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Yeeeeessss. Also aware that bears have to poo somewhere. But there's still a perceived barrier.TheBigBean said:
Are you aware of the not insignificant drop in the price of panels over the last 10 years?First.Aspect said:
Solar is interesting. There has to be a way to bring the cost down.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/renewables-cheapest-energy-source/
Getting close, mind you, but perhaps not at these latitudes.0 -
TheBigBean said:
The articles don't support your assertion that it was a massive scam.briantrumpet said:masjer said:They were going to do a large project (tidal barrage) in Swansea, but that never got started.
That was simply a massive scam to try and milk the public purse. As covered by Private Eye.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wales/comments/8lfetm/the_rocky_shorrock_show_swansea_tidal_lagoon/
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/government-swansea-bay-tidal-lagoon/
I was trying to find links to the multiple Private Eye pieces that have documented their shenanigans. It's been featured several times - basically trying to pull a fast one on tax-payers to enrich him & his wife, IIRC.0 -
What barrier?First.Aspect said:
Yeeeeessss. Also aware that bears have to poo somewhere. But there's still a perceived barrier.TheBigBean said:
Are you aware of the not insignificant drop in the price of panels over the last 10 years?First.Aspect said:
Solar is interesting. There has to be a way to bring the cost down.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/renewables-cheapest-energy-source/
Getting close, mind you, but perhaps not at these latitudes.
The answer of the cheapest tech in the UK will shortly be announced when the latest round of CFDs are awarded. It will be close between onshore, offshore and solar.
The main issue at the moment is the impact of covid on supply chains, so some costs have gone up.0 -
Makes sense.TheBigBean said:
What barrier?First.Aspect said:
Yeeeeessss. Also aware that bears have to poo somewhere. But there's still a perceived barrier.TheBigBean said:
Are you aware of the not insignificant drop in the price of panels over the last 10 years?First.Aspect said:
Solar is interesting. There has to be a way to bring the cost down.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/renewables-cheapest-energy-source/
Getting close, mind you, but perhaps not at these latitudes.
The answer of the cheapest tech in the UK will shortly be announced when the latest round of CFDs are awarded. It will be close between onshore, offshore and solar.
The main issue at the moment is the impact of covid on supply chains, so some costs have gone up.
Land use competition was my thought re barriers. Not sure on initial capital outlay.0 -
Don't you mix us up with them Wes' cuntry folks.Stevo_666 said:
You're beyond banjo country there and into webbed fingers and toes territory.pinno said:...and some say Gretna.
We is civilized here; the Witch doctors use hand sanitizer and the women folk have finally learnt one end of a pot brush from the other.
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Land use shouldn't be an issue for solar. Sheep farmers love them as they get an income from the land but can still use it to graze sheep from what I've been told (worked on lots of sites in a previous job and still have a couple). Most of the sites I've seen haven't really been suitable for much other than grazing as I believe (Big Bean might correct me) sloping land is the most efficient. The science in optimising sites is beyond me though, I've looked at plans and don't understand a thing!First.Aspect said:
Makes sense.TheBigBean said:
What barrier?First.Aspect said:
Yeeeeessss. Also aware that bears have to poo somewhere. But there's still a perceived barrier.TheBigBean said:
Are you aware of the not insignificant drop in the price of panels over the last 10 years?First.Aspect said:
Solar is interesting. There has to be a way to bring the cost down.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/renewables-cheapest-energy-source/
Getting close, mind you, but perhaps not at these latitudes.
The answer of the cheapest tech in the UK will shortly be announced when the latest round of CFDs are awarded. It will be close between onshore, offshore and solar.
The main issue at the moment is the impact of covid on supply chains, so some costs have gone up.
Land use competition was my thought re barriers. Not sure on initial capital outlay.0 -
You wouldn't get planning permission on better grade land.Pross said:
Land use shouldn't be an issue for solar. Sheep farmers love them as they get an income from the land but can still use it to graze sheep from what I've been told (worked on lots of sites in a previous job and still have a couple). Most of the sites I've seen haven't really been suitable for much other than grazing as I believe (Big Bean might correct me) sloping land is the most efficient. The science in optimising sites is beyond me though, I've looked at plans and don't understand a thing!First.Aspect said:
Makes sense.TheBigBean said:
What barrier?First.Aspect said:
Yeeeeessss. Also aware that bears have to poo somewhere. But there's still a perceived barrier.TheBigBean said:
Are you aware of the not insignificant drop in the price of panels over the last 10 years?First.Aspect said:
Solar is interesting. There has to be a way to bring the cost down.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/renewables-cheapest-energy-source/
Getting close, mind you, but perhaps not at these latitudes.
The answer of the cheapest tech in the UK will shortly be announced when the latest round of CFDs are awarded. It will be close between onshore, offshore and solar.
The main issue at the moment is the impact of covid on supply chains, so some costs have gone up.
Land use competition was my thought re barriers. Not sure on initial capital outlay.0 -
Let's not get started on the West Country. Even the locals know they are in high six territory.pinno said:
Don't you mix us up with them Wes' cuntry folks.Stevo_666 said:
You're beyond banjo country there and into webbed fingers and toes territory.pinno said:...and some say Gretna.
We is civilized here; the Witch doctors use hand sanitizer and the women folk have finally learnt one end of a pot brush from the other.
https://youtu.be/MevsXakiIK4 "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Only someone with no experience of planning can be shocked at the idea a community fund might be contingent on a successful application. Even things like s106 costs are often largely irrelevant bungs.briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:
The articles don't support your assertion that it was a massive scam.briantrumpet said:masjer said:They were going to do a large project (tidal barrage) in Swansea, but that never got started.
That was simply a massive scam to try and milk the public purse. As covered by Private Eye.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wales/comments/8lfetm/the_rocky_shorrock_show_swansea_tidal_lagoon/
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/government-swansea-bay-tidal-lagoon/
I was trying to find links to the multiple Private Eye pieces that have documented their shenanigans. It's been featured several times - basically trying to pull a fast one on tax-payers to enrich him & his wife, IIRC.0 -
TheBigBean said:
Only someone with no experience of planning can be shocked at the idea a community fund might be contingent on a successful application. Even things like s106 costs are often largely irrelevant bungs.briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:
The articles don't support your assertion that it was a massive scam.briantrumpet said:masjer said:They were going to do a large project (tidal barrage) in Swansea, but that never got started.
That was simply a massive scam to try and milk the public purse. As covered by Private Eye.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Wales/comments/8lfetm/the_rocky_shorrock_show_swansea_tidal_lagoon/
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/government-swansea-bay-tidal-lagoon/
I was trying to find links to the multiple Private Eye pieces that have documented their shenanigans. It's been featured several times - basically trying to pull a fast one on tax-payers to enrich him & his wife, IIRC.
Maybe 'scheme' would have been a better word than 'scam' (unless you're of a more sceptical bent), but it seems that the couple have a history of chasing 'green' subsidies, but with little to show for it, whether wind or tidal.0 -
It's quite green and leafy, but still inside the M25. I dunno, you townies 🙄😁surrey_commuter said:
Can I check Ashtead?rjsterry said:
Yes definitely suburbia. A couple of larger properties with a pony in a paddock don't count.Stevo_666 said:
The locals might act like they are, but its still suburbia.veronese68 said:
Epsom is definitely in the sticks.TheBigBean said:
Understandable.surrey_commuter said:
The presence of a wood burning stove (I have two) does not mean it is the sticks.TheBigBean said:
Don't you have a wood burning stove?surrey_commuter said:
I am sure it is but living in the sticks is not for meFirst.Aspect said:
Carluke is a quite nice commuter town.surrey_commuter said:
I think if I lived in the countryside that would be low on my list of complaintsFirst.Aspect said:
Would you think that if you could see several hundred of them, in all 360 degrees around you? In that case I recommend you move to Carluke.surrey_commuter said:
I think they look greatrick_chasey said:
I'm half Dutch.First.Aspect said:
How about wind farms?rick_chasey said:
I'd be the first person supporting Cambridgeshire being turned into a massive solar farm. Go for it.First.Aspect said:
It wouldn't be a subsidy, just less additional tax than levied on other products. As a means to smooth the cost of living crisis.rick_chasey said:
So you want the government to subsidise the oil industry? I thought they were the bad guys?First.Aspect said:
Sorry - meant prices that reach consumers.rick_chasey said:
Explain this tax lever on the global oil marketFirst.Aspect said:
The government has a pretty big tax lever they can pull.rick_chasey said:How on earth do you propose regulating the oil market?
But the only long term option is to cover Cambridgeshire with wind farms and solar farms.
But of course it isn't green and the govt needs the income, so isn't going to happen.
Covering Cambridgeshire with renewables might, though.
Hell, I'll even quit my job and set up a recruitment job to hire all the people to go build it and run it.
Blaming oil companies for drilling stuff we all currently need out of the ground and selling it at market rate is stupid.
The "cost of living crisis" is not at the door of the oil companies. It's at the door of multiple decades of unequal policies that have allowed millions of people to live in relatively or absolutely poor circumstances, such they are not wealthy enough to survive price shocks.
Windmills are sort of built into my idea of a good country. Go for it. Hell, stick one in my garden if it's efficient enough.
I am not a NIMBY and I think "nature" views are overated.
At least they will be something to see on the horizon. I quite like windmills.
There can be too much of a good thing.
I live in Epsom which to me is borderline sticks.
I work with somebody who sees Canary Wharf as the sticks and would not dream of going somewhere like Clapham. She went to Putney, once.
I went your way recently. Hobbledown.
If that is sticks then we may be able to draw a line on a map where suburbia ends and the sticks starts1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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'Sticks', don't make me laugh.
Some time ago in nineteen eleventy squiggles, we were in Narok, Western Kenya and a family member had an accident. I won't go into details.
The closest hospital was near Rongai, foothills of Mount Kili. The flying doctor was miles away and he couldn't reach us. We drove the 180 miles on dirt roads, taking almost 10 hours to get there.
Lucky because we were there just before the rainy season or else the roads would have been impassable.
So when people mention 'sticks' in the UK, it underlines the insularity, naivety, narrow mindedness that les Rost Biff posses. I mean, i'm sorry but you haven't got a frikkin clue.
There are pockets of 'sticks' in the UK like in the Highlands, Western Isles, Outer Hebrides, parts of Wales, some ickle wickle patches in the Peaks, North York Moors, Northumberland etc but you are never far from an urban area or a hospital.
A friend of mine graduated from Uni and travelled overland to Australia. He worked the bars and hotels in Cape York and the Barrier reef, bought a VW Camper van with some guys he got to know and they travelled south... into the 'sticks'. What a story but miles and miles of heat and sand and rocks and not a lot else really.
The UK: 66m people on a tiny Island with tiny...
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
It might be a relative statement or are we going for a competition on who has been to the most stick like place?0
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OK, you win. The plastic stick trophy is in the post.pinno said:'Sticks', don't make me laugh.
Some time ago in nineteen eleventy squiggles, we were in Narok, Western Kenya and a family member had an accident. I won't go into details.
The closest hospital was near Rongai, foothills of Mount Kili. The flying doctor was miles away and he couldn't reach us. We drove the 180 miles on dirt roads, taking almost 10 hours to get there.
Lucky because we were there just before the rainy season or else the roads would have been impassable.
So when people mention 'sticks' in the UK, it underlines the insularity, naivety, narrow mindedness that les Rost Biff posses. I mean, i'm sorry but you haven't got a frikkin clue.
There are pockets of 'sticks' in the UK like in the Highlands, Western Isles, Outer Hebrides, parts of Wales, some ickle wickle patches in the Peaks, North York Moors, Northumberland etc but you are never far from an urban area or a hospital.
A friend of mine graduated from Uni and travelled overland to Australia. He worked the bars and hotels in Cape York and the Barrier reef, bought a VW Camper van with some guys he got to know and they travelled south... into the 'sticks'. What a story but miles and miles of heat and sand and rocks and not a lot else really.
The UK: 66m people on a tiny Island with tiny..."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
I think by any measure a town of a few tens of thousand, with a station a cinema and several shopping centres doesn't qualify.TheBigBean said:It might be a relative statement or are we going for a competition on who has been to the most stick like place?
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No, it's just for some perspective and a reality check.TheBigBean said:It might be a relative statement or are we going for a competition on who has been to the most stick like place?
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Or just plain old pisstakingTheBigBean said:It might be a relative statement or are we going for a competition on who has been to the most stick like place?
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This too.veronese68 said:
Or just plain old pisstakingTheBigBean said:It might be a relative statement or are we going for a competition on who has been to the most stick like place?
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
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Feel better now? 😁pinno said:'Sticks', don't make me laugh.
Some time ago in nineteen eleventy squiggles, we were in Narok, Western Kenya and a family member had an accident. I won't go into details.
The closest hospital was near Rongai, foothills of Mount Kili. The flying doctor was miles away and he couldn't reach us. We drove the 180 miles on dirt roads, taking almost 10 hours to get there.
Lucky because we were there just before the rainy season or else the roads would have been impassable.
So when people mention 'sticks' in the UK, it underlines the insularity, naivety, narrow mindedness that les Rost Biff posses. I mean, i'm sorry but you haven't got a frikkin clue.
There are pockets of 'sticks' in the UK like in the Highlands, Western Isles, Outer Hebrides, parts of Wales, some ickle wickle patches in the Peaks, North York Moors, Northumberland etc but you are never far from an urban area or a hospital.
A friend of mine graduated from Uni and travelled overland to Australia. He worked the bars and hotels in Cape York and the Barrier reef, bought a VW Camper van with some guys he got to know and they travelled south... into the 'sticks'. What a story but miles and miles of heat and sand and rocks and not a lot else really.
The UK: 66m people on a tiny Island with tiny...1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Not succinct enough for that.veronese68 said:
Or just plain old pisstakingTheBigBean said:It might be a relative statement or are we going for a competition on who has been to the most stick like place?
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If I had an irony meter it would have explodedStevo_666 said:
OK, you win. The plastic stick trophy is in the post.pinno said:'Sticks', don't make me laugh.
Some time ago in nineteen eleventy squiggles, we were in Narok, Western Kenya and a family member had an accident. I won't go into details.
The closest hospital was near Rongai, foothills of Mount Kili. The flying doctor was miles away and he couldn't reach us. We drove the 180 miles on dirt roads, taking almost 10 hours to get there.
Lucky because we were there just before the rainy season or else the roads would have been impassable.
So when people mention 'sticks' in the UK, it underlines the insularity, naivety, narrow mindedness that les Rost Biff posses. I mean, i'm sorry but you haven't got a frikkin clue.
There are pockets of 'sticks' in the UK like in the Highlands, Western Isles, Outer Hebrides, parts of Wales, some ickle wickle patches in the Peaks, North York Moors, Northumberland etc but you are never far from an urban area or a hospital.
A friend of mine graduated from Uni and travelled overland to Australia. He worked the bars and hotels in Cape York and the Barrier reef, bought a VW Camper van with some guys he got to know and they travelled south... into the 'sticks'. What a story but miles and miles of heat and sand and rocks and not a lot else really.
The UK: 66m people on a tiny Island with tiny...
narrow mindedness that les Rost Biff posses0 -
surrey_commuter said:
If I had an irony meter it would have explodedStevo_666 said:
OK, you win. The plastic stick trophy is in the post.pinno said:'Sticks', don't make me laugh.
Some time ago in nineteen eleventy squiggles, we were in Narok, Western Kenya and a family member had an accident. I won't go into details.
The closest hospital was near Rongai, foothills of Mount Kili. The flying doctor was miles away and he couldn't reach us. We drove the 180 miles on dirt roads, taking almost 10 hours to get there.
Lucky because we were there just before the rainy season or else the roads would have been impassable.
So when people mention 'sticks' in the UK, it underlines the insularity, naivety, narrow mindedness that les Rost Biff posses. I mean, i'm sorry but you haven't got a frikkin clue.
There are pockets of 'sticks' in the UK like in the Highlands, Western Isles, Outer Hebrides, parts of Wales, some ickle wickle patches in the Peaks, North York Moors, Northumberland etc but you are never far from an urban area or a hospital.
A friend of mine graduated from Uni and travelled overland to Australia. He worked the bars and hotels in Cape York and the Barrier reef, bought a VW Camper van with some guys he got to know and they travelled south... into the 'sticks'. What a story but miles and miles of heat and sand and rocks and not a lot else really.
The UK: 66m people on a tiny Island with tiny...
narrow mindedness that les Rost Biff posses
You've got the wrong end of the stick, so to saysurrey_commuter said:
If I had an irony meter it would have explodedStevo_666 said:
OK, you win. The plastic stick trophy is in the post.pinno said:'Sticks', don't make me laugh.
Some time ago in nineteen eleventy squiggles, we were in Narok, Western Kenya and a family member had an accident. I won't go into details.
The closest hospital was near Rongai, foothills of Mount Kili. The flying doctor was miles away and he couldn't reach us. We drove the 180 miles on dirt roads, taking almost 10 hours to get there.
Lucky because we were there just before the rainy season or else the roads would have been impassable.
So when people mention 'sticks' in the UK, it underlines the insularity, naivety, narrow mindedness that les Rost Biff posses. I mean, i'm sorry but you haven't got a frikkin clue.
There are pockets of 'sticks' in the UK like in the Highlands, Western Isles, Outer Hebrides, parts of Wales, some ickle wickle patches in the Peaks, North York Moors, Northumberland etc but you are never far from an urban area or a hospital.
A friend of mine graduated from Uni and travelled overland to Australia. He worked the bars and hotels in Cape York and the Barrier reef, bought a VW Camper van with some guys he got to know and they travelled south... into the 'sticks'. What a story but miles and miles of heat and sand and rocks and not a lot else really.
The UK: 66m people on a tiny Island with tiny...
narrow mindedness that les Rost Biff posses
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I've just watched 18 privileged white people in a race between the only two teams that can take part.0
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Yes, it's pretty universal.surrey_commuter said:
If I had an irony meter it would have explodedStevo_666 said:
OK, you win. The plastic stick trophy is in the post.pinno said:'Sticks', don't make me laugh.
Some time ago in nineteen eleventy squiggles, we were in Narok, Western Kenya and a family member had an accident. I won't go into details.
The closest hospital was near Rongai, foothills of Mount Kili. The flying doctor was miles away and he couldn't reach us. We drove the 180 miles on dirt roads, taking almost 10 hours to get there.
Lucky because we were there just before the rainy season or else the roads would have been impassable.
So when people mention 'sticks' in the UK, it underlines the insularity, naivety, narrow mindedness that les Rost Biff posses. I mean, i'm sorry but you haven't got a frikkin clue.
There are pockets of 'sticks' in the UK like in the Highlands, Western Isles, Outer Hebrides, parts of Wales, some ickle wickle patches in the Peaks, North York Moors, Northumberland etc but you are never far from an urban area or a hospital.
A friend of mine graduated from Uni and travelled overland to Australia. He worked the bars and hotels in Cape York and the Barrier reef, bought a VW Camper van with some guys he got to know and they travelled south... into the 'sticks'. What a story but miles and miles of heat and sand and rocks and not a lot else really.
The UK: 66m people on a tiny Island with tiny...
narrow mindedness that les Rost Biff posses
After all, you called Epsom borderline 'sticks'.
Or is it that you - being of high importance, took offence to being called a Rost Biff?seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
FFS, it's rosbif, not Rost Biff.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Just trying to stay on topic.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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OH just been to the Gym, decided to fill the car up while she was out. No diesel at Tesco, Sainsburys or Co-Op. Managed to get some from Morrisons at £1.75.
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