Yeah good article. "of all the things I sought... bikepacking... community prevails". :smile: Aww, sniff, <sheds a small tear>. 'Tis true. :-bd Some awe-inspiringly graphic details about "personal hygiene" :-bd Oh, can we get the swear filter to change "sto k ed" to &qu...

grid battery As well as having England's largest wind turbine (soon to power an electric buses terminal as well as the town), we also have the UK's first grid-level battery storage facility just round the corner from our gaff (now where are those house-sized jump leads :wink: ): "The 6MW/10MWh...

Amen to that, it's fun to have a bit of shock-value . Looks a bit like a beetle or something out of Aliens.

Mmm. Looks fun! But I have to say I'm not keen on the 'flowing' lines style-wise. Reminds me of the fashion for horrible formed S-shaped downtubes on MTBs, for example the nasty object below. Gimme nice straight lines every time. Eye of the beholder and all that of course :grin: https://live.staticf...

I heard the longing for proper controls in cars like we used to have is... Knobstalgia :lol: :lol: Sign me up! I want a bumper sticker too! Well, I also prefer it when one has to, er, flick a stalk up and down to activate something, so can we have a sticker for that too please while we're at it? :g...

Yeah well his 'environmental credentials' are somewhat suspect so he's on my 'ignore list': "Vauxhall to unveil a lightweight, high-performance and genuinely sleek roadster with far more sharp edges than Toyota’s MR2 or Mazda’s MX5. Vauxhall had another surprise in store when comedian Griff Rhy...

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-13153771/Car-makers-ditch-distracting-touchscreens.html?spot_im_scroll_to_comments=true&spot_im_highlight_immediate=true Car touchscreens totally out of hand now, agreed. Menus with about 20 levels. Not that I know what's going on though, Mrs P's...

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 ...

thenorthwind wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:44 pm pub at the end of the bike ride (or better still, in the middle)

or better still: both

everyone is free to choose which table(s) to sit at though

Surveying and earwigging the whole room from a well-positioned barstool can frequently be illuminating too

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...

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...

'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...

Yes that's the stuff. I very boringly went with white . Also vaguely remember getting 4m x 1m.

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.