Off Topic Climate change/ pollution

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Ernie Shackleton said:
Food’s good on both of them but this one’s possibly better. That might be that I hadn’t eaten for 12 hours though. Cabin was **** on this but it was about the last room available.

Crossing was smooth as ****. Slept like a babe.

Storm? What storm?
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Hull to zeebrugge was my go to crossing but when that got cancelled I switched to the other crossing. Used NSF since back in the 80s but after being taken over by P+O the service has got worse and worse while the price up and up. Up to a few years ago was using it 5 or 6 times a year. When I checked in the summer for me and the bike they were looking for £500ish.
For years when adding up the overall cost i worked out it was better than going down to the channel crossings, not so sure about that these days.
 
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balkan tiger said:
Hull to zeebrugge was my go to crossing but when that got cancelled I switched to the other crossing. Used NSF since back in the 80s but after being taken over by P+O the service has got worse and worse while the price up and up. Up to a few years ago was using it 5 or 6 times a year. When I checked in the summer for me and the bike they were looking for £500ish.
For years when adding up the overall cost i worked out it was better than going down to the channel crossings, not so sure about that these days.
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No way to talk about the mrs mate
 
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Plum said:
Down in Devon just now, got woken up by a screeching phone and a Govt Red Alert message! Never had one before, must be like being at war :emoticon-0107-sweat
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I got one in Holland last week. I can’t read Dutch - it’s an impenetrable language - By the time I was able to pull over and got Google Lens involved I was getting concerned.

Anyway just in case you ever need to know:

U heeft zojuist een NL-Alert testbericht ontvangen. In het bericht staat duidelijk dat het om een testbericht gaat. U hoeft dus niets te doen.

esssentially means this is a test message, you don’t need to do anything.
 
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Plum said:
Down in Devon just now, got woken up by a screeching phone and a Govt Red Alert message! Never had one before, must be like being at war :emoticon-0107-sweat
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There's a whole genre of Youtube videos where people make fiction based around the EAS system. They all have disclaimers saying "do not listen to this in a public place" <laugh>
 
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There are so many exciting new developments in renewable energy, but for obvious reasons it will never get as much support as big oil.
 
balkan tiger said:
If there is money to be made then someone will develop it. It will probably be someone harvesting the subsidies and we (the public) won't get green or cheaper energy.
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You should check how much the oil/gas industry have received in subsidies over the last few years.

Battery tech is changing rapidly. The latest battery produced by BYD (the parent company is one of the largest battery producers in the world) has no cobalt in it, just lithium. The downside is around 4 minutes longer to charge for a private car in the standard 10-80% battery charging time test, so 29 minutes instead of 25 minutes). The industry aim is to get charging down to 15 minutes, but the issue in the UK is an outdated and underdeveloped grid holding back.

It changes rapidly and the consumer is always five years behind. At the moment, the noise seems to be about sodium ion batteries. If these develop as proposed, batteries in a decades time will be smaller, lighter and last longer, plus not reliant on rare elements.

I have a colleague who has his house powered by two Tesla batteries in his basement - he uses an app to automate the charging of them when electricity cost is next to nothing and tops up with solar panels on his roof. I would guess that in decades to come, a large percentage of houses/homes could be run in this way, giving owners high levels of energy autonomy and unaffected by political machinations in the US, Middle East and Russia. This would work well in the UK where renewables such as wind power don't produce power all of the time. This isn't such an issue in Iceland and Norway where renewable power production isn't weather dependent.

Exciting future and almost a shame that most of us on here won't be around to see the complete shift away from oil and gas.
 
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I find this utterly staggering....!@!@.... I was stuck in traffic yesterday at Lofthouse interchange (J29 M62) where it joins the M1. Usual Queue Caution signs 40. I literally didnt move for 25 minute sat just past Rothwell and as I has an important appointment I called Highways to see how long delays were. Ultimately they said it was due to a breakdown and journey times are not 40 m in plus normal drive time. They would get someone to call me which they did today. Are you ready for this.

The lady who was brilliant by the way said, it was the perfect storm of peak time traffic and a TESLA breaking down on the M1 northbound. The lady told me, that Highways are not allowed to touch or remove Electric Vehicles unless they have been in an accident due to the potential for financial damage and they have to wait for an authorised recovery company to get the vehicle. it had to get through the traffic and to recover it they had to shut all three lanes.!!!! The lady said that every minute that 1 lane is closed costs the tax payer £5000. (costs drivers and workmen and work ladies much much more IMO) Multiply by 3 lanes and the recovery time which she said was just short of 10 minutes you get circa 150k. and thats not including the losses waiting for the thing to arrive.
 
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TIGERSCAVE said:
I find this utterly staggering....!@!@.... I was stuck in traffic yesterday at Lofthouse interchange (J29 M62) where it joins the M1. Usual Queue Caution signs 40. I literally didnt move for 25 minute sat just past Rothwell and as I has an important appointment I called Highways to see how long delays were. Ultimately they said it was due to a breakdown and journey times are not 40 m in plus normal drive time. They would get someone to call me which they did today. Are you ready for this.

The lady who was brilliant by the way said, it was the perfect storm of peak time traffic and a TESLA breaking down on the M1 northbound. The lady told me, that Highways are not allowed to touch or remove Electric Vehicles unless they have been in an accident due to the potential for financial damage and they have to wait for an authorised recovery company to get the vehicle. it had to get through the traffic and to recover it they had to shut all three lanes.!!!! The lady said that every minute that 1 lane is closed costs the tax payer £5000. (costs drivers and workmen and work ladies much much more IMO) Multiply by 3 lanes and the recovery time which she said was just short of 10 minutes you get circa 150k. and thats not including the losses waiting for the thing to arrive.
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You put them in neutral, then if there is any power, you put them in transport mode and can roll them slowly into the hard shoulder and then open up the inner lanes. Then they have to be picked up by a flat bed truck - they can't be towed on two wheels without damaging them. I'm guessing the highways agency only has the old style tow trucks.
 
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