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- Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
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Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
The problem with modular reactors from my perspective is that nimbys will object to a small reactor just as much as a large one and it's much easier to guard a few large stations than lots of small ones scattered about. Two good points there I don't know of anyone or community volunteering for the ...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:59 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
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Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
or better still: boththenorthwind wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:44 pm pub at the end of the bike ride (or better still, in the middle)
Surveying and earwigging the whole room from a well-positioned barstool can frequently be illuminating tooeveryone is free to choose which table(s) to sit at though
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2821
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
I'm afraid the plants and animals will have to go How do you see that working out for your children and grandchildren? This has been taken out of context. If you read the whole paragraph it should be clear that I'm referring to the plants and animals that will be displaced by the wind farms not eve...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
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Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Re coal and its high calorific value for power generation and our own plentiful supplies - and I speak as someone who is very interested indeed in the mining thereof, and the social history of its communities - on the debit side we have: Aberfan, Senghenydd, Gresford, Oaks, Blantyre, Cilfynydd, emph...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:35 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
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Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
'Saving' one thing can be at the cost of 'losing' another. The view of what's 'saved' and what's 'lost' is frequently subjective, and even if there's an objective angle the facts surrounding it can be blurred. Speaking of facts, this has been a fairly interesting thread but it's also been fairly 'ha...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Tyvek groundsheet - how long do they last?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 462
Re: Tyvek groundsheet - how long do they last?
Yes that's the stuff. I very boringly went with white . Also vaguely remember getting 4m x 1m.
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
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Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
As for 220m turbines on-shore, it's bonkers, the civil engineering in the base is going to be huge I'm interested to learn more about that to increase my knowledge. At the moment we have the highest one in England just outside our town at 147m. Apparently it's also the most powerful, generating 4.1...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:06 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2821
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:36 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2821
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
The weights-in-mineshafts angle gets a lot of comment on mining forums that I frequent. Consensus seems to be you'd need hundreds of shafts (often waterfilled now) with weights the size of a battleship... My point about "supply must match consumption" wasn't disagreeing that the system wou...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
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Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Living by the sea and witnessing day in day out the power of the tides that are ALWAYS flowing, unlike wind, I find it amazing that we've not properly invested in harnessing this free power that surely could be done in a much less obtrusive manner. Fair point Dave. Although read up about the Severn...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: Routes
- Topic: Cycle Travel route planner for off road trails? Comments?
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Re: Cycle Travel route planner for off road trails? Comments?
Is that the one where R@pha-wearing yuppies from Chelsea roll up in their BMWs, hoik their electric gravelbikes off the roofrack, and want a ready-made obstruction-free route to the Michelin starred cafe for lunch?
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2821
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
supply must equal consumption I'd say it's the opposite actually. It's like saying we should keep fishing our waters without regard to the future, or building miles of new motorways (or bypasses round bypasses round bypasses. "Why? - Arthur Dent. "You've got to build bypasses" - Mr P...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Tyvek groundsheet - how long do they last?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 462
Re: Tyvek groundsheet - how long do they last?
spinnaker tape Good to repair stuff in preference to new obviously, but how much spinnaker tape was there? If there was enough you could make a complete spinnaker groundsheet like my one :smile: . Much better than tyvek - waterproof, sheds water easily for packing etc. And you can get pretty colour...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:57 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2821
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2821
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
There was discussion on Countryfile about wind farms - turns out that so far "they" haven't figured out how to recycle the blades which are typically fibreglass or carbon fibre. Use car tyres to make massive lackey bands then the propellers can make airplanes. Job done Like bamboo bikes, ...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:34 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
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Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
A while ago it was in the news that the Welsh Govt were planning to abandon the village of Fairbourne (near Barmouth) due to rising sea levels. Obviously my discussion point here depends on one believing in M(+W)MCC caused by CO2/methane/etc emissions and then that M(+W)MCC causes rising sea levels....
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:19 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
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Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
I've got a panda somewhere and she's not very busy at the moment, if that helps at all.
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:22 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
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Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
"No better" than The Other Place. Ow, that stung .
Ah well. Hey-ho.
Ah well. Hey-ho.
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:19 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2821
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Going a bit OT... from the aesthetic/intrusion point of view it does seem very subjective and personal and sometimes people have hilarious double-standards.... Some folks round our way objected to one wind turbine because it spoiled their "view of beautiful countryside". The beautiful coun...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:54 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
- Views: 22143
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Another cracker ^
frickles - that is a long-sliced then deep fried battered gherkin
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
- Views: 22143
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
found a perfect old shed to get shelter for the night. Yes, superb shed work there Sir! :-bd And the sheep shed a close runner-up for next time... I usually get a less questioning statement: "You are mad" Even the people here think you are mad so normals are bound to think it :wink: Mmm.....
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:11 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
- Views: 22143
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:47 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
After extensive and continuous mentoring and professional guidance (*) from my Fermentation Consultant (**) my first batch of sauerkraut has seen the light of day. (*) "Bung some some chopped cabbage in a jar of brine for a couple of weeks, what's the worst that could happen?" (**) Mr Frog...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
- Views: 22143
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
- Views: 22143