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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Well the 1.1kwhr was the days worth., But in fairness there was only brief breaks in the clouds.... My college actually has a decent power wind turbine ..a 850kw peak power .?. Now I had peripheral responsibility for it, ... But really I had nothing to do with its purchase or commissioning ...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Not as big a deal as you might think any more. The base stations for GSM do have a few days worth of battery power , and solar panels work extremely well. Take today for instance .. We are in near hurricane conditions with Storm Barra , and yet my 3.6KW peak panels actually generated 1.1KW hrs...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The difference was that the Danes went to England and the Norse came to Ireland . In the West the rain comes in at all angles.. simultaneously!!!. . Remember we have 4000 miles of sea between us and the nearest land , enough to get a stiff breeze. Whereas Wales has a paltry 60 miles . Moreover...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Not been in the West of Ireland then?.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Very very normal, and highly desirable. There are still ongoing studies in every medicine known to man. Why do you think Aspirin, the oldest of the synthetic drugs, got a new lease of life as a coronary artery protective, about two decades ago, except on the basis of long term longitudinal studies
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Just when you were beginning to make sense!. No the French did not create Vietnam, it was a very old established country back into antiquity. The French did colonise a slab of it as French Indo China back in the days of empire. Remember the French were the real rivals to British Colonial...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    France stood up... And said No. The entire episode reads like that subplot in " Love Actually"
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    This is why a written constitution matters.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I fully agree with you..its extremely petty in the great scheme of things and should be flagged up only at the doors in an election canvass. Oyster is also correct in that it displays the same arrogance. ..but again the place to bring it up is at the canvass. Having said that I do believe that...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I got such a torch from Halfords of all places and it is exceedingly bright at 1600 lumens focused into bike light beam. . I got it for my daughter who was reduced to travelling by bike the last 3 miles after her 45 minute train journey during the height of the lockdown. One fall justified the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Agreed .. My wife had the Pfizer this week as a third jab and I think she had even less arm soreness than I had. Her previous ones were the AZ.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No flecc... I did not say it doesn't exist,..I said no evidence ...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No flecc. Nobody can say that person A and Person B were put into a room with a specific concentration of virons and because person A survived a bit longer before getting ill that they had the better preparation. However, Statistics does work on large populations. When you take whole...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Hi Woosh... Just a few points . The current vaccines are still highly effective, and have not had their recipes tweaked as of yet. The serious illness ratio to infections is proof of that. The hospitals are still filled with the unvaccinated , rather than the waning vaccinated. Now that those...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Very much the reverse here in my village. In fact I am now noticing people again wearing masks on pretty much deserted promenades. My daily walk schedule brings me along a path through an estate, through a church car park and along the shops and promenade, with a wind howling in from...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    If you want your fingers crossed... Try mittens. Actually mittens are a better option for very cold weather. .. or as the remainders said at Brexit time ...and shared by fingers . We better together.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Wales, , Rugbi , yea figures. .. My wife got her 3 rd dose today, .. 15 minute walk up to the local hotel , 30 + minutes there and the 15 minute walk home. I reckon I got the Rolls Royce Treatment. Phoned from GP a week previous, 6 minute stroll, hanging out side in a courtyard for maybe 15...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yes there are now 44 direct Ireland EU routes as opposed to I think about 18 some 2 years ago. The time difference is not really significant, since UK roads are relatively poor , and the drivers get a 14 hour long kip on the way, so their tachometer gives them a longer reach into Europe. The...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Picked up a little something for my better half..which would possibly be of assistance. A small electric hot water bottle .. basically a small bottle of water in a sealed rubber container and inside a flock velvety cover. A mains unit drives 300 watts into it for about 40 minutes until it...
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    E-scooter rider kills cyclist

    One group who will be hoping for e scooter legalization will be Dentists, ,followed by plastic surgeons