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Old 15th November 2019, 22:31   #121
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I genuinely feel sorry for what is being put in youngsters heads these days. We ( those in power) keep telling us that unless we start down the road to using electric cars, we will eventually snuff ourselves out of existence.Well if that is what they believe, then perhaps those that believe it, they will be the first to go ( Autosuggestion), and leave the world to the real people.
I can remember the powers saying the same about LPG, then diesel! Its whatever they want to sell to the masses.
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Old 17th November 2019, 16:18   #122
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Just a straight forward question. Can someone explain to me, who is fast losing the will to live..........not. How are we, this country that used to be ‘ours’, going to affect the build up of climate change? We are a country of an estimated 65/66 million people, whose electricity, according to those in the know, is majority produced by ‘ renewable sources, going to affect global warming? The hysterical outpourings of a few people who ‘know what is best for you’, is becoming a diatribe of misinformation and downright lies. I have done a lot of investigating of ‘global warming’, ooh sorry, I mean ‘ global change’, that wording has now changed over the last two years. Those that keep spouting have, to coin a phrase, cut their own throats. They boldly proclaim ‘ we only have three years to do something about it, or it will be to late. Well I for one can not wait for that day to arrive, so I can ask the question, what next please. Seems as though I am wasting my time doing the silver one up at that rate. Oh well.
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Old 17th November 2019, 23:12   #123
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Beautiful moths, John. Are they about 3 - 5inch wingspan? I remember something similar flying in through the open door of a chip shop in York as I was queueing, to the consternation of several customers. I thought it was an Atlas moth, escaped from a banana box (had a picture of one in a book)! I heard the bats in our barn squeaking tonight while working on the 75. I thought they would be hibernating by now.
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Old 29th November 2019, 10:57   #124
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I've been reading a piece about the de-carbonization of the railways this very morning.



Interesting reading.


https://theconversation.com/decarbon...be-done-124905
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Old 29th November 2019, 11:51   #125
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Not as much goes by rail as used to, its all bulk loads now whereas used to deliver individual wagons to small local goods yards for companies but the rail industry decided that individual wagon loads wasn't economical and stopped it concentrating on bulk loads resulting in the companies having to move their goods by road. Every city or large town had a marshalling yard, trains would run with mixed goods, drop and pick up so many wagons at one marshalling yard, carry on, drop/pick up more at the next yard etc. and the individual wagons would go forward to their local destination. This wasn't 100 years ago, this stopped in the 1990s! The marshalling yards are all now either closed, used by passenger franchises as storage depots or by Network Rail for track maintenance trains. The freight yard at Leith in Edinburgh for example used to have four or five companies receiving raw materials and sending out finished products by rail, there was even a shunting locomotive located there, now the place is so overgrown you'd need a chain saw and a JCB to get near it.
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It's such a shame when you realise that a large percentage of all new railway stock is built overseas.

My nephew works - currently - for one of the contractors who moves imported trains via road in order to be commissioned. Such a shame they're not built here.

Likewise in Glasgow the Caley works shut it's doors for the last time a couple of months ago. So sad to see all that skill going away. I was there supporting the workers when they marched out with pipes playing for the last time
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Hi John. Do you think that the NIP means that you are not as ‘flawless’ as you would have us believe you are with regards to climate awareness?
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We still have several train manufacturing facilities in this country, admittedly now mostly, if not all, foreign owned. I believe there is still an enquiry going on as to how Hitachi's Shildon works lost the contract for replacing the 40 year old (and now very unreliable) Tyne and Wear Metro trains to an overseas competitor. How useful would it be to have your rolling stock made within 30miles of your operating centre? And how much will redundancy of skilled workers (especially in that high unemployment area) cost in both social and economic terms? PS, the building with the scaffolding in the background is (or was) the Central Plaza Hotel Its demolition started 2 weeks ago, as it was declared unsafe, following a thorough survey, after bits of the upper parapet fell into the street below.
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Here's a sign of things to come!!! Audi announces today it's electric vehicle plans with a $12billion investment and at the same time announced it's cutting it's workforce by 10% by 2025.
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Just a straight forward question. Can someone explain to me, who is fast losing the will to live..........not. How are we, this country that used to be ‘ours’, going to affect the build up of climate change? We are a country of an estimated 65/66 million people, whose electricity, according to those in the know, is majority produced by ‘ renewable sources, going to affect global warming? The hysterical outpourings of a few people who ‘know what is best for you’, is becoming a diatribe of misinformation and downright lies. I have done a lot of investigating of ‘global warming’, ooh sorry, I mean ‘ global change’, that wording has now changed over the last two years. Those that keep spouting have, to coin a phrase, cut their own throats. They boldly proclaim ‘ we only have three years to do something about it, or it will be to late. Well I for one can not wait for that day to arrive, so I can ask the question, what next please. Seems as though I am wasting my time doing the silver one up at that rate. Oh well.
I think we should all shout from the rooftop that this belief that humans are responsible for global warming (sorry climate change now the temperature is not rising) is nonsense. The Climate Change Cult does not want to control the climate, they want to control us. These folk want us to all live miserable, subsistence lives. They failed to do this via socialism so are now trying this new approach.

I am doing my bit to battle these idiots. This year we will have taken 14 leisure flights (although only 6 were long haul...). Join me in this noble battle!

I do appreciate that humans are damaging the planet with plastic pollution, forest clearing and driving diesels. Clearly anyone doing these should be shot!
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