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Post by finsobruce on Apr 28, 2017 22:51:13 GMT
I discussed it with a Yorkshire Water engineer at an open day when they opened a new supply treatment works. All electricity is just electricity, all gas is just methane, but all water isn't just water. Water sourced in different areas is chemically different which causes problems if with transfering it between areas. Plus, it is hugely heavy, and half of the grid would be pumping it uphill. Methane is light and electricity has no such thing as uphill. The existing long-distance grid-type water distribution systems aren't grids, they're long-distance local supplies mostly running downhill (eg Lake District to Manchester) and not mixed with water from other areas. The engineering problems are solvable, but it's the costs that stands in the way. Water is *THE* most expensive utility product to move away from its local area. In other words, a national water grid remains a pipe dream. Drain the swamp!
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Post by Richard Allen on Apr 29, 2017 0:02:27 GMT
true but if we keep building housing in the "dry south east" something has to give. If you can build bloody big pipelines from mid-Wales to Birmingham or the Lake District to Manchester then surely ... You really can't expect modern Britain to match the vision and ambition of the late 19th century.
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Post by finsobruce on Apr 29, 2017 8:10:42 GMT
There was a plan in Spain to move water from the Ebro and Rhone to the south but it got shelved in favour of lots of desalination. The plan in Spain, went mainly down the drain....
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Post by BossMan on Apr 29, 2017 8:46:05 GMT
On request, I have just started an SDLP group, so we may see defections to that.
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Post by yellowperil on May 2, 2017 7:32:42 GMT
or from that?
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Post by right on May 2, 2017 19:23:42 GMT
I have left the LibDems and henceforth am a member of the Liberal Party Have you been to any meetings yet? What are they like?
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Post by Antiochian on May 2, 2017 21:54:32 GMT
I have left the LibDems and henceforth am a member of the Liberal Party Have you been to any meetings yet? What are they like? Bit like the French Resistance... you create your own cells... no-one knows more than five people, in case the LibDems capture one of you and start pulling fingernails...
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Post by greatkingrat on May 3, 2017 6:02:00 GMT
Haven't they told you those five people were the entire membership yet?
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Post by froome on May 3, 2017 6:33:36 GMT
Haven't they told you those five people were the entire membership yet? And they are all Lib Dem plants.
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Post by greatkingrat on May 3, 2017 6:43:05 GMT
No, it's four LD plants and Steve Radford.
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Post by Merseymike on May 3, 2017 8:41:07 GMT
The things which unite the Liberal Party are loathing of the EU and the Liberal Democrats!
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Post by Antiochian on May 3, 2017 9:02:52 GMT
The things which unite the Liberal Party are loathing of the EU and the Liberal Democrats! That theory fails as I have a LibDem diamond in my front garden that is the only one I've seen in a town of 40,000 people. LibDem leavers are maybe 5,000 or more of the LD membership.. a not insignificant number. If life is made too uncomfortable for them, they have a place to go.. The flow post May 2015 was back to the LibDems and now the net flow is the other way.. Far be it for me to refer to a "surge" that would be sounding too LibDem of me...
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Post by Merseymike on May 3, 2017 10:10:01 GMT
The things which unite the Liberal Party are loathing of the EU and the Liberal Democrats! That theory fails as I have a LibDem diamond in my front garden that is the only one I've seen in a town of 40,000 people. LibDem leavers are maybe 5,000 or more of the LD membership.. a not insignificant number. If life is made too uncomfortable for them, they have a place to go.. The flow post May 2015 was back to the LibDems and now the net flow is the other way.. Far be it for me to refer to a "surge" that would be sounding too LibDem of me... Liverpool Liberals have no time for the LDs at all
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on May 3, 2017 18:32:21 GMT
No, it's four LD plants and Steve Radford. Who's probably a CPGB plant.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 5, 2017 8:05:52 GMT
Dear BossManPlease would you change my affiliation to non-aligned Thanks
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Post by froome on May 5, 2017 8:12:41 GMT
Dear BossManPlease would you change my affiliation to non-aligned Thanks Is there anyone left in the sinking ship?
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Post by BossMan on May 5, 2017 8:48:06 GMT
Dear BossManPlease would you change my affiliation to non-aligned Thanks Done.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2017 8:52:23 GMT
Dear BossMan Please would you change my affiliation to non-aligned Thanks Done. Almost the last of the Mohicans... Don't be disheartened - it was all worth it.
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Post by Richard Allen on May 5, 2017 8:55:57 GMT
BossMan could you please restore me to non-aligned. I someone how managed to delete myself from the non-aligned group a couple of months ago.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on May 5, 2017 8:56:53 GMT
BossMan could you please restore me to non-aligned. I someone how managed to delete myself from the non-aligned group a couple of months ago. So you've been sitting as non-aligned non-aligned ?
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