Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

The politics of fear has bitten the doom mongers on the backside

 

Whaddya mean "attempt"?

How about a "What's making the headlines" thread? That could include pertinent political happenings, but also cover other things in the news that weren't specifically "moans".

 

What planet are Merkans from?

 

No! Just please no.
Although there could be one opened and then locked to demonstrate the frustrating nature of politics and the advice that if a member felt the need to post there they should take their choice of beverage and contemplate their garden until they felt calmer.

 

We do not discuss US politics in this household, and definitely not Donald Duck!!
Woe betide anyone who tries to play the trump card, or tries to '"abandon Alderney" (too many years of The Daily Telegraph newspaper)!!

 

I had to look that one up, but I spelt it wrong, put an i instead of an a, I was slightly confused for a while, nothing new there.

 

I was just reading in my local facebook page that the council is proposing to roof over the local park, parking area, which is surrounded by tall trees, and put solar panels on it, they have thousands of square yards of roofing in the town, but no, they want to first build new rooves and then put the panels on them.

Apparently if they dont do this the town will fry some time in the next 20 yrs?

Yeah, pull the other one.

 

I do agree that existing using existing, rather than building new, is a better option for roof panels. Two of the SMs I use most have covered parking areas to shade cars in summer and keep shoppers dry in winter. One has completely renewed the roofing with solar panels and the other is half way thru doing it.

Many businesses in business parks here have shade roofing for their employees' cars and bikes and these are often covered with solar pnels and there are companies that will pay rent to come and install a new roof on farm buildings such as Dutch barns and cow byres so they can cover them in solar panels.

Seems sensible to me and better than covering arable land with acres of panels.

 

This is my point, cover every super market car park by all means, but a country park with large trees and what looks, but isn't, rural seems like killing the enviroment in order to save it.

 

Dark oxygen made by deep sea 'batteries'
I sort of wish that they hadn't discovered this.

 

Of course the big thing would be how do you connect a fragmented set up like that to the grid?
The farm I worked at had all their buildings rooves fitted with panels about 8 yrs ago, might have paid for themselves by now.