Windfarm anyone?

[Lancashire Lassie]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

Moors windfarm plan (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Looks like Accrington might be getting a windfarm!!!

That is if the plans go in and the meetings with councillors go ok and public meetings etc

oh i do apologise i just started another thread with this!!!sorry xx

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

More like a dosimeter, it collects information which they can read off as to the radiation levels you've been exposed to. The Military had a watch like one the lads would wear in a nuclear environment & the RSM/2ic would take readings daily to assess exposure & survivability of the individual soldier.

I know Dave it was tongue in cheek mate, the smileys were the give away

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

Yes DinG, they are in fact Dosimeters - a small piece of a type of photographic film which "fogged" when exposed to certain wavelength bands - the nasty ones.
We had to wear 2, one on our left lapel and the other on the cuff - depended whether you were R or L handed.

I think that would have been Springfields Jay. They manufactured parts/equipment for the nuclear industry - not just power stations.

Ya Barrie Springfields, It had a sign outside saying British Nuclear fuels Ltd , that was back in 76

[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

More like a dosimeter, it collects information which they can read off as to the radiation levels you've been exposed to. The Military had a watch like one the lads would wear in a nuclear environment & the RSM/2ic would take readings daily to assess exposure & survivability of the individual soldier.

I always thought that squaddies were checked at night - if they glowed in the dark they had either received a high dose of radiation or eaten too much Ready Brek for breakfast

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

I always thought that squaddies were checked at night - if they glowed in the dark they had either received a high dose of radiation or eaten too much Ready Brek for breakfast

If Squaddies are glowing in the dark it's a fair bet it's down to Alcohol

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

If Squaddies are glowing in the dark it's a fair bet it's down to Alcohol

Probably a racing cert Dave

[steeljack]

Originally Posted by g jones

I met with National Grid who are analysing the supply from Heysham and Sellafield. The latter going from 200 megawatt with a new reactor to 3.6 gigawatt. A whole new electricity backbone will have to be put in place.
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can anyone with a bit of technical/electrical knowledge tell us how much bigger % wise 3.6 gigawatt is over 200 megawatt .... seems heck of a lot

[Less]

Originally Posted by steeljack

can anyone with a bit of technical/electrical knowledge tell us how much bigger % wise 3.6 gigawatt is over 200 megawatt .... seems heck of a lot

200 megawatt = 200,000,000 watts

3.6 gigawatt = 3,600,000,000 watts

So it's only 18 times as big.

[garinda]

The Germans are coming.

Invasion imminent.

Energiekontor has reached financial close for its €75m Hyndburn wind farm in Lancashire.
http://renews.biz/story.php?page_id=74&news_id=620

[Less]

Originally Posted by garinda

The Germans are coming.

Invasion imminent.

Energiekontor has reached financial close for its €75m Hyndburn wind farm in Lancashire.
reNews Europe: England & Wales

Good.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by garinda

The Germans are coming.

Invasion imminent.

Energiekontor has reached financial close for its €75m Hyndburn wind farm in Lancashire.
reNews Europe: England & Wales

they said that in 39 n were still waiting.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Less

Good.

Better if it were a British company, who were about to profit massively from the winds that blow across Lancashire.

Better still, if the ugly thinks were stuck out in the Irish Sea, where they couldn't be viewed as a blot on the landscape.

Even better than both, if a British company was harvesting tidal power, of which we have some of the most dramatic on the planet.

As you can guess, I'm not a German sympathiser, and therefore don't think this news is particularly good.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by cashman

they said that in 39 n were still waiting.

Perhaps they decided they preferred Jerseys with their Bratwursts, rather than Ormskirks.

[Less]

Well I think it's good, that's why I said,


Good.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Less

Well I think it's good, that's why I said,


Good.

As is your right.

I don't, and eleborated on that, by giving reasons why.

Which didn't take a great deal of energy.