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Previously on "what a puff of fresh air"

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  • darmstadt
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    Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View Post
    Install one near a Brexiters mouth. There's so much hot air that the turbine runs on overdrive mode by default.
    FTFY

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  • Mordac
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    Plenty of room in Scotland. Typically, the really windy places are not where people want to live
    So what you're saying is, that means all of Scotland...

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by Hobosapien View Post
    They just need to build them taller. Jet stream is up there somewhere.
    Or hang them from the clouds

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    And I bet Herbert is the Polish worker too.

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  • Hobosapien
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    They just need to build them taller. Jet stream is up there somewhere.

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  • d000hg
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    Plenty of room in Scotland. Typically, the really windy places are not where people want to live which is handy apart from the logistics of hooking them to the grid.

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    Only in Britain does it take millions to drill a hole on a 24 acre site!!!

    RIP british engineering

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  • scooterscot
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    what a puff of fresh air

    Only in Britain does it take millions to drill a hole on a 24 acre site!!!

    RIP british engineering

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    Dig deeper!
    They've already spent millions of pounds for a trickle of tepid water....

    FFS stop all the "green" bulltulip and get some coal out yer geordies!

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  • scooterscot
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    Dig deeper!

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    The centre of the earth is already a nuclear power plant. Did a hole deep enough, only a 1-2km and you'll have useful steam pressure.
    Giant 2km borehole project fails to bring hot water to Newcastle businesses - Chronicle Live

    Never mind eh?

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by PurpleGorilla View Post
    Small modular nuclear plants, factory produced and buried in the ground outside towns and cities. Cheap. Safe. Whilst we get Fusion commercially viable by 2050.
    The centre of the earth is already a nuclear power plant. Did a hole deep enough, only a 1-2km and you'll have useful steam pressure.

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  • PurpleGorilla
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    It only makes sense to put them over the sea, the wind is erratic over land.

    Rather have a few modern gas fuelled power stations to be honest. The only pollution is some plant food.
    Small modular nuclear plants, factory produced and buried in the ground outside towns and cities. Cheap. Safe. Whilst we get Fusion commercially viable by 2050.

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  • FatLazyContractor
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    Well he's an Harvard graduate and a historian. So he probably know's what he's talking about.
    So was Jeffrey Skilling

    Great logic sir

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  • DimPrawn
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    It only makes sense to put them over the sea, the wind is erratic over land.

    Rather have a few modern gas fuelled power stations to be honest. The only pollution is some plant food.

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