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GarethM

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  1. So, in summary we're poodle pumped. Ah democracy I here my forebears cry.
  2. Yeah feeding a 25kw Angus is like a never-ending beast of an appetite. Learnt a lot about gasification as a result, especially flue gas draught regulation to maximize the output as they just sell everyone a huge inline fan.
  3. Effectively they used the same uranium, the magnox is the name of the cannister material not the fuel. Magnesium aluminium alloy, great for thermal and radiation absorption. Sadly it also deteriorated when left in water, the fire in part was due to cutting down the cooling fins as they needed higher temperatures to encourage plutonium production as the hotter the more active the reaction and conversion between uranium 235>238 and a very small percentage of plutonium.
  4. I think a lot of installers already do, especially when they're emphasizing the warranty will be voided otherwise. I still think local council enforcement will be better than trying to teaching everyone. A few fines would do more than an expensive and pointless education campaign.
  5. There are a lot of different designs, the fast breeder was considered the best as it both created and used up the fuel simultaneously. Never really got it working correctly, plus they discovered lots of cheap uranium so it stopped development. The real problems are working pressures Vs usable heat. If you forget power production it's a perfect solution for district heating, as you don't change the fuel until it's used fully before reprocessing and your talking decades not 3-5 years. Plus if your only getting hot water, you don't need steam or much safety as it's not pressurised.
  6. Windscale used air to produce plutonium not energy, the Canadians use a similar design called Candu for energy production tho. Thorium isn't much better in all honesty, it's all about working pressures that cause problems and corrosion of pipework etc.
  7. Probably mixing imperial and Celsius 🙂. As 2000F is just over 1000c
  8. No, log drying is a single stage. Split and dry, some will ooze out the sap behind the bark, unless you kiln dry which crystallised the sap using heat. A modern stove or boiler uses refractory concrete to burn everything at 2000c. If it survives that it's probably not flammable.
  9. Whilst I agree, it just not possible to educate everyone. Education was one of the routes HETAS used for the firewood scheme, we need to educate customers etc. It's an arse backwards argument they use. Buyers of approved firewood know the score, I shouldn't have to knock on your door like a salesperson of the 90s extolling the virtues of the wonders of "dry firewood". Fine people and the word soon gets out. Chinese whispers soon gets around town, like horrible garages. Word would quickly spread about selling wet wood or how nice and dry it was, door swings both ways.
  10. You can on start up and shutdown, a little. But atleast it's a starting point for anyone already in a zone, which is really within cities. Obviously outside it's different, but reality generally speaking is if it's smoking your not getting your moneys worth out of the fuel. I'm sure if Khan can foist ULEZ out to the M25, he can do the same with cracking down on wood burners.
  11. Or the daft idiot the other week I saw in a six month old Volvo estate, skip diving for firewood on a road side skip. Kinda showed the lack of priorities in his life.
  12. You've probably also got to consider pm2.5 from brake pads along with tyres and possibly even catalytic converters. There's an old video on YouTube refining metal from road dust. In regards to incinerators, surely they would be built to the same standard the once littered around the EU?.
  13. Are you in a smoke control zone tho ?. We always have been, so yes you could use a normal fireplace but for burning coal. Wood requires DEFRA approved, so while many will claim to burn coal they actually burn wood.
  14. So a £1000 fine for dog poo or smoke isn't an encouraging thing for the council?. Drive around, take pictures over a few nights and send a letter. A week or two later still doing the same, here's a fine. If my council can have a website for faulty street lights, it's not beyond the wit of man to do something similar. If you've an exempt appliance, show certificate and cancel fine.
  15. I know that, you know that. I even know that because my boiler was triple the cost as it has to be DEFRA approved. Sadly when it comes to government they fail to read their own rules, smoke control rules have been in since the 60s I think. But like dog fouling, nobody ever gets fined or issued with an improvement notice. If you want to use the lowest hanging fruit idea, enforce the smoke rules and start issuing fine/improvement notices.
  16. Thing is they are looking at something, already with a view to finding a problem. Harm can only ever be reduced not eliminated, I'm sure that was in my CSCS book. Can't remember the exact quote Clarkson made about Austria. They're too bothered about the emmisons from the back than they are from the front of the tank.
  17. They're probably using the threat to push the HETAS scheme. The whole article is the usual guff, same regurgitated statistics, early deaths not actual. And a nice admission that Khan has banned them in new and refurbished properties but fails to say if this is outright or just the eco design standards.
  18. Does seem to have long ago created a society of kids in the bubble, granted the kid realises in the end and breaks free. Question is when, as a lot of people seem to completely lack any sense of perspective and are so focused on one small data of research it forgoes all other reasoning.
  19. Looking at the pictures he was the driver of the Hyundai van 🙂
  20. Well they liked remote learning, it'll be on zoom. Either that or under HSE rules they can't be outside as the school doesn't provide two layer of suitable clothing.
  21. Is that directly Infront of big Ben/Elizabeth tower, where they injected thousands of tons of grout into the foundations to stop the tower moving?.
  22. Hopefully that barbwire your sitting on is starting to dig in so you can actually make a choice.
  23. So what is she then, other than a bought and paid for screaming shill ?. Good, bad, dumb, adulthood throws off the shackles of the parents in the longer term.
  24. Don't bond villains usually die tho?. Probably a windows bsod on his private jet or that paperclip helper thing.
  25. Whilst your not saying it explicitly, skewing public opinion to a green agenda definitely sounds like a endorsement for the green washing Gretta.

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