Unthreaded
What rubbish are you spouting now golfCharlie? Marmite™ IS sulphate reduced tar.
Supertroll
Invariably the fields become contaminated with sulphate reducing bacteria that turn hydrocarbons into unproducible tars within the reservoirs. So technology could be hype or the best thing since sliced bread.
Jun 8, 2017 at 6:20 AM | Supertroll
Some people might find that sulphate reduced tars spread on white bread are more palatable than marmite.
golf charlie
PCar. Jun 7, 2017 at 11:31 PM Technology description either missing or gobbledygook. If viable, they don't mention an obvious future target - offshore oilfields produced using seawater in secondary recovery. Invariably the fields become contaminated with sulphate reducing bacteria that turn hydrocarbons into unproducible tars within the reservoirs. So technology could be hype or the best thing since sliced bread.
Supertroll
EM,
I think your comment about nails and guns is more in the line line of the wooly kind of reasoning of a liberal (ie. Not really attached to Real Life (tm)).
People want the ability to protect themselves and not to have to rely on the police to save them, especially when seconds count!
Mailman
Mailman
Jun 8, 2017 at 12:42 AM | Entropic man
+1
With different experiences, in various but different locations, I have reached the same conclusions.
golf charlie
Pcar
As an Air Training Corps civilian instructor I used the single shot L98 variant of the SA80 for range shooting.
One day we were given a large amount of ammunition about to go beyond its use by date. We blazed away all afternoon with standard SA80s and an LSW as fast as we could load the magazines.
I can confirm that there is a certain orgasmic pleasure in shooting automatic weapons.
It is said that' a man with a hammer sees all problems as nails. I can understand how members of a gun culture might see guns as the solution to all problems. If in doubt, shoot someone?
Living in Northern Ireland I have always regarded armed police as a necessary evil, but have never liked it. During the troubles the IRA would shoot at the army on busy streets, hoping to use their own people as human shields. The army would return fire and along with the dead IRA men would inevitably be civilian casualties. I would hate to see that becoming normal on the streets of England
Entropic man
@Golf ..different people walking in the background,
but KTHopkins has proof today that the BBC edited out "for allah" in a witness video statement of todays knife attack.
They've now stealth edited the webpage report to include the words
stewgreen
"1saveenergy commented on About.
in response to Bloke down the pub:
I’ve just finished watching BBC Horizon programme about the moving of the British Antarctic Survey Research station which was threatened by a crack in the ice shelf. During the whole programme there was not one mention of climate change despite there being several about the ozone hole. Are we seeing the beginning of something new?"
stewgreen
Jun 7, 2017 at 11:39 PM | stewgreen
I have not seen the clips you refer to but ...
Sometimes camera crews will film their journalist asking the question that another rival journalist asked.
Sometimes an interviewee will repeat his answers for the benefit of camera crews that did not manage to record it "correctly enough" for technical reasons.
Some PR Press Officers fancy themselves as Film Directors, and like as many takes as possible, so that a variety of Directors Cuts can be produced by judicious editing and distributed when necessary.
Like most actors, many Politicians like to be seen at their best, and are happy to comply. Unfortunately for Corbyn, the CCTV on a Virgin Train caught him whingeing and sitting uncomfortably, when he did not need to.
golf charlie
9am BBC Lincs gurgles
Renewables Record more that half electricity was produced from wind, solar and nuclear*
..they produced more that coal and gas combined
(The public would be wondering ..didn't you tell us months back that coal was zero? )
UK sets new renewable energy record as wind and solar surge ..Jillian Ambrose in Telegraph 4:10 pm yesterday
"wind turbines and solar panels help to meet more than half of the UK’s electricity demand."
"First time ever: yesterday in UK renewables generated more power than fossill fuels. " Guardian
"'Spectacular' drop in renewable energy costs leads to record global boost"
* Tweeter puts as "renewables exceeds fossil fuels in UK mix for first time, with nuclear 3 qtrs = low carbon,"
On Twittr Greens are angry fo R4Today including nuclear as a renewable
I note Guardian said this a few days ago
"The Paris deal pullout is more damaging to the US than the climate
The US abandoning the global climate deal brings risks, but the unity of the rest of the world and plummeting green energy costs are reasons for hope"