Unthreaded
So today I make fast food boxes out of new plastic beads
When the tax comes in, I take 30% of those beads and make them into plastic cubes
... oops ! I don't sell them
So I "recycle" them along with 70% news beads into fast food boxes
.. and thus avoid this new tax.
stewgreen
Oct 30, 2018 at 5:30 PM | Uibhist a Tuath
Agreed! I do not know what he had, and had not done previously to attract the attention of the Royal Navy, which was very slow to adopt new technology, because it was stuffed full of pompous idiots, leading to the most ignominious collision of HMS Victoria and HMS Camperdown in 1893 with substantial loss of life, pride etc
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victoria_(1887)
The possiblity that a Royal Navy Officer encouraged Turbinia's showboating in front of a world audience ......
golf charlie
Oct 30, 2018 at 3:49 PM | golf charlie
The story of Turbina being chased by the Royal Navy's fastest Torpedo Boat Destroyers amongst the rows of warships at the 1897 Diamond Jubilee Spithead naval review still strikes me as one of the best ever pieces of self publicity ever.
Uibhist a Tuath
YP letters : The Drax boss replies to deforestation claims in a previous letter.
"we never cause deforestation ..audited ..Ofgem validated ..
.. we delivered CO2 savings of 80% over coal"
... That last bit is not true, cos CO2 is discounted today at zero yer that CO2 is real and in the air TODAY.
that spot in the forest where a big tree used to absorb some CO2, has been replaced by a tiny seedling.
so it doesn't absorb all the CO2 emitted in burning the big tree.
In 5 years time it might be growing enough to absorb faster than the old big tree
and in 25 perhaps break even.
stewgreen
Consumers in the UK throw away 295 BILLION pieces of plastic waste a year (link: https://techheading.com/consumers-in-the-uk-throw-away-295-billion-pieces-of-plastic-waste-a-year/
Really thats about 5,000 for each person, thats 100/week, thats 14/day
Seems high, but not totally out of the ballpark.
stewgreen
Those interested in the seismic effects of fracking would do well to look at the posts at Dr James Verdon's Frackland site. Although it is moribund (largely since he took up a post at Bristol University), there is a wealth of material there that is easy enough for the non-specialist to follow (and links for those with a greater understanding).
This post addresses some of the questions about the ability to model seismic events - taken from the In Salah project in Algeria, where CO2 entrained in produced gas has been separated and re-injected. In the process, it sheds some light on proposals for CCS and the relatively large problems it might create compared with the low volumes of water injection (in relative terms) involved with fracking.
I note there have been a number of aftershocks following the 1.1ML event in Lancashire. I think they may still be in pause mode, as the locations are still the same.
It doesn't add up...
*I don't think that Sir Charles Parsons would think that they are anything other than windmills, as opposed to the turbines used elsewhere in electricity generation. Calling them windturbines is another victory for green PR.
Oct 30, 2018 at 8:18 AM | Uibhist a Tuath
Charles Parsons designed the first turbine powered vessel
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbinia
His company was absorbed into C. A. Parsons and Company and survives in the Heaton area of Newcastle as part of Siemens, a German industrial conglomerate.
Siemans was founded by the gentlemen credited with inventing the Dynamo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_von_Siemens
Dynamo is the prefix to many Communist era workers sports and football Clubs
So a German company can trace some of its DNA back to the power of HMS Dreadnought, and abuse the design concepts of Sir Charles Parsons just because things sometimes go round and round.
golf charlie
@GC italics work
stewgreen
Ah that's why there's 2 electric charging points here
The parking inspector just came in and pulled straight into the space
Since no one ever uses them, it's a guaranteed convenient spot for him.
.. His van is an EV but he never plugs it in, cos there are charging points back at the depot.
stewgreen
UaT, at 8.18am; maybe we shouldn't call them wind turbines, but I don't like to call them windmills either, since they don't mill anything, and it's far to kind to give industrial-scale environment-blighting bird-killing monstrosities a name which smacks of rural bliss and bucolic scenes straight from a Constable painting.
I'm sure golf charlie can think of a better name for them.