TopGun

I have cultivated my garden for nooky corners. I am going to throw swinging parties. Interested Boggy?

But in that case he is clearly a **** salesman. What he did was accept the best of the first hagglers on the car lot. I wonder about Mole.

A very good question.

Actually it doesn't. You have to read it twice to figure it out. Crap sentence construction by the Mail.

It should be chucked out unless MLT is the chairman.

Gardening is a stealth tax that has been created by left wing mongers. Everyone knows that!

A shame you didn't bother reading the posts above then about the probable effects of a Tory government. But I'll let you look like a tool.

Bit of geography west and east mixed up there. Or are you going to walk Hadrian's Wall?

Only in Portsmouth.

They do look more like elephants than dodos though.

Shut it. You've caused enough issues about woolly mammoths.

National Geographic is a well known naysayer of climate change. It is edited by Saint George FFS. Woolly mammoths died out as Ponty says 10,000BC. An enclave on Wrangel Island north of Siberia shivered their way through until 1,700BC because seemingly there were no hunters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth

I'm not sure I could place my life in the hands of original topgear presenter Angela Rippon, but I'd be happy if called to the cause with Fiona Bruce. She should dump those silly BBC News and Crimewatch programmes. She'd be fab on Topgear. It would be no pants night for all blokes over 30 on Sunday night at 8pm.

I'm glad Derry was in charge when I was on board the Flybe Dash-8 Q400 named George Best when I flew into Eastleigh a couple of years back. Derry spotted a runway issue and roared me back up into the clouds at the last moment and then conducted a successful 10-minute turnaround landing once the airport had cleared the other plane off the runway! Good old Derry, I say! I might have lied about cause

Stored hydro is a good point for spikes and SSE is one company looking into it. Although it is probable that it is a net user of energy than provider in some cases. It has a role to play though for quick energy release. Most energy generation except for nukes is pretty inefficient so it is unfair of anyone to put a particular focus on wind as being more inefficient per se. After development costs are paid back to investors, most wind farms can create "free" energy for half their anticipated 25-year lifetimes. So as there are lower fuel costs the inefficiencies are less important, as with stored hydro. The subsidies like ROCs that people moan about with wind have applied in one form or another to every other form of fledgling energy also previously. In time wind can standalone and be a valuable supplement to baseload power. I'd disagree with your point Smirking about DC lines though see your perspective. Not every substation would need to be adapted as you would only run a few big lines, akin to motorways. A few substations in each region could then convert to AC for short haul distribution of end user power. In any case, you would not want to use the potential all the time, just have it there for good wind generation periods in a particular area, unexpected problems and unusual spike times. Scottish wind could easily supply Newcastle for example for much of the time. When the wind isn't there, Newcastle falls back on less intermittent power sources. For example, the Moray wind farms could supply AC power into a central substation hub that would send DC distributed energy south taking in power plants like Longannet along the route. Your point about importing and exporting power from France is also interesting. Although this will change as our North Sea gas supplies diminish, we have exported gas in the summertime for years to France who have far better underground gas storage facilities than we have. We have then re-imported gas or gas-derived electricity from France during higher demand winter periods at far higher prices. Which is just ridiculous. We don't have sufficent on-shore underground gas storage as every scheme proposed is opposed by local people. An example is in the north west where a company called Canatxx has tried for years to get consent to store gas in vast underground non-porous aquifers. Each winter the huge industrial users of power in Runcorn and Warrington are forced to pay top-notch price for power when gas bought and stored nearby at lower cost in the summer could be used instead. That means all the chemicals and other industrial products produced are sold on at higher prices to the ultimate cost of every one of us. Admittedly Canatxx have done a shabby job of convincing local stakeholders of the benefits of their proposed scheme. I like your understanding of the issues though Smirking! The Guardian comments are a ****fest of baboons arguing "principles" with no knowledge or understanding of the issues. One up to the Saintsweb!

Lolage. So true.

I posted the below on the Guardian website earlier as a comment about the Drax protesters but thought it fits here too! http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/03/drax-coal-train-trial-guilty?commentpage=3 Whether you are a climate change believer or denier the simple facts remain that the UK has to sort its energy policy out pronto. The new nuclear stations being proposed by the likes of EDF & RNE N-Power at sites now under consideration at Sizewell, Hinckley Point et al have many hoops to go through: 1. Any new nuclear power station will have a 10-year build time as against three years for gas and about the same for a new coal plant. 2. The new nukes being proposed are likely to be twin reactors of about 800MW each meaning a new nuke will be 1600MW, 2.5x smaller than the Drax output of 4000MW. 3. It is very possible that a Tory government and the new Infrastructure Planning Commission that is being set up presently to oversee all new projects of national importance will actually recommend a new public inquiry into the concept of new nukes thus adding another three years minimum before any new nuke construction might start. 4. In the time it takes to get new nukes built and online a number of the current nukes will go out of service. For example, the 1,000MW Wylfa nuke on Anglesey is due to go offline at the end of 2010 though it is fighting for a four-year stay of execution. 5. The older coal power stations such as Kingsnorth and ****enzie and many others without flue gas desulphurisation technology that is deemed too costly to fit to older plants will have to go offline by 2015 under EU regs and can only be used for a further 20,000 hours between now and 2015. 6. A gas power plant can be fired up from cold to full capacity in 20 minutes; a coal plant takes a day; a nuke takes about a week. To overrely on nukes would be foolish unless we had so much overcapacity to ensure unplanned outages do not cause power cuts. France has 76% of electricty in place from nukes but has older conventional plants ticking over and can import from Germany and Spain if required. These points alone make it imperative that newer coal plants like Drax with flue gas desulphurisation technology stay online until other plants as well as new nuclear can be built. Therefore quite a few IGCC (gas) power stations are being planned as well as CCS-coal plants (which will likely also take until 2020 to get online if the technology proves economically viable and the present and future governments get a shift on). The Tories may also stop CCS technology investment anyway. All of this means the UK will face power shortages by 2015. It's time for people to stop being petty and work pragmatically to ensure that the UK has diverse and secure electricity projects coming online asap. That includes more gas, more renewables such as wind, biomass and tidal and a more efficient National Grid that includes long distance DC lines that can transport power from one end of the country to the other far more effectively than is possible at the moment. It also means that the nimbys who will stop any form of new power where they live have to be brought onside with new energy developments far better. You can see there are many power issues the UK needs to address. And as such, climate change can be viewed as a diversion from more pressing pragmatic needs! Although it shouldn't be mocked IMO!

The same thing happens with wind farm / power station upgrades and extensions. The people who complain are generally new to the area, often retired and don't see the economic benefits that longer term residents do. Bloody white settlers!

My stadium is 30,000 which I increased in small increments. I made the mistake of buying too many posh seats though as I rarely sell them out.

I think Saints should be nationalised pronto.

No reason why carbon capture would cause damage. Carbon is injected into vast saline aquifers in liquid form where it is trapped. Over years it reacts chemically to form solid carbon compounds. Just putting back what was taken in essence.

I expect there is a armed robbery on Portswood Broadway at Oxfam/PDSA/Help the Children/Slots of Fun/Kebab shop/library/public toilet.

I have kept quiet about Pinnacle but it was obvious from rows about 10 points they were never serious players. Clearly a case of grab the club at £14m and sell it in a year in the CCC for twice that. Hence the 10 points importance.

I think all the global warming sceptics have passed out with the heat, they're so quiet ;-)

Well, it's not football and it's not a serious topic either.