Reed Warblers Like Miscanthus!

[Billhook]

We had to clear some bulrush from the lake, which was taking over and the Reed Warblers seem to have found that the Miscanthus next door is ok

 

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Good.

Why has that been planted en masse like that?

[Billhook]

14 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Good.

Why has that been planted en masse like that?

Because the government thought that it was a great idea to pay us to harvest it, bale it and sell it to firms that burn it and convert it into electricity

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[Mick Dempsey]

Seen a couple of fields of it out here as it goes.

[sime42]

3 hours ago, Billhook said:

Because the government thought that i was a great idea to pay us to harvest it, bale it and sell it to firms that burn it and convert it into electricity

Interesting, I've wondered what it's purpose was. Another great idea.

Is it invasive at all, does it spread itself around? Like a lot of the bamboos do for instance.

[Billhook]

7 hours ago, sime42 said:

Interesting, I've wondered what it's purpose was. Another great idea.

Is it invasive at all, does it spread itself around? Like a lot of the bamboos do for instance.

The idea is good, but I feel that it needs to be grown and harvested and burnt on a local basis.   A small town or large village should have its own anaerobic digester, straw burning plant both for heat and electric, every house with solar panels and tubes, ground and air source heat pumps, local wind machines.

There  are so many inefficiencies with transporting all this straw with HGVs, and electrical losses in long distance electric lines.

[difflock]

Small Modular Reactors.

No vast transmission plyons needed.

For heavy industry, stack them like batteries.

[Billhook]

3 minutes ago, difflock said:

Small Modular Reactors.

No vast transmission plyons needed.

For heavy industry, stack them like batteries.

Never quite sure what became of Taylor Wilson, probably taken out by oil companies!

 

 

[Billhook]

A few years later

[difflock]

I thought Bill Gates had been backing these SMR's?

I seem to recall that Fookesheema put the kybosh on those plans for a while.

Anyway, for my Clapham Omnibus perspective, they appear to be an eminently sensible solution.

Cept NIMBY!