Steven P

because of course, the subsea pipes from the north sea are soooo well hidden that we can rely on those pipelines..... Have to knock out all the windturbines or knock out half a dozen pipes?

Ash?

If your soil is too acidic now for what you want, got to also consider reapplying the lime every few years.

for 2 beams I guess you will have to sell them local to you else the cost of transport will be too much

I think I read that one at the time, brave lad to do that (but maybe also young and stupid enough not to realise his own mortality?)

Every now and then we get Amazon brought here by the postie, often also 2 other Amazon prime vans n the street too, but it would make sense to coordinate the deliveries I reckon too

No idea what your post is about so no idea if it is worth my attention to read it to be honest. Wonder if it is about the thread headliner here, the President of Venezuela?

Rightarded, any chance of a synopsis of your post? know who Mike Tyson is of course, else your post is meaningless

Apart from Amazon, I only tend to get bank statements through the post - usually all within the first week of the month. All digital otherwise, very rare to get an actual letter

Because we can all read and some of us have read the relentless posts on here slating 'green' energy such as wind turbines, maybe it was you that said you were against wind turbines? Perhaps.

You and your legendary comprehension of the written word. Go back to what I wrote, read again, understand, make notes. Ask your kids for help with any of the big words.

There could be hundreds of years.... but the minds in the business and the oil companies are predicting 35 to 50 years so I am inclined to go with them and their ££ millions in tech that measure these things (UK is at the lower end of that scale by the way). It is something that JonsonD doesn't understand that when it does run out.. and the prediction it might be within my life... that fighting against windmills, solar plants and so on kind of says to the kids "fck you, we did OK, problem is yours now"... so at what point do we need to sit down and plan for the future, build an infrastructure that doesn't rely on gas and oil? Now? when the kids are middle aged? or when the world goes "Oh shit, it has all gone"? Might be worth noting that the majority of Africa and large parts of China and India are not on an electrical grid network... when they get connected unless someone is leading the way, saying 'go green' they will go with oil, massive increase in demand, and do we want to sleep walk into the future where there are double the people competing for the same oil... pushing up the prices... supply and demand... just as it is all running out... or back to the point I have been making over the years, we wean ourselves of oil now, off foreign control of our power? (Nigeria for example might not want to export its resources if it is needed there, Russia has a mentalist in charge, so does the US, the Iranians are not our friends (get a bit hostile there, oil prices rocket), we are at the mercy of the oil producers) Report out this week that the new round of UK wind turbines have a 'strike price' (what they are paid) of about 70% of what the oil generators are asking for. This is the part that needs the overhaul that what we pay is linked to the oil generators and not what the distributors pay and not what it costs the generators...and the difference is a nice ££ millions into the foreign shareholders back pockets... at our expense.

I was going to ask you if you think that the oil will run out, referencing my earlier comment about leaving a legacy for our children (lights on, or lights off). I think from this you believe the oil will run out? So the question is really, do you believe that the oil will start to run out in our lifetimes, our childrens or our grand childrens lives? And so at what point do we as a nation take a lead, and start building for the future where our increasing energy demands comes from Nuclear (the sun that power the 'green' stuff is a massive nuclear explosion). Leave the children with light or no lights. If we take all the oil all now - like the Norwegians appear to be doing, and run out in 35 to 50 years, anything that we cannot replace oil with is screwed. If we are pragmatic and switch to alternatives as soon as we can anything that cannot be replaced (with our current knowledge and tech) we might be able to make last 100 years or more? So at what point do we decide to make that switch as a nation to green energy if we had our time again to decide? Noting that the longer we leave the change over the more expensive it will be as every nation will then be competing for the materials to make the new infrastructure. So when should we make the switch? Now, leave it to the children or leave it to the grand children to do?

Wikikipedia, BP, World Oil forums and so on suggest otherwise though. I think Norway knows exactly how long their oil will last and even if they are extracting more and more, that does not mean they have suddenly invented an oil creation machine though...

Yeah, but why should we bother ourselves, we'll be dead by the time the world is proper fckd, or nearly dead anyway. Let the kids work it out. If China are burning coal then we, as a nation should lower ourselves to the bottom of the barrel to match them. Screw the descendants. Or... we can show ourselves to be the world leaders of our imagination, take the mix of climate changes, dwindling oil supplies and children and be the best we can be to leave them an inheritance worth living in. But where is the fun in that when we can slate the country we live in at every opportunity, grass is always greener, here is never good enough.