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I’ve been running my car on 5% biodiesel blend for over a year now but after today I’m going back to 100% fossil-fuel diesel!

Maggie and Scargill between them

Mainteneance costs – but no need to go to the trouble and expense of mining coal if you want to expand coal-fired

Wind energy is only part of the solution but it”s a useful resource. The proposed London Array in the Thames estuary is intended to propvide electricity for 750,000 homes.
You need between 500 2MW turbines to produce the equivalent energy of one nuclear plant, which seems a lot if they are on land but offshore, where the wind is more reliable,…[Read more]

Yes but the tree huggers are right about the looming energy shortage. In the 70’s they were rigging up wind turbines made from scrap, now wind turbines are high tech engineering and big business.

This brings me back to the point that global warming is a red herring because we need to save energy and move to renewables anyway because of a much more tangible reason – fossil fuels are running out, or soon will be, and what’s left will have to be spread around a much more worldwide demand.

These contraptions are so dangerous that they are known on the bio-diesel circuit as ‘E-bay Bombs.’ If you’re looking for a cheaper way to blow yourself up, just sign up for the jihad.

No more so than a car battery (have you seen one of those explode? I have – luckily with no injury!), or an oxygen cylinder or even a jerrycan of petrol.

The problem with the global warming thing is that burning fossil fuels MIGHT be causing it or adding to it. But no definite link has been proved, we might just having an effect the same as smoking a cigarette next to a flame thrower.

If all the ice caps do melt, it’s true, we are in deep dog doo-doo. But if sea-ice melts, it has no net effect…[Read more]

It takes weeks and often months, to build a bio-diesel processor and one has to deal with the legalities of tax and waste refuse certification.

Or spend £975 on one of these:
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Are global temperatures still rising? All the hard statistics on this seemed to go quiet about 2 years ago. I know…[Read more]

Instead of arguing and posturing, the USA and Russia, as superpowers, should agree that instability in the Middle East and Central Asia is a threat to the world. They should agree to ‘carve up’ the area into zones into which each would be permitted to intervene pre-emptively. The USA in the Middle East and Russia in the former Soviet countries.

The crime of the burglar is just as bad – save for the fact that they didn’t need to cause any damage by breaking in – he is still a thief.

But the homeowner deserves a lower or zero insurance payout for not taking reasonable measures to protect their property.

Most of the trolleys at our local Asda don’t push straight, while most of the ones at the local Sainsbury’s do! It’s something to do with the electromagnetic anti-theft brake on the Asda trolleys, I think. Anyway, let’s blame it on the Jehovah’s witnesses because they can’t fight back!

I imagine christians would be able to purchase advent calendars in some ‘muslim’ countries, like Egypt, Pakistan, Lebanon or even Iraq, which have christian minorities, if they look hard enough. In islamist countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran it might be impossible – same in Nepal, I think, where hinduism is the only religion that is permitted to…[Read more]

I agree these big turbines need to be sited sensitively, I wouldn’t want to live right next to one. But one of these turbines does the job that a whole group of the smaller ones does.

I used to live near Stansted Airport when they were first talking about expanding it in the late 60’s. I think air travel will peak and then go into decline as…[Read more]

The guy faces possible life imprisonment in USA for hacking from Britain. He probably won’t get such a severe sentence and I don’t know what the maximum penalty is here.

If someone denounces Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the religious thought police of Iran, they’d be committing a serious offence under Iranian law, but if they do so here they’ve…[Read more]

You like gadgets. eh? Try this one if you dare! Turn the sound up as you watch.
(not rude, not gruesome – unless you happen to be a tree!)

We have a right to challenge the belief in god or gods or other superstitions and to give our reasons why. I used to be a Christian but now I’m a humanist-atheist, perhaps even a Dawkinist! I believe, as an atheist, that we should be out debunking religions and their silly myths with missionary zeal!

Perhaps they are leaving them as bait to catch the dealers.

Round where I live there was a supposed dealer that everone knew about, who lived in what the kids called the ‘Drug House’. Apparently the police had swooped once or twice but never found anything and the dealer carried on.

My theory was that the police were waiting until they had…[Read more]

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look at the sentences dished out to the great train robbers all those years ago…..totally ott

Nonsense! They killed a train driver. They deserved everything they got.