"harry" wrote in message
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On Nov 1, 2:01 am, "Arfa Daily" wrote:
"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message

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Wasn't too sure at first, especially when I saw the forerunner shown
as some sort of example - didn't like that one at all.
As it turned out, the one in the programme was a delight, and the
occupants (and their neighbours) came across as non-pitas.
There's a similar (but smaller) larch box on the south coast near me
and it's a total blot on the landscape - looks like a packing case
toppled over. The Skye-house architect managed to avoid that
particular pitfall, I'm glad to say.

What was a shame however, given that they kept blatting on about how
beautiful the views were, was the bloody great windmills a couple of
hundred
yards away. I noticed that they were careful to show them as little as
possible.

Did anyone hear Vine on radio 2 at lunchtime today ? They were debating
wind
vs nuke now that the Japs in the form of Hitachi have come on the scene
to
get involved with the British project. Vine came out with a typically
hysterical statement that the fissionable material is so dangerous that
if a
golf-ball sized piece was put at the centre of a football field, you'd be
dead before you had managed to walk out of the goal mouth. Where do they
get
this crap from ?

Arfa

Now we'll see the electric bills go up. Nothing more expensive than
nuclear.I wonder who'll be running/financing all this lot? Are we all/
the gov. getting into more debt?

And we'll be going into nuclear when others are getting out.
Typical.


Expected groundless hysteria from Harry, of course ... Listen to Vine's
programme from yesterday (Wednesday) , between 1 hour 26 mins and 1 hour 30
mins - assuming you know how.

Vine had a guy from Switzerland on the programme who said that the green
lobbyists had managed to get all the nuke shut down over there, after
misleading the public and then having a vote on it, and that now, their
energy ministers had just announced that bills would increase by 200% as a
result, so yes, it will be interesting to see what happens to our bills if
we get the nuclear program back up and running. But no matter what, the
biggest advantage in my eyes, would be the freeing up of our need to be
beholden to the Frogs and Russkies for our energy, at the prices that they
charge us. Perhaps when Europe have shut down all theirs, we too will be
able to join the TTP club, and sell 'em some back. It would be good to
squeeze them until their pips squeak, like they routinely do to us ...

It is completely unacceptable that we might not have enough energy
capability to run the country in a few years' time as a result of shutting
down all our generation capability to try and meet ludicrous emissions
targets, and then trying to replace it with equally ludicrous 'clean'
generation methods like wind. If the answer to that is to build some nukes,
then that route has my vote. As to it being a Japanese company -
specifically Hitachi - who are going to help with this, far from being
worried, I am actually reassured, having dealt with Hitachi's products
virtually since they first appeared on the market, and in that time, always
having found the design and build quality to be right up there with the
best.

Now if they had said that Amstrad were getting involved ...

Arfa