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Title: Enjor the electricity while you can...
Post by: Nickbat on 28 May 2008, 15:04:49
Read this, then answer the question below:

http://web.mac.com/sinfonia1/Global_Warming_Politics/A_Hot_Topic_Blog/Entries/2008/5/28_Grid_Locked.html

How short-sighted can this government be?

Nick  >:(
Title: Re: Enjor the electricity while you can...
Post by: Kevin Wood on 28 May 2008, 15:40:47
Looks like the diesel generator I've just stripped and rebuilt could be run in before I expected.

Diesel... £1.30/litre. break! :-[

Kevin
Title: Re: Enjor the electricity while you can...
Post by: Golfbuddy on 28 May 2008, 18:08:07
Maybe time to convert it to steam Kevin.

Actually, that's a pretty good idea. It even sounds like progress.  :-/
Title: Re: Enjor the electricity while you can...
Post by: Elite Pete on 28 May 2008, 18:26:18
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Looks like the diesel generator I've just stripped and rebuilt could be run in before I expected.

Diesel... £1.30/litre. break! :-[

Kevin
Run it on heating oil ;)
Title: Re: Enjor the electricity while you can...
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 28 May 2008, 19:06:28
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Looks like the diesel generator I've just stripped and rebuilt could be run in before I expected.

Diesel... £1.30/litre. break! :-[

Kevin
Run it on heating oil ;)

Not a good idea. if Kevin wants the diesel engine to last.......Heating oil is too thin  ;)

Agricultural diesel at around 65-70ppl will be fine it in tho  :y
Title: Re: Enjor the electricity while you can...
Post by: miked on 28 May 2008, 20:19:00
Actually, the government want to build new nuclear.  It’s the nut munchers and tree huggers that are opposed to new nuclear build.

In the CEGB days, spare capacity and spinning reserve was the focus.  These days, it’s financially driven.

Its probably already too late even if they start to build new nuclear now.
Title: Re: Enjor the electricity while you can...
Post by: Vamps on 29 May 2008, 00:07:09
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Maybe time to convert it to steam Kevin.

Actually, that's a pretty good idea. It even sounds like progress.  :-/

Yep, bring back coal, there is loads of it, problem is, as I understand it you cant reopen the old mines, so we need new ones, you can even get gas and oil from it. Do it before there is no one left with the knowledge of how to run / mine mines. :)
Whatever muck we do or do not produce we are a tiny little island and whilst the big countries are spewing out muck we think we will have a benefical effect. :(
Title: Re: Enjor the electricity while you can...
Post by: Kevin Wood on 29 May 2008, 00:21:04
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Actually, the government want to build new nuclear.  It’s the nut munchers and tree huggers that are opposed to new nuclear build.

In the CEGB days, spare capacity and spinning reserve was the focus.  These days, it’s financially driven.

Its probably already too late even if they start to build new nuclear now.
 

Heard them on the radio today. ;D They ask what their preferred solution is - buy solar panels, wind turbines, etc. don't leave your mobile phone / electric toothbrush on charge longer then you need to, and buy some insulation. Yeah, right. Do they understand the difference between milliwatts and megawatts?

.. and what does Gordon think he's doing announcing nuclear as the solution to our (urgent) problems? Any new capacity is decades away, if we can convince the French to come and built it for us - it's not as if we have any expertise any more. >:(

Kevin