SteamyTea

Bit about a small kitchen here.

Right. Memory must be failing, maybe he discussed a wet system to reduce slump, but did not bother in the end.

Down here, when the weather is good, quite a lot. Usually up country folk that think it is normal Cornish behaviour to sit out and drink a bottle of fine wine. Truth is we prefer dark, damp and windy high street doorways with a shot of heroin. Why the pace of life is so much slower here, no (expletive deleted)er can be bothered.

Most are now flooded. The water has to be managed to reduce the contamination risk. Not a case of close the mine and walk away. At the place I work I thought I had hit a wall early in the morning. Then realised I was a few feet from it. Had a look around and the ground was leaking water. During the day, a 40m strip of tarmac got distorted and more water started coming out. It eventually went up the slope to, what looks like an old vent shaft. Millions of litres of water have come out of it, into the stream. 104 years since it closed. Going to cost £200k (ish) to put right. We really should not be mining for energy when cheaper alternatives are now available. Shafted.mp4

Tungsten mines are nothing new down here, but may give a good proxy as to how long it takes to start mining again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemerdon_Mine Six years and not much has happened.

Was a decade ago. Not saying I am certain, just seem to remember it being mentioned at the time. Easy way to find out is to pull a fill hole plug out and see. Sometimes it is quicker just to try things out than constantly speculate.

Why I typed I seem to remember that Jeremy's place was a wet system, he had no problems when he cut a hole for his A/C unit.

Some of this blown cellulose (chopped newspaper) has a binder in it (blown in wet). I would think that would be almost impossible to suck out. But look on the bright side the heat capacity will go up. Some say that is a good thing (I disagree).

Wasn't there a company offering to put servers into people's houses, the letting them harvest the excess thermal energy. Maybe be it is time for us all to start questioning how much, behind the scenes, technology we really need. I suspect that there is not really that much added value from a lot of services.

Mentioned this a while back about these system won't be that effective. Very few left now, and it is illegal, was a problem 15 years ago, but most meters are changed every 20 years.

Can we get our kW, kWh, MWh and so forth correct. It looks so much better. I use the dictionary on my phone to make it easy.

And it has still not happened apart from some small scale tests plants. It has been around over 30 years.

He is your man, brilliant paper pusher. I saw him kill 3 men with a (expletive deleted)ing pencil.

China gets a lot of coal from Australia. About 85 million tonnes. Which, fascinatingly has increased by 50% since 2023. Did they know something.

I can, by doing a reckless 27 MPH.

Yes. But by what, can you suggest a product?

@SimonD @Nickfromwales I have seen similar poor installed wiring. What is the best way around this? Can a flexible sheath be used? How would the ends be terminated around the existing wires?

Can't we use the sea to cool them. It would be nice to go for a dip, without a rubber suit on. I saw something about tokens/watt the other day. ChatGPT uses about 340 MWh/day for a billion queries. I am not sure if that is good or bad. It is about 10 times a standard Google search.

I wonder what generation technology would come out on top, if we passed legislation that said anything can be built anywhere. I doubt it would be thermal or nuclear.

Just like all the companies mining tin in Cornwall.

The British Geological Society has online maps of borehole locations. See if any are near you, hunt the property owner down and ask a few questions.

Do it. Then let the government (expletive deleted) up the database.

My diesel can do that as well, just mine makes a lot more noise.

I seem to remember, back in 1973/4 that we had an energy crisis, and to save electricity, the three day week was introduced by the government. Then, in 1984/5 we had the Miner's Strike. Then, during the 1990's, we had the Dash for Gas, with 35 new gas turbine power stations being built. I am not sure than 'home grown' energy security is any more secure than any other form. But with wind and solar, we can, if we ignore NIMBYs, plug in to the existing infrastructure a lot easier and quicker. There is a saying, “Steal a little and they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you king” (Eugene O’Neill), surely distributed generation is, by nature, more secure.

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