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  1. GarethM
    Are you renting this from a reputable place or from Dave and his white van ?.
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    It's classed as post 16+ adult education, so you don't need teacher training, still requires DBS checks. The old rule was be atleast one level above the course you're teaching, so A level required a minimum of a degree. That being said when you're in that working environment you are actively encouraged to advance your education onto a degree, masters etc. Professional development as they call it, plus they'll no doubt help with funding & free time as it looks good for them aswell.
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    I still can't believe he thought it would be good for climbing the greasy pole of politics. Even I have the common sense to know my place, it's certainly never going to be PM.
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    Appears to be a plastic film bonded to glass, not sure if it's just on one side or laminated like a windscreen. Obviously it's a halfway between single pane and double or triple glazing. If it was me I'd just go double or triple, probably a lot cheaper in the long term as the frame also forms an integral part of the thermal insulation.
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    Not really, whilst coatings may reduce solar gains or losses etc. A single pane of glass is just that, looking at the histoglas is it mono version ?.
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    CSCS

    GarethM replied to teresa green's topic in General chat

    I wasn't sure about the skilled arb worker aspect of the CSCS. I had to get the green one last year for on site electrical installations, which was a pain in the arse world of online learning and an old DVLA test centre for one of several exams. They make it out like it's driving license which you can add endorsements and change colours. I would assume this the the specialist version ?. But did regret not doing the supervisor or managers version as operatives and specialist only really need the 1 day HSE course. They'll just say unless you've passed our supervisor or manager course it's a no.
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    I suspect m'lord
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    CSCS

    GarethM replied to teresa green's topic in General chat

    It's like a tier system, you can work your way upwards, green is like the lowest rung for building site work.
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    If that's what I've seen, they'll just reclassify it as a high rise building fire
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    Advice report: The path to a Net Zero Northern Ireland - Climate Change Committee WWW.THECCC.ORG.UK This report provides advice to Northern Ireland on its 2030 and 2040 interim targets and first three Carbon Budgets. Weirdly this popped up in my news feed on my phone, looks like Google is all knowing.
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    They did actually do this regularly as it wasn't a predictable things, but monitored to detect when necessary. The fire was due to fuel getting stuck in the fuel channels, once alight the fuel burned even hotter due to the fans. They tried co2 and water to extinguish it, but finally realised that turning the fans off solved the problem and the fire went out. Even to this day the pile still has blocked and highly radioactive fuel in those channels as it's not possible to remove a burst element. Regarding the labour government, it was a USA ban of information sharing even tho those who designed the thing worked on the Manhattan project.
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    So, in summary we're poodle pumped. Ah democracy I here my forebears cry.
  13. GarethM
    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Probably mixing imperial and Celsius 🙂. As 2000F is just over 1000c
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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?.
  24. GarethM
    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.
  25. GarethM
    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.

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