GarethM
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Read the very end, ignore the Iran stuff. He was apposed to all civil and military nuclear, a rhetoric that took over all labour politicians even to this day. So every time the call came for more nuclear it just got kicked down the road again and again.
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Atomic hypocrisy | Tony Benn | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM Tony Benn: Neither Bush nor Blair is in a position to take a high moral line on Iran's nuclear programme. That's a pretty good summary, I've read a few other nuclear power history books that pretty much backup Tony Benn's hate of nuclear power which effectively killed home grown industry.
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I said it before, but we need nuclear base load. Gas should not be used for power stations, whilst I don't want to lament about the old days as I'm not that old. Gas was almost exclusively heating, burnt at point of use and whilst back boilers were awful, at today's 92+ efficiency Vs a power station that's about 30%.
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If that was a financial triangle, I think those are illegal. Just saying.
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It might be cheaper per unit, it's not however correct as you need a base load which means more generation elsewhere this means more cost even with a connected grid to Europe. Wind doesn't blow when you want it and there's no hydrogen storage to make use of it, so we turn then off when it's too windy which takes a surprisingly large amount of power. Next you'll bang on about batteries, yeah battery runaways are so great for the environment. And what fossil fuel subsidies in particular are you highlighting?.
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In 2035 we'll still be in a similar situation, mostly because Bono and his hippy ilk wanted rid of nuclear in the 1980s and a certain Anthony Neil Wedgwood Benn listened.
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So with this excellent work ethic, how do you expect to live ?. It's not dinosaur to at the very least break even after paying your bills, staff, repairs and maybe have a little left over to fund further expansion.
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Nuclear, fill you're boots we've got 140 Tons of plutonium to burn though. Home grid connected solar yes, but only wind out at sea with ZERO subsidy. If you can't make it profitable, I'm not paying for you to build it and sell it off to a bunch of Ottawa teachers.
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Plastic = Oil = Incineration = Energy = Less imported gas. Incinerate not bury and reopen the old dumps, sort through the trash and keep burning as they've shown several times these old dumps don't actually compost and the trash just festers releasing more chemical pollution. Whilst also allowing more metal recovery.
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Maybe it's fitted a bit tight as I've never had any problems plus vents always open. The only time I get problems is scratching your nose with your glove, the chainsaw oil residue give me spots 🙂.
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Most of your plastic recycling isn't recycled, it gets separated but then incenerated. There's a few old documentaries about how it came into being. Sweden at one point was importing ship loads for use in district heating, chopped up car tyres get used in cement production as it's almost as energy dense as crude oil and they get paid to take the tyres.
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That's the anvil page. TP_150.pdf
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I've always loved the hypocrisy of glass bottle recycling, everything except clear gets crushed and used for stuff like road ballast as it's unusable. Think there was a thing about Holland, all beer bottles are the same or something so they get reused. Like a modern irnbru bottle, that I'd vote for.
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I have a feeling your average Chelsea tractor driver isn't swapping their posh 4x4 for a unimog just to save a few quid on road tax and red diesel
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Aren't they technically agricultural?
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I've said it multiple times across multiple discussions, find solutions that are better and made here or words to that effect. It's not a cop out when we've exported practically all our industry to china, it's slowly shifting back. Electronics is a good example as it's gone full circle as they chased the cheaper currency, but now the machinery is there not here. To just say stop buying from china is also a cop out, you're not stopping that purchase. You might get it made more environmentally friendly but it's still going to be made regardless!.
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Probably of your own vegan and vegetarian creations.
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If you read carefully I'm no dinosaur, I have always said improvements can be made but screeching about problems outside of out control is pointless. It's like protesting about a rainforest halfway around the world as we have zero impact, like chucking soup on things. If anything I'm aware of a lot more about the world, yet look at things in the round. If you want to discuss a particular item on your long Santa list, create a discussion and we can all collectively discuss each without the usual environmental switcheroos. And for reference for this thread, I'm in a smoke control zone. It's a PITA but abide by it l, unlike a lot of people payed a lot more for my boiler.
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What utter and complete bovine drivel.
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We as a country aren't the problem, yes there is room for improvement around the edges without forcing us back into the dark ages. This obsession of we need to do more needs kicking all the way to china, not here. Think there was a statistic, saying if we disappeared into the ocean it's like 1 week or less worth of China's pollution.
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People wipe their shoes getting out of my L200
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They're already classed as commercial vehicles, okay they loose out of a lower VED, but that's the same for all commercial vehicles including HGV. The general idea being, they make it up with the large amounts of fuel used. All you'll do is force companies to buy single cab versions and plonk a tool box on the back like the Australians. Are single cab versions classed as cars ?.
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Doubtful, when a particle of PM2.5 is a 2.5micron particle mostly of carbon.
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The made up word they always used in electrical was "reasonably practicable" for doing your best. Rules and legislation are designed to be somewhat ambiguous, as once written are statute. That's why they aren't able to say explicitly this company. It's the same in education, usually atleast one level above is considered okay in adult education.
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Without trying to get political, I generally assume those groups are like the chattering classes quotes wasting their evenings at dinner parties. But it's fine to improve, make better and more efficient through the natural progression of technology to use less more efficiently. I draw the line at the groups inevitable it's never good enough stance. Like Gretta, go back to school and invent something better, cheaper and preferably locally made.
