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I agree MM, particulates are the bad boy with diesel engines, but on the broads the exhaust systems are generally wet exhausts, so the sooty smoke is mixed with water, which should generally remove some of the particulates from the atmosphere and theoretically disperse them in the water, now whether this is in any way better than kicking them out into the air then having them settle onto the water i have no idea. But and this is a big but, compare the number of engines on the broads, to say the centre of london, the broads may spread several thousand engines over its 120 mile extents, car and lorry engines are all clustered in one place (usually for me the dartford tunnel or QE2 bridge (150,000 vehicles a day)) and there will be tens of thousands of them daily spewing out the particulates in a fairly small area, the two dont compare.even when you have 30 boats in a small area all starting up simultaneously, it doesnt compare to the number of cars and lorries starting up at say the services on a motorway on an hour by hour basis, the pollution caused by boats as opposed to cars or lorries is infinitesamal in the great scheme of things. at one time the major concern was the lead from petrol - we introduced unleaded petrol then it was carbon monoxide from petrol, so catalytic convertors were added, with diesel it is particulates, so now we have particulate filters being added to cars and lorries (i believe the adblue is something to do with this too. some diesel fuels emit more than others too, with vegetable oil diesel being a slightly cleaner option than fossil fuel diesel. the biggest part of the pollution that occurs is through cars and lorries only being driven for short distances and constant stop starting with engines not properly reaching operating temperature. I do a 125 mile daily commute, I do it in a diesel car, and the car gets up to full operating temperature quite quickly and stays there, my car is 17 years old and sails through the emissions part of the MOT time after time as it runs at its optimal temperature, I have seen 3 year old cars fail the emissions test due to never having been driven more than a few miles a day, and that all in heavy traffic so mostly on tickover. the solution is better local public transport, if people could manage without using their car locally then pollution would be less and a lot of the carbon targets would suddenly become easier to achieve.

unfortunately (weather permitting) I am busy tonight so my apologies to all

actually when you look at it converting electricity from for example wind generators to hydrogen is a way of storing that energy for when its needed, besides there are already chemical processes that give off hydrogen as waste.

and I guess for some weyford bridge is a bit of a problem too

All very fine if like me you hire or own a boat that can go the right side of the bridge, but for the majority who cannot pass Potter heigham, a lot of that dredging is a bit of a moot point as they cannot enjoy it (I am certainly hoping to spend a day or so exploring those locations in may when I am around the broads next.) I suspect the access issue is why there are not more congratulatory messages, so here we go, thanks Broads Authority from my point of view anyway

never been able to get that right, maybe I am ie dyslexic

or maybe its a fuse, here are some suggested replacements (not)

50p into the elecrickery meter should fix it

which part, the motor or the flow horizontal or both?

especially at the prices they charge , one example to recieve an email- they can charge £13 to send one out £26, shocking

probably replacing all the old gas meters with modern smart ones in the process if they have any sense.

no pictures just yet, but the other rear windows have now recieved their hoppers and glass, work slowly progresses in the background, more often than I post updates, because one evening may just be 10 minutes cutting out the side frames for the next set of hoppers, and then followed a day later by the caps and spacers, a third day may be cutting the crystal cases to size and then fitting on a fourth day, then of course I dont always get anything done every day, so while progress is ongoing it isnt always at a point where photographs show a great deal happening

we do manage to drag them up to our madness level eventually

when I went down there the other year in Janet, there was less that 2 foot on the depth gauge half way along and the prop kept walking the stern sideways as it bit into the mud of the bottom, so its about time it was deepened

for turkeys you cant beat 5pm christmas eve at the supermarket when they are reduced to silly amounts as the supermarket is going to be closed for two whole days. (ps I do have tinned baked beans in the cupboard just in case they have run out or the turkey needs to defrost for 36 hours)

was it sent by email from india?(or south africa maybe)

what would happen is that petrol stations would be connected up to the gas network (now running on hydrogen) and you would just connect up to a hydrogen pump and fill your tank as normal (actually thinking about it they might well run a storage tank of liquid hydrogen on site, so maybe they would recieve deliveries in liquid form and pump liquid to the vehicles tanks) live trials of a half way house system where they mix hydrogen into normal natural gas have been underway for a year already https://www.northerngasnetworks.co.uk/2018/11/29/hydrogen-to-heat-homes-14-9m-for-uks-first-trials-on-public-gas-network/ current reports say that all of the petal gas pipes should have been replaced with the modern plastic piping by 2030, which will enable a full switchover to hydrogen to be achieved in the mean time a mix of natural gas and hydrogen seems to be on the cards as an interim carbon reduction measure, burning hydrogen doesnt result in carbon dioxide (just water as the exhaust by product) so other than storage the hydrogen would be safer to burn on board a boat. the full switchover to hydrogen is planned before 2050 (so the government can hit its climate carbon targets)

I have experienced that, fortunately the battery was in the engine bay, and not under the drivers seat in my van, but it still sprayed bits everywhere, added to that after 2 years the rust set in with a vengance, despite hosing the engine bay down immediately.

talking of the way things are going, electric propulsion is just the stop gap between fossil fuel and cleaner greener means of propulsion, it is being introduced while the car companies iron the wriinkles out of hydrogen fuel cells etc, the future in propulsion will be powered by hydrogen, with the side product of the exhaust as water, whether this will drive hydrogen powered engines or generate electricity for electric engines is another story. the future of the gas industry is that it will be going over to hydrogen, natural gas is a finite resource, the network is already being tested to enable hydrogen to flow in the current gas networks, and all they need to do is make the appliances and devices that operate from it idiot proof, so people dont blow themselves to bits misusing the appliances. the conversion in many cases will be similar to when we moved from coal gas to natural gas.

and the withdrawal symptoms include tweezers.

is this a new district council

i can truthfully say that i have dowsed for electricity cables, then when later compared to the electricity company records, there was a remarkable correlation (which is amazing since from working in the industry (and drawing up those records) I know just how inaccurate those records can be.

do be careful, as it may also be the electicity mains cable too, I used to use the method when the cable avoidance tool wouldnt find a cable (its easier to find cables if you use copper wire, you can put the short ends inside biro outers and that leaves them free to rotate.

I get asked to hang the decorations - mainly I think because i am the only one who can reach the ceiling without a stepladder and the whole bunch of risk assessments that would go with that.

easy peasy the bandsaw took care of them with no problems.