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Yes - all examples of anti- democratic political arrogance. Lots of examples of that going on. The other day i posted about Tony Blair commenting on net zero targets and how the people won't tolerate the cost of it. The usual suspects though are up in arms. Like Jo Swinson of the illiberal...

Get some help Lenny. There is a worm in your brain. You might yet be cured if you act before it destroys everything. If you think posters making Farage look like Hitler are the answer to my posting a comment about the local elections, your judgement is abysmal. Farage is not everyon's cup of...

This is what happens when politicians ignore the views of ordinary people. Democracy is about ENACTING the will of the majority, NOT lecturing them about how they ought to think. For far too long politicians have told people how to think and what they should be doing rather than acting on...

How to turn a terrible vehicle into an even worse one, but what a great man the builder and owner is. Frank Rothwell has an enviable set of achievements behind him. Glad Lenny posted this. Rothwell is an inspirational person.

Full length explanation of the above....

I remember seeing one of those in my street when the local council were resurfacing the road. It was pretty much exactly like that and pouring smoke out of the stack. This would be about 1954 or 1955. It was used to tow a load of gravel and stuff like that.

0700. Across Derwent Water.

Sometimes you need laws to stop people living..... Environmentalism soon morphs into dictatorial misanthropy. What these people forget is that in a democracy, they will never succeed in their quest to drive people into miserable slavery to the state. The people won't stand for it. The French...

Mid afternoon. Near Keswick. After pub dinner 1900 hrs, on the way home. Lovely weather.

The best thing about this, is that since it has an IC engine to burn the hydrogen and generate electric power, you could probably fill it up with methane or LPG and do the environment a favour. The MASSIVE con of these hydrogen powered so-called 'green' concept machines, is that the vast...

Yeah - I have two, a proper full sized one and a folder. No way would I part with either of them. Horses for courses as we say here. There are best fit occasions for each type.

Derwentwater. Lake District earlier this morning( 0749).

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-could-be-behind-iberian-power-outage-2025-04-29/#:~:text=%22The%20frequency%20decline%20likely%20began,atmospheric%20phenomenon%2C%22%20they%20said.

It was neither. The grid got unbalanced because the weather was hot in the south and cloudy in the north, and a lot of solar power in the north could not deliver when the south all turned on their air conditioners. Then the big inter connector between Spain and Portugal was under-par because it...

There is quite a bit of fusion power on the grid already, at least on a summer's day.

New concept for me - 'Gravitricity' - a grid storage system based on winding heavy weight up an old mine shaft when there is spare power, and then letting it descend to make power when needed - like my old grandfather clock.

An interesting problem..... Power on the grid MUST match the demand on the grid or the AC frequency goes out of allowable range. Too much demand and the AC frequency drops, leading to falling voltage. Too little demand and over supply, and the frequency rises as does the voltage - even at the...

Lets hope the charging network catches up too. I listened to a business man on the radio a few months back talking about how he wanted to build charge facilities on a motorway somewhere in the UK and was told by national grid that they could not supply the required electric power to run them...

Yes - true enough, but you can get significant improvements in range with IC and electric, by just driving a bit more slowly. Last week - 41 mile trip to Newcastle on a single carriageway A road where speed is limited by trucks. Mostly about 50 mph - at times 55. You can't overtake. The road...