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Quote: zooo @ January 10 2012, 9:32 PM GMTCan tell you're a comedy writer.
It must be my urban(e) wit.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ January 10 2012, 9:29 PM GMTJust where in the countryside were you brought up? Stoke Newington?
A few different spots in Cumbria.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ January 10 2012, 9:35 PM GMT
Wolfpacks are quite nomadic.
Quote: Timbo @ January 10 2012, 4:33 PM GMT
Group nakeds!!! 
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ January 10 2012, 6:32 PM GMTAnd when it's fully built, London to Leeds will be one hour twenty minutes instead of two hours twenty minutes. That's pretty impressive.
But the destination will still be Leeds.
Quote: Lee @ January 10 2012, 8:17 PM GMTIt's the same people who protest wind turbines. F**k off. Make sure you get the benefit for your village/community, yes of course. But to completely want to deny it? No.
Are wind farms providing economic benefits in the UK (apart from benefiting the renewable energy companies getting government subsidies)? I tried to get a turbine installed in Australia as I lived in a hilly and windy area. A couple of shysters were eager to sell and install, but the local council's energy expert who visited explained the cost would be extremely unviable and I would still require conventional power. One of the main complaints about wind farms in Australia is noise pollution causing health problems. And that they always require back-up power and cost more to produce electricity than regular power stations. Are there enough wind farms in the UK to make them cheaper than, or on par with, conventional power stations?
I've noticed more and more solar panels on roofs round here. I don't care for them.
Quote: chipolata @ January 11 2012, 10:14 AM GMTI've noticed more and more solar panels on roofs round here. I don't care for them.
Yeah FUCK THE PLANET! 
Not in the way you would like though Chip.... with a car battery, some handcuffs, and a couple of satsumas 
Quote: Timbo @ January 10 2012, 4:33 PM GMT
You've offended my cellulite. It's frowning.
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop @ January 11 2012, 10:19 AM GMTYeah FUCK THE PLANET!
Wind farms are currently loss makers and have to be heavily subsidised by the Government. Same with Nuclear Power.
In a recent spate of storms, some of the turbines caught fire.
Bio Fuels encourage Third World countries to grow non-food related crops for export with the resulting land deforestation and ensuing starvation.
Solar panels provide a very low conversion of energy and are manufactured with highly toxic chemicals. In some cases the environmental cost of production outweighs the benefits.
Hydro electric power, especially in the form of dams should be our way forward in harnessing energy from nature. But they're not sexy or 'green' enough. They do work though, so they get my vote.
Hydro dams reroute water ways that usually lead to severe disruption and flooding.
Modern nuclear power plants working on reprocessed fuels are safe, clean, cheap and provide limitless power.
The only problem is they provide no material usable in making atomic weapons.
and are ergo gay.
I suggest going with that Charlie Brooker chaves on exercise bikes idea.
Quote: sootyj @ January 11 2012, 12:33 PM GMTModern nuclear power plants working on reprocessed fuels are safe, clean, cheap and provide limitless power.
They're only cheap if they receive Government subsidies.
Disposing of nuclear waste is a very expensive, laborious and time consuming business. Special containers, special trains, security, paying some poor country to take the waste, it all adds up.
However, nuclear power's biggest problem is PR. I won't go down the hysterical route and blab on about Three Mile Island, Chernobyl or Fukushima in terms of safety. But these incidents have put the vast majority of consumers off this form of energy.
Look how much fuss was created by a new high speed rail line, the NIMBYs aren't going to swallow the construction of a nuclear power plant next to the school playground.
Not the ones that reposess nuclear waste.
That were pioneered in...England.
Stands and salutes whilst whistling Rule Britannia, with a tear in his eye.
Even George Monbiott supports them and he's the moste tiresomely politically correct wanker ever.
I have a rather odd fascination for nuclear plants. I'd be quite happy to move in next door to one.
I wonder if the houses are cheaper? Surely they must be...