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Re: Glastenbury Energy
« Reply #60 on: 29 June 2013, 09:07:28 »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10147138/Utility-companies-avoiding-1-billion-of-tax-a-year-as-households-struggle-says-Tory-MP.html

forgot the link.... :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[

keep your stories coming nickbat because i love them...mainstream media doesn't touch what you post and imformation is power
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« Reply #61 on: 29 June 2013, 09:59:02 »

Mike,
On the subject of energy and, specifically fracking, I found this interesting:

Fracking with Marmite. ;) ;D ;D

http://www.nohotair.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3021:you-ll-love-or-hate-this-fracking-additive&catid=203&Itemid=417
lol good read

wind turbines

Birdwatchers flock to see rare bird, then watch it killed by a wind turbine

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/06/28/birdwatchers-flock-to-see-rare-bird-then-watch-it-killed-by-wind-turbine/#ixzz2XY4n1lbD

Unbelievable, Mike. This wind turbine mania has a lot to answer for.  >:( >:(
(Reuters) - Britain's risk of electricity blackouts by 2015 is more serious than previously thought, regulator Ofgem warned on Thursday.

The country's spare electricity supply margin could fall as low as 2 percent in 2015/16, down from around 14 percent currently.

Last year Ofgem gave an estimate of 4 percent.


couple that with non thermal renewables coming online, we all need to start sourcing some reasonable gen sets.  Has anyone got any recomendations???

Michael Fallon: "I can assure you, the lights are not going to go out"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23093581

It's like "Read my lips, no more taxes".  ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D
;D It would be funny if it wasn't so worrying
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« Reply #62 on: 29 June 2013, 09:59:54 »

Michael Fallon: "I can assure you, the lights are not going to go out"

Says a career politician educated in Classics and Ancient history. What do the engineers know, after all? ::)

Spot on Kev!  ;) ;D ;D :y
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« Reply #63 on: 29 June 2013, 10:00:09 »

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10147138/Utility-companies-avoiding-1-billion-of-tax-a-year-as-households-struggle-says-Tory-MP.html

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Re: Glastenbury Energy
« Reply #64 on: 29 June 2013, 10:04:47 »


keep your stories coming nickbat because i love them...mainstream media doesn't touch what you post and imformation is power


+1  :y :y :y
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Re: Glastenbury Energy
« Reply #65 on: 29 June 2013, 10:43:38 »

No (legal) discussion is discouraged here.

However, a small minority jump on certain threads to push their own political agendas, and god forbid if you disagree with them. General chat became a place where only a few dared venture, and only if they supported certain popularist views (as if you didn't, you'd be made to feel unwelcome). Fortunately, we have begun to pull away from that, and sanity has started to return.

We are NOT a media outlet for UKIP, or any other party, despite what some seem to believe.

So, we welcome serious debate, try to keep the political views out, and certainly trying to ram your own political views down other people's necks will not be tolerated.

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Re: Glastenbury Energy
« Reply #66 on: 29 June 2013, 12:08:26 »

Thanks for that TB and certainly does clarify the forum's position.

May I again suggest that this is inserted into the guidelines for more global viewing and not just those that get this far down this particular thread. This would benefit newbies and those that like to make sure we all follow the forum rules and guides.  :y

This position is completely understandable and will be supported by all , BUT, (and there is always one) as is always quite vigorously pointed out on here mainstream broadcasters and media have their own agenda's and policy with regard to missinforming the public on most matters. Where do you go to get the none mainstream opinion, that in a lot of cases was here  :o :o :o

I personally have found it interesting and informative to read and contribute to a good cross section, sometimes controversial, of views and positions on what is going on out there and believe it did contribute the the overall "spirit of OOF" in some way and hope that this does not dilute that to much.

Love the fun stuff as well, as you know

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« Reply #67 on: 29 June 2013, 12:51:03 »

Thanks for that TB and certainly does clarify the forum's position.

May I again suggest that this is inserted into the guidelines for more global viewing and not just those that get this far down this particular thread. This would benefit newbies and those that like to make sure we all follow the forum rules and guides.  :y

This position is completely understandable and will be supported by all , BUT, (and there is always one) as is always quite vigorously pointed out on here mainstream broadcasters and media have their own agenda's and policy with regard to missinforming the public on most matters. Where do you go to get the none mainstream opinion, that in a lot of cases was here  :o :o :o

I personally have found it interesting and informative to read and contribute to a good cross section, sometimes controversial, of views and positions on what is going on out there and believe it did contribute the the overall "spirit of OOF" in some way and hope that this does not dilute that to much.

Love the fun stuff as well, as you know

Phil

 :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X from now on - on this subject  ;)
Check the gen chat board in the few months after Xmas. The post dates at various points continually covered 3 days in places. I've never seen that before on Oof.

Almost always by late evening the board was full of post from that day, and often covered half page 2 as well.

The spirit of Oof clearly suffered during that period. The place was dead.
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Re: Glastenbury Energy
« Reply #68 on: 29 June 2013, 16:51:23 »

Humans cannot survive without sufficient energy. The expansion of our brains and the energy they need (well some of us anyway  ::) ) means that we evolved to need to breakdown food quickly to supply enough energy, particularly in colder climates. We must cook food to survive as a species we cannot survive on raw food.

Where we need less energy and food in the summer we can eat a bigger percentage of raw stuff like fruit and salad, but in the winter we need more energy rich stuff like beef stew and dumplings, curries and pies.  :y :y :y

Cold weather is bad for most animals with higher mortality rates, which includes humans with at least 20,000 more deaths per month during the winter than the summer in the UK. If you want to live longer retire to somewhere hot or spend the winter months in a hot climate.  :y :y :y For humans hot weather like where we evolved in Africa good, cold weather bad.

So we need to make sure we avoid another ice age by heating the planet up as much as possible. An ice age will predominantly affect the northern hemisphere and destroy our civilization.  :( This is a basic civil duty for all of us.  ;)

All societies need cheap energy and lots of it to survive. We cannot grow and produce food without energy for farm machinery, fertilisers, pesticides and distribution. All other functions in society are dependent upon lots of cheap energy.  ;)

The UK used to be a mainly wooded country, but us humans put paid to that where we need the wood for our cooking fires and when the wood ran out we found coal was a good substitute and town gas from coal as an easily distributed energy source.  :y :y :y That 18th century novelty electricity has proven to be an even better cheaper form of energy distribution. We also found a great easily moved high-density form of energy, yes oil. Even better we found a better use for nuclear technology than blowing each other up by using it to generate cheap electricity. And the world was good, transport was good, gas-guzzling 3.0l Miggys were good and everybody was happy.  :) :) :) :) :y :y :y Well not quite. Anarchists, were fed up with knitting yogurt, and hugging trees now what could they do to win power and control everybody. Humans have four fundamental needs: Water hmmmmmm, no the plebs can collect it when it falls out of the sky, but we can restrict it, make monopoly suppliers, who will restrict supplies and make very expensive and outrageously profitable, food, hmmmmmm, they can grow that on any land they own, Shelter, hmmmmmmm well we already have planning laws to make it as difficult and expensive as possible to own any of that. Energy, hmmmmmmm, got it everybody needs that and they can't produce it themselves. Evil plan is hatched. :( :( :( :(

Produce scare stories, that many sheeple will believe, restrict it, tax it and make people guilty if they use any of it. This is why we are, where we are, with energy policy today.  :( :( :(

It is all about control, control of me, you and your families. Politicians have not been slow to jump on the bandwagon and make films, scare stories and very profitable subsidized business for themselves and their families. Yeo, Lord Denham, Cameron, Clegg, failed US presidential candidates and many others are all benefitting at our expense. So, don't play their games and dance to their propaganda and tunes.  :y

The world has plenty of resources and sources of energy to last us thousands of years, as one runs out we will develop the next viable technology for more cheap energy and move on to the next, we must to survive.  :y :y :y :y Once you understand all of this, you will be a much happier person, by enjoying life and ignoring the evil controlling anarchists ;) :y :) :) :) :)
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« Reply #69 on: 29 June 2013, 17:01:38 »

All prety obvious really (well, to some of us) ::)
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« Reply #70 on: 29 June 2013, 19:23:47 »

I had a pretty major operation a couple of years ago and in the couple of days that followed I was 'away with the fairies'....  ::)

Anyway during this time I had a 'vision' that basically showed me the solution to the world energy crisis!!  :o  :y  It was blindingly simple and meant that everyone could produce their own energy cheaply and independently in their back yard and there would be no need for big energy companies as their services would be redundant!  :y  It was an epiphany!!!  8)

Unfortunately when I came round I couldn't remember a damn thing!!!  :-[  :'(  Morphine is wonderful stuff though....  ;D  :y
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« Reply #71 on: 29 June 2013, 20:49:10 »

The world has plenty of resources and sources of energy to last us thousands of years, as one runs out we will develop the next viable technology for more cheap energy and move on to the next, we must to survive.  :y :y :y :y Once you understand all of this, you will be a much happier person, by enjoying life and ignoring the evil controlling anarchists ;) :y :) :) :) :)

This may well be the case but taking a shorter term engineers view, buy a generator...
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« Reply #72 on: 29 June 2013, 21:50:25 »

The world has plenty of resources and sources of energy to last us thousands of years, as one runs out we will develop the next viable technology for more cheap energy and move on to the next, we must to survive.  :y :y :y :y Once you understand all of this, you will be a much happier person, by enjoying life and ignoring the evil controlling anarchists ;) :y :) :) :) :)

This may well be the case but taking a shorter term engineers view, buy a generator...

I'm in the process of moving to the Ukraine 50% of their electricity is generated using nuclear power. The rest by coal, gas and hydro.  :y :y :y If I was staying in the UK then I would get a 5kw generator. I may get one in the Ukraine, where power cuts are more common in bad weather than in the UK.
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« Reply #73 on: 29 June 2013, 22:08:22 »

Humans cannot survive without sufficient energy. The expansion of our brains and the energy they need (well some of us anyway  ::) ) means that we evolved to need to breakdown food quickly to supply enough energy, particularly in colder climates. We must cook food to survive as a species we cannot survive on raw food.

Where we need less energy and food in the summer we can eat a bigger percentage of raw stuff like fruit and salad, but in the winter we need more energy rich stuff like beef stew and dumplings, curries and pies.  :y :y :y

Cold weather is bad for most animals with higher mortality rates, which includes humans with at least 20,000 more deaths per month during the winter than the summer in the UK. If you want to live longer retire to somewhere hot or spend the winter months in a hot climate.  :y :y :y For humans hot weather like where we evolved in Africa good, cold weather bad.

So we need to make sure we avoid another ice age by heating the planet up as much as possible. An ice age will predominantly affect the northern hemisphere and destroy our civilization.  :( This is a basic civil duty for all of us.  ;)

All societies need cheap energy and lots of it to survive. We cannot grow and produce food without energy for farm machinery, fertilisers, pesticides and distribution. All other functions in society are dependent upon lots of cheap energy.  ;)

The UK used to be a mainly wooded country, but us humans put paid to that where we need the wood for our cooking fires and when the wood ran out we found coal was a good substitute and town gas from coal as an easily distributed energy source.  :y :y :y That 18th century novelty electricity has proven to be an even better cheaper form of energy distribution. We also found a great easily moved high-density form of energy, yes oil. Even better we found a better use for nuclear technology than blowing each other up by using it to generate cheap electricity. And the world was good, transport was good, gas-guzzling 3.0l Miggys were good and everybody was happy.  :) :) :) :) :y :y :y Well not quite. Anarchists, were fed up with knitting yogurt, and hugging trees now what could they do to win power and control everybody. Humans have four fundamental needs: Water hmmmmmm, no the plebs can collect it when it falls out of the sky, but we can restrict it, make monopoly suppliers, who will restrict supplies and make very expensive and outrageously profitable, food, hmmmmmm, they can grow that on any land they own, Shelter, hmmmmmmm well we already have planning laws to make it as difficult and expensive as possible to own any of that. Energy, hmmmmmmm, got it everybody needs that and they can't produce it themselves. Evil plan is hatched. :( :( :( :(

Produce scare stories, that many sheeple will believe, restrict it, tax it and make people guilty if they use any of it. This is why we are, where we are, with energy policy today.  :( :( :(

It is all about control, control of me, you and your families. Politicians have not been slow to jump on the bandwagon and make films, scare stories and very profitable subsidized business for themselves and their families. Yeo, Lord Denham, Cameron, Clegg, failed US presidential candidates and many others are all benefitting at our expense. So, don't play their games and dance to their propaganda and tunes.  :y

The world has plenty of resources and sources of energy to last us thousands of years, as one runs out we will develop the next viable technology for more cheap energy and move on to the next, we must to survive.  :y :y :y :y Once you understand all of this, you will be a much happier person, by enjoying life and ignoring the evil controlling anarchists ;) :y :) :) :) :)


??? A typo surely. ???
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Re: Glastenbury Energy
« Reply #74 on: 29 June 2013, 22:23:22 »

Electricity was a popular novelty in the late 1700's with entertainers using the "Leyden Jar", which was the first capacitor.

Here is a brief timeline on electricity:

http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/electricity_timeline.htm

This is an important lesson for those that complain about money spend on fundamental research as we just don't know what the next big invention will be and how it will affect humanity. In the early 1960's the laser was invented and was a solution looking for a problem. Now they are used for high speed communications, reading and storing data (CDs/DVDs) and a million and one other applications.
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