GarethM
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Let's use car/air travel as an example, ignoring the emmisons malarkey including adblue which achieved clean emmisons by burning more oil based fuels. What has made everything ultimately more efficient, fuel price is the answer.
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Whilst I agree about Nigel, Gretta no. Your seeing green being good, it's nothing but funnels for money to the rich. Being green should never necessarily require a choice, change of lifestyle or require a subsidy.
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Yeah, She brought employment to the Congo, all those kids digging for rare earth metals for her free Tesla. They might actually be more educated and worldly wise than Gretta.
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As if it needs any discussion, Tony Blair. The dark lord incarnate.
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Population it's about the same as London and imports our used plastic to incinerate.
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No she's squatting and peeing in the wind stopping her green panacea solution. She has changed absolutely nothing as per most people if her ilk, crying the loudest like a 5year old just made the rich even richer and the poorest even poorer and benefits nobody unless you count private jet manufacturers and the 2nd god of all evil bill gates. As an example which country decreased it's co2 the most, American under the Donald is the answer.
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Magnolia Tree too close to house? Protecting foundations
GarethM replied to MikeEdStan's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Most houses prewar didn't use any concrete foundations, generally it's a stepped footing arrangement. Kinda like a tapered foot 3-4 bricks wider than the walls. Which understandably is liable to move if disturbed though digging too close, root damage etc Best to remove the tree and keep any trees away from the walls, unless you want to spend lots of money underpinning. -
I could be arsed arguing with you but it's quite obvious you're in the we have no history, all the world together camp. Which is what they want to amalgam everyone together into some no borders anarchical hellscape.
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Being proud of where you're from and the history which that goes with it isn't a bad thing. It doesn't automatically come with the you're better than anyone else. But that's probably an argument for another day.
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Correct, not that it ever flows to us. But a definite Franco middle finger, or probably De Gaulle as he hated the English. It was built there in part because of the fishing further towards the left hand corner of France but you get my point.
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It still amazes me how the sunk the barrier and feed tubes, created a makeshift underwater harbour wall for Hinckley point back in the 60s to stop the two flows accidently mixing.
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Both sellafield and le Hague are or were fuel reprocessing facilities which release small amounts into the sea. Releasing anything into the Mediterranean would be suicidal in the longer term, as it's akin to a captive fishbowl. My point was more that sellafield and even ****************ushima sites are chosen for the remoteness aswell as the tidal flows. Canada use the great lakes for cooling water, okay they don't reprocess like the UK and France.
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Tell that to the nice people opposite Le Hague. Strange how it points towards ze English.
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Those pirates would have a heat attack if they managed to snag a tomato tanker. We be rich captain, not Saudi rich but Heinz.
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As the saying goes farmers buy retail and sell wholesale. Was that selling to the big boys or Aldi & Lidl, they seem to be a bit better at buying UK from what I see and hear ?.
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Whilst I agree somewhat, I've worked and built machinery for the NDA & Magnox and even been in a few power stations. So have spent a lot of time reading about most things nuclear as it became something of a subject of intrigue. Definitely agree about the MSM and the bull about fossil fuel, nothing wrong with living frugally tho and striving to use less or more efficiently. I choose to not listen to the daily tripe, you'll feel better for not listening to the hyped up doom mongering 🙂.
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Nuclear power is natural, just remember every piece of lead was once a glowing ball of radioactive death. Time and decay left it harmless.
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Probably more out pricing land values. Like the warehousing around the football stadium, pets at home eventually ended up moving out to a humongous greenfield site.
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I got the rough idea of where you meant, just don't tar the whole industry. Parts of Pacific ocean might not be a bad idea, providing they can get close to the tectonic plates as the earth is one huge nuclear reactor garbage disposal. What other solution do you have ?, Or the 139+ tons of pure plutonium we have at sellafield ?
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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.
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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.
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Turnips, the farm gateway drug. I was trying for a more root of all evil comment, police search ends in muddy boots and dawn raids.
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The older ones can't receive the newer DAB+ stuff. I found that it started tailing off, when I got a newer car it found hundreds tho. Ended up buying a cheap new radio for the shed and it's got about 50 in the Faraday cage of a steel shed.
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Don't know, mines pretty good even in my rural backwaters. They've turned off a lot of AM transmitters this month, from what I've seen on "Ringway Manchester" YouTube. Guessing it should be less interference?. From my old physics class, AM bounces off the atmosphere. TV and FM are more line of sight, not sure about DAB, but guessing it's the same.
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Whilst I'm not a completely illiterate luddite, maybe in reality a well educated yokel 🙂. Is that to get away from using expensive satellites?. As Sky are slowly moving towards internet based services instead of a big satellite every few years. I can foresee a rabbit hole of YouTube this evening.
