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What was the event that wiped out the dinosaurs then? an effing macaroon?

Good heavens, post a perfectly reasonable comment and get sworn at in return

So at the risk of bringing more profanity and abuse down on myself, I'd point out that the middle age in question occured between the 9th and 14th centuries, the dinosaurs having been wiped out several millenia earlier.

perhaps you'd like to post a link to ...... [anything you like, I'll only ignore it]

threads like this tend to get me a bit bogged down, it can be a bit much for my feeble brain to cope with.

AGW, probably something I missed, but is it ---- Global Warming? What's the A part?

Anyway, thre trouble with any environmental issue is there never seems to be any consensus on what to do.

CO2 emmisions bad, ok so we will use nuclear to power the lights. Hell no, that's worse. Ok then, wind turbines, naar they're no good, they look ugly, birds crash into them and besides it takes more power to build them than they ever make. hmm, I just want the lights to come on.

Short haul planes are bad, but don't 100 people travelling on a train use less fuel to go from London to Newcastle than if they went by car? So use the train, balls to that, costs a small fortune they don't run on time, you're not guaranteed a seat and I've got a car anyway.

Turn your TV off standby, it's uses less electricty. That's a no brainer. No hang on, the power buzzing through it on stand-by justs gets converted to heat and heats the house. Oh Jesus.

Don't throw stuff away, we're running out of land fill and there is no need to waste stuff and the power needed to produce it. No, no, there's loads of land fill and it uses more energy to recycle you plastic than make new plastic and recycled plastic is no good anyway.

Don't drive a big car use a smaller one. Surely no arguement to that. Nope, I have 3 kids and they can't possible fit in a Golf. Of course they can you prat. Oh but what about the horse and the caravan I must drag everywhere. Well shoot the poxy nag and burn the caravan. Simple.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I would just like to go through life without leaving too big of a mess behind.

:) Mole, people already think that of SS so I wouldn't worry.

:) Mole, people already think that of SS so I wouldn't worry.

Hear Hear!

AND (in my view) we need to think very carefully about this sort of discussion on here. I know it's the "general" board but we get plenty of visitors / lurkers / trolls and, whilst the core "Safespeed philosophy" is pretty well documented and is clearly what the site is about, I think this topic is much less cut-and-dried.

I think (and I'm sure plenty of you will feel different - and it's Paul's site anyway!) that we simply run the risk of convincing any moderates out there who are teetering on the point of understanding the anti-scamera arguments on the site that actually, we're just a bunch of pathological anti-authority nutters looking for any shred of evidence to suggest that everything is all a plot by "big brother" to control our every movement.

Instead we aim to shift policy with independent analysis.

Good heavens, post a perfectly reasonable comment and get sworn at in return

So at the risk of bringing more profanity and abuse down on myself, I'd point out that the middle age in question occured between the 9th and 14th centuries, the dinosaurs having been wiped out several millenia earlier.

Sorry Rigpig, it was intended to be somewhat lighthearted, i forgot to add a after the macaroon bit, no offence intended.

Excellant

Cheap energy hope from waterwheel


Two Cumbrian friends have come up with an invention they claim could help consumers save thousands of pounds in energy bills.

Ian Gilmartin, 60, and Bob Cattley, 58, both from Kendal, say their mini-waterwheel could supply enough free electricity to power a house.

The device is designed to be used in homes close to small rivers or streams.
They secured a £15,000 grant from the Lake District National Park to build a working prototype near Windermere.

The device is claimed to be the first off-the-shelf waterwheel system which can generate a good supply of electricity from a water fall as little as 8ins (20cm).

Wheelie bins

Mr Gilmartin is an electrician by trade, but does not own a TV and has never lived in a house with electricity.
He first began experimenting three years ago with yoghurt pots and wheelie bins in a stream close to his home, before test-running a prototype.

This now produces almost all the daily electrical needs of an average home.
It is hoped to go on sale by the end of 2007 and is set to cost about £2,000 to fully install.

Mr Gilmartin said: "It is expected to pay for itself within two years and then greatly reduce the owner's electricity bills after then.

"I have been thinking about this for a long time and tried various solutions.
"I have come up with an answer and I don't know why anyone has not thought of it before."

Wind of change - farmers warned

John Vidal, environment editor
Wednesday January 3, 2007
The Guardian

Farmers will be told today they could be penalised if they do not stop their flatulent animals farting so much methane gas.

The environment secretary, David Miliband, will tell a farming conference in Oxford that agriculture now contributes 7% of all UK greenhouse gas emissions and more than a third of all emissions of methane -one of the most dangerous greenhouse gases.

Without specifying a "fart tax", he will say that the farming industry of 2020 will play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Mr Miliband will say these can be reduced significantly by feeding cattle different food, breeding them to live longer and getting farms to generate "biogas" from animal waste.

I know which produces the most crap!