Steven P

Not sure about a genius dealmaker, Trump is best buddies with Putin remember, and Kim Jong Un, and didn't he have a love in with Xi Jinping? Perhaps just get them together over a beer and tell them to behave (and I hear his old pal, Epsteins place is empty, perfect secluded island away from the press... a great judge of character?)

Weirdly with Biden, I haven't turned on the news and thought "WTF" nearly as much as I did when Trump was in charge there. Appears to have quietly just done the job.

Weirdly - something mum said earlier, he can still run for president even if he was banged up "Eligibility requirements for presidents state only that they must be at least 35 years old, be a natural-born citizen of the United States, and have been a resident of the country for at least 14 years."

Unfortunately the way it is, it favours electricity produced by gas or nuclear

Does your wife work? She can move 'home' on the assumption that she is British. Before you move I'd recommend you get dual nationality just in case you want to go back again. You having Canadian nationality - a pain and an expense - might make a move a lot easier. If she works and earns enough to support you then you should be able to move OK, but as above have a chat with the officials, it might surprise you what you need to do.

Go worst case scenario for the weight rather than actual real world weights? 1000kg / IBC and you are never going to go wrong with the kit to move it around?

Downsize?

This is true. At 'home' the nearest pylons (275kV I think) were 3/4 mile away, no problems, the ones they joined onto the other way perhaps a mile and half (I think these have all been upgraded since). Here the nearest substation as the crow flies is about a mile (only 5 bays so a bit smaller than these, but you have to look carefully to see it), never had a problem with any of these, so yes, different for different people.

Couple of miles to the substation wouldn't bother me, pylons on the garden wall would.. but half mile or a mile away, not a problem to me

... and a little more context... Blackhillock 'the UKS largest substation' up near Kieth is not a lot bigger than the quarry next door.....

Yup, your right, mind went a little off it just then

550m x320m is about 60 acres, still a little bit off the 200, 500 or 800 acres quoted above

Since it was the last one mentioned, I have run Loch Buidhe through the software this morning and it looks like the substation is about 125620m2 including a couple of access roads and a diverted track... or 30 acres (12 hectares). From the satellite images the forest area recently cleared around it is 250 acres (101 hectares) - certainly not all going to be built on. Substation compound is about 325m by 230m. A lot smaller than the figures quoted above.

likewise suspect that is the total areas and not the built area - will include landscaping, land set aside, trees and so on. Construction areas will of course be removed and not built on for the project though there will be cabins and temporary parking for a year or so

Unfortunately - not a situation I would like either. Not a project I know much about but every day is a learning day, is the 200 acres all substation structures or is that the total footprint of the site with landscaping and so on do you know?

Well, that is confidence inspiring that a recruiter missed the employment section and posted in "Arbchip wanted, UK wide" thread. Who do we apply to? --Edit-- Just realised the advert was posted at about midnight NZ time... must be desperate and working late there to fill the posts

My mate had one of them too - not sure if he still does

Likewise a few years (too many possibly) since I was at college, I think your 55 years trump mine here though. Yes, big difference between installation methods, what is actually installed and the power losses in each, and I think we are pretty much saying the same here - my clouded memories and it is quite reassuring that my mind isn't just making stuff up. I wasn't so sure that arborist wanted to go into formulas though - the concepts are good enough? Enough to say in the cable it is more efficient with power losses to go DC, but for the actual kit it is cheaper to go AC. Long distance cables (like Norway to UK) and the equipment costs are a smaller thing than the electrical power losses? Overland going to have to live with transmission towers. I think you are right and the grid is working towards a more distributed power generation model - lots of small generation schemes all over the country, interconnected with cabling rather than a few very large power stations - home solar and wind included in the calculations.

Some of the warehouses are huge.. though never stopped to measure them

I like the explosion! Grand scheme of things, there are bigger sheds for Amazon

Yes, a bit of ozone - imagine each of the crackles like a tiny lightning bolt. In damp and wet weather the resistance of the air is reduced and the electricity can jump between phases - tiny lightning bolts (or sparks, whichever), nothing to worry about but that is what the noise is. I wouldn't be living within at least 100m of a pylon either, passing underneath them, the further you are away the more the effects drop off - an inverse square, double the distance and the effect goes down 4 fold. However I have no problem walking or working on or under them.

Higher voltage overhead transmission lines are not insulated so don't suffer as much

ok

Pretty sure 2 power lines and a substation arn't gong to ruin the aesthetics of Blyth

Can I be all anal, I usually am... officially 230V +10% or -6%.. (same for 3 phase domestic) - which let the UK just keep going at 240V... but officially it is 230... (I think my house generally goes at 244V and new LED bulbs every 6 months). Appliances have to accept the range 215V - 250V, something like that