Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?

[nowty]

Careful you might have to curtail it to avoid the windfall tax.

Is that watts or mA ?

[Joeboy]

Careful you might have to curtail it to avoid the windfall tax.

Is that watts or mA ?

That my friend is bare naked Watts. There shall be no taxation here or strumpet flashing of mA.

[Joeboy]

Some serious flooding in Aberdeenshire now worth a look on FUBAR news Aberdeen for a look at Fugh Bridge in Banchory.

https://fb.watch/gTqMBxNzZo/

It is blowing an absolute hoolie up here!
Even my daft wee roof mounted WT is kicking out power.

Just heard on classic FM that a woman fell into an Aberdeenshire river yesterday, how very sad indeed.
There will be no coming back from that.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.stv.t ... hire%3famp

[Oldgreybeard]

Just heard on classic FM that a woman fell into an Aberdeenshire river yesterday, how very sad indeed.
There will be no coming back from that.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.stv.t ... hire%3famp

Sadly I think you're spot on. I've never forgotten the effect of cold water on the body, and suspect that a part of the reason we used to do survival training in the sea in winter was to ram home to us that cold water takes no prisoners, and needed to always be treated with the utmost respect. Scary watching a colleague go from normal to a jibbering wreck that looked to be at real risk of dying in the space of about half an hour, just from being in cold water.

[Joeboy]

Just heard on classic FM that a woman fell into an Aberdeenshire river yesterday, how very sad indeed.
There will be no coming back from that.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.stv.t ... hire%3famp

Sadly I think you're spot on. I've never forgotten the effect of cold water on the body, and suspect that a part of the reason we used to do survival training in the sea in winter was to ram home to us that cold water takes no prisoners, and needed to always be treated with the utmost respect. Scary watching a colleague go from normal to a jibbering wreck that looked to be at real risk of dying in the space of about half an hour, just from being in cold water.

Same for us in the offshore game with the training. So sad for that woman. Today is grey but no real rain and the wind is negligible yet she doesn't get to go forward, a damn shame.

[Joeboy]

Just heard on classic FM that a woman fell into an Aberdeenshire river yesterday, how very sad indeed.
There will be no coming back from that.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.stv.t ... hire%3famp

Sadly I think you're spot on. I've never forgotten the effect of cold water on the body, and suspect that a part of the reason we used to do survival training in the sea in winter was to ram home to us that cold water takes no prisoners, and needed to always be treated with the utmost respect. Scary watching a colleague go from normal to a jibbering wreck that looked to be at real risk of dying in the space of about half an hour, just from being in cold water.

Same for us in the offshore game with the training. So sad for that woman. Today is grey but no real rain and the wind is negligible yet she doesn't get to go forward, a damn shame.

When I worked on deck in North Sea, my Winter wear was boxers, two pairs insulated socks, top and bottom helly hansen thermal underwear, t-shirt, sweatshirt, thermal lumberjack shirt, thermal coveralls, jeans and waterproof jacket & trousers. Hard hat had a wool kepi too and a thermal skullcap . Needed about 5,000 calories per day. January on deck in the North sea is quite a serious environment!

[Adokforme]

When I worked on deck in North Sea, my Winter wear was boxers, two pairs insulated socks, top and bottom helly hansen thermal underwear, t-shirt, sweatshirt, thermal lumberjack shirt, thermal coveralls, jeans and waterproof jacket & trousers. Hard hat had a wool kepi too and a thermal skullcap . Needed about 5,000 calories per day. January on deck in the North sea is quite a serious environment!

Don't envy you those conditions Joe, I hate the cold. Just spent the morning outside assisting with linking up fourth battery then getting wheelbarrow and gear together for gleaning Savoys tomorrow pm. I was feeling pretty chilli by the time I got back in, and it's a balmy 8 degrees C here!
Put the ashp on to get the lounge toasty for the afternoon and evening.
Discovered a leaking joint into the cistern in the garage so mustn't get too comfortable. Turned the water off for now, so must get back out again and sort afore settling in for the evening.
I know, us softy southerners don't know we're born do we!

[Oldgreybeard]

Sadly I think you're spot on. I've never forgotten the effect of cold water on the body, and suspect that a part of the reason we used to do survival training in the sea in winter was to ram home to us that cold water takes no prisoners, and needed to always be treated with the utmost respect. Scary watching a colleague go from normal to a jibbering wreck that looked to be at real risk of dying in the space of about half an hour, just from being in cold water.

Same for us in the offshore game with the training. So sad for that woman. Today is grey but no real rain and the wind is negligible yet she doesn't get to go forward, a damn shame.

When I worked on deck in North Sea, my Winter wear was boxers, two pairs insulated socks, top and bottom helly hansen thermal underwear, t-shirt, sweatshirt, thermal lumberjack shirt, thermal coveralls, jeans and waterproof jacket & trousers. Hard hat had a wool kepi too and a thermal skullcap . Needed about 5,000 calories per day. January on deck in the North sea is quite a serious environment!

OGB being "rescued" after one of those sea survival training sessions off the Scottish coast. Someone on the safety boat had a camera and thought to capture the moment for posterity:

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[Joeboy]

When I worked on deck in North Sea, my Winter wear was boxers, two pairs insulated socks, top and bottom helly hansen thermal underwear, t-shirt, sweatshirt, thermal lumberjack shirt, thermal coveralls, jeans and waterproof jacket & trousers. Hard hat had a wool kepi too and a thermal skullcap . Needed about 5,000 calories per day. January on deck in the North sea is quite a serious environment!

Don't envy you those conditions Joe, I hate the cold. Just spent the morning outside assisting with linking up fourth battery then getting wheelbarrow and gear together for gleaning Savoys tomorrow pm. I was feeling pretty chilli by the time I got back in, and it's a balmy 8 degrees C here!
Put the ashp on to get the lounge toasty for the afternoon and evening.
Discovered a leaking joint into the cistern in the garage so mustn't get too comfortable. Turned the water off for now, so must get back out again and sort afore settling in for the evening.
I know, us softy southerners don't know we're born do we!

We also had a leak! Insurance job, upstairs ensuite shower waste coupling had backed off works start Monday.

[Fintray]

We also had a leak! Insurance job, upstairs ensuite shower waste coupling had backed off works start Monday.

That's a bit of a bummer, though a chance to uprate any insulation if required.