Making the news today....

[sime42]

As obnoxious as she is, Therese Coffey, she did make some valid points. About the need to eat seasonal and locally sourced produce. Also the fact that we in the UK have "one of the lowest proportions of incomes being spent on food" in Europe.

[eggsarascal]

3 hours ago, sime42 said:

As obnoxious as she is, Therese Coffey, she did make some valid points. About the need to eat seasonal and locally sourced produce. Also the fact that we in the UK have "one of the lowest proportions of incomes being spent on food" in Europe.

To an extent, in my last place I had a good size garden with a veg plot and a fair size greenhouse and what was left of an orchard, fruit and veg was plentiful. Does that mean I shouldn’t be able to access out of season fruit and veg?

[GarethM]

One of the real questions regarding glass houses is that whilst most are built down south probably due to more sunlight.

 

Why aren't they built next to existing power stations to utilise the waste heat that's usually just dumped into the nearest river ?.

 

Even London fails to resurrect the 1900s steam pipework and heat pipework from Battersea power station.

[eggsarascal]

3 minutes ago, GarethM said:

One of the real questions regarding glass houses is that whilst most are built down south probably due to more sunlight.

 

Why aren't they built next to existing power stations to utilise the waste heat that's usually just dumped into the nearest river ?.

 

Even London fails to resurrect the 1900s steam pipework and heat pipework from Battersea power station.

I’ve no idea, even on a tiny scale heat recovery works well, a friend of mine heats his water from the exhaust of his diesel heater in his camper.

[daveatdave]

 

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[Macpherson]

23 minutes ago, GarethM said:

One of the real questions regarding glass houses is that whilst most are built down south probably due to more sunlight.

 

Why aren't they built next to existing power stations to utilise the waste heat that's usually just dumped into the nearest river ?.

 

Even London fails to resurrect the 1900s steam pipework and heat pipework from Battersea power station.

 

Well you've hit the nail right on the head.. Answer... thick as f%ck tw$ts running everything for decades👎

[eggsarascal]

Drax is one of a few, go out on the fens and look at the derelict glasshouses that cover tens of acres where heat was provided by industry that is long gone.

[GarethM]

Bit like all these nuclear plants, happily pouring the heat out to sea.

 

You've got places like Hartlepool in the middle of nowhere, dig a hole underground and glaze it level with the ground and grow as much as you like.

 

Guessing with LEDs these day it would be pretty low power.

[Macpherson]

27 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Bit like all these nuclear plants, happily pouring the heat out to sea.

 

What about ****************ushima, pouring 100 tons of plutonium contaminated cooling water into the Pacific every day for the last 12 years.. the half life of which is 24.1 thousand years.

 

And it seems now they are just going to dump millions of tons of similar debris into the Pacific .. do we have a feckin say ??

 

The dots said ****************ushima before it was censored

 

It's a fecking joke when you can't say the truth.. 

Edited February 24, 2023 by Macpherson

[daveatdave]

32 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Drax is one of a few, go out on the fens and look at the derelict glasshouses that cover tens of acres where heat was provided by industry that is long gone.

yes, nothing left to heat them if they shut Drax the greenhouses may shut as well as it will be too expensive to heat them.