One stat I heard on the Radio, 25% of power consumed in the world goes to Lighting, Pete maybe in the short term, but long term I think they will pay for themselves and save a lot on the global green house effect. Another thing I hate now is the way Large Companies build goods to last no time at all with a plan of 100% replacement goods. Apple etc. now only have a life span of 8 years, then no parts are available to repair, some items less. Take Ink Jet Printers, cheaper to replace than to replace the ink in lots of cases. In my Work I repair machines that are 30 years old still, but I have a top end CD player costing 1000's when new cannot be repaired after 8 years, and is scrap. All uses vast amount of resources and energy
Why would you build only one? You'd build shitloads. Although I'd be tempted to connect it to the chunnel straight to Sangate.
It's the age we live in.... The stuff The Victorians made is still with us, from station benches to all the grand stuff, even the way they were buried was grandiose! Us lot go up in a puff of smoke and are forgotten about....Just like an iphone!
Coal mining was carried out on an extensive scale for centuries all over Britain until fairly recently. The owners of surface lands had no right to prevent mining under their homes, nor to charge for it. The coal mines very often caused subsidence as they were later allowed to collapse. Surface owners could claim compensation for subsidence damage, but nothing beyond that. That has been the legal position for a long time. Drilling for gas and oil is similar in principle, although rather less likely to lead to subsidence, and the legal status of drilling is similar to the legal status of mining. That is the situation which you have so misleadingly described as "removing peoples rights".
Indeed, you have hit the nail on the head. But this will need a lot of clever people to do a lot of hard work and solve a lot of really difficult problems, and it will need many hard decisions to be taken. Fantasies, unscientific assertions, and vague waffle will not do the trick.
Semantic fencing aside ... If I were to dig down through my living room floor and then start tunnelling in all directions, including under my neighbours' houses - could I be said to be removing my neighbours' right to watch Eastenders of an evening without them falling into a collapsed tunnel?
First you would have to get permission to dig your coal mine, or drill your oil well as the case may be. Permission which you would only get if the risks of damage to your neighbours' houses were very low.
pete knows what i mean by removing peoples right to know this decision was going to made days before a referendum not days after. heard it on BBC radio Scotland so quite possibly bull poo.
Sorry, I have no idea what you mean. I rarely do. You might consider expressing your thoughts more clearly, if you choose to.
Just popped back to see if you boys have cracked our energy generating challenge. I see it's still a work in progress but keep up the good work as you are doing better than the authorities.......that's not hard though :Banghead:
a ship broke down last night carrying nuclear waste after it's lum caught fire in the storms of the north coast which resulted in an oil rig needing to be abandoned due to it drifting out of control.now being towed in to the crommerty firth. are we really ready for nuclear power, especially after most of the rescue tugs have been removed due to austerity.
We call them funnels. I wasn't aware that steam-powered shipping was still the norm in Scottish waters. Terribly polluting. Perhaps the SNP will demand Scottish shipping switches to wind power. Or sails as we call them.
An exhaust pipe is a lum Gimmy old bean. As is a funnel, a chimney or a stack. They all mean pretty much the same to a layperson.
