GarethM
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So let's brass track it. You want us to keep giving Ukraine a blank cheque for effectively forever. Putin will not just pack up and go home, even with your European leaders help, they are out gunned and out matched by the Russians. So Mr president Steven P what you going to do!.
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Roll over my arse, Biden didn't know how to put on a pair or trousers let alone negotiate. You're trump derangement syndrome is flaring up
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Exactly, when you're in a trench or a foxhole getting shot at, mortars falling all around you. You won't give two f's about the rules of war and the Geneva convention. Even your average school kids played cod and alike to know it's not tea/biscuits and an array of sexy camo outfits.
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That's not a delusional rabbit hole you want to start digging, Biden thinks he's bloody Irish and has spent his career filibustering.
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And how many times have I suggested using the river and the above and then I get moans of he should give it all back blah blah going around in circles. Then calling out the Donald, well in what a month he's gone from zero happening to something instead of Joe sleeping. All whilst Ursula and the rest dither and go to expensive lunches and cry when they're told to step up and do something on their own doorstep.
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Well suggest an alternative, don't you dare just trott out the Russians give back everything and go home rubbish!. It's a negotiation, give and take are required.
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Plus, did anyone see the slime ball french man at the whitehouse?. Oh it's a loan, bs bs waffle then the Donald pretty much pee's on his croissant.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/eu-spends-more-russian-oil-gas-than-financial-aid-ukraine-report
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Very true, if we rolled the clock back to say 90s when coal and nuclear was still a big part. They've not demolished any pylons, so the old massive capacity is still there for constant base loading. Then factor in energy efficiency, old TVs, fridges, lights etc means our personal consumption is 50/75% less at a minimum and then deindustrialization!. Would be nice to hear his musings without the green washed renewables zero emissions lies. Plus if it's better, cheaper, when will my bills come down without having subsidy or someone else getting penalties on their tariff ?.
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Sussh you, millipede will cry in his cornflakes if you let him know the wind doesn't blow all the time. There was a headline saying the same about his great idea for hydrogen in mains gas earlier. Great if a free byproduct from say medical oxygen production, but noo.
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HVDC is used to provide a degree of frequency isolation, regardless of any technical Innovations it's just an old technology with a new name and a higher voltage. You've probably never heard of the current wars at the turn of the century, good few books about the subject and Nikola?. That's why we have AC as pushing a DC current through a pipe regardless of its diameter gets harder and harder the longer the pipe. AC doesn't really have that limitation except mostly heat loss. Batteries are just a boondoggle, minutes of storage at best. They closed fiddlers ferry and kept the turbo alternator as a glorified flywheel to balance the renewables and charged a horrendous amount per minute the other month!.
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The grids are creaking due to the renewables, it's the surge not the base load from certain areas for example Scotland or out at sea. Power grids barely need to change, without going into details. High voltage transmission from a stable nuclear grid supply looses something laughably small a few %. All these DC interconnections loose a fantastic amount due to it being DC. Best way to describe it is Christmas lights, everything works great until you plug a toaster in the end and burn out the wire for that Christmas day meal.
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The grid as it was was designed for a time when we produced and used masses more power. Obviously city infrastructure is a different argument as it'd old and need better distribution. The total network capacity has gone down, the requirements for the upgrade is to cope with the occasional glut of wind without burning up the pylon wires and for when we buy in power from France/Germany/Denmark/Norway and also to Ireland etc.
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Can't have tidal, look at the times they've tried to do it. Cardiff, Bristol channel, menai all rejected and those ones up at Scarpa keep breaking and failing. Solar is fine even with a lead acid setup if it powers some things, but it's just more boondoggle with lithium or similar chemistry. Create more waste to "recycle", providing no government money is used, the whole thing thing disappears and the snake oil salesman go quiet.
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What you're all believing to be a panacea solution requires more stable based load ie more nuclear. Wind will never be able to support that as there will never be anywhere to store it, so they'll do what they currently do and pay to keep it off, so don't waste your money and the environment littering it with boondoggle turbines and a bigger grid to cope not with capacity but those times when it does. You're system also requires 3 phase everywhere, as even with inverter drives the spikes will be massive and running mostly 24/7. My domestic load is say below 150-200w would be 4000w for most of the day if you're forcing me off gas.
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From what I hear they're reopening old nuclear power plants, as they're also realising the time scale for new is daft as you just down rate a power station and won't need to swap out the fuel as much. Personally, all the pwr just makes it far too complicated and electric nation is not practical, say a gas boiler is 25Kw+ for every home is a lot of electricity. Low pressure town based nuclear district heating is the real solution, sealed and safe using the gas pipework infrastructure for central heating.
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Unfortunately that won't work, for every Kw of renewable you have to have the same in conventional sitting idle and burning fuel. That's why you have gas power stations practically running 24/7 to smooth the supply and stop a rolling blackout, from a engineering and electricity supply it's better to not have wind and use solar locally. I've said it many times we design/built and had magnox Calder Hall online in 3 years!.
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J, without conflating topics. Europe is already at war with Russia, one they've effectively bankrolled for Putin by buying all that lovely gas and fertiliser. They laughed at Donald when he said as much, then they closed down Germany's nuclear built more wind turbines this requiring more gas.
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And to bring things back to topic. Why is Donald/Elon so bad for cutting all the extraneous crazy spending on worthless stuff and a national debt the size of Europe ?. USAID for example, or those millions of dead people still recieving benefits and what 150+ years old!. Clinton sacked 400k people just for reference. It's quite easy to bisect/dissect what he says, you're just use to speech written drivel from Starmers type. They've gurned for weeks about the where to put a full stop and a comma, Donald just adlibs so you get unfiltered somewhat honesty.
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If you left uni before say 2008, I would agree. Sadly education became a very indoctrinated environment, a pernicious teaching that the state knows best agenda. Pre 2008, your teacher just taught and outside of that environment they were practically invisible.
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Auwwww, did you have to leave twitter and move here because they stopped you smelling your own farts ?. Typical lefty tosh, play dumb and think the world revolves around your echo chamber college debate level politics. The Gretta playbook, shout loud about idealistic waffle whilst doing nothing.
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Auwwww, bless
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Does that even warrant a reply, they'll keep kicking that can down the road until it's worn down to a 5p piece. I'm guessing they'll be doing something against HGVs next, probably enforcing euro 6 as a standard or charging older ones considerably more unless you put a new engine in it. Low hanging fruit argument, but the cost won't be on the consumer. Erm if I need it you'll be paying.
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Or to paraphrase I think it was William Hague. You start off as a student being labour, then conservative when you're working and then go liberal democrats in later life. BS, as a former centre of the road conservative, neither ends of that spectrum appeals.
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Once you've left college, experienced the world and learned that auntie just spoon feeds you nonsense all day long and is barely better than elevator music. You might find a decent level of broader understanding, instead of just posting memes about how bad Donald is and crying on the shoulder of fellow lefties. Maybe hang around with people of an opposing view and argue your POV, instead of wearing that court mandated crash helmet and hugging your safe space teddy bear.
