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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No flecc.. you are misinterpreting the tenor of that argument. As far as the human body is concerned, it makes little difference whether the immune system has been activated by a full blown "natural" viral infection, or by the controlled application of a vaccine. That is assuming that the...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Not anyone I really know , the name was Brendan Conway but he is apparently well known enough and was in Vikings and the Green Knight..
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Well No.. I might switch the whole thing off during the summer months .. say 2 months..or I might not. Next the compressor hours are logged not the system on operational hours .. When it is on the warm water circulation pump and the electronics , thermostats etc are on, but not the...
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    Well we had an Irish actor on about this today ..and he was lucky to survive being shot with a blank at a stage rehearsal some years ago. .. the card board wadding fired at close range perforated his chest and entered his lung. , Extremely difficult to diagnose at A&E as the effect was not...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yez don't run Ireland anymore!. Yez actually own the ones I mentioned...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Detention camps on islands before processing , immigration and customs is the established method. So using any of the less important islands off the UK mainland ..say the Scillies or maybe Jersey or Egg . The law of the sea is simple and long established and needs to be respected
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    More or less correct... Lack of access to secondary schools for the young , and hospitals for the elderly were the major reasons . Not so much the isolation or even work . With the newer fish farming and mussel beds , there was potential for paid employment.
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    Well look at the bright side of life. .. If the moon were closer, the tidal effects would be more pronounced, so the efficiency will improve. The the moonlight will be even brighter. However that effect of reducing distance will not happen .. If anything all that will happen is a reduction in...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Note my selectivity. I am suggesting Aviation for a few reasons . The power to weight ratio of any battery technology is poorer. The journey times are known with reasonable precision and cyrogenic storage in low pressure low weight vessels feasible ... Even if they have to be remanufactured...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The point I am making here ,is not that the pan Europe grid is a fantasy ..it is already happening. . And of course North Africa would be included . Part of the value is that we in Europe are spread over about 3 time zones. , So the rush hour is more like 4 hours ...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I see hydrogen as the replacement fuel for air transportation, rather than batteries.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The heatpump is located 12 feet from the house .. beside where the oil burner is still located. The circulation pump I had replaced is inside the house and a standard radiator type. . The HP is ground mounted, about 6 inches clearance from a boundary wall. I had it relocated slightly...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Lets see. A heat pump is a very simple device.. A 3kw electric motor, a compressor attached to that and a 150 watt fan and a truck radiator .. a few valves ,tubing and a small microcontroller . .. Total weight about 150kg , with pressed steel housings . Its not really high technology. So a...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Exactly... Which is why pan European grids are the way to go. But it is possible to plan for longer term storage of renewable energy sources by creating chemical compounds ...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    As for heat pumps my figures make interesting reading. Of 17500 hours of compressor ie heat pump operation , It called on auxiliary power .ie my older oil burner for a total of 92 hours. So that is not not really" often". And we had it serviced this year for the first time ... The service...
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    The title" emeritus " more or less says it all. I have come across similar articles by previously distinguished professors over the decades. The analysis is spot on, but the conclusions skew. I recall similar ones arguing that renewables cannot deliver 10%, 20% , 30% of grid power or else...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Except for one thing... The only value in this world is making those new things. There is no value in keeping the money. There is no inherited debt.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    We have been more wary about opening up and 22 nd October was the due date. However with rises in infection rates, they have backtracked a little. .. So its open lite rather than open fully. the vaccine passport will be required still for premises, and facemasks will still be required, but...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Our statistics regarding self testing with the lateral flow test and the full blown Laboratory PCR test is significant... One can buy the test at local shops for about 6euro, and anyone who tested positive on it, and then went for a PCR test at official HSE centres also proved positive in 97%...
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yes its our fault ,by providing a tariff free market for Delta Variant, which the UK is struggling to be export to us,!