Have you stocked up with candles?
Cressers
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Well, I tried to stock up with a few initially courtesy of a local hardware shop, but due to a misunderstanding seem to have ended up with some handles for forks
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David
[1] Apologies to Messrs. Barker & Corbett."It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal0 -
This is one reason why we need more nuclear power stations & to be more efficient in our use of power.'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.0
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Don't reckon nuclear power stations will be ready in time...0
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We'll end up having to buy most of our energy from Europe and given that we'll be a captive audience I'd recommend buying shares in foreign energy producers!0
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I wouldn't worry isn't the world supposed to end on 22 December 2012?!
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stevenmh wrote:I wouldn't worry isn't the world supposed to end on 22 December 2012?!
Yes, HA HA, at last something works out in my favour, I dont start paying for my Sofa until just after that . 0 -
Double post, stoopid forum.0
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We wouldn't be that lucky. Out not with a BANG! but a protracted and unpleasent whimper that has already begun...0
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In the same way everything was supposed to have gone tits up at the turn of the century? Or Nostradamus, per chance?0
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No one took Nostrodamus or Y2K seriously, they were things that may happen. The mess we're making of the one planet we know to be habitable IS being made worse all the time...0
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Cressers wrote:No one took Nostrodamus or Y2K seriously, they were things that may happen. The mess we're making of the one planet we know to be habitable IS being made worse all the time...
Thats not much of a surprise though is it?0 -
Y2K you could understand, at least until early 1999 when systems that were dealing with post -2K dates still kept functioning.0
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meh, don't need candles, i can see fine in the dark. However the hob is electric so we'll be stocking up on bbq coal and firelighters...0
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Forecast famines never happen. And probably for good economic reasons that the Economist magazine shoudl be able to consider.
The article points out the improbability of any one power source supplying the solution but perhaps should concentrate on parts of the (whole) solution coming from each source.
The real problem we all have to deal with every day is too many bl**dy journalists, too much news media and too much space to fill.Where the neon madmen climb0 -
why not make every household have at least 1 bike attached to a turbo trainer and dynamo system. We wouldn't have a very obese population for long
Plus if you could save up the leccy you produce just think how much training you could get in without the missus whingeing Bianchi. There are no alternatives only compromises!
I RIDE A KONA CADABRA -would you like to come and have a play with my magic link?0 -
compressed liquid gas will be shipped in from places like russia, as one tanker full is equivilent to the gas pumped out in 21 days from the North sea.0
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Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:why not make every household have at least 1 bike attached to a turbo trainer and dynamo system. We wouldn't have a very obese population for long
Plus if you could save up the leccy you produce just think how much training you could get in without the missus whingeing
criminals and ne'erdowells could be forced to generate leccy for us civilised folk :!:'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'0 -
If the fuel runs out, do we get the roads to ourselves?
Always a silver lining None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.0 -
I wonder how much leccie we would save if we shut down digital broadcasting and went back to 5 terrestrial tv channels?0
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Porgy wrote:I wonder how much leccie we would save if we shut down digital broadcasting and went back to 5 terrestrial tv channels?
Ah, but then couldn't watch TdF on ITV4...0 -
Surf-Matt wrote:Or if people realised that 50"++ plasma TVs that suck a zillion watts a day are actually just for cretinous chavs on housing estates?
'Interesting' opinion...0 -
We`re all doomed, dooomed!
{and the sky is falling in}Smarter than the average bear.0 -
Monkeypump wrote:Surf-Matt wrote:Or if people realised that 50"++ plasma TVs that suck a zillion watts a day are actually just for cretinous chavs on housing estates?
'Interesting' opinion...
i bet you have a plasma tv - doncha?0 -
Plasma suck a huge amount of power - and they just aren't cool.
I wish people would realise that a 50" TV in a pokey little sitting room is maybe a bit daft...0 -
Porgy wrote:
i bet you have a plasma tv - doncha?
Er... what gave it away?
LCD actually, and not quite 50", but lets not split hairs.
And sorry it's not cool, Surf-Matt, but I like it (especially with the Blu-ray and surround sound).0 -
LCD is ok, it`s the plamas that use all the power.Smarter than the average bear.0
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Duh, I thought you goe 'lectric from a plug in the wall?0
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Well I've got my solar panel. My lighting circuit will be run from a bettery/inverter setup from next week. I haven't got enough power to run the whole house mains.To err is human, but to make a real balls up takes a super computer.0
