GarethM
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Are those two different TVO fergies or a pair as they look to be different colours ?.
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At this rate the go to protest song will be Pink Floyds another brick in the wall or maybe Europe - Final Countdown. I would have normally chosen the manics your children will be next but think we're a bit past that now.
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Your not seeing the lack of repairability tho. A glass tile regardless of how strong they are made is still glass, a very difficult if not unrecyclable glass. They did try a concrete tile with a stuck on panel, but your talking a few watts per tile Vs a single panel
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Yes, it would be the roof but a glass roof!. My slate roof has been on since the house was built in the 1930s and other than the odd repair it won't be going anywhere. A bolt on panel makes more sense, if it fails it's simple. If a solar roof fails that's not a one time repair job, unless your proposing a new "system" of aluminium rafters with accessable bolts from the loft space ?.
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Solar cladding would be a bit like solar roof tiles, when you think about how it's wired together and repairability it's just not cost effective. Plus it's pointless on three sides of the house for the small amount of power and even then you want them pointing upwards. Plus most solar is glass, well silica. Atleast a panel on top of a concrete or tile roof can be easily replaced, a roof should last 60+
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The new regs came into effect in June, but existing approved developments have a year. Not read the regulation, but there is ventilation, vehicle charging and overheating. Whilst solar isn't mandatory from what I've seen it does focus on insulation and air tightness. Which logically makes sense as you can't write regulations to cover everything, you can't put 5kw solar for every home on a block of flats for example.
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Regarding solar, I am against solar parks as why waste a good field when cities and towns have industrial estates, shopping centers and even tower blocks devoid of them!. If it's so financially viable cover them first and seeing that IKEA have been selling solar panels, why aren't they covered in them ?.
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The chlorine they add isn't to protect the pipes, it's to prevent any bacterial growth. Like any company they use as minimal amount as possible, just enough to get the job done and save money. As I live in the north west, it's soft water so no limescale and about as pure as you can get. It's Buxton water without the bottle.
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I'm sure it was something to do with insulation, allowing you to offset the need for panels if you desired. However the new building regs have probably ended those shenanigans and making it mandatory, new regs were the other month I think. There are also limits on the amount you can install if it's grid tie as the DNO is having trouble with the network. Transformer upgrades and cable sizes etc, the 16A per phase is in places far too high.
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You could also highlight countries like Sweden utilise nuclear and energy from waste to reduce gas usage. Which is something we as a country failed to do and have historically been exporting our waste plastic to Sweden to burn!. Nuclear wise they went Westinghouse as apposed to the EPR used by the French which Finland only just put online after something like 12 years delays.
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Leicester Square turned into a human penguin circle, huddled together walking slowly to keep warm whilst the BBC hover overhead in a helicopter.
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Harvesting timber on potentially unowned land
GarethM replied to RobHeskin's topic in Trees and the Law
The bridleway people can't take any of it away as that would be theft, but they should know who to ask. Generally a bridleway is over or on part of someone's property, £6 on the land registry should clarify ownership.- 25 replies
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Starmer couldn't answer what is a women for atleast 6 months, do you really think he has a clue about energy pricing. He'll suggest a workers strike as per his union paymasters
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If it's occasional use, buy a Makita or similar brand clone. Think my angle grinder was 20-25 delivered Vs 100 for the real thing. 3 years later it's paid for itself many times over and I still wouldn't buy the real thing.
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Isn't Scottish water still owned by the Scottish government tho ?.
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If it's anything like the one in lockdown you'll have her husband 1st in the queue. Plus with his counting skills, he can barely count the notches on the bedpost
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And at the same time Sweden used common sense and locked away the elderly and at risk. We can all argue until all the cows have come home about this but we can't change what's happened. Can we all agree Mr Ferguson needs taking outside and publicly shaming for his inverted commas prediction?
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Boris has for a long while been a bit like diet coke, devoid of calories and full of chemicals. Which as a small C conservative does kinda pain me knowing how low all parties have fallen.
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Rishi's backbone is akin to one of those inflatable waving signs. Only upright when full of air and his own self importance. I would have used a snake analogy but the only image that came to mind was a snake dancing to someone else's tune.
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It has everything to do with the price of fish, the food has to be grown somewhere. How is exporting the growing to say a third world country better for the environment?.
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Do you really think European farmers are applying an expensive input poorly tho?. Practically every farmer will employ an agronomist to tell them what/where and how and take soil samples accordingly.
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Is that arguing we should have actual punishments or just wasting money on the legal system?. Maybe we can get them crushing rock, I would be happy for them to work as navies and restore canals. Hard work and learning practical skills. Supposedly it's 30k a year to lock someone away, so say march to october doing such work.
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Is that the Weston super mare tourist advert ?
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I'll assume it's the plan to prevent farmers using their land productively. Banning the sensible use of fertiliser because of nitrogen emissions, whilst at the same time making diesel drivers use adblue. Which shock horror creates nitrogen.
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Think that all depends on if the other properties are your minions. If they we're you'd probably have one minion for arbtalk, can't get ones fingers dirty.
