A “Lib Dem” minister just told Sky News he was approving new nuclear power stations to promote green jobs. If anybody ever votes for these lying bastards again I shall be disconsolate.
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Halibabacus (la vita in culo)
You are quite right to claim “I look forward to the day when you – or indeed any of the other Eminences – actually best me on a point of fact or on the logic of an argument. Never happened yet!””
I quite agree with you entirely this time as everyone else is undoubtedly an intellectual midget when compared to the towering well of wisdom that you represent. Unfortunately, you forgot to tell us who will be the ultimate arbiter to decide this delicate matter of a potential dispute. I would suggest Mary, Doug and Villager for a start. As sufferer from hemophobia, I would like to exclude our resident dis. whose claim of having half a pint of Irish blood in his circulatory system makes me sick as I cannot stop thinking that he could somehow spill it all over me.
A failing Gw turbine generator failing high in the sky is only an explosive threat to itself.
A failing Tw power plant generator is a threat to its incredibly explosive spinning turbines, a you have to bloody hope they arent all a good half mile and hardened structures away from any amount of intensely radioactive material.
Craig , pray tell us which set of lying bastards you’ll be voting for .
JT
No Money in Solar
Bosch to Abandon Solar Energy Business
http://www.pddnet.com/news/2013/03/bosch-abandon-solar-energy-business
Dave Lawton, 3:39 pm:
There were convictions:
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/x1364620539/Schaffer-accepts-plea-deal-in-Mallove-murder-trial
Dave, if you want to indent a quote like I’ve indented yours above, look under the comment box, where it says “blockquote indented/quoted /blockquote”. Copy and paste that section into the comment window (including the tag symbols that I’ve left out) and then replace “Indented/quoted” bit with the section you wish to quote.
“And the Neodymium magnet or feild coil dichotomy is false, because feild coils also demand exotic magnetic inductors, unless air core is possible? in which case the coil material would have to be hugely increased to compensate.”
Field coils are just copper with an iron core, nothing exotic. Magnets give better power to weight ratio, work at lower speeds and don’t need a commutator so there is less to go wrong and lower maintenance.
Villager comments :
“Habakuk, any idiot can recite facts in this Information Age.
But, the majority of people who come here are compassionate human beings concerned about the injustices faced by the large majority of mankind, inter-alia through wars perpetrated by our shallow, deceptive politicians in connivance with the military-industrial complex. They offer original opinions and insights that are heartfelt, and often share the wisdom of other men and women who have the courage of their actions to do good.
Habakuk, any idiot can recite facts in this Information Age.”
Is Villager by any chance suggesting that compassion and heartfelt original opinions and insights somehow dispense the poster from getting his facts right (or not distorting facts)? Or that they even justify promoting false “facts”?
I hope not. 🙂
But, the majority of people who come here are compassionate human beings concerned about the injustices faced by the large majority of mankind, inter-alia through wars perpetrated by our shallow, deceptive politicians in connivance with the military-industrial complex. They offer original opinions and insights that are heartfelt, and often share the wisdom of other men and women who have the courage of their actions to do good.
Scoop! I have finally identified “Karel”.
I used to think Karel was the Original Flemish Fool. And I even thought I glimpsed him briefly, staggered around and muttering incoherently, at this year’s Rheinland carnival.
But now I believce he’s really the famous Carlos the Jackal, out on day release.
Karel = Charles = Carlos.
A jackal because he hangs around the edges of any conrovery on this blog, afraid to come near and engage, and contenting himself with occasionally darting forward in an attempt to steal a bone or two from the feat. In his case, a funny-bone or two. Or not.
Go back to South America, Carlos Ilyich Ramirez aka Karel! 🙂
Gracias!
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La vita è bella, life is good (no day release for terrorists)
If we were playing that game on Radio 4 called Just a Minute, I would be calling out ‘repetition’ in the above post. ?? Is the plot getting a little bit lost ??
But, the majority of people who come here are compassionate human beings concerned about the injustices faced by the large majority of mankind, inter-alia through wars perpetrated by our shallow, deceptive politicians in connivance with the military-industrial complex. They offer original opinions and insights that are heartfelt, and often share the wisdom of other men and women who have the courage of their actions to do good.
But, the majority of people who come here are compassionate human beings concerned about the injustices faced by the large majority of mankind, inter-alia through wars perpetrated by our shallow, deceptive politicians in connivance with the military-industrial complex. They offer original opinions and insights that are heartfelt, and often share the wisdom of other men and women who have the courage of their actions to do good.
Thanks Crab for your rounded argument combining aesthetics, philosophy and engineering.
Wind turbines have moving parts that need expensive maintenance and of course have to be situated where the weather is windy for most part of the year. This incurs transmission costs including storage costs as wind farms require a lot of space and away from populated areas as each turbines generates about 100 dBs of white noise.
Some are located at sea but then corrosion from salt requires even more maintenance.
Electric cars require a battery to be charged. Moving cars do sometimes collide with things and a charged battery is like a bomb that will explode if short circuited by physical damage.
Apart from that they are extremely efficient only requiring a certain amount of charging management.
Better a slip of the keyboard than a 12 hour a day RSS feed and posting the first thing that comes into your silly little head, surely?
Dave @ 6;29
You work solo? I suggest some alliances with like thinkers. The confluence of minds makes the sum greater than the separate parts, no? I am not telling you anything new.
“…. did you know the Grateful Dead ?” Wasn’t a big fan. I’m more of a Clapton nut. Genius deepens with the years, or sends you barmy, and he has earned his Blues bona fides while keeping perspective.
Habakuk has your Ineffectual Brain gone into a loop? Or have i rattled the Stalker in you just a little bit by laying out some simple home truths?
But i’m a compassionate person and i know the old geezer has only just learnt/learning how to copy and paste. So, you’re forgiven. Come back to me coherently and i shall answer you.
Channel 4 News have just transmitted a piece on two British military who were injured in Basra and the widow of one who was killed. These men chose to enlist in the army and were prepared to fight and kill.
The presenter then followed with a brief reference to the number of Iraqi people who were killed in the ten years of the war as 110,000. Channel 4 were using the Iraq Body Count figure of course which is incorrect by a multiple of at least 10.
viz
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered In US War And Occupation Of Iraq “1,455,590”.
Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan $1,435,033,003,185
See Information Clearing House website.
4Thought followed the news and was presented by a woman self-described as Jewish who, when talking about food, managed to introduce the subject of the holocaust. Always victimhood. No other peoples have ever died in genocides.
http://www.4thought.tv/themes/does-god-really-care-what-we-eat/georgie-tarn?autoplay=true
“Ho hum, I hate polarised debates. On the one hand, “nuclear will kill us all”; on the other, it’s the safest form of power generation ever devised. On the one hand, renewables will easily supply all our needs; on the other, it’s just a scam to make money for landowners.”
Clark; We’re all hostages to ‘purity’. What shall we do about those cow farts? Really, any power source or resource can be reduced to the lowest common denominator. Carnivores can withstand a vegan onslaught, because of that specific protein not replicated what’s found in the combo of rice and beans.
Speaking of Radio 4, I note that this evening’s Any Questions panellists include Jack Straw and Peter Lilley.
I’ll wager that Merry Mary will post something disagreeable about one or both of these two within 45 minutes of the programme ending!
(Unless of course she’s feeling tired and tonight’s resident Useful Idiot , one “Villager”, stands in for her)
Attaboy
“Field coils are just copper with an iron core, nothing exotic.”
No Fred the coil is the electrical conductor, the core is the magnetic inductor. Describing and inductor as a lump of iron is just as accurate as describing a magnet as one.
Non-specialised kinds of iron make very poor inductors, they dont have the correct magnetic and electrical properties. Even common household transformers are made with specially doped steel laminations. Ultimate inductors for nuclear powerplants could be made from any combination of rare materials, such as magnetite – probably classified info in regards to our god like nuclear engineers designs though.
But this is all besides the point, wind power generation if it were shown to be addicted to neodynium is going to be a small issue compared to the bulk of problems with mining. To be concerned with mining learn about and do something about mining, dont pretend that by believing a rumour about windmills that is a responsible action against mining.
Hard drives contain neodymium, many expensive speakers contain it, pretty pointlessly, RC toys contain it. I very much doubt there is any study or regulation against nuke power processing infrastructure employing it, and there is no particular reason why wind turbines need it – they have little weight requirement to optimise and they can employ electromagnets as routinely as larger generators do. Even household squirrel motors generate their own magnetic feild. To regulate neodymium , regulate neodymium, not wind turbines !
Mary @ 8:29
Perpetual war is the only permanent employer…(see Children of Men)
Villager, I may not have your computer skills, but at least I can read. If you could, you might have noticed I was asking a rhetorical question and therefore there is no neeed for you to “answer” me. Thanks for the offer, though.
PS – re computer skills (you) v. reading ability (me) : I read somewhere that a monkey can, after much training, acquire some basic computer skills. But no monkey has ever been taught how to read, nor will he ever be. Think about it 🙂
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La vita è bella, life is good!
Thanks Mark, of course equipment requires maintenance, depending on how expensively it is forged – however the job of maintaining wind turbines is a healthy fresh aired, active and intelligent kind of activity, a cleaner evolution on the task of maintaining rusting oil platforms and wells not to mention refitting tanks and tankers etc…
Its really not a problematic demand, its good work.
More turbine maintenance in the great outdoors and less financial and cultural trickery and sedentary unfilling drudge economies, this will do nicely.
“Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan $1,435,033,003,185”
Mary, get your facts right 😉 you’re off by only $425 million or so, and climbing.
http://costofwar.com
Btw, did you see that Michio Kaku video i had linked earlier?
Clark @ 7:34
Mallove was brutally beaten to death by two men. Prosecutors often have fiscal concerns, and consider the compromise to be in the People’s interest, just as they do the malicious prosecutions of whistleblowers.
“Habakuk has your Ineffectual Brain gone into a loop? Or have i rattled the Stalker in you just a little bit by laying out some simple home truths?”
Well my questions are not rhetorical. You can answer them.
And don’t deflect by bringing in monkey-talk. We are talking about the rather serious subject of human beings living life and stalking their own shadows and others like parasites and worms.
Ms Tarn used the expression ‘the table is heaving’ on 4Thought. The tables are not heaving in Gaza, in the ‘West Bank’, in Syria or in the poor homes in the UK now dependent on food banks.
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The BBC is giving full welly to a farewell to the Television Centre and to all the celebs who performed there. Nary a mention of the late departed Jimmy Savile of course!
Mary, i agree. The only thing that’s heaving are the bloody military and ‘defence’ budgets of the bloodthirsty vampires.
Thanks Clark I`m glad they caught his killers
“The Lessons of the 3.11 Meltdown for Japanese Nuclear Power: Citizenship Vs. A Corporate Culture of Collusion”
http://japanfocus.org/events/view/164
“Electric cars require a battery to be charged. Moving cars do sometimes collide with things and a charged battery is like a bomb that will explode if short circuited by physical damage.
Apart from that they are extremely efficient only requiring a certain amount of charging management.”
They need replacing every few years as well and they are not cheap, thousands of pounds.
I do not regularly listen to Any Questions, if ever, and certainly do not want to hear anything coming out of the mouth of a war criminal like Straw who should be in a cold cell on an island somewhere with a loop playing 24/7 of the screams of one unfortunate rendered and tortured under his charge.
Nor do I use a RSS feed what ever that is ?? I use a knife and fork normally.
btw There is overuse of the smiley emoticon on this blog. There is very little to smile about at the moment in this benighted country.
Dave;
“Bosch to Abandon Solar Energy Business”
Siemans, ditto. ‘shrinking subsidies’ is a big part of this. If the correct view of government is like a coalition of citizens working toward a collective goal for the good of all, then subsidizing with grants and tax incentives is the path to green.
Weren’t transistors very expensive in the 50’s? Didn’t government contracts for mass production create a lower ‘cost-per-unit’ leading to the vast ‘information age’?.
That is what government should be doing.