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Kelvin's thunderstorm but fed by an actual rainstorm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv4MjaF_wow
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Just go partial Matrix, and each country in the union takes a turn in the cyberpods. England first.
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Pantsmaster Bill posted:This is ignoring that there are huge parts of the UK that cannot host wind turbines, for a variety of reasons (too close to houses, too close to airfields, etc). Solar is an alternative in those areas, even if it isn’t as efficient as in other areas of the world, because the alternative in those places is nothing. So do nothing in those places. We don't actually need every single square metre of the country doing *something* to generate electricity, and solar panels aren't free (and *definitely* aren't free of environmental costs). Like I say if people want to do domestic-scale PV I've no problem with that, but I'm talking about a solution to keeping the lights on for the country as a whole, and the fact that we can squeeze some solar panels onto the roofs of the hangars at Heathrow is irrelevant to that conversation because for the amount that costs, both financial and environmental, we *as a country* could build, say, a massive accumulator in an old coal mine, which would be of much more use in keeping the lights on. Not that we should fall into the old Tory trap of "You can only have one thing or the other", but we have limited resources (and limited time) so we have to ensure that what we use them for works holistically. Plaster the entire country with turbines and solar panels without bothering about storage and the lights will still be going out every winter (and 99% of that capacity will be switched off in summer) - we need renewables that work when wind (and solar) don't, and we need minimally-lossy (and cheap!) storage to cover the gaps in between. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 14:47 on Mar 6, 2022 |
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Trees grow in the UK, we could just use them for solar power and burn them They did actually try that at Drax, it's a massive failure (not least because they were importing wood from Canada to fire it).
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Also most of the allegedly managed forests just became a mislabeled American free for all of attacking old growth.happyhippy posted:Just go partial Matrix, and each country in the union takes a turn in the cyberpods.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:We don't actually need every single square metre of the country doing *something* to generate electricity How else can Britons maximise their crypto portfolios?
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happyhippy posted:Just go partial Matrix, Hydropower but with blood
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Priti Patel delivers a Rivers of Blood speech about the exciting opportunities..
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Here in NI i can look out my windows and see a small solar farm and eight windmills and two miles away is the largest solar farm in NI producing 851 kWh/kWp.
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Pantsmaster Bill posted:This is ignoring that there are huge parts of the UK that cannot host wind turbines, for a variety of reasons (too close to houses, too close to airfields, etc). Solar is an alternative in those areas, even if it isn’t as efficient as in other areas of the world, because the alternative in those places is nothing. I mean to add to what Twisto said - we have this thing called the National Grid, you know. You might have heard of it. We don't all need our own personal power generation apparatus, we have big wires for that 
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The UK treatment of refugees has always been very, uhh, complicated. On one hand there's quite a few and the rejection rate is actually fairly mediocre, but on the other it's somewhat, let's say, heavy-handed at times. It's one of the reasons why I find it a bit dodgy when people criticised conditions in the calais jungle, if someone in Britain tried to establish a settlement of undocumented migrants it would last a few hours at best before the home office vans rolled in, nevermind giving them any help from the state.
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feedmegin posted:we have this thing called the National Grid 
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Trees grow in the UK, we could just use them for solar power and burn them What you want to chop down trees? How’s that renewable? You can grow concrete
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Fuckin convinced Robert Pattinson is on here y'know
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Guavanaut posted:Also most of the allegedly managed forests just became a mislabeled American free for all of attacking old growth. Oh my god that's genius 🙏🙏
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I saw a meme about how by a certain age you should have a pasta shape you despise for no reason and I realised mine is penne. Can't stand em. I like those tiny shells best.
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The very small pastas are a bit naff cos there is no texture, you're just eating slop. But otherwise no preference.
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HopperUK posted:I saw a meme about how by a certain age you should have a pasta shape you despise for no reason and I realised mine is penne. Can't stand em. I like those tiny shells best. I'm a big fan of the bowties, despite how impractical they are. Shells are also great.
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Whatever that pasta is that's shaped like a steering wheel is the worst. What's the point.
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OwlFancier posted:The very small pastas are a bit naff cos there is no texture, you're just eating slop. Orzo is a crime.
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They are deliberately round to be devoid of point
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Tsietisin posted:Orzo is a crime. Orzo actually absorbs flavour though so it's great for some baked dishes.
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orzo is what you wean baby's onto
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HopperUK posted:I saw a meme about how by a certain age you should have a pasta shape you despise for no reason and I realised mine is penne. Can't stand em. I like those tiny shells best. I fuckin hate Spaghetti, I do have a beard though. The best ones are the helix ones. e: apparently that's "Cavatappi".
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Have also pictures of the outside and the sun and the flowers and the water and ducks what I have taken with my phone device while at work.    
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feedmegin posted:I mean to add to what Twisto said - we have this thing called the National Grid, you know. You might have heard of it. We don't all need our own personal power generation apparatus, we have big wires for that Eh I mean 5+% of power generated is lost to transmission over the grid. That's 3m peoples' power consumption. Local generation helps to lower that, I believe. Tsietisin posted:Orzo is a crime. Orzo is great, you just need to use it in the right dish. I can't find the one I make online (I think it was from a magazine) but it's basically this: https://www.food.com/recipe/orzo-with-blue-cheese-and-walnuts-473318 Except you cook the orzo in 1L of veg stock, drain it off, then add in ~100g of watercress or spinach as well as the blue cheese and walnuts. It's good, comes out a lot like a risotto.
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Orzo, like what is wrong with rice?
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Farfalle, tagliatelle. I generally want to bite through a double layer of pasta, so tubes are best but other shapes that ensure thickness (wheels, spirals) acceptable.
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Oh actually I don't like tagliatelli because it is always weird when I have it, like I dunno if they use a different pastus to make it but it's got a weird texture, would rather just have spaghet.
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Rigatoni is the one I'm most likely to not chew enough and end up with a chunk jammed in my gullet but I'm still gonna have to give worst place to penne for being the dullest shape
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Green tagliatelle is my fav. Aldi stock it every now and again, and I stock up on it before its gone again.
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OwlFancier posted:Have also pictures of the outside and the sun and the flowers and the water and ducks what I have taken with my phone device while at work. this is lovely, ty OwlFancier posted:Oh actually I don't like tagliatelli because it is always weird when I have it, like I dunno if they use a different pastus to make it but it's got a weird texture, would rather just have spaghet. i don't really eat pasta these days but i make it a lot. tag is typically an egg noodle pasta; things like spaghetti are just flour
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I have a pet theory that 90% of the "culture war" grifters have Russian money involved, either backing them or amplifying them. I don't think that the whole thing is a psyop but I do think that pouring gasoline on the division it sows and the horrible politics that ensues is a no brainer investment for the kremlin. Has anyone ever pulled this thread? Any books or anything that have dug in?
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Penne is the worst because it doesn't really work well with a fork or a spoon. The long ones are easily forkable and other smaller shapes are more easily spoonable Tagliatelle is best
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I think it's more likely that the dipshits started doing it off their own backs, and then russia / right wing thinktanks / kochs / whoever noticed them and realised that funding these dipshits could pay off. And now you have a 2nd tier of dipshits who are copying the 1st tier purely to get their hands on the funding.
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mediaphage posted:i don't really eat pasta these days but i make it a lot. tag is typically an egg noodle pasta; things like spaghetti are just flour Ah that would explain it, it does seem more like noodles yeah.
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jiggerypokery posted:I have a pet theory that 90% of the "culture war" grifters have Russian money involved, either backing them or amplifying them. Not read the article, but found this: https://thesecuritydistillery.org/all-articles/culture-wars-how-the-kremlin-securitizes-youth-culture Ok - just skimmed it and seems to be about Russian youth culture not western culture wars.
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