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my 18 year old volvo from the measured emissions at its last mot isnt a huge polluter (it probably would be if I did short trips in it though), and I am doing my best to spread its manufacture and eventual disposal footprint over as many miles as i can, 240 000 so far.
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right at this moment coal is producing 0% of this countries electricity http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ In fact right now wind energy is out producing everything else producing 29% of our electricity, nuclear and gas turbine are at 22% each and solar is at 14%
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many years ago now I saw an article on solar windows, the solar receptors were in the frame around the edges of the glass, and used the principle that some of the light exits the edges of the sheet of glass, efficiency was quite low compared to other types of panel, but if every window was fitted with this system most high rise buildings would be self sufficient for energy, at least during daylight hours - when most offices are occupied.
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they will leave the crossing shut, so the trains are not disrupted at all
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in the industry nuclear is considered low carbon emission, but in reality it is not if you count the emissions in building / commissioning and decommissioning. of course the environmental aspect of the waste disposal is also ignored as that is just radioactive waste, not carbon. nuclear - even including the initial / final carbon is relatively low carbon compared to the fossil fuel powered generation. Hydro electricity is fairly low carbon even including the building / demolition, and an option regularly forgotten in this country as we dont have may hydo electricity generators (scotland has a few)
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grendel replied to LondonRascal's topic in General Discussion
I had an uncle who was a yorkshire miner, married my aunt and moved to the southern coalfields (kent)- I never understood a word he said. -
Haven Bridge Lift Allocations 16th & 17th June 2018
grendel replied to ranworthbreeze's topic in Broads Authority Notices
just seen on facebook that the bridge wont be opening at all this coming weekend, while they source some new 90 year old parts. -
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grendel replied to LondonRascal's topic in General Discussion
I wondered how yorkshiremen trained ferrets to get into small holes. -
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grendel replied to LondonRascal's topic in General Discussion
the bridge was mentioned in Arthur Ransomes Coot Club, when the twins were passing along the new cut on the thames Barge - Welcome of Rochester -
is this where we complain about boats bumping?
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perhaps we should change the statements from 'drunk' to 'annoyingly intoxicated'
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in my opinion, that would mean you had been placed in a glass or bottle and were in the process of being imbibed. - a bit like Jonah was by the whale
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that will be fun when you open the hatch and climb down, what will the draft be then,
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well the laptop is alive, I have abandoned windows 10 and installed a linux operating system, now to see if it will run my 3d printer software on a windows emulation.
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grendel replied to LondonRascal's topic in General Discussion
if its about twice the size of everything else - probably -
I am sorry MM as a certified forum idiot, you are now overqualified for the post.
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They usually fly over our offices as they circle ready to head for the mall, just off the M25 at junction 29. on the computer front, I have given up trying to recover the old hard drive so the machine will become a linux laptop, it will just depend if I can run my 3d printer software on it (which is windows software)
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grendel replied to LondonRascal's topic in General Discussion
which direction are you heading out of the new cut or down the new cut -
today will likely be spent on computer repair, one of my laptops had been running slow, I decided to reboot it, and that took 2 hours - hmm problem. rebooted again and now it tells me its scanning the c drive and repairing 5 hours later its at 9%. left through the day while at work, and get home to find the auto repair failed. testing this morning shows the c drive partition has dissapeared, so a new 500 gb ssd hard drive has been procured, currently I am running a diagnostic on the old hard drive, once that has finished then its partition recovery to get to the data, then it just needs to be transferred to the new hard drive. If I cannot recover the partition, then it may need to be rebuilt from the recovery partition, but then I will lose any data on the machine.
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Question, would you be required to pay if you moored up just to lower your screens or a mast?
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grendel replied to LondonRascal's topic in General Discussion
better still take it to Oulton and enter Griff -
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grendel replied to LondonRascal's topic in General Discussion
At least its there and able to be used now to pop to the supermarket (or whatever)