GarethM
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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.
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Think they did block the windows facing land in many places, but they have been talking about turning them off as satellite navigation is pretty much mandatory. Bit like dab, FM & AM radio. AM uses like 500kw transmitter Vs DAB is something ridiculous like 1kw.
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She got on the saddle whilst he wore the raddle.
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Don't be a gander, obviously it illegal. Use a funnel it might be foie gras tho.
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Subsidies, not really worth the paperwork or agro. In generalist terms you'd need to be a hill farmer owning Snowdonia or a big boy arable farmer. Most of us fall in the middle and to be honest isn't worth having you're hands tied behind your back with yet more rules. If I had 100acres it might be feasible, but the stewardship stuff gets in way, unless the newer schemes make it more about common sense environmental stuff we already try to achieve and does zero to reduce costs of production.
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Not technically, they don't need to be tagged. They're treated more like horses, so you don't even need a CPH
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I did mean that nicely, being a landowner doesn't make you a farmer. No amount of research or book reading will ever match experience. If I were you treat it as a learning curve. Rent out the land, probably sheep grazing. Use that as a way to bring everything upto snuff and pitch in. Learn with them and in say 5 years or once it's upto snuff get a few dozen and form a friendship with the sheep guy. Keeps down costs and you get shearing for free etc.
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So you're not a farmer, guessing you've recently bought it then?.
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There are ways of reducing the owned acreage by owning 4 and renting the remaining from other people. As soon as one starts in the area its like town gentrification, everyone ends up on the same bandwagon and you just end up moving further and further into the sticks.
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Whoever bought mine might come knocking for a refund
