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Post by Hereward the Wake ᛊᛏᛟᚲᛖ on Sept 19, 2022 9:36:17 GMT
I hope them vehicles are electric. 🤔
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Post by Vadiation_Ribe on Sept 19, 2022 15:11:14 GMT
I'd like to know where they get this 8 years old being the life of a car before they're off the road. Is this for Pimlico in London? Me and my lad have got 4 cars between us with the 'newest' being 13 years old and the oldest (mine, and it's only done 50,000 miles) being 21 years old. Many dealers today will snap your hands off for an 8 year old car in decent condition because S/H car prices have rocketed due to the unavailability of new cars. OS. As mrcoke corrected that must be the age of those driving around. How do you only do 2k miles a year? My trick was finding a mate who doesn't drink and making him designated driver for every event! I've completed many a year with about 2k-4k on the clock, even with occasional drives to Manchester and Birmingham and road trips to Scotland. Working locally for many years and then later on travelling to work with a combination of cycle and train helped.
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Post by Northy on Sept 28, 2022 11:39:37 GMT
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Post by mrcoke on Oct 5, 2022 18:36:30 GMT
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Post by mrcoke on Oct 17, 2022 18:25:31 GMT
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Post by Northy on Oct 24, 2022 7:59:14 GMT
A shame that Stoke just seems to get warehouses and similar on its former coal sites
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Post by Northy on Oct 24, 2022 8:00:05 GMT
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Post by mrcoke on Oct 30, 2022 15:52:22 GMT
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Post by wannabee on Oct 30, 2022 23:51:07 GMT
The answer to your question is yes Biden will attend COP 27 and thank goodness he will as he actually has some influence to make change unlike Charles 111 When he arrived for COP 26 as your smirking YouTube implied Do you think he should have got the Bus? Do you think Bozo's departure from COP 26 required a Private Plane to attend a dinner with well known Climate Change sceptic Charles Moore? www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-races-back-cop-25371485Rishi will not attend COP 27. COP is an abbreviation of Conference of the Parties. Rishi's non attendance signals a de Nile ( sadly not in Egypt) that UK is no longer a Party to combating Climate Change
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Post by oggyoggy on Oct 31, 2022 7:32:57 GMT
Lula wins in Brazil. Big win for the environment.
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Post by mrcoke on Oct 31, 2022 10:52:08 GMT
The answer to your question is yes Biden will attend COP 27 and thank goodness he will as he actually has some influence to make change unlike Charles 111 When he arrived for COP 26 as your smirking YouTube implied Do you think he should have got the Bus? Do you think Bozo's departure from COP 26 required a Private Plane to attend a dinner with well known Climate Change sceptic Charles Moore? www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-races-back-cop-25371485Rishi will not attend COP 27. COP is an abbreviation of Conference of the Parties. Rishi's non attendance signals a de Nile ( sadly not in Egypt) that UK is no longer a Party to combating Climate Change Thankyou for letting me know Biden will be attending. I do not understand your second sentence. The YouTube post was not mine. The point of my post was that the king has been advised not to attend by the government, which is effectively telling him he can't go. Maybe in the interests of the environment or cost to the country? Nevertheless the king has found a way of exerting some influence on climate change. As I know from personal experience Charles will be button-holing those industry leaders to ask them what they are doing about the environment. I hope Sunak's decision not to go does not signal a negative attitude to climate change, and that he has a change of mind and decides to go. The UK is the number 1 country in the world* committed to wind power and I hope this latest variation of a Tory government that is now in power, is still committed to combating climate change. As to how Sunak should get there, should he go, I think it would send a huge signal to the world how important combating climate change is, if he were to go in a rowing boat or sail in a yacht. I wonder if anyone attending the COP conference has thought of that? * www.renewableuk.com/news/599739/Offshore-wind-pipeline-surges-to-86-gigawatts-boosting-UKs-energy-independence
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Post by wannabee on Oct 31, 2022 13:06:29 GMT
The answer to your question is yes Biden will attend COP 27 and thank goodness he will as he actually has some influence to make change unlike Charles 111 When he arrived for COP 26 as your smirking YouTube implied Do you think he should have got the Bus? Do you think Bozo's departure from COP 26 required a Private Plane to attend a dinner with well known Climate Change sceptic Charles Moore? www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson-races-back-cop-25371485Rishi will not attend COP 27. COP is an abbreviation of Conference of the Parties. Rishi's non attendance signals a de Nile ( sadly not in Egypt) that UK is no longer a Party to combating Climate Change Thankyou for letting me know Biden will be attending. I do not understand your second sentence. The YouTube post was not mine. The point of my post was that the king has been advised not to attend by the government, which is effectively telling him he can't go. Maybe in the interests of the environment or cost to the country? Nevertheless the king has found a way of exerting some influence on climate change. As I know from personal experience Charles will be button-holing those industry leaders to ask them what they are doing about the environment. I hope Sunak's decision not to go does not signal a negative attitude to climate change, and that he has a change of mind and decides to go. The UK is the number 1 country in the world* committed to wind power and I hope this latest variation of a Tory government that is now in power, is still committed to combating climate change. As to how Sunak should get there, should he go, I think it would send a huge signal to the world how important combating climate change is, if he were to go in a rowing boat or sail in a yacht. I wonder if anyone attending the COP conference has thought of that? * www.renewableuk.com/news/599739/Offshore-wind-pipeline-surges-to-86-gigawatts-boosting-UKs-energy-independence Quoting Bianco's post surely endorsed it you could have asked same question without doing so. Never mind The signals sent out by Rishi's Administration in relation to Climate Change in such a short space of time send out very negative messages UK is still President of COP until handover in Egypt The highest ranking member of Government confirmed as attending is Alok Sharma who Rishi just removed from a Cabinet Position Whether you agree or not if Charles 111 attendance would have been beneficial the signal is de-emphasising I suspect Rishi will attend if only for a short visit but the damage has been done to indicate where his priorities lay and will also be seen that he was provoked by Bozo
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Post by wannabee on Oct 31, 2022 14:34:55 GMT
The Lord Giveth www.gov.uk/government/news/government-backs-britishvolt-plans-for-blyth-gigafactory-to-build-electric-vehicle-batteriesPrime Minister Boris Johnson, said: Britishvolt’s plan to build a new gigafactory in Northumberland is a strong testament to the skilled workers of the North East and the UK’s place at the helm of the global green industrial revolution This would have been the UKs first EV Battery Giga Factory in a market dominated by China. In total 38 giga factories are in the pipeline across Europe most with a linkup with an Automotive Manufacturer And the Lord Taketh away www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/31/uk-battery-firm-britishvolt-administration-gigafactoryBritishvolt was founded less than three years ago with the ambitious aim of building an enormous factory that would be able to supply batteries to carmakers. It quickly became a flagship project for the UK automotive industry, and gained the support of the former prime minister Boris Johnson, who repeatedly cited the project as an example of Britain leading the way in a shift from fossil fuels. It's obvious EV Battery Giga factories are needed to be collocated to support Automotive Manufacturer But I guess not in UK unless something dramatic happens
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Post by mrcoke on Oct 31, 2022 15:04:08 GMT
Thankyou for letting me know Biden will be attending. I do not understand your second sentence. The YouTube post was not mine. The point of my post was that the king has been advised not to attend by the government, which is effectively telling him he can't go. Maybe in the interests of the environment or cost to the country? Nevertheless the king has found a way of exerting some influence on climate change. As I know from personal experience Charles will be button-holing those industry leaders to ask them what they are doing about the environment. I hope Sunak's decision not to go does not signal a negative attitude to climate change, and that he has a change of mind and decides to go. The UK is the number 1 country in the world* committed to wind power and I hope this latest variation of a Tory government that is now in power, is still committed to combating climate change. As to how Sunak should get there, should he go, I think it would send a huge signal to the world how important combating climate change is, if he were to go in a rowing boat or sail in a yacht. I wonder if anyone attending the COP conference has thought of that? * www.renewableuk.com/news/599739/Offshore-wind-pipeline-surges-to-86-gigawatts-boosting-UKs-energy-independence Quoting Bianco's post surely endorsed it you could have asked same question without doing so. Never mind The signals sent out by Rishi's Administration in relation to Climate Change in such a short space of time send out very negative messages UK is still President of COP until handover in Egypt The highest ranking member of Government confirmed as attending is Alok Sharma who Rishi just removed from a Cabinet Position Whether you agree or not if Charles 111 attendance would have been beneficial the signal is de-emphasising I suspect Rishi will attend if only for a short visit but the damage has been done to indicate where his priorities lay and will also be seen that he was provoked by Bozo Your first sentence reminds me of something I learnt on a communications course that I attended many years ago that was recently on my mind, following the death of Robbie Coltrane. The course was set up by Prof. David Canter who was a criminal psychologist and on whom the TV series Cracker was based. One of the many issues covered on the course was the barriers to communication, one of which was "the messenger". Many people fail to understand a communication because they put their own interpretation of the meaning based on the person delivering the message, rather than what actually stated or written. As for Sunak attending the COP, I did not realise that the conference goes on till after the government's planned financial statement. In view of the mess Truss and her Chancellor caused during their brief tenure, I suspect Sunak considers the most important issue facing the UK today is to restore the financial market's confidence in the UK. Consequently swanning off to Egypt for a long period for a conference that is essentially about spending more, he probably considers his attendance is sending the wrong message to the markets. As you say he is de-emphasising spending, in this case on the environment. We can all expect there will be a lot of reduced spending on virtually everything in the financial statement. If he changes his mind due to environmentalists' pressure, and puts in an appearance, then the media will be all over him for doing a U turn.
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Post by wannabee on Oct 31, 2022 15:17:14 GMT
Quoting Bianco's post surely endorsed it you could have asked same question without doing so. Never mind The signals sent out by Rishi's Administration in relation to Climate Change in such a short space of time send out very negative messages UK is still President of COP until handover in Egypt The highest ranking member of Government confirmed as attending is Alok Sharma who Rishi just removed from a Cabinet Position Whether you agree or not if Charles 111 attendance would have been beneficial the signal is de-emphasising I suspect Rishi will attend if only for a short visit but the damage has been done to indicate where his priorities lay and will also be seen that he was provoked by Bozo Your first sentence reminds me of something I learnt on a communications course that I attended many years ago that was recently on my mind, following the death of Robbie Coltrane. The course was set up by Prof. David Canter who was a criminal psychologist and on whom the TV series Cracker was based. One of the many issues covered on the course was the barriers to communication, one of which was "the messenger". Many people fail to understand a communication because they put their own interpretation of the meaning based on the person delivering the message, rather than what actually stated or written. As for Sunak attending the COP, I did not realise that the conference goes on till after the government's planned financial statement. In view of the mess Truss and her Chancellor caused during their brief tenure, I suspect Sunak considers the most important issue facing the UK today is to restore the financial market's confidence in the UK. Consequently swanning off to Egypt for a long period for a conference that is essentially about spending more, he probably considers his attendance is sending the wrong message to the markets. As you say he is de-emphasising spending, in this case on the environment. We can all expect there will be a lot of reduced spending on virtually everything in the financial statement. If he changes his mind due to environmentalists' pressure, and puts in an appearance, then the media will be all over him for doing a U turn. A mere cursory review of Bianco's posts would tell you precisely what his intent was. You don't need to be a Psychologist to work it out. I agree Rishi has dug himself a hole of his own making "Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't " Nobody expects World Leaders to spend to weeks in Egypt at a conference its preposterous to even suggest it.
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Post by PotteringThrough on Nov 2, 2022 11:38:47 GMT
He’s in lads, Rishi’s got a pass from his missus for a few days away on the lash:
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Post by superjw on Nov 2, 2022 11:44:16 GMT
He’s in lads, Rishi’s got a pass from his missus for a few days away on the lash: Unless he specifically means investing in nuclear, renewables alone don’t provide enough energy security in the UK. Nuclear should be the heart of the energy network first and foremost so we can move off fossil fuel.[
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Post by mrcoke on Nov 2, 2022 13:20:45 GMT
He’s in lads, Rishi’s got a pass from his missus for a few days away on the lash: Unless he specifically means investing in nuclear, renewables alone don’t provide enough energy security in the UK. Nuclear should be the heart of the energy network first and foremost so we can move off fossil fuel.[ I agree. Johnson's government made announcements before Johnson was turfed out: www.gov.uk/government/news/government-fund-to-accelerate-nuclear-fuel-supply-openswww.edfenergy.com/energy/nuclear-new-build-projects/sizewell-c/proposalsThe government announced a raft of initiatives before the COP in Glasgow. I expect they will claim credit for the above as additional measures since then, but it would not surprise me to see them water down lots of the initiatives as part of the austerity measures, i.e. slow the release of funds. Bad news from Germany is they are being forced to start up old coal fired power stations due the the war in Ukraine and gas shortage/curtailment. www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/10/28/the-iron-law-of-electricity-strikes-again-germany-re-opens-five-lignite-fired-power-plants/?sh=1088b7873d0cGermany commissioned its last new coal fired plant in May 2020, which they say will close in 2038. They have already have started up some mothballed plants and have 16 available to start up again if necessary. It is not clear how many coal fired plants are working or available, but the FT says Germany is currently using coal for a third of its electricity - that's a lot! The UK has 3 coal fired plants left operating and is planning to close them by October 2024. We'll see. On the renewables front, today's news is Japan's Tepco Renewable Power has acquired Edinburgh-based Flotation Energy, which developed the world's largest floating offshore wind farm at Kincardine.
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Post by elystokie on Nov 2, 2022 14:25:02 GMT
Unless he specifically means investing in nuclear, renewables alone don’t provide enough energy security in the UK. Nuclear should be the heart of the energy network first and foremost so we can move off fossil fuel.[ I agree. Johnson's government made announcements before Johnson was turfed out: www.gov.uk/government/news/government-fund-to-accelerate-nuclear-fuel-supply-openswww.edfenergy.com/energy/nuclear-new-build-projects/sizewell-c/proposalsThe government announced a raft of initiatives before the COP in Glasgow. I expect they will claim credit for the above as additional measures since then, but it would not surprise me to see them water down lots of the initiatives as part of the austerity measures, i.e. slow the release of funds. Bad news from Germany is they are being forced to start up old coal fired power stations due the the war in Ukraine and gas shortage/curtailment. www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2022/10/28/the-iron-law-of-electricity-strikes-again-germany-re-opens-five-lignite-fired-power-plants/?sh=1088b7873d0cGermany commissioned its last new coal fired plant in May 2020, which they say will close in 2038. They have already have started up some mothballed plants and have 16 available to start up again if necessary. It is not clear how many coal fired plants are working or available, but the FT says Germany is currently using coal for a third of its electricity - that's a lot! The UK has 3 coal fired plants left operating and is planning to close them by October 2024. We'll see. On the renewables front, today's news is Japan's Tepco Renewable Power has acquired Edinburgh-based Flotation Energy, which developed the world's largest floating offshore wind farm at Kincardine. We restarted one of our own coal fired power station last year, before the invasion of Ukraine took place. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58469238Is there really still 3 operating?
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Post by mrcoke on Nov 2, 2022 14:30:35 GMT
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Post by elystokie on Nov 2, 2022 14:39:24 GMT
I see, apparently scheduled to close September just gone but the operating companies were financially incentivised by the government to keep them open for 6 months longer. I honestly thought they'd all been switched to burning wood pellets a while back.
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Post by mrcoke on Nov 2, 2022 15:05:30 GMT
I see, apparently scheduled to close September just gone but the operating companies were financially incentivised by the government to keep them open for 6 months longer. I honestly thought they'd all been switched to burning wood pellets a while back. My understanding is that we should be down to just one cf station today but other factors have forced the government to keep an extra 2 open. Firstly last year's summer there was an anticyclone sitting over the North Sea for many weeks resulting in low wind power generation due to lack of wind and a coal fired station was brought back into service. This year the war has reduced gas availability despite the UK using little Russian gas and there has been high demand for electricity for France due to them having lots of nuclear power out of service for maintenance. The French nuclear power is very large but getting old and needs lots of maintenance and I suspect maintenance fell behind schedule during the pandemic.
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Post by elystokie on Nov 2, 2022 15:11:34 GMT
I see, apparently scheduled to close September just gone but the operating companies were financially incentivised by the government to keep them open for 6 months longer. I honestly thought they'd all been switched to burning wood pellets a while back. My understanding is that we should be down to just one cf station today but other factors have forced the government to keep an extra 2 open. Firstly last year's summer there was an anticyclone sitting over the North Sea for many weeks resulting in low wind power generation due to lack of wind and a coal fired station was brought back into service. This year the war has reduced gas availability despite the UK using little Russian gas and there has been high demand for electricity for France due to them having lots of nuclear power out of service for maintenance. The French nuclear power is very large but getting old and needs lots of maintenance and I suspect maintenance fell behind schedule during the pandemic. I've lost touch since quitting the industry but 5 years ago it was looking like coal was more or less done with then, never would have thought we'd still be using it now.
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Post by Northy on Nov 2, 2022 16:08:16 GMT
Yes, but two go next year and one after, they only prodabput 3 gw/h though
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Post by elystokie on Nov 2, 2022 16:31:33 GMT
Yes, but two go next year and one after, they only prodabput 3 gw/h though Last one I was on was 840MW (not coal) and that was considered 2% of the UK's needs, can't remember if that was of the average or the max, 3 or 4 times that is still a fair chunk either way, have they got more CCGTs or nuclear opening or are renewables forecast to take up the slack?
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Post by wannabee on Nov 2, 2022 17:30:58 GMT
He’s in lads, Rishi’s got a pass from his missus for a few days away on the lash: To the surprise of no one Rishi has made a U-Turn and will pay lip service and attend Cop27 not to be upstaged by Bozo Rishi seems well qualified to be PM as he also U-Turned today on ALL his Leadership Election putting them "Under Review" Is it any wonder UK Industry are not making Investment Decisions as they do not have any confidence in what direction this Government is heading
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Post by mrcoke on Nov 2, 2022 17:51:58 GMT
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Post by elystokie on Nov 2, 2022 18:02:20 GMT
You're right I am, especially in light of the recently predicted black outs I'm getting even more cognitive dissonance than usual lol
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Post by wannabee on Nov 2, 2022 20:06:41 GMT
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Post by mrcoke on Nov 2, 2022 22:46:08 GMT
The improvement is in large part due to the weather however, not just capacity. UK, Germany, and Denmark had low wind power generation in 2021 despite record capacity installed. www.cnbc.com/2021/09/29/sse-says-low-wind-dry-conditions-hit-renewable-energy-generation.htmlWe can keep increasing capacity but the wind also needs to blow! I don't think we will be able to shut many gas fired power stations till we have a lot more nuclear available; till then we will have to keep gas fired stations on stand-by.
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