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  • Commented on Decision Fatigue
    At the moment the prospects of a revival of the Scottish National Liberation Army seem low, but you never know. At least, unlike Ukraine, there isn't a hostile power right next door happy to funnel money and weapons to disgruntled...
  • Commented on Decision Fatigue
    That's not exactly what I said. Can you just bug out and not maunder on about nuclear all the time?...
  • Commented on Decision Fatigue
    The real technical issue is that it is easier to roll out renewables than build nuclear; ranting about how great it is on blogs doesn't address the actual issues, meanwhile we may as well try running the system on 100%...
  • Commented on Decision Fatigue
    I'm seeing people hating on pumped hydro in Scotland despite the actual evidence being that it is entirely possible and will do for SCotland and at least help England out. There are multiple schemes at various stages of planning and...
  • Commented on Decision Fatigue
    Oh no, I don't think handing votes back to tories, rather empowering greens, lib dems and reducing the number of people who voted labour the last 4 elections to vote for him. Which doesn't actually leave many people; there is...
  • Commented on Decision Fatigue
    On the car issue, I could do with a smaller simpler lightweight one purely for commuting. Ideally I would take public transport but at the moment that would be 3 buses taking an hour and a half, if they bother...
  • Commented on Decision Fatigue
    Dear Mr Marks, I was wondering why you have paid any attention to the 'Scottish scientist' guy, who is a raving lunatic with no technical knowledge? As for energy storage, large scale flow batteries are also worth a shot, as...
  • Commented on I can't even
    Elderly Cynic is correct about the need for labour, should it get into power, to actually need to make major structural changes for the UK and importantly, it's population, to survive in decent shape. However the available evidence that the...
  • Commented on London Bridge
    See, the advantage of being late adopters is you don't need to make the same mistakes as everyone else. Also your zoning and building regs clearly sucked, but then you knew that already....
  • Commented on London Bridge
    Actually heating oil is common in the UK outside cities. Some use gas, but a lot have heating oil. Even better, the vast majority of tanks have been upgraded to plastic over the last 30 years, so you don't need...
  • Commented on London Bridge
    I'm seeing people on twitter raising the issue of her pro imperialist stance and also the giving of honours to various nasty people e.g. Kissinger. To which the reply is usually, that was the government of the day, she had...
  • Commented on London Bridge
    It has already been announced that he will reign as Charles III. There probably isn't a hard and fast rule about it....
  • Commented on London Bridge
    Having seen various reactions, I have come to the conclusion that the queen provided stability by letting lots of different people project what they wanted upon her, never mind what she actually thought or what she did. Being a shiny...
  • Commented on London Bridge
    Yay, CHarles III, it is good that at last he gets a go after waiting for so long and trying to adapt himself to so many circumstances....
  • Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
    One of the interesting Biggles things I sort of noticed as a child was that the stories which came out first, the short stories later collected into a book whose name escapes me, are deeper than a lot of the...
  • Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
    If anyone wants an adult story of WW1 flying, I reccomend "Winged Victory" by V M Yeates, who was also a pilot and it is basically a fictionalised story of the life of the author and friends during the war,...
  • Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
    As far as I can recall, when Russia invaded in 2014 and I read about it and later engagements, I thought that thermobaric weapons made holding an entrenched front line impossible. Add that to drones and more artillery and rocket...
  • Commented on Bad news day
    That's an unusual doctor in London that uses the term Emergency room, although they could be American and visiting here, or translating for american readers....
  • Commented on Bad news day
    Greg, stop imagining things. I've been on here long enough to know you are an old fashioned person with old fashioned arguments but are also sensible enough to keep up with things and are not anti-renewables. You do just come...
  • Commented on Bad news day
    Greg, Greg, Greg, you should know that France isn't exactly building more nuclear reactors right now. Does that tell you something? The basic issue is that nobody can get them built in anyway that fits with our current economic system....
  • Commented on Bad news day
    Re. thermobaric/ flamethrowers, media are a mix of badly paid, badly educated, overworked, overpaid, etc; comparatively I once got ignored by a Scotsman journalist for pointing out that fuel cells aren't a form of battery....
  • Commented on Bad news day
    MAybe not the bottling equipment, remember petrol vapour is rather flammable and I don't recall bottling plants being made to be intrinsically safe. There arne't that many likely explosive causing moving parts and it is many years since I temped...
  • Commented on Bad news day
    There is a point re. fertiliser though - if we don't buy the russian fertiliser and Ukraine doesn't buy any or use it on their fields, we're looking at decreased crop production this year, precisely how much I have no...
  • Commented on Bad news day
    Ah, that would also make sense. This communication thing is tricky....
  • Commented on Bad news day
    Well that one has to be a joke because beer is not high enough in ethanol to be any use. Distilleries are what is required and I don't know how many Ukraine has. If you are desperate enough and have...
  • Commented on Oh, 2022!
    Two things - I saw a home video recently shot from a car doing 45mph or so in the UK behind a mad guy on an e-scooter. I wonder how long the battery lasted, he was on dual carriageway. On...
  • Commented on Starship bloopers
    On the matter of the American revolution, a book I got a few years ago (I think previously owned by a prof of American history at Stirling uni)called "A mighty Empire" by Marc Egnal, makes it clear how much the...
  • Commented on Starship bloopers
    That makes me wonder what changes there have been in demographics of who read this work and Heinlein in general, because sure, some of his books are aimed at 12, 14 year olds, but most of the rest of his...
  • Commented on Starship bloopers
    On this book, I tend to think that if most teenage boys, the readers it was aimed at, come away thinking powered armour is cool as is blowing lots of people up and only letting vets have the vote, then...
  • Commented on So you say you want a revolution
    Did someone mention screw threads? I really learnt how many there were when at a place I used to work the maintenance guys kept swapping lifting lugs between big heating cans and one day it didn't go right because they...
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