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I've bought this from Wickes before I even clicked on I should have got marine ply. Wickes 6mm ply Will this stuff be ok? I'll be tiling, so priming and flexible adhesive on top of this.

Took me a while earlier:

All I see is a man up a lift.

There is no real point in continuing to discuss with you. we are at polar ends of the spectrum. You think you are right as do I. Only time will tell.

It is not that I don't like alternative forms of energy generation. It is moderation, balance and diversity that we need, not religious fervour. Energy efficient houses great, the more the better. But spending vast sums on subsidising one energy source and demonising another is foolish. It assumes we know all the answers with certainty, and we are absolutely right and certain about what we are doing. I say beware the certain evangelical man because quite likely they are a bit stupid to lack doubt and uncertainty. Yes in the long run fossil fuels will run low. But there has to be a balance. Making an energy transition is a 50-100 year journey. During that journey technology will advance in astonishing ways. Explore and advance all options. Nuclear fission is here and fusion will eventually come. That is your belief, not a known proven or unchallenged scientific fact. I am glad you care about our descendants, but there is no ''climate emergency''. Don't mistake fear and propaganda for what is really known. The IPCC have just burned the scenario all the climate emergency peddlars use as unrealistic - it aint happening - it aint necessarily so. There are many threats to humanity, a new ice age, asteroids, global warfare, planetary pollution, pocster, etc

Ffs the top floor windows are wrong as well. how can somebody have the knowledge to replace a lintel and not follow the brick bond. baffles me.

Ah. Not sure what a plumber has to do with that. In my mums cold bathroom with relatively weak shower she specifically asked for the fan to be moved further away from the shower head because she thought it promoted cold. Couldn't tell you if it made any difference (used it before and after) but I could see an argument for wanting more steam to hand around (for a short while) in a room like that. (Of course consequences are condensation everywhere but that's another matter).

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Its a stretch to state that these are big con! Visual and noise impacts - visual, don't agree, noise, the juries out and location can somewhat mitigate that. Interference with radar and defence operations - really? The culling of birds - presume you are in favour of the culling of cats then? That oil jobs will go - more of a pro than a con in my opinion Fire and collapses do occur - really, didn't know that, good job oil production is harmless then! Low effective efficiency given curtailment and the inability to match supply to demand - the use of battery storage seemingly will help with this. Listen, I get that you don't like alternative forms of energy generation, but given what we have endured for many, many years from high CO2 emissions, and given it is our descendants that will suffer the most, your defence of the status quo is just beyond the pale!

Shame I am work at the moment. When I studied RE we looked at all firms of electricity production. Nuclear, when generating is very low CO2 generation. The long term storage is a problem, mainly political, latest idea is to bury it in the Irish Sea mudstone. It may happen. There is a question mark over the security of uranium supplies, processing, transport and storage. Regarding the excess thermal energy heating the atmosphere, not really. But local heating is a problem, as is excess air temperature. A French reactor was on reduced power because it could not get enough cooling. All large thermal plants cab suffer from that. The main thing is to reduce the CO2e gasses and particulates. These are the main problems. CO2e gasses do not act like a blanket, depending on which model used to calculate, it really just allows more energy to be stored kinetically (temperature is the mean free path speed of molecules after all).

Heat and steam off a decent shower will negate any feeling of cold / draught etc.

And while you are doing this you could look at modifying or replacing the first floor cills. It is difficult to chase out cement mortar from soft bricks without damage. Do some research on what you want.

We should strive to be rational about radiation and nuclear power... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Radiation-Reason-Impact-Science-Culture/dp/0956275613/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=bg1jN&content-id=amzn1.sym.5e81eabe-938d-4936-a067-ca199f0f9913&pf_rd_p=5e81eabe-938d-4936-a067-ca199f0f9913&pf_rd_r=262-7534544-0018501&pd_rd_wg=xTSmn&pd_rd_r=7fc92425-cede-45b3-9dab-8d1f26ca4128 You may enjoy listening to him... https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/radiation-and-reason Some think we should fear cow farts, some viruses, some asteroids, some free speech. Choose your poison carefully but always be afraid.

Someone mentioned the need for fuel in case of war earlier. It's been said already, but it's an awful lot easier to bomb refineries and oil pipelines than it is to bomb solar panels and windfarms. And as an importer of fuel it's also a lot easier to blockade/disrupt shipping than it is to stop the sun/wind. See Russia

What has 4 legs and goes woof. There are rig and well fired everywhere. Kuwait had a lot.

Every windfarm is cleared (or not) by MOD. Much overstated, see any research on the topic. Not specific to wind. They are going regardless. North sea is a declining basin and fewer fields are cost competitive. Oil can be sold regardless of whether it is used in the UK - see Norway! Blade factories in Hull & IoW. Vestas Nacelle factory coming to Scotland Monopile fabrication facility on Teeside JDR Cables at Hartlepool, multiple Prysmian cable factories We probably make as much of wind farms as we do oil and gas facilities. Piper alpha?

And an Irishman won the Tour. Actually that was a year later.

Was the roof height raised to get more internal height for ground and first floors, and the windows moved up? Has it been checked out, structurally?

Chernobyl 40 years ago, still a little bit of a no go zone

I would start with getting the bricks replaced under those windows, it’s been incorrectly bonded.

Solar is 1000W/m2. Work out how many m2 of the planet there is and calculate the total amount of energy (obv not all planet is exposed to sun at same times). I'm sure an AI will help do this. Then calulate the amount of energy we put out. It's a very very tiny fraction of total energy. Haha here comes the jetsons! No, not gonna be in cars any time soon (or trucks). Batteries are perfectly fine for those. Ships, and only very big ships, there are are really two options to power them that don't burn vast quantities of fuel. 1. Sail 2. Nuclear Some ships are trying out sail and modern systems are aimed at reducing fuel burn not eliminating it. A useful contribution but not game changing. Ships have a schedule to keep so can't be waiting around for the right wind conditions. Nuclear on those ships is not crazy. They already have largeish crews with dedicated specialist engineers on board. The type of nuclear talked about for those ships is the 60-100MW range, so tiny comparitively. Likely to be an inherently safe design that is packaged as a module and craned on/off for maintenance, etc.

It's not that small as you need a steam plant to go with it. So would be a car a 10 Tonne trailer.

Not sure there are any long term plans except concrete and lead lining of fuel waste, components removed during the plant life treated in a similar manner. Then decommissioning taken several lifetimes. Impact on the planet ignoring the above is pretty small, you use the heat to make steam that drives a steam turbine or two. There is no combustion by product that leads to global warming - just super heated water, used in the turbines. Renewable - no, radiation is from a fuel source it gets depleted and converted to a waste product. It happens the waste product is very dangerous to all life.

Climate change is due to the changing chemical composition of the atmosphere, which causes heat from the sun to be trapped and the planet to heat up. It's not due to the heat which is released from human activity.

We are still cleaning up after a reactor was shut down and restarted incorrectly. Buildings kill more birds.