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House of Commons just as bad. Most days only a small handful of members in there and even them tapping away to Twitter on their phones. The world is falling to bits. Maybe we should be burning an effigy of Graham Alexander Bell on the November 5th bonfires instead of poor Guy Fawkes who only...

We have definitely suffered from anti-cycling types in our area, North-east Surrey-London border. Logs are often dragged across paths in our nature reserve to obstruct them so the suspicion is that the occasional wire stretched across has the same sources. The overwhelming majority of daily...

Agreed, it is brilliant, but it's going to be near to impossible to enforce. The law I would like to see is that only phones to a certain standard can be made and sold. The standard including an unhackable timer locking the phone to a maximum of 4 hours operation in any 24 hour period, other...

It could have been worse. A few years ago we had an 11 year old lad killed by a wire strung across a pavement by one of these morons, never caught of course. The wire caught the lad across the neck as he was going downhill quite fast and it broke his neck. .

I also agree with Tillson, nuclear is the only sensible way forward and I'm glad we are going that way now. As for returning the energy to the sun, in a sense we can, meaning our own sun, the burning core of the earth. Tectonic plate shift constantly takes plate surfaces back down into the...

Same applies though since the resistance exists at the entrance to the venturi so the flow will still take the least line of resistance around the outside. As you say Strangford narrows was ideal, but the open sea far from being so. Wind turbines also have a potential bypassing problem but...

You're absolutely right Ted, she is not legal, due to the missing illuminated number plate and crash helmet. Although zero rated for VED, the annual licencing procedure still applies to keep check of what is on the road. I don't know if your cars and motorcycles still have paper tax discs...

It is being done. There was an experimental turbine in Strangford Loch, Northern Ireland to gather data, decommissioned in 2017 as it had served its purpose. Now there's a proposal for a massive new scheme off Ireland generating 100 mW, information on this link. Of course the obvious...

It sounds like a failure of the crank freewheel pawls, but do get them to fit a new motor under the two year warranty ASAP. The problem is well known and it is definitely a warranty matter. .

Funniest thing that happened to me with pedestrians was when I came up behind an elderly lady on a cycle path away from a road. I rang the bell but she didn't appear to hear so I said loudly "Good morning". She leant her head back and stared up into the tree she was walking under. o_O .

Yes that's very out of date now. The biggest potential problem with turbines was the high maintenance cost due to gearbox failures, but the newest generation of them have no gearbox, the neodymium magnet generator running at propeller speed so no upspeed conversion. The productivity is indeed...

Halloween is American anyway, never was a British thing. .

They are boat foghorns. I used an Airzound horn for a while, too loud for pedestrians but ok to alert drivers. Horn at handlebars with air pressure tank in bottle position pumped up at the handlebar unit. The bell was for pedestrians: .

The chart of my supplies is for April, so I'm getting enough. Bulb are able to get in before most suppliers for renewables due to the unusual way they operate. But I agree that down time is a serious problem during high atmospheric pressure periods with high current demands when wind speeds...

I vote for you to stay, all opinions welcome. .

I agree, what use is a screen when the sun is on it. At least a mirror always works. .

In recent weeks with a high pressure nearby it may by down temporarily, but wind turbines contributed 15% of UK electricity in 2017. I have Bulb green energy supplier for mine and this is the current bill situation, almost all from wind, hydro and solar: If you see a glow from my home's...

Nor me when cycling. In a thread on this subject a number posted that it was their shoulder that usually took over the bars impacts. It may be that raising the head out of danger is instinctive. .

No hidden meaning at all, just what's on the surface, neither defence nor attack, nor looking for an argument with anyone. As I've already replied to you previously, I don't approve of personal insults in forums. .

As can we all, at least those of us who don't fit these classifications. .