Preparedness for when

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AnimalTribe wrote: »

I am mainly preparing for winter and for a probable reduction in income.

I'd suggest adding power cuts to that, given the narrow margin between demand and capacity.

A bad winter could easily see the introduction of load shedding.

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

Stanley knife does rabbits best.

I know a funny story about those knives.

Nearly 30 years ago I had a tutor in design who had a friend who was consulting with a railway company in Australia to try to design-out vandalism opportunities.

The train company exec was telling the product designer that their worst problem ever was seats being slashed by Stanley knives. The product designer was cringing inwardly and hoping that they hadn't paid too much close attention to his CV as he was a former designer for Stanley Tools and guess what he'd done for them.................yup.

GQ , who knew the man who knew the man who designed the Stanley knife - you're lucky to know me, eh? :rotfl:

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pineapple wrote: »

Let's hope we don't get knocked back to a time when we might have to relearn those skills.

An EMP strike would do that in seconds.

greenbee

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I'd suggest adding power cuts to that, given the narrow margin between demand and capacity.

A bad winter could easily see the introduction of load shedding.

This is making me REALLY cross as I know of at least two GAS power stations that are currently shut down because they are apparently uneconomical to run. But they've only been shut down since mid-2012. And as they are gas they should be relatively (compared to coal) easy to get going again. Ironically one of them is next to a site where there is planning permission for another gas power station which clearly isn't going to be built.

Given that we're shutting down nuclear and coal at a rate of knots, why on earth aren't these gas powerstations (same age as most of the rest of the fleet - late 80s/early 90s) being maintained/upgraded/developed to fill the short/medium-term gap before the French and Chinese build us the nuclear power stations we haven't got round to building for ourselves?

GreyQueen

greenbee, I agree about the nonsensical nature of what is going on. Sordid experience suggests to me that something (or several somethings) rather corrupt is going on.

Some people are going to make an awful lot of money, and the regular folks are going done over yet again. Look for the money and then see the graft. I suspect one of the angles being worked it to frighten people half to death with a spell of blackouts, brownouts etc and then tell them that the only way out is lots of nuclear power stations.

But I've always been a cynic.

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Wyre wrote: »

Any ideas how I can prevent myself accidentally paying for stuff I had no intention of buying

Get one of these from Amazon.



Currently £3-07, including P&P.

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mardatha wrote: »

Stanley knife does rabbits best.

Or a scalpel.

Or a single sided razor blade.

thriftwizard

there's a certain kind of Morningside lady, isn't there? Prolly the one looking at me like I was something to be scraped off her shoe............

I've lived in Morningside… not for long, admittedly! Don't think I fitted in too well…

I suspect seed-saving is one of the most essential skills we could be learning & passing along.

Wyre

Thanks Bedsit Bob, I shall do just that. You're a star!

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greenbee wrote: »

Given that we're shutting down nuclear and coal at a rate of knots

Capacity is down almost 7,000 MW, since this time last year.