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...

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...

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...

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:15 pm 'gravel' mode

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?

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...

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...

faustus wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:18 am STW

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, ...

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....

I've got a panda somewhere and she's not very busy at the moment, if that helps at all.

"No better" than The Other Place. Ow, that stung .

Ah well. Hey-ho.

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...

Another cracker ^

frickles - that is a long-sliced then deep fried battered gherkin

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.....

gecko76 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:40 pm How did you get it to write r-i-g?

Trick of the trade: set the colour of a few letters of the word to "black" (using the font colour button) .

How many others?

Give it a try

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...

MuddyPete wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:57 pm Bivi quality = "fair".
"Rain" or "Time spent in pub" = "shorter than ideal".
"Plenty of deep..." ...Tussocks? Mud?

Or stature? "Shorter than ideal"..... therefore ending up in "Plenty of deep" cowpats etc?

Lazarus wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:25 am 1. Are you mad?

I usually get a less questioning statement: "You are mad". To which the obvious response is "Thanks for the compliment, accepted!".

Certainly, unless something's gone horribly wrong with the calendar . Bit of fun going out on a leap year too.

What's your state of mind this morming Bear?

Just discovered that there's a Cranked "RTMMFBWTFAYD" T-shirt

Can't keep wishing everyone Happy Birthday or it'll be like the endless kids parties treadmill where each child in a school class invites all the others to their party and parents end up buying a present every week - I'm sure other parents will identify with that. Anyroad, reckon we have to make an ...

Just ridden up to Stwlan dam. Just WOW :o And sunny too :-bd I'm sure I read somewhere they'd filmed bits of The Italian Job 'cliffhanger' sequence up there but I could be wrong. What're you doing next V? "Hang on a minute lads, I've got a great idea...." Cwmorthin round the corner is dea...

Oh, and Zoe still enjoying her slate obsession so much that she's trying to get her unsuspecting pal involved too

sleety slate grey Blaenau Ffestiniog. Three adjectives which are rather superfluous when trying to add anything to the basic Blaenauness :smile: . One of my favourite places for a pleasant weekend away, have a nice time :-bd Aren't bikes brilliant. Yep! https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/535479366...