Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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#41
Biofuels kill hundreds of thousands of people every year because corporations are paid huge amounts to grow crops for fuel to go into people's cars and not feed hungry mouths. No ifs no buts.
Tidal won't work. It's far too expensive and we would have to ring the entire UK to gain any real benefit. The damage to local ecology would be huge. It's a non-starter.
We won't be running out of oil as soon as people think.
A couple of years after oil was discovered people were saying the same thing and did so every few years as they do today. Peak oil is totally overplayed at the moment. Besides coal, gas, nuclear and other technologies in the future will solve any perceived crisis. It's what mankind does reasonably well - innovation.
Still if your'e all happy to let big solar and wind companies put their fingers in your pockets and take your hard earned wages be my guest. I rather find the idea disdainful.
Too much sentimentality surrounding this issue instead of a hard headed look into the realities. Gweeeen issues mean that people who want to save the planet are caring, sharing, deep, intelligent, thoughtful and want the best for their fellow man. Those who think it's bunkum are fascists and rich and nasty and, and, and probably wear bowler hats and carry briefcases full of papers and are horwiiiiiid!
#42
BoIIicks. It is simply hard headed thinking to want to plan ahead and not assume "it will all be all right". Which approach seems to you to be the most away with the fairies?
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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#43
Hmmn, food for thought there Bern. Completely swayed by your point of view.
#44
Fortunately your ability to simply hope for the best sways me not a jot. I will generally prefer thinking to hoping.
Guest 722- Registered: 23 Aug 2011
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#45
If the planners wanted to be greener, they should have knocked the towers down before building the new roads nearby. Thousands of tons of material has been brought in to build the roads. Now thousands of tons of crushed concrete will have to be taken away !
Does anyone know what time the demolition is planned ? I would love to watch (I assume they will be blown up and not knocked down bit by bit !)
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#46
Mmmmm, Interesting Andy...that collapse in the sea-wall, the extension to the pier....
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#47
Philip, because of coal, in the period of the Industrial Revolution a species of white moths became black in Britain's cities. The reason being, the black moths among the crowd were the black sheep of the family. They were rare!
The coal had turned buildings grey-black, and as a result, the white moths were easily detected by their prey: blind bats, owls, whatever.
The black moths went undetected, and so, as more likely carriers of the black gene, they multiplied, and the white moths didn't. Within a few generations the moth species became black in London and other UK cities, but not in the countryside, where there were no factories and train stations.
The evolutionists of the nineteenth century interpreted this as proof that we descend from apes. But it had nothing to do with evolution, as the black moth was already present in the moth species, like the black sheep is among the ovine members
I would rather spend an extra tenner on renewable energies, Philip. Have you calculated what would happen if an atomic disaster happened in a nuclear fusion plant?
I bet you haven't!
And why? Because you believe every reassuring word that comes from the mouths of scientists.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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#48
Sorry, they were easily detected by their predators...
Guest 666- Registered: 25 Mar 2008
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#49
Three close explosions this morning at 09.00am that rumbled everything, a bit like the aftershock from the Folkestone earthquake.
Could not get anywhere near, any picture people?
Just wondering why only 3 explosions? is the tall chimney still standing? Maybe they timed the towers to fall in and topple the towers.
Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
Guest 659- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#50
video link on the Going going gone thread
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#51
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doverpast/sets/72157629195026020/
I think two cooling towers went down together and then the last cooling tower, then finally the chimney
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#52
Also several videos on YouTube already.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
