was a lot fresher in peoples minds. Once the BBC and Gretta had persuaded everyone (except me) that we had to decarbonise, government tried to restart nuclear but found nobody would take it on until they promised stupid amounts of money per kilowatt. Even then half of the original consortium got cold feet.
Before Fizzy starts coming in with what about cheap french nuclear, the french government have just made it illegal to have shop doors open and aircon on. Why should they care? Because the french taxpayer is subsidising the cost of that energy.
Sadly the Greta crowd fooled the g’ment into believing we could get 100 renewable in the timescale of closing down the coal and nuclear. Oops. If you add some seriously big coastal/tidal, pepper the seas around our island with wind turbines we might get closer, but of course the demand will still be increasing due to the rush to electric cars, heating etc. It’s not simple, but not that complicated either. Sadly, too complicated for our g.ments from both sides of the house.
On the climate change and cause, there is a series on the beeb right now (I forget it’s name - the oil industry and global warming or something such) which outlines exactly what the oil (American) companies and g.ment knew in the 80/90s, but they chose to question its accuracy - fuelling a trend of disbelieving that still exists today.
On the climate change and cause, there is a series on the beeb right now (I forget it’s name - the oil industry and global warming or something such) which outlines exactly what the oil (American) companies and g.ment knew in the 80/90s, but they chose to question its accuracy - fuelling a trend of disbelieving that still exists today.
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BBC airs documentary series 'Big Oil v The World'
Big Oil v the World, BBC's series on the fossil fuel industry and its impact on the environment, aired its first episode last night.
www.energyvoice.com
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No different to what the cigarette and sugar corporations did back in the 50s 60s and 70s.
Well yes, but you’d expect them to try every trick in the book to (selfishly) survive and get richer. The sad thing is they were helped by elected governments.
And let’s be honest here, we children of the 50s, 60’s and 70’s have all enjoyed the benefits of burning the black stuff.
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Just reading a book called The Secret Network of Nature, very interesting. It's mainly about the delicate balance of nature's ecosystems, however one interesting nugget was about timber. He didn't dwell on this, however one observations was that various bark beetle larvae, they tend to be tree species specific, are surviving the increasingly warmer winters and are killing an ever larger proportion of trees. Drier summers mean weaker trees that they can exploit more easily. For example, the mountain pine beetle destroyed about 55% of commercially harvestable pine in British Columbia. Spruce has been impacted in Bavarian forests too and they are marching further north and higher altitude to species that haven't developed any natural protection. Another reason why timber prices are increasing.
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Don't let the luddites and pessimists grind you down.I was quite looking forward to buying / leasing an electric car in the next few years.
Having read the previous 26 pages, I don’t think I’ll bother.
We are on our third Leaf EV and would thoroughly recommend one.
I'm just contemplating getting rid of the Ford Ranger next year, going down to one car which will be an EV. Something a bit bigger than a Leaf.
I have 3 on my shortlist that can all tow my camping trailer with ease. Yes, range will go down, the same way as MPG goes down when you towing, its physics.
For the twice a year I need to tow something bigger I'll borrow my neighbours Disco. The once a year I'm touring places with few charging points, I'll hire a car.
They don't suit all folk, true, but that doesn't mean they are bad.
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we still have paper and lead wrapped cables in the village, will they take the added load when we are pushed over to electric cars?
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I’ve only ever charged mine at home using an outside socket …. And we got a quooker tap so I reckon my car replaces our kettle amp for amp. If everyone in your village does the same you’ll be fine.
I don't get the worry over this. The DNOs will just have to spend some of their profits - actually they are already, some hitherto unseen sizes of transformers are going into domestic networks just to satisfy the need of cars and heating. They will run to keep up, no doubt, as they have been doing for the last 15 years due to the FIT.
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not that long ago grangemouth lost their gas supply due to a fractured main pipe, Scotish Gas Networks gave households with gas heating or cookers a hot plate and a fan heater as a get you by until the problem was resolved, unfortunatley the grid couldnt cope and the leccy went out too, probs a lot more demand than cars charging but it shows the weakness of the system.
I don't doubt you, but its the dnos problem, and they will be aware of it before the user will. They may not have fixed it, but thats another issue.
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