True altruism

[Nemesis]

Tough?

Bloody luxury.

 

[Nemesis]

And as for Didcot - you can have a fun day out apparently, heritage and wildlife rolled into one:

http://www.npower.com/Education/Power_station_visits/Didcot_A.html

 

[Penners]

I don't have 5...

It's what is known as a "television channel". Possibly translates in your part of the world as "man-make-box-with-moving-picture".

 

[Nemesis]

I have a TV Penrose - it's just we can't receive Channel 5 where I live.

I hardly watch the other four so don't usually feel too deprived. I gather I will have to buy a new TV soon though or I won't receive the other four channels either.

 

[Penners]

we used to get up at three o'clock in t'morning, drink a cup of acid, work sixty-three hours a day at t'mill and pay t'mill owner for t'priviledge, and when we got home our parents would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.

You were lucky...

 

[Nemesis]

Microsoft has kindly updated my IE today, had to switch off and restart etc.

Now everything is running really slowly and very oddly.

Ho hum.

 

[Flyfisher]

Give it another few years and people will be lobbying to get wind turbines listed to protect their heritage. Just like many other 'blots on the landscape' such as lighthouses and the large satellite dishes at Goonhilly.
Funny old world.

 

[Nemesis]

I think there might be a case for one as an exemplar, but doubt all of them. There would have to be a pretty major change in legislation.

It seems that part of getting permission comes with a clause about removal.

 

[Penners]

Microsoft has kindly updated my IE today, had to switch off and restart etc.

Now everything is running really slowly and very oddly.

Ho hum.

If you've just upgraded to IE7, then the slowness is probably down to the new anti-phishing filter. If it gets too frustrating you can turn it off.

Click on the Tools menu, then hover over Phishing Fliter, then click on Turn Off Automatic Website Checking.

If you visit lots of dodgy websites maybe you'll want to keep it on, but if not, I'd turn it off (provided you're already running decent security software).

 

[Nemesis]

No, I already had IE7 (and resisted yesterday's invitation by e-mail to upgrade to Beta Ver 2 which my Bullguard tells me contained an attempted Trojan attack... Royal Mail was never this complex...) Windows update ran this morning for ages then kindly turned my computer off and restarted it for me to download the updates.

Since then it's been very slow, and odd.

Hmmmm...

Might try the Phishing filter though, ta, there are so many filters now it's amazing much gets through!

(Dodgy websites? Like what I ask???)

Update - it seems to have righted itself...

 

[Craig]

Gareth - well done. Prize is you get to wear the "Best Boy" hat for the restof the day Bonus question - do you remember its name? Apparently it had enough output to boil a kettle.

 

[Nemesis]

http://www.oldroyalnavalcollege.org/royal-naval-college,34,AT.html

 

[Gareth Hughes]

Give it another few years and people will be lobbying to get wind turbines listed to protect their heritage. Just like many other 'blots on the landscape' such as lighthouses and the large satellite dishes at Goonhilly.
Funny old world.

http://eeru.open.ac.uk/natta/renewonline/rol30/10.html

http://www.orcadian.co.uk/archive/2000/archive11.htm (last item)

that bit of news was greeted with a certain amount of dismay in some quarters of the Mills Section of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings - our first major experimental wind turbine (of the modern wind-power age - there is a 1924 electricity-generating windmill still in existence in Gloucestershire), gone. As, I believe, have the three at Burry Port, South Wales.

 

[Nemesis]

Twenty years - not a long lifespan really.

 

[Penners]

I gather I will have to buy a new TV soon though or I won't receive the other four channels either.

No - all you need is a Freeview box. Cheapest I've seen is nineteen quid from Tesco.
That will receive digital TV and convert it to analogue for your old steam telly (including Five!).

Before you do that, though, just check to be sure that you can get Freeview. Click here.

 

[Nemesis]

No, of course we can't!

Also the steam telly is playing up. they don't last long do they? Only 15 years for this one.

 

[Flyfisher]

Twenty years - not a long lifespan really.

No, but it was intended as 'experimental' so probably (hopefully!) not indicative of modern turbines.

I remember seeing this turbine on a trip to Orkney in 1988. It wasn't actually working at the time but I had an interesting chat with one of the engineers working on the project about its progress.

Oh well - bang goes another bit of heritage.

 

[Nemesis]

I suspect the lifespan of a great deal of what is being erected now will be short - if nothing else improved technology will make them redundant. And the work involved in removing them, and all the concrete, will be immense.

Still, some people will have made a large pot of cash in the short term.

 

[Penners]

No, of course we can't!

There is an alternative. Click here. Bit more expensive to install though.

 

[Penners]

I suspect the lifespan of a great deal of what is being erected now will be short.

Oh, you're so right.