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It will look perverse, but I agree with Tommie on this one. As I have said previously the island of Ireland has been united for millions of years, it is just that the people are not united. The fear (irrational in my opinion, but Tommie might differ) of an Ireland united under a government in...

That has not been my experience, but it is plausible. ..if the battery is outputting a lot of power it will get hot, the motor will get hot also, so it would be no big deal for designers to include thermal management.. the Comms links are there and they do cost enough that the extra sensors...

.. this is what I have been thinking and writing here for the last 15 months...

If the head unit is in communication with the battery, the speedometer numbers will be displayed, if it loses contact, the speedometer disappears, but the battery strength will still appear. . If the head unit is in communication with the thumb switch, then you can change the amount of...

Tilson. There is nothing a learned society can do about a college admitting unqualified candidates. What it can and will do is withhold accrediation from the programme. That is a slow response as accreditation takes place at say 5 year intervals. A pragmatic accreditation committee, knowing...

Tilson can make his own apology or excuses should he wish. Quoting a 18 year old article is neither useful or fruitful. Nothing quoted in that article contradicts anything I stated. There is an ongoing dialogue or tension , as there should be, between the validation committees of the learned...

The minimum standard of entry is the Published entry requirements for the programme. Normally it is agreed by the program validation authority. Thus if one was taking an a engineering programme validated by the The Engineering Council, for admission to their registered titles , the programme...

Perhaps I am wrong, but my understanding is that unconditional places means that the candidate has met the requirements for admission ,otherwise known as matriculation, and is therefore no longer in a mad scramble for competition,because there are less places when qualified applicants. Surely...

Certainly. There are currently at least 3 Scottish NI and N Wales to dublin, this freshwater one you mention and there also an edf proposed Brest to Cork . There is a lot of capacity in the eastern part of the Atlantic for both wind and wave, and look now accross to France and a European...

It is highly predictable..,with your background in aviation, you will know that. The problem is that both you and flecc in this instance are taking far to local a viewpoint. Dare I even suggest even simplistic. This is not a binary question with all the eggs in one basket. , there are many...

On a linked matter are you aware of any studies, hypothetical of course of a barrage over the 30 km at Dover?. The tidal effect would be considerable, as water would need to flow all the way around the top of Scotland...

I am glad you looked it up ,you will therefore appreciate my usage was correct. The nature of weather forecasting has dramatically improved to the extent that wind farm operators can reliably predict how much energy they can supply for the next half hour period and can therefore engage in the...

The life cycle costs for windpower has been done and yes they are favourable.. provided of course they are sited in engineering appropriate locations, not politically expedient ones. I recall a case of a few years ago where the planning office recommended they be placed in a valley on visual...

Like you I was amazed. But unlike you my feelings were not as sanguine,and I hoped then and still hope that sanity might prevail. The UK will be "allowed ' to do whatever it wishes, but it still is unsure of what it wants. So I am starting to believe that the UK will stumble towards the worst...

.. but the local WiFi node a bit more, the local telecoms network a bit more ,the server farms a lot more. I think that heating is the greatest domestic energy load, and electricity for industrial purposes.

The sun is pretty reliable.. the solar constant has remained at the 1 kW\ m2.for a millennium The Sahara is pretty big, central Spain is closer and fairly arid. The Americans have the Mohave avail to them.. Sorry Fecc, but dispatchable is the correct term. Wind energy has the potential to cover...

Your point about global population growth is absolutely spot on, and we do not have a sustainable global population. The proper term is windpower, or less properly wind turbines, windmills are machines used for milling operations. There are many energy efficiency measures which can be taken...

... Flecc, is this your area of particular expertise, many of the waste product elements from a uranium reactor are radioactive, but not fissionable. Many with extremely long half lives. They are therefore waste. They are not amenable to neutron activation,and may not be sitting in the sequence...