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[Johnsond]

3 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Covid is done with, well, I'm sure you know what I mean. The money is gone. Keeping going on about it isn't going to change things. How it gets fixed is what needs talking about.

 

They've dicked us.

The current topic on here is intrinsically  linked to the lunacy of the past two years. Are we not supposed to acknowledge the damage that has been done and where it has led us. No point in crying about big companies and banks etc when many many people whom warned of the consequences  were utterly ignored. I know things can’t be changed the utter stupidity and waste we witnessed is indeed now historical but as stated our current situation is in a large part a direct result of that. If a few want to bury their heads in a bucket then crack on.

[eggsarascal]

14 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

The current topic on here is intrinsically  linked to the lunacy of the past two years. Are we not supposed to acknowledge the damage that has been done and where it has led us. No point in crying about big companies and banks etc when many many people whom warned of the consequences  were utterly ignored. I know things can’t be changed the utter stupidity and waste we witnessed is indeed now historical but as stated our current situation is in a large part a direct result of that. If a few want to bury their heads in a bucket then crack on.

Glad we agree.

[trigger_andy]

5 hours ago, Johnsond said:

So so predictable 

not the wrong thread at all although you’d love it to be so, I don’t drink 42 and haven’t for a long time and on top of that I’m offshore so as usual you are way way off the mark. Genuinely do you really think the current situation is not related in any way to the past two years stupidity??? If so you must be utterly deluded. 

It’s staggering how one man can be so consistently wrong. Even a broken clock is right twice a day and he can’t even hit those odds. 
 

He makes the wannabe Carpenter look insightful….

Edited August 21, 2022 by trigger_andy

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

8 hours ago, eggsarascal said:

Am I miles out, or are the Conservatives in so much of a muddle that it's leading them to feck up the country as to make it difficult for Labour to sort it out short term, a bit like Brown/Blair did?

Yome both off and on the mark at the same time E5ggeer. 
 

The Tories have presided over such a big pile of dog poo, but Labour are so lacking in credibility as to remain completely unelectable.
 

Even with (maybe even especially  because) weme in such a state of affairs, people will not trust Labour when times are hard. All a Labour government can ever do - as example shows us - is start off when things ain’t too bad and get kicked out by the time they’ve fooked it up. 
 

Imagine how that would end up if Labour got in when it was ‘bad’ and got kicked out when it was worse!

 

Whats the old saying? The only way [Labour] could end up with a £million was if they started out with 2!

[Stubby]

10 hours ago, Big J said:

Does that mean that they will be passengerless as well ? 🙂

[trigger_andy]

2 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Yome both off and on the mark at the same time E5ggeer. 
 

The Tories have presided over such a big pile of dog poo, but Labour are so lacking in credibility as to remain completely unelectable.
 

Even with (maybe even especially  because) weme in such a state of affairs, people will not trust Labour when times are hard. All a Labour government can ever do - as example shows us - is start off when things ain’t too bad and get kicked out by the time they’ve fooked it up. 
 

Imagine how that would end up if Labour got in when it was ‘bad’ and got kicked out when it was worse!

 

Whats the old saying? The only way [Labour] could end up with a £million was if they started out with 2!

We're faced with the greed of the Tories or the utter incompetence of Labour. What a bloody choice. 

[5thelement]

3 hours ago, trigger_andy said:

We're faced with the greed of the Tories or the utter incompetence of Labour. What a bloody choice. 

The French election this year was no better. 
The French where calling it, “a choice between Cholera or Typhoid”.

Has there ever been a worse group of politicians in office and in opposition in the UK?

I can’t think of any in my lifetime, what a shit state of affairs.

[GarethM]

Think it's pretty much the world over at the moment, Australia just changed parties, new Zealand are fed up of the smiling Arden. Canada similar with Trudeau, Sweden might also switch party.

 

Might be something of a reflection on career politicians, all focus group policy and zero real world experience.

Edited August 21, 2022 by GarethM

[sime42]

On 19/08/2022 at 13:34, openspaceman said:

What lies?

 

If you are talking in general yes you are right, the cheapness of fossil fuels and the vested interest in producing them has meant the urgent need to deal with the external costs of them hasn't allowed the renewable energy business to develop as far as it could have from when problems became apparent 50 years ago. It is a basic human trait to live for today.

 

At the domestic level an individual can comfortably do without the grid for most of their electricity with a battery that only stores a days worth. I could even do without  the grid  for the last 450kWh I fall short of from Mid November to March with a simple chp system which would  make better use of the thermal energy of gas. Of course we are going to rely on fossil fuels for a long time yet but no need to continue with such profligacy and those living in high density housing will have to rely on what is provided, and pay for it.

It's simple O level physics that show why this is not practicable;energy in the wind is the mass flow times the square of the velocity, mass flow also contains a velocity term as it is mass  passing per unit time, hence the energy varies with the cubic power of the wind velocity. So if you design the hardware to make use of the wind  and produce a return on the hardware at an average 7 metres per second then double the wind speed to 14m/sec and you need to cope with producing 14 times the average amount of power, it is simply not worth investing the equipment for such a range  so cheaper to produce the power around the average speed with machinery optimised for it and shut down when the windspeed is too high for the equipment to absorb the energy.

 

This is an interesting development;-

 

A new method boosts wind farms’ energy output, without new equipment | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NEWS.MIT.EDU

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MIT engineers have developed a method to increase wind farms’ energy output. Whereas individual turbines are typically...

 

[GarethM]

On a sample size of three turbines in India, surely they could find somewhere a little closer to MIT.

 

I would hope turbine manufacturers a d installers already knew about wake turbulence, it's the reason they have to separate big planes and spacing whilst landing. Which I think was also the reason for fitting winglets to the a380, to reduce vortices on landing.