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Years ago we did the caravanning thing and it was fine. The best part was one carried ones ecosystem around. One of my sons had and still has a life limiting condition, and with the caravan we were assured of a safe location each night,with facilities to keep all his meds together, including...

Have you seen a PV panel up close?. The top surface is a sheet of glass .. ,the sides are aluminium strip, and the back is another sheet of aluminium or sometimes more glass. . Were you to grind them up, there would be small quantities of boron , silver, aluminium , phosphorus. There could be...

Off current topic but linked to previous discussions. The Guardian reports today that it is now UK Government policy to ban or at least spancil Solar PV on agricultural land, .. .. On the grounds that it prevents growing crops . Well this is simply bonkers. Experience in Hollywood and...

Not at all ludicrous. The advantage is that Energy gets stored and then consumed when it makes the best use. But the new difference now is that PV related systems are now more efficient in production

Grow things ... Lets say timber or bamboo, and store the timber. CO2 gone efficiency about 2% . Oh and make things from the timber .and bambo...like aircraft, buildings, underwater.

Not so ..there is a consistency in my responses. Ukraine did not believe that Russia would invade. , They did not expect the airborne blitzkrieg, They did not believe that Belarus would be complicit and be a staging post. And remember that they were fighting initially with only a small...

"When you are up to your ass in crocodiles ,its hard to remember you came to drain the swamp"... That is where Ukraine was . Up to now, They hadn't the equipment or the territory to do this action. They were struggling for survival up to a month ago. .and certainly they were when Mariupol...

I built crystal set radios with OC72 s as amplifiers back in those days.

Its going back a fair bit now, but if my memory serves, there there up to 38 valves in those early-ish COLOUR tVs, and when you remember how warm a desktop radio with only 4 or 5 got, it's no surprise. Even the mid 1960s sets had at best only a few transistors, because they were incapable of...

I hope that was tongue in cheek... We do have for instance those hydro pumped storage generators which can supply 300MW for 6 hours and then be replenished off peak. Turn on time is a little over a minute. They just need favourable geographic locations. I had the pleasure of walking the mile...

The key to everything is to reduce the evening 17 to 19:30 peak ... If you look at the grid requirement this is the killer time. ... Factories and offices are only shutting off, dinners are warming in millions of households , TV and the 2 bar heaters are warming toes as people sit down to the...

that is the huge advantage of PR and multiple seat constituencies.. It makes it easier to get voter buy in

"it could have remained completely absent permanently, but for the USA's bigoted political response".. close to agree with you there. But rather than bigoted I would use shortsighted and hubris . However it might be naïve to think that Russian Imperial ambitions ceased with the Cold War...

This was not about speaking Russian. Putin makes the outrageous claim that wherever there are Russians ( in whatever way he chooses to define it), he can go there and liberate them from any oppression ,real or imaginary.

I decided to state the bleeding obvious... .There were no Russian citizens in Ukraine in 2014 . Except for normal visitors in tourist accommodation , businessmen on secondment, and Russian military personnel in naval depot and barracks in Crimea, under lease agreements or fraternal...

By icon I meant the little symbol with a thumbs down you posted.

Flecc . referring to your icon .you can have your own opinion , but not your own facts.

No flecc. All of Ukraine as defined by the 1991 borders is Ukraine. All of Russia as defined by the 1991 borders is Russia. If your point was that there are more Russian sympathetic Ukrainians closer to the Border with Russia , ..well of course. Just like there are more Basque sympathetic...

I respond to the challenge and say again that the Ukrainians were not expecting this attack. Yes they did have a supply of anti tank weapons, mainly of UK ( actually NI ) origin. But they did not think the Russians would attack because the weather had turned and they would not have expected...

The point here was that nobody back in February ,with the exception of the US ..and maybe UK believed that Russia would actually invade. Most certainly the Ukrainians did not believe it. Everything points to that. My belief is that had not the US A spy planes and radar looking down at the...