Apparently, Rothbury have been without gas for 24h.
Gas board shipped in 1100 electric heaters, which when
all plugged in, have taken out their electricity supply
too. Nice one... now they've got no power at all.

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Andrew Gabriel
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On 3 Feb, 18:59, (Andrew Gabriel) wrote:
Apparently, Rothbury have been without gas for 24h.
Gas board shipped in 1100 electric heaters, which when
all plugged in, have taken out their electricity supply
too. Nice one... now they've got no power at all.

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Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

Wonderful - from an energy company - You couldn't make it up could you?

In message , Andrew Gabriel
writes
Apparently, Rothbury have been without gas for 24h.
Gas board

Doesn't exist any more

It should be avoided lest anyone might confuse it with British Gas


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geoff

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember (Andrew
Gabriel) saying something like:

Apparently, Rothbury have been without gas for 24h.
Gas board shipped in 1100 electric heaters, which when
all plugged in, have taken out their electricity supply
too. Nice one... now they've got no power at all.

url:http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/2009/...1634-22837240/

url:http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/2009/...1634-22846667/

The writers seem unable to decide whether Rothbury is a town or a
village, but I'd certainly have treated it as a rural location and had
more than one source of heating in my house, preferably three.
This has kept me warm so far this winter, despite several power cuts.

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

The writers seem unable to decide whether Rothbury is a town or a
village,

Since Rothbury has a market charter dating back to 1291 then technically
it's a town. But then you'd hardly expect the local journalists to know
anything about that.

--
Mike Clarke

On 3 Feb, 18:59, (Andrew Gabriel) wrote:
Apparently, Rothbury have been without gas for 24h.
Gas board shipped in 1100 electric heaters, which when
all plugged in, have taken out their electricity supply
too. Nice one... now they've got no power at all.

Rothbury? Don't they all have hydro turbines in their back gardens?

On 03 Feb 2009 18:59:50 GMT, (Andrew Gabriel) wrote:

Gas board shipped in 1100 electric heaters, which when
all plugged in, have taken out their electricity supply
too. Nice one... now they've got no power at all.

Guess what will happen when we are all charging our electric cars overnight.

--
Geo

Geo wrote:
On 03 Feb 2009 18:59:50 GMT, (Andrew Gabriel) wrote:

Gas board shipped in 1100 electric heaters, which when
all plugged in, have taken out their electricity supply
too. Nice one... now they've got no power at all.

Guess what will happen when we are all charging our
electric cars overnight.

You'll all take one look at your utterly terrifying
electricity bills, and decide to walk/cycle/bus/etc
instead :-)

#Paul

wrote:
Geo wrote:
On 03 Feb 2009 18:59:50 GMT, (Andrew Gabriel) wrote:

Gas board shipped in 1100 electric heaters, which when
all plugged in, have taken out their electricity supply
too. Nice one... now they've got no power at all.

Guess what will happen when we are all charging our
electric cars overnight.

You'll all take one look at your utterly terrifying
electricity bills, and decide to walk/cycle/bus/etc
instead :-)


?

I know you are joking, but the actual fuel cost of an electric car at
current taxation levels is a about a quarter of petrol or diesel costs
Or even less.

Power stations are about twice as efficient as IC engines.. which
accounts for some of it and then the (lack of) taxation on power station
fuel makes it about 1/4 the cost per watt generated...and electric cars
are DESIGNED for efficiency from the word go - they have to be.

A typical 100-150 mile 'tank-up' would be about 50Kwh..say £4.50 in
todays prices. If using cheap rate, as low as £2.00..

If the taxes on road fuel were applied to the gas coal and oil used in
power generation, we would have gone all nuclear a decade ago. And be
using electric heatpumps to heat our houses too..




#Paul

On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:06:50 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

A typical 100-150 mile 'tank-up' would be about 50Kwh..say £4.50 in
todays prices. If using cheap rate, as low as £2.00..

Ok now my car and the wife's and the daughter's all want 50 Kwh overnight (
along with all the neighbours). Will the local distribution system cope?


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Geo

On 5 Feb, 09:01, Geo wrote:

Ok now my car and the wife's and the daughter's all want 50 Kwh overnight (
along with all the neighbours). Will the local distribution system cope?

No, but the electricity suppliers will soon install a few gas-fired
generating stations.

On 03 Feb 2009 18:59:50 GMT, (Andrew
Gabriel) wrote:

Apparently, Rothbury have been without gas for 24h.
Gas board shipped in 1100 electric heaters, which when
all plugged in, have taken out their electricity supply
too. Nice one... now they've got no power at all.

Now it seems they lost their water last night, because of damage to
the pipes...

A bit like 'The gas man cometh', innit...

--
Frank Erskine

On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:34:47 +0000, Frank Erskine
wrote:

On 03 Feb 2009 18:59:50 GMT, (Andrew
Gabriel) wrote:

Apparently, Rothbury have been without gas for 24h.
Gas board shipped in 1100 electric heaters, which when
all plugged in, have taken out their electricity supply
too. Nice one... now they've got no power at all.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/7873888.stm

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Frank Erskine