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If he was alive he would be trolling us all here for our desire to put, in some cases, function over form.

Good luck with that. Get some dichloromethane, what the PU industry uses.

Oh dear, this is so hard to do. There are too many 'centres' to consider. Mathematical centre, geometric centre, in 2 or 3 dimensions, even a modal centre, or two. As this is a visual thing, how about using the Golden Ratio. Corbusier's work may shed some light on idea.

Down here it is normal to just put some large rocks in the way.

Too right.

Do you have bottles of gas, and a compressor, in it? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51k0k5ge29o

Is any of it swimming pool paint.

We had the roof at work repaired with a polymer. Quick, cheap and worked well.

There is about a billion cars in the world, they account for about a quarter of global CO2 emissions. Now not all will have A/C, maybe 70%, and a fair number of them won't leak, and when it comes to scrapping them, some will be done properly. If we are to spend money on reducing CO2, car air con is not the place to do it. Probably a free air filter and set of sparking plugs will have a greater effect.

Everyone would benefit from smaller class sizes, but apart from that, the education is the same. I am hardly a socialist, maybe a bit left of our current choices. Think Kenneth Clarke, rather than Tony Ben.

Well not directly. My car A/C stopped this year. I assume the gas has leaked out, taken 16 years. Quick Google and it seems cars have around 30oz of gas, 850gm. So, on average 55g/year lost. R134a has a GWP of close to 1500, so about 0.1 tonnes of CO2e. I better drive 600 miles less. Each year. That is one trip up to see my Mother. I don't think leaky car A/C is the big problem.

Why. In the golden years, FiT was around 45p/kWh, imports about 12p. So for every unit exported you saved 12p plus the deemed payment of about 5p. Instead of around 22p.

I was at boarding school when I was 11. There were many things I hated about it. Don't think I was asked about them. (expletive deleted)ing child centric parenting. Just put some vegan food on the kitchen counter and a breast feeding friendly area sign up.

Going to fail then. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/03/sunak-poised-revoke-ban-onshore-windfarms-report

Probably lack of maintenance. And trees falling. When we, well, you northerners, had the Beast From The East a couple of winters back, the main reason for not having power for days was trees falling, they just were not used to a northern sense of humour. Had a strong easterly this morning, and for a couple of days before. Some of my plants have been damaged in the back garden (NE facing), front of house is fine. Actually sitting out here in the sun at the moment having a cuppa. Was a couple of years back in a strong easterly wind I drive from High Wycombe to Penzance and got 83 MPG. Strong winds are not always bad.

45 m/s (100 MPH) winds are not unusual down here. While some buildings do get damaged, these are nearly always when we get a much lower speed from the North.

That is one of the windier sides. My bathroom extractor comes out on a NE facing wall. Never been a problem.

https://news.sky.com/story/tiny-cornish-port-town-of-fowey-hosts-60-000-tonne-cruise-ship-12954252 Tiny Cornish port town of Fowey hosts 60,000 tonne cruise ship The Spirit of Adventure is thought to have been the longest and heaviest ship ever to have arrived in Fowey. Sunday 3 September 2023 18:31, UK Listen to this article 0:00 / 1:33 1X BeyondWords Audio created using AI assistance Image:The Spirit of Adventure can take almost a thousand passengers. Pic: Mark Passmore/Apex Why you can trust Sky News A tiny port town in Cornwall has hosted an enormous cruise ship weighing almost 60,000 tonnes. The Spirit of Adventure motored into Fowey, which has a population of about 2,300 and has existed since before the Norman invasion. Operated by Saga Cruises, the liner takes almost a thousand passengers and is 774ft long. It is thought to be the longest and heaviest ship ever to have arrived in the town's harbour. It was a "big deal" for local tourism, said harbourmaster Paul Thomas. Image:Pic: Mark Passmore/Apex Image:Pic: Mark Passmore/Apex The liner, which has six lifts and 540 crew members, is steep-sided above the water line, with rows of balconies offering passengers a sea view from their rooms. Fowey has banned new-build properties being sold as second homes - and not everyone was happy to see the ship's arrival. Image:Pic: Mark Passmore/Apex Image:Pic: Spirit of Adventure Sasha Swire, wife of former Conservative minister Hugo Swire, said the sight of the ship towering over bobbing yachts in the harbour was "awful" and "shouldn't be allowed". Someone else writing on X, formerly known as Twitter, described it as a "floating block of flats". A third person worried about the ship's emissions but added: "Impressive scale, though."

My Mother says it makes you go blind.

There are also difficulties with Part O, B and K.

Red dyes tend to absorb everything except the infra red. Why red tiles keep a house cooler.

Looks like a 90s Vauxhall.

I used these, various diameters depending what I am fixing. Kitchen cabinets are still in place. https://www.screwfix.com/p/fischer-plasterboard-plug-ldf-6mm-x-32mm-100-pack/81956

I drilled 4 holes, one in each corner of the frame. Then plasterboard plugs, Drew's and filled the screw tops.

One coal terminal that handles 48 million tonnes a year. Aperture Even rail trucks full of coal look beautiful in a J Henry Fair photo Environmental activist and photographer J Henry Fair took this mesmerising photograph of the Lambert's Point coal terminal in Virginia from a plane, to reveal its inner workings 30 August 2023 By Gege Li J Henry Fair/Southwings STRETCHING out across an otherwise unassuming corner of Norfolk, Virginia, is the Lambert’s Point coal terminal. It is the largest and fastest-loading facility in the northern hemisphere for handling and transporting this fossil fuel, the combustion of which is a key industrial contributor to climate change. This stunning shot, titled Cause and Effect and capturing the dramatic scope of the yard’s operations, was taken by photographer and environmental activist J Henry Fair from a plane circling the facility, to “look over the fence” and see what is hidden from view, he says. Lambert’s Point handles a staggering 48 million tonnes of coal a year. It can offload the contents of 1200 rail cars of the stuff per day onto ships bound for the Atlantic. At its maximum, it can hold 6200 of these trucks, a mere handful of which can be glimpsed here, uniformly snaking along the tracks in a mesmerising display of our influence on, and destruction of, the world. “When I saw this terminal, I knew it would make a great picture,” says Fair. “By making beautiful images of horrible things, I hope to create a dissonance in viewers that will prompt them to consider the impacts of what is shown in the pictures, and question the assumptions that make those things possible.” A selection of Fair’s shots depicting human interventions in nature and the environment, including this one, can be seen at his ongoing exhibition, Industrial Landscapes, at the ARTCO Gallery in Aachen, Germany, until 10 September. Photographer J Henry Fair