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The PFM Environment thread

Good Afternoon All,

We made a conscious decision back in 2001, after the all singing/ all dancing LPG condensing boiler was installed, to remove the cast iron stove in the Living Room and haven't burnt any wood since.

We could open up the two downstairs fireplaces at a push but in the event of power outages we'll just break out the 7kW generator to keep the GSHP ticking over.

I fully support the banning of wood burning however it is done............

H.H. Government need to sort out linking electricity prices to burning gas.........

Regards

Richard
 
I came across this link whilst trying to find out what had happened to Extinction Rebellion protests after a report stated that 2 people in an ambulance had been delayed and may have died as a consequence of the blocking of the road by XR protestors:


It has Claire Farrell, one of the XR founders, interviewing Dr Ye Tao (Physics doctorate) of MEER about the use of mirrors in hot areas to reflect solar energy back into space to reduce localised heating. And more generally they discusses what could (mirrors being the only cheap, practical and effective approach) and what could not work (carbon capture and most other green washing tech) to keep climate change to a minimum over the next 10 to 20 years and gives a bit more of a clue as to how XR works. With the next 20 years of climate change already baked in to give us at least 2 Deg C change in the Earth's average temperature.

I hope that this is interesting to some.

At the start of the thread I posted some information about Thorium Molten Salt Reactors, and whilst the science is done, the engineering is not and commercially viable solutions could easily be 10 to 20 years away and so are not relevant to the short and medium term problems.
 
‘Streams as toilets’: Thames Water’s real-time map shows scale of sewage dumps
Data reveals hundreds of hours of discharges via storm overflows in some locations

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...water-raw-sewage-discharges-in-england-rivers

https://www.thameswater.co.uk/edm-map

I find this unacceptable on several levels - I know there are a lot of things more uppermost in a lot of peoples' minds but, like the NHS, this reflects years of underinvestment.

I have still to build two small 'berms' to prevent the flooding of our PSTP as when we get overwhelmed here flood water flows down the Utility Room sink drain grate and also via the inspection hatch for the pipework from the bathroom to the sewage plant.....

Regards

Richard
 
I find this unacceptable on several levels - I know there are a lot of things more uppermost in a lot of peoples' minds but, like the NHS, this reflects years of underinvestment.

I have still to build two small 'berms' to prevent the flooding of our PSTP as when we get overwhelmed here flood water flows down the Utility Room sink drain grate and also via the inspection hatch for the pipework from the bathroom to the sewage plant.....

Regards

Richard

It won't be long until we start seeing cholera outbreaks. I checked the interactive map again this moring and sewage discharges are taking place at the majority of the site
 
‘You should gaze at your bins in horror’: the massive crime scandal behind the UK’s rubbish

Low-risk, high-reward crimes generate huge money and power, and with that comes concerns about systemic corruption. “It’s easy money that has allowed them to turn waste into gold,” Ashby says. “While we don’t have the same kind of history of the mafia in Britain, we worry that if this area of organised crime gets enough money and grows, then that could start to corrupt more of our institutions.”

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...-podcast-exposing-waste-rubbish-crime-scandal
 
Britain uses Brexit freedoms to continue use of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticide banned in the EU
Ministers have approved the emergency use of neonicotinoids against the advice of their own experts in a move branded ‘unacceptable’ by environmental groups

"Ministers have used their Brexit freedoms to approve the use of a banned bee-killing pesticide just days after the European Union’s highest court blocked its deployment on the continent.

Defra has re-authorised the emergency use of thiamethoxam, a type of neonicotinoid, known to be lethal to bees, wasps and other pollinators.

The move comes only a month after Therese Coffey, the Environment Secretary, committed the UK to halving the impact of pesticides on the environment and despite the Government’s own expert panel recommending against the move."


https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/britain-brexit-freedoms-bee-killing-neonicotinoid-2104102
 
Thérèse Coffey admits UK can’t achieve air pollution target advised by experts
Environment secretary sets lower 10-year objective for cleaner air but researchers say their goal is reachable with stronger action

"But air pollution experts pointed to research by King’s College London and Imperial College London that has shown the government could achieve the more stringent targets, which are supported by the public in polls, if it took stronger action on the sources of pollution, which include diesel cars and wood-burning."

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...hieve-air-pollution-target-advised-by-experts
 
Popular plug-in hybrid cars emit significantly more carbon dioxide than official measures suggest, according to new on-road tests by academics that add to concerns over the true impact of cars sold as better for the environment.

Cars from BMW, Renault and Peugeot all emitted much more than standard lab tests had claimed, with the BMW 3 Series in particular emitting more than three times advertised, according to the research by Switzerland’s Graz University of Technology.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...s-pollute-more-than-official-measures-suggest
 
A demonstration of how well Britain's top agricultural university teaches the next generation of farmers and landowners to respect our wildlife - bad enough even to upset the Daily Mail!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ts-strap-dead-fox-roof-car-charity-rally.html

Cirencester college has had a bit of a reputation for some of their students behaving like arseholes ever since the 80's (I grew up a few miles away). Seems as though not much has changed in the meantime.
 


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