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In other news, all the runner beans I sowed (in professional soil in bog-roll tubes, in a box, under netting, on a table in our garden) appear to have been eaten by something. Normally if I plant them in the autumn they come up before winter. I may have been a little late sowing them, but wtf has ea...

It's very telling that, according to reports at the time, the conference the CEO was due to speak at didn't miss a beat. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they even bothered with a minute's silence. Classic fodder for the thesis of that book (and also a film) 'The Corporation'. Mean...

I'm usually an optimistic soul but, unless you happen to be Syrian, I can't think of a way that 2025 can bring us much in the way of improvement from 2024. One good trend that I've noticed is that renewbles are generally now cheaper than fossil fuels - Pakistan, for example (of all places!) is going...

I've not been on here for a couple of weeks but I notice that no-one has mentioned 'recent events' in the USA. I think their new president is going to put that anti-vaccination chap RFK jr in charge of Health. And they don't like lockdowns, or most other public health measures either, in large swath...

Here in York the Gurkhas of Imphal Barracks do a lot of the emergency 'stuff' during/after our floods (which are quite a common occurrence).
But HMG in their wisdom are closing the baracks down.

Been there, written that! From 'The Price of Time', at the point in the story when the main character has just done a school talk about Fracking: “Ok, any questions?” She’d forgotten about St Chad’s being a Church school, and the haunted wing of the Church at that. The question-and-answer session de...

Perhaps all the materials research that has led to better magnets (for dynamos, e.g. in wind turbines) and batteries (for electric cars) would have heppened earlier, through necessity. Physicists were still collaborating across the Iron Curtain back in the day, I think. I mean I remember reading Rus...

Many moons ago, in my previous job (in 2007 if I recall) AllEnergy, the Renewbables Trade Expo in Aberdeen, announced a competition for a working CCS that was demonstrably easy to scale up. The generous prize, as far as I'm aware, was never claimed. Meanwhile here's a useful vid from Australia: http...

Both Ukraine and South Korea are reporting intelligence that North Korea is preparing to send up to 12000 troops to fight for Russia in Ukraine. Other sources remain skeptical. 12000 well trained troops would be a significant boost to Russia at this phase in a war of attrition. Lloyd Autin has now ...

Renewables and nuclear are not a good partnership - at least not nuclear as it's being built here in the UK. It can't laod-follow: it's either "on" or "off", in quanta of hundreds of MWatts. Our last coal-fired gen got shut down for good today and everybody's saying what a landma...

Since May of 2022 my 'office' has been in our attic. I bought two external roller blinds that fit the Velux windows. They were quite easy to fit. I think they lower the temperature here in the attic by about 3 degrees - but the difference between, say, 31 and 28 degC matters when you're trying to co...

I have found, quite by accident, that the best Prepping I have done over the past 5 years is to be lucky enough to land a job! I still make wine, grow things on the Plot, and all the other things here at Chateau Renewable are still chuntering along, which is nice. Ten years ago I got a lunchtime job...

"It's still ridiculous."
Which is a pity, but here we are.

Catweazle wrote: ↑19 Aug 2024, 23:57 We've been practising Lifeboat Ethics for ages. Every time we feed our pet dog and a child starves in the third world we make that choice.

This is one of the many reasons why there are no pets here at Chateau Renewable.

I hope you have the bathroom well ventilated and closed off from the rest of the house or you are going to cause damp problems probably in the bedrooms by using a calor heater which gives off a large amount of water vapour. Ya beat me to it with the damp issue. Deffo only work the thing in the bath...