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Getting the jump on Elon Musk?

I noticed today 4 x 49.99MW batteries applied for in Wiltshire

bugger it's a dynamic search so you have to enter 49.99 into the keyword search

Nearly 200 across the land if all councils have the same level of applications…. looks a bit crook from here - what's so special in detail about the 49.99 number ? - it's got to be a subsidy wangle.

Anybody spot any in their locality? - started a "Battery Farming" thread

Apr 29, 2018 at 11:20 PM | Registered Commentertomo

BBC4 Now : The Easter Island statues have a special shape
so then if you stand them up and rope the heads with a guide rope team on the left and a guide rope team on the right
they can rock the statue with not much effort
and cause it to walk, without it falling over.

The islands bigger than I thought ..he just said when the Ranui arrived there were 16 million trees
(loss was from 1250AD to 1650 AD when there weren't any trees left.
They don't know how felling got out of control

Apr 29, 2018 at 10:51 PM | Registered Commenterstewgreen

re: Korowai + docudrama crews

There was a high latitude example of misrepresentation in Svalbard some years ago. The guy in question was portrayed as a hermit whose house was buried all winter with only the chimney poking out of the snow, chewing through last summer's seal catch with only his trusty dogs for company until the sun came back.

Let's just say that it seems the BBC film folk met him in a Longyearbyen bar.... in winter

Radio 4 Gardener's Question Time had a 10 minute or so section on climate change this afternoon - it was predictably packed with misrepresentation and activist hyperbole - there was some really grim AGW jargon thrown in just to make it even more leaden.

Apr 29, 2018 at 9:38 PM | Registered Commentertomo

Apr 29, 2018 at 7:53 AM | Harry Passfield

Another thumbs up from here.

The ASA are a farce - so they are fair game to be tormented.

Apr 29, 2018 at 9:25 PM | Registered Commentertomo

The Korowai do not live in treehouses

Apr 29, 2018 at 8:17 PM | Pcar

The BBC has never quite got Reality TV. Could they send some of their Senior Directors off to do a job swap with the Korowai, in the interests of cost efficiency and honesty?

Apr 29, 2018 at 9:15 PM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

Apr 29, 2018 at 7:34 PM | Pcar

Good to know that corruption can be recycled so far from mainland Europe, with nothing more than demands for other people's money.

Apr 29, 2018 at 8:45 PM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

Surely the Japanese will be adopting similar widows in their Tokyo hotels as Boeing's Dreamliner only perhaps a little larger.

https://gizmodo.com/5829395/how-boeings-magical-787-dreamliner-windows-work

Apr 29, 2018 at 7:50 PM | Unregistered CommenterMartyn

@golf charlie, Apr 29, 2018 at 10:23 AM

AFAIK it was all sent to Portugal prior to the incinerator opening - lots of empty shipping containers as not much exported.


23. 11 May 2014, 19:02
The first thing we do is separate all the reciclable materials (such as plastic, glass, paper, batteries, etc) in the points they are already colected separetely. This s waste is sent to Mainland Portugal in containers to recycle. The indiferencied waste (mixture of non reciclable materials) goes to a Waste Incineration Plant that works since +/- 2002 to burn and produce energy for the island needs, going directly to the grid. The ash produced in this process goes to a Landfill.

Lovely Green virtue...

...but it makes a huge loss we in UK pay for via EU


Government commits 31.5% of EU support to Valor Ambiente. The Government has committed almost a third of the announced support for companies, for additional costs of operation, to one public company – Valor Ambiente.

The initiative is designed to compensate companies for additional costs incurred in the support of the operation and provision of services of general economic interest and infrastructure and amenities. This option of the Government to allocate this amount to one company reduces the amount available for other regional firms.

Valor Ambiente is a waste treatment firm and will receive 50% of eligible costs, totalling 10.4 million Euros. The approval of this application raises questions. Companies are entitled to 15% of eligible expenses, to a limit of 50,000 Euros for micro-enterprises and 100,000 Euros for small businesses, not more than 10% of turnover.

The Diário could not obtain the 2008 accounts so had to use those from 2007. This firm operates the Meia Serra waste treatment station and this company’s liabilities were 176.7 million Euros with a bank debt of 30.1 million Euros and 34.8 million debt to third parties. They received 114.9 million Euros from the government and the councils. It is suspected that today the company is insolvent and in recent years, the Budget injected more than 70 million with 19 million Euros transferred in 2009.

To avoid bankruptcy in the entire regional system of waste disposal, the Government has chosen to inject more EU money into the company and this year, is expected to inject 16.7 million Euros.

And if I am not mistaken there are government officials with a stake in the Meia Serra plant!!! Der.

Apr 29, 2018 at 7:34 PM | Registered CommenterPcar

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