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GarethM

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  1. It's the exhaust
  2. Plus you have to love the picture of clearly imported kiln firewood from a Lithuanian company.
  3. Disposable arb approved hazmat suits coming to a dealer near you!.
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    I'd expect nothing less. From an engineer perspective I would have thought they should be designed to remove or reverse drive everything except the cutting head/shield back out the tunnel.
  5. I thought there was no point crying over spilt milk ?
  6. Probably like the daddy longlegs being the most poisonous spider without large enough fangs to be a threat.
  7. GarethM

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    I'm not so sure, bridge = maintenance forever of the structure. Concrete tunnel is a sealed thing, a lot of the recent tunnels are expensive because they actually buried 1 or 2 TBM as they started at both ends and did a 90 in the middle. If memory serves there's a couple still in the channel tunnels.
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    Was that the one where they built concrete sections and floated them out after excavating a bit trench ?.
  9. GarethM

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    US to get first dedicated high-speed railway – built by Network Rail INEWS.CO.UK The move comes just months after the northern leg of the UK's own high-speed rail service HS2 was scrapped
  10. How bad a condition are we talking, pictures would be good. Any decent metal shop should be able to repair most damage, providing they atleast have a starting point. As I'm guessing Timberwolf will be wanting a couple of grand at a minimum, unless they have a trade in pile for Service Exchange/Salvage.
  11. Already happened, new cavity wall insulation regs are 150mm
  12. It has been done, whilst not the same as today's standards, you can't just keep adding more and more. A better joined up solution needs to be found especially for the majority of housing which is terraced, sticking combustible foam on the outside is not a solution. Maybe a scheme allowing the rear to be extended in bulk with internal insulation along with the roof, maybe a pay now or we increase your council tax band for 10 years?.
  13. Because that's all been done during the great 90-2010 home insulation scams that bled subsides dry. Next you'll be saying standby wastes billions, TVs of the last 10-15 years use around or less than 1w which is nothing around £3. Try motorway lights, streetlights, empty offices all after midnight and that's before you get to TV and radio transmitters at 250kw+ Vs 10kw digital. Personally start rebuilding magnox, make the core larger and sacrifice higher temperatures as we aren't making plutonium on purpose. Calderhall cost 35m in 1956, even if you said 1bn now. That's still cheap compared to Hinkley at 25bn.
  14. Those neat french trees would predate the village, part of Napoleon and having shade for the troops along roads. Whilst maybe somewhat over romanticised especially in certain parts of france, Napoleon wanted his marching troops under the shade of trees.
  15. Does the cell structure actually freeze in living trees, as I would assume the tree could reduce the water content and change the freezing point ?. Maybe the freezing pops the cells on felled trees and helps to dry it quicker.
  16. 8kw is only 35A on an average 100A supply, I'd personally be asking for a three phase supply, not a larger supply. Plus not touching batteries with a barge pole, maybe some old lead acid but not any of the new ones. If they won't do 3 phase I'd say hot tub for summer time relaxing 🙂. But obviously fit as large a hot water tank as possible but that's not going to eat much of the unused power.
  17. Whilst this isn't the best for calibration, I regularly stick the moisture meter into the underside of the wooden chair in the house. Anything other than below 19% and the meter is fit for the bin.
  18. 8-10kw even on 3 phase ?.
  19. Even I have a 60x45 shed that could have I think something like 25kw. If these companies approached people like myself, there would be 150kw in just 1/4 mile. Offer them a reasonable return with maybe a alternative option of say 10 year you own it we'd all say yes please.
  20. So we demolished Wylfa which had a capacity of just under 1000 MW 24/7 on a tiny site and they want to keep littering the countryside with these solar panels. I've flown into Manchester, before they even think of doing such things every warehouse and supermarket should be covered 1st!
  21. France is like 75% nuclear, they're not fussed about renewables as they'll just export more of the electricity they produce to Germany.
  22. Or atleast use the rail network to move woodchip instead of wood pellets from the USA & Canada.
  23. What's a rough good price ?.
  24. Thought they made reed bed filtration illegal after the big freeze a few years back.
  25. Woodsure don't fine, it's the local council, technically I think it's trading standards. But nobody has as far as I'm aware, similar numbers to dog fouling and smoke control.

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