I had a text message from Orange stating that my new phone will be arriving between 13.06 and 14.06 today.
I’ve just received an Email from another company that is delivering my new TV stand. What time have they given? You’ve guessed it. 13.06 to 14.06.
And it is Friday the 13th. Coincidence?
This is the way to resign from your Office job.
Just pop over HERE to see the whole sequence, including how to demolish your boss’s credibility with a whiteboard.
H/T to Mr Eugenides
Piers Corbyn being aggressively interviewed by a British interviewer on Russian TV. Piers is having nothing to do with the assertion that the fires in Russia are caused by Climate Change.
“The climate has always been changing, but it has nothing to do with man,” Corbyn told RT. “In fact we predicted that there will be extreme heat in Russia and eastern Europe. It's caused by circulation patterns, caused by a combination of solar activity and the phases of the moon.”
For some reason I couldn’t embed the clip.
This time it is a leaked letter from the Director general of finance at the Ministry of Justice.
About 15,000 jobs are at risk as the Ministry of Justice slashes £2 billion from its £9 billion budget, a union has warned.
About time to.Do they really need 80,000 staff to fulfill their duties? We managed with far less in the past.
Of course the unions have seized on this and are predicting an army of criminals will be let loose and the courts will be closed.
In fact they may well be getting off lightly, as the figure is at the low end of the cuts needed in the governments attempt to slash spending.
Read the rest HERE.
Expect more leaks as the bloated Civil Service, finally realise that they are going to have to emerge into the real world.
Maybe I shouldn’t take the piss out of global warming alarmists. But….
Andy Giannasi, the member of ACPO who has been designated the 'lead' in road's policing has decried the wind down of 'Safety' Cameras.
However.
Figures made available by SafeSpeed show an impressive 35% decrease in deaths from 1978 to 1988. The spiraling number of deaths continued to decrease during the pre speed camera years until cameras were introduced in the early to mid 1990's. In fact, since the mid 1990's the number of deaths has stayed about the same which is proof, over a 10 year period, that speed cameras do not save lives. If planting 5000 cameras on the streets and issuing over 7 million fines since 1992 really worked then we would have seen the number of road deaths continue to fall, but they've just stayed the same. The question is, why haven't fatalities continued to decrease since cameras were introduced?
Comment: The finger of blame is clearly pointing at the cameras and those who support them. If it weren't for advances in vehicle safety design and medical treatment then casualties would have increased considerably since cameras were introduced.
Less than 4% of accidents are caused by exceeding the speed limit according to new data (page 41) published by the Department of Transport. This destroys the government's claim that 1/3 of accidents are speed related. The facts publicised by Safespeed shows the breakdown of the causes of accidents from 13 police forces from 2001:
Cause of Accident
% of Accidents
Inattention:
25.8%
Failure to judge other person's path or speed:
22.6%
Looked but did not see:
19.7%
Behaviour: careless/thoughtless/reckless:
18.4%
Failed to look:
16.3%
Lack of judgment of own path:
13.7%
Excessive speed:
12.5%
Utter Tosh from this ACPO indoctrinated Tosser. It would be a lot safer to have more traffic police on our roads to catch those who are under the influence of drink/drugs, driving badly, no licence, no insurance, driving badly maintained cars, etc.
Note: Then again it would be even better if we had any type of Policeman on our streets.
If you’ve read my previous posts,( HERE and HERE), you’ll be aware I’m not to keen on these machines due to their high operation and maintenance costs. I was made aware that the life of a wind turbine was only 6 to 8 years rather than the frequently quoted 20 year lifespan.
However I came on these little gems which I link to at the bottom of this post if you really would like to read it all.
This is underlined by an analysis of maintenance records, which shows that while service teams for offshore wind farms are supposed to make two scheduled maintenance visits every year, unscheduled visits to many installations are made 20 times a year.
And,
The heart of the problem is that the technology being used offshore is generally onshore technology that has not been modified sufficiently to meet the different demands of an offshore environment.
The classic example of this is the disaster at the Horns Rev wind farm in 2005, following which Vestas is reported to have removed and repaired 80 of its V90 models, designed for offshore use, owing to the effect of salty water and air on the generators and gearboxes, which became corrupt after only two (My emphasis) years. A similar procedure has been reported this year, with Vestas' 30 turbines requiring a change of rotor bearings, at an estimated cost of €30m.
Have they produced any meaningful power in this time?
And don’t get me started on gearbox failure.
As an ex marine engineer I could have told them the previous. (Providing they’d paid me a large six figure salary of course).
The rest is HERE. have a read.
Now as you know I’ve been trying to find facts and figures about the true costs of operation and maintenance of these modern follies.
Nowhere can I find any hard and fast figures from any site. Although I have gleaned a few worrying statistics.
I can’t give you where I’ve got these facts from as they are covered by copyright. Why, I’m not sure,as these considerations should be in the public domain.
The O & M costs are double or triple original projected figures.
Also there is a –21% change in wind farm return on investment. Notice the minus.
$0.027/kWh is the latest projected O & M cost. Early estimates were $0.005/kWh. A vastly increased cost.
Again I find that the shelf life of these turbines is down from 20 years to 6 to 8 years.
And that twat Huhne still wants to build hundreds of these bird mincing, inefficient, monstrosities.
That’s all the info I can give you. If anyone would like the full report it costs a staggering $1495.
