(1832) Evening al.. not a bad day up this way.
21. Freedom Rally
Didn’t know what Steve was referring to earlier.
20. Painting targets on your people’s backs
19. Moo corner
18. Wind turbines
17. Steve
Bit of trivia. I was sat next to a lad in the departure lounge at RAF Brize Norton – as I recall he was with 59 Independent Commando Squadron RE – and we were watching the featured film on the very large back-lit Sony TV they had for the troops. As you’ll see near the beginning of the film, Quatermass drives through a new-build housing estate, and that’s when this lad prods me and says: “That’s where I was born, in 1960”. So I says to him: “Where’s that?”, and he replies: “Hemel Hempstead, place called Newtown”. Small world as I was born on a new-build housing estate a few years earlier. Lot more babies born at home back then. Lot more babies period. I’m a late Boomer 🙂
16. Fido
Over at 1463:5
18. Windfarms also alter the weather downwind, this is inevitable because they take energy from the natural weather system.How significant that is I have no idea. But I wonder: Would we have had less of a heatwave crisis without a wall of wind reducers to the prevailing west? Just a thought.
I live a couple of miles east of what was once tagged “the largest wind farm (actually a subsidy farm) in europe” and other than trivial things such as mincing seabirds, shaking and settling the seabed that holds them up, and standing stock still most of the time corroding “at pace” it has had no noticeable effect on the local weather.
What will get interesting pretty soon is they are wearing out way faster than forecast. The turbines are requiring more frequent and heavier maintenance to keep them serviceable. Its as though the corrossive combination of salt spray and strong wind coupled with blazing sun from about and reflected sun from below dosed with torrential driving rain and the impact it all has on metals and plastics was unknown.
Mind the Royal Port of Barrow, yes it was givven its “royal title” recently run by ABP is going to install a floating solar array (subsidy array) on one of its docks, Cavendish dock and its paid for a survey which discovered that covering one third of the docks surface area will have no negative impact on the docks water life.
This area has quite a seagull popuation and a fair sprinkling of other sea and shore birds. The solar panels are nice and dark. They will warm in the winter sun and it won’t be long before the birds realise this and begin roosting on them or simply spending their day standing on them when it gets a bit parky out.
When money is the carrot human stupidity knows no bounds.
Off-shore wind farms making Charlie richer. It’s the only reason they’re there. 💷💷💷
Which one?
Check the ears.
The hairline is a bit orf on one of them too. 😉