The "Why?" thread.

[GROWLER]

Never fished Ringwood, never really had any appeal for me. Have fished some other parts of the Avon though. I think a barbel is about the only coarse I haven't caught. There are some good doubles in the Wandle just across the road from my office.

but that is not what I go fishing for. It's the peace and quiet that attracts me  more than the fish.

I think most 'fishermen' would agree with that statement.
A nag and B&Q free day sounds bliss to me.

Growlers new hobby, only I don't need all those rods and associated shite.
 I GOT TEETH AND BIG PAWS!

[Nick]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9GpXB2FROo&NR=1

 

[tel]

If nothing else Hargreaves did give some kind of insight into country life, there wasn't anything else around on TV.

[Nick]

A mate of mine wrote a weekly "country column" for a magazine. "As I walked through my garden today I was thrilled to see the petunias bustling with bees and my senses were overwhelmed by the scent of...etc."

Her garden contained three bikes and an old fridge. She got it all out of books from Beeston Library

[Barman]

A mate of mine wrote a weekly "country column" for a magazine. "As I walked through my garden today I was thrilled to see the petunias bustling with bees and my senses were overwhelmed by the scent of...etc."

Her garden contained three bikes and an old fridge. She got it all out of books from Beeston Library

[Snoopy]

And just where do you think I get my articles from?


Just read above 

[Darwins Selection]

... motor racing has a clockwise running order, yet athletics seems to be totally anti-clockwise.

It is the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere.

[GROWLER]

Sorry to meander back ONTO to topic, but WHY when the newly opened Burbo Bank off shore wind farm that has a total of 25 turbines, were only 4 of them actually turning today, when it was dead windy too?

[Snoopy]

Frequently, so the Wind Farm "Authorities" tell me they have to stop the turbines because (i) they need maintenance or (ii) there is simply too much wind.
When they "sold" the advantages to the locals over here people genuinely thought they would be getting cheaper electricity. When I pointed out the stupidity of this thought process in the village magazine I was vilified and threatened. When proved right no-one mentioned it. When I asked the question you posed and printed the answer I got (see above) people in the street told me how wrong I was to make that public. People will believe what they want to believe but the simple scientific fact is that the turbines will never produce a steady constant flow of electricity and no matter how many of them we build we will ALWAYS need an alternative supply of power and that alternative will ALWAYS have to be kept on standby to take over at a moments notice.
Maybe when we learn how to store electricity the way we can store gas the turbines may have some use but until then expect them to be not working far more than working.

[Nick]

Nuclear

[Snoopy]

Nuclear

The only sensible alternative at the moment.

[Nick]

Till they get Fusion sorted. Till then they can bury the waste in Wales or Scotland

[Barman]

Nuclear

Indeed... job done. 

[Bar Wench]

Maybe when we learn how to store electricity the way we can store gas the turbines may have some use but until then expect them to be not working far more than working.

Excuse my stupidity, because no doubt this is a stupid question. But how do electric storage heaters work then? 

[Snoopy]

Maybe when we learn how to store electricity the way we can store gas the turbines may have some use but until then expect them to be not working far more than working.

Excuse my stupidity, because no doubt this is a stupid question. But how do electric storage heaters work then? 

The electricity runs through cables that are inserted between layers of bricks. These bricks get hot and retain the heat which they then release during the hours when the electricity is turned off. They store heat not electricity OK?