“continue to disrupt many farm businesses for years to come”

Or they could you know.

Assume the right of way exists and plan to work within it.

If the potential of it being a righr of way is effecting them in any way. Then they must know where ir is being debated.

If they are choosing to fight it. The doubt is entirly their creation.

Hong kong will pay £100k to kidnap people.

No other way to interpret this.

lot of people who voted leave understand now it was all a lie

Some do. But a larger number blame both parliment for being to weak. And remainers for not getting behind the gov in negotiations.

Many fail to recognise the vote was won by joining multiple impossible opposing ideas into one side.

Giga factory did not happen in the UK.

If I was a sceptic, I’d say the UK was one of a few nations he proposed to try and gain some economic influence.

But few here generally believed he would choose a place with expensive labour like the US or UK to host such a thing. Honestly, factory manufacturing is not huge in the UK for good reason economically.

We do have a good few smaller corps building batteries. But honestly, it’s mainly importing cells from China and putting things together. But nothing huge exists.

Agreed.

As I say, it’s just the idea of 1.5m can’t be wrong that is wrong. More so coming from a newspaper that depends on the success of marketing for its revenue.

Approx 2% of a population can definitely be sold a crock of shit if the marketing is good. Just look at the numbers who voted Trump in the US or Reform in the UK.

Honestly, if solar Balconies produced 30% of the nations’ electricity, then it would be very impressive.

But while Germany producing 54% clean energy is bloody impressive. Honestly, 30% is likely to be solar as a whole, not just balcony solar.

The number of locations where the low sun would be inline to balconies is limited. Due to urban conditions. Mainly only higher flats over the average city line and rural areas.

And while in those higher or rural flats. The low sun may shine the correct way 30% of the day (if the panels can tilt). For that to generate 30% of the flats use over a whole year. Would take a pretty big balcony. The best panels available commercially nowadays are <300w per m2. So most balconies would have 600 to 1200w max. The whole side of the flat would likely be 4x to 6x times that.

I’d guess it’s still worth doing. (def the whole side of the building thing) Mainly because the panels are so freaking cheap atm. It’s the cost of bats and volt/current/charge management that would be the greatest cost part. But for most users. 30% from balcony alone is not realistic.

Yep but other then space. (where we already have a huge foot)

He has no ability to limit the UK and is not an actual leader.

Clean transport he is actually just a name. He owns no standards that other does not have alternatives to. Tesla really is not very popular in the UK. Other cheaper options from Nissan (and others) are much more common.

Storage. Again, her does not have a huge hold on that market. Competition is huge and generally cheaper.

Space is the only place he has something unique. That being reusable launch. And while he is likely to remain cheap compared to other options. The UK also has a huge hold in satellite technologies and production (Much of it built a couple of miles from me). Along with a huge influence in radar and space tracking technology. Launch has really been the only area the UK avoided. And our government works through ESA to handle the limited launch they need. So only corperations need deal with him. Few that do are UK only.

He simply does not have a huge hold over the UK gov. This is in part why he is working with Outlier parties rather than the 2 main ones. The main ones ignore him as he has little actual hold over them economically.

Musk has positioned himself in a place where the UK (and a bunch of other countries for that matter) need to be ok his friendly side.

Not really. Twitter / X is his only real influence. And since taking over, he has trashed his reputation. So much so, only people like Farage pay any attention to him. Who also has a pretty awful reputation.

He has gained power in US politics. But only in a role that is limited to US gov internal affairs.

His companies SpaceX and tesla have limited power in the UK. Starlink is growing, but still not a major player here.

He really is no more than a very rich, mouthy idiot that our government tends to ignore.

Well of course they do. How ever crappy and dumb reform may be.

It is a political party. Even with its odd set up.

There is no way to prevent a millionaire donating to them. That dose not also effect their own parties donations.

Unfortunalty we dont really have a way to ban donations to or from the southern end of north faceing donkeys.

Really great day. When you can screw yourself.

;>

Grins, actually My MPPT cost more than the panels. £70 for each panel plus £33 shipping the pair. The 2 30a MPPTs £90 each.

But when fitting to a house it’s likely to be mounting by a pro that is the bigger cost. So yeah, way easier to replace the MPPTs etc then climb on a roof.

Fortunately, with a narrow boat a can do it all myself with just the risk of wet feet ;)

Erm as he is talking about what the panel providers are willing to warrantee. Where else would you expect to see it.

Give me a week and I can go get the warrantee paperwork for my panels. But I’m net heading out to them till after Xmas. But it’s 20 years at something like 85% of original performance.

If you are expecting to see test data. Well, honestly, other than manufacturers. The older technologies really were not as reliable. The same manufacturing techniques that have reduced the price of panels over the last few years. Are the reason UV damage etc will take longer to effect them. Hence, the long warrantees. 70-90s panels used to suffer from UV fogging over the diodes, so did not expect to last as long. But even they tended to last about 10 years.

As I pointed out else where. It is not the panels that are likely to fail in 6 years. (unless damaged) But the electronics adjusting to battery or AC voltages for use. They tend to come with much shorter warrantees. But if fitted well, are also much easier to replace.

Honestly, it depends on what you spend. Many high-end fridges in Europe come with 10 year manufacturer’s warrantee. And EU law requires manufacturers to provide parts for 10 years on such goods. So honestly yeah.

That said, cheaper ones tend to make it past 5 (mine is 8 years old) without maintenance. And if I had to replace it 3 times in 10 years, it would still be cheaper than getting the expensive ones. (worse for the environment)

As for solar panels. I am about to replace the one on my boat. It is well over 5 years old and still works. I’m replacing it because I can get 2 410w huge panels for way less than the 100w one cost the past boat owner.

6 years really is nothing for a solar panel. My new ones came with a 20-year warrantee. (something like 85% after 20 year). High-end ones are better.

The 2 MPPTs are likely to need replacing first. But again, 6 years may be well beyond their warrantee. But is reasonable to expect. The lifepo4 battery should just manage 10 years. Before losing significant storage. But that is with the BMS set to keep them from 10-90% charge.

So no, 6 years is a very reasonable time to expect from solar.

EDIT: In a house setup. It is the inverter that is most likely to need replacing. But again, 6 years is more than likely for a quality one.

On my boat, the vast majority of the equipment is 12v, as it’s just more efficient. But the cheap (very) Chinese inverter did not last a year. So yeah they can be cheap crap if you don’t get good ones. But we don’t really use it much. So haven’t bother replacing it yet. Will do so this summer.

Worth adding. In homophobic a community. It is much less likely that gay men are able to get honest advice.

And way more likely that those gay men also risk heteosexual women. When attempting to avoid prejudice. Ie pretending not to be gay.

Back in the early 80s when aids first came out. The US and UK were very homophobic. To the point it was often illegal in some US states. And only recently legalised but still restricted in the UK.

This in no way prevented gay men and increased the risk to both gay and hetrosexual communities.

‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’

Yep, an impressive marketing campaign.

Honestly, I’m not saying they are bad. Depends on location and angle.

But the tittle is total rubbish.

About 1% of the nigerian population. In one year.

That os a freaking frightening number.

Yep for decades women got to retire 5 years before men. In 1995 the law changed. Meaning that by 2010 all men and women wound need to wait till 65 to retire and claim state pension. Rather then the 60 women previously had.

So yeah while the women may have paid pension payments since the 1950s expecting a earlier retirement then men. And as have some right to object to the decision and law changes.

Inequality is a pretty pathetic claim and trully seems to insult the men treated unequally in this case.

But let’s remember. Historically a lot of inequality for women including lower pay. Was far from made up for in that one reverse situation.

help disabled people into work

Yeah, unfortunately they forget some facts.

Unless a disabled person has a desirable skill. (in such cases, they are likely already working)

Any company will see hiring disabled as more expensive and less desirable, than non-disabled (or more honestly, less disabled). Although obviously they are never likely to admit it.

Disabled people often know this. This can lead to huge mental health issues. Where disabled people are forced to diminish how their ability affects them during interviews etc.

Honestly, if a person has no high demand professional skill. Being forced to hunt for work where employees are clearly faking a desire or forced to hire you. Can have a really negative effect on the health of the people involved.

But Iran on the cusp. Very much dose.

Translation.

Lord Hendy is saying do it cheaper. Without actually providing any solutions.

Critisizing the expensive solution to allow disabled to get from one side to another. While just hoping his criticism is all the planners need to develop some wormhole like miracle cheaply.

This guy really is getting his name known.

Its also the cost. It would leave us with the same politicians with the same power.

So involves lots of changing of the way our system functions with little real benifit.

Unlike above syggest HOL dose not have the power to stop it. Only delay now. But every law we have is based ob a constitution that passes piwer from the king to parliment.

So for a majority to form. An actual replacemnt needs to be agreed. And thats even harder to work out.