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I think it's free delivery if you are at the end of their street.

That looks really interesting technology, however it doesn't seem that efficient in an environmental or financial sense... It turns 1kg of wood chips into 1kWh of electricity, that means only about 25% of the energy in the wood is turned into electricity.... that's not particularly good, especially when you consider the amount of energy required to cut down the trees/ transport the trees/ chip the tree etc. In a financial sense it doesn't seem that efficient either, I cant see a system like that costing much less than £500k by the time you include a new building & wood store etc. All for a system that produces 45kW of power. What does wholesale electricity cost? 5p a kWh? That means it only produces £2.25 of electricity an hour. Running 24/7 the system the system would produce £20k of electricity a year. You might as well leave the trees standing, buy a £10k diesel generator and use the diesel that would have been used to transport and chip the trees in the generator.

I've looked at the website mentioned by the original poster and it makes no reference to electricity production? To burn wood to dry wood just seems ludicrous to me. It seems obvious that kiln dried logs will have a far higher carbon footprint than logs dried in an open sided barn. This is a perfect example of a government policy, which sounds good on paper, not meeting one of its prime objectives.

It's £70 a m3 for hardwood logs plus about £50 delivery. tbh, it doesn't seem that cheap....

Anyone seeing what the President of the Philippines is up to? He's started a policy of policemen going round the Phillipines killing drug dealers/ addicts. Seemingly 3,000 people were killed in his first three months in office. He's called Duterte, so he has the nickname "Duterte Harry". In some ways I think he's doing a good thing, but it could be a slippery slope....

Every economist in the world agrees that if you increase the supply of something it reduces the price of that good. For instance if new log merchants open up in your area it reduces the price you can sell logs for. Why would millions of migrants to the UK not reduce wages for British workers? I know of EU workers in the UK working for £5 an hour. If you think migration is good should we not be charitable and send them to the third world? Perhaps send all those Syrian migrants to Africa to help the African economy? With the greatest respect a lot of the "academic research" that supports migration is heavily biased. Or do you really think millions of poorly paid migrants pay more in taxes than they take out in benefits and public services?

About 43% of Hungarians voted, and of those that voted 98% voted to keep the migrants out. It's fairly clear that Hungarians don't want migrants.... I'd imagine the non voters didn't vote because the result was obvious from the very start..... For a thousand years Hungarians were battling to keep invading muslims out of Europe. Hungarians also probably looked at things like the Cologne sex attacks and French terrorist attacks and decided they didn't want similar "cultural enrichment".

Tbh, I can see why a fence like that would cost so much. They've got to truck the materials into the centre of the artic circle. They've probably got to build an access road along the entire length of the fence. Then they will probably need an accomodation camp for the workers. It all adds up.

Yeah, you're right! I only expected about 95% of Hungarians to vote against accepting the migrants. To get 98% voting against is brilliant I think the only thing that could trump that referendum is Trump becoming President (see what I did there?).

I agree with you. However let's face it Labour no longer look after the traditional working classes. I can't think of another time in history when a political party has so thoroughly stabbed their core electorate in the back. UKIP are now the party of the working classes.

Tbh, some people are just cr4p with money. We've all seen television programmes about lottery winners/ celebrities that have spunked their millions away and are living like tramps.

tbh, I think Labour has had it's day. Labour should have been looking after the working classes by reducing the amount of immigration into the UK. However Corbyn wants to open up the immigration floodgates to the world. In it's present form I can never see them forming another Government.

I understand it's just the bark that is coloured. As a wood it might not actually be that special.

tidal power has been used for the last 1000 years... here is a picture of a tidal mill from France...

there are literally hundreds of locations in the UK where you could have tidal power stations... I'd imagine tidal power would use the same type of generator in each location, so you do get "economies of scale". what's your answer to power generation? just keep on burning the fossil fuels and watch the polar bears drown? buy gas from Saudi and watch them use the money to support Islamic State? Use nuclear and just hope that no nuclear power station is attacked by terrorists?

We all know that ships use zinc anodes to prevent corrosion. A lot of motorway bridges now have cathodic protection systems to prevent corrosion. imho, tidal power stations would have a reasonably long service life...

There is a company that plan to develop tidal power lagoons in the UK. The advantage of the lagoons is that it is easier to get the power when there is demand for it. I agree that tidal is the way to go for renewables. We have solar panels on the office and the power from them is unreliable. One day it's 4Kw of power then the next day it's nothing Newport - Tidal Lagoon

I cant wait until the Hungarians have their referendum on Sunday about accepting migrants into Hungary. We all know the Hungarians will vote against accepting the migrants The referendum should help stop the madness of Europe accepting migrants that barge their way into Europe. It should also help bring the demise of the EU.

It is very impressive. They are selling them on etsy for £47. I want one but cant decide if it's the type of thing that loses its novelty value quickly. https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/233179042/a-cube-in-a-cube-from-engineer-bruns?ref=market

My dad had a yacht and it involved a lot more cost and effort than you would think. You should maybe think of going to a yacht chandlers to see how much sailing stuff costs. A new 20hp outboard might cost £2k, a spare outboard maybe another £800. Having said that, a day on the water in a summer day is priceless

How tall are the trees? I normally find trees can take more shade than you think. I also think surrounding vegetation gives a warmer micro climate. Unless they are completely smothered in vegetation they should be OK. Anyway, i'd be going down the slasher route instead of chemical. Weed Slasher Are there deer in your woodland? Those 600mm (?) tubes aren't good against deer.

if your mate went round all the gardening businesses in his area and told them all about the contracts he previously worked on there is very little his ex employer could do about it. It's more or less impossible to prove what was said in a conversation over a pint.

On site we use acrow props for this sort of thing.

I would have thought grinder teeth would have a fair scrap value? Are the teeth not made from tungsten carbide? If they are they have a scrap value of £8 a kg. Tungsten Carbide Scrap Price UK

As a customer I wouldn't mind some small bits as they are good to get the fire going.