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I tried downloading duckgogo but my phone is too old to run it. It's odd, sometimes the forum opens with no problems, other times I have to go incognito, which means entering user name and password every time. Other sites are starting to go the same way, so it must be down to my phone.

It can dissipate. We had a Perkins generator which wouldn't fire up because there was no residual magnetism in the field coils. Cured by firing it up with a battery on the field connections at the regulator. Have to be very careful with this, as it's very easy to blow the regulator. Easiest to use a separate battery from the generator's start battery.

Exactly!

Commiserations old boy. These house things are not the best way to live 😩

There's a full recycling point up the hill a bit. From the offside moorings walk up the hill towards the trees and there's a fenced off recycling compound in that car park. No Elsan, nearest is at Oughtrington Wharf.

Wonder if Lymm Cruising Club could offer any information or help? Located just to the East of the main road bridge in town centre.

No. Facilities on the Bridgewater are not good. There some litter bins in the town. Thorn Marine in Stockton Heath have an elsan that is free to use. Stretford Marina in the other direction may be able to help.

I've often thought about doing that permanently, the only advantage of glass that I can see is being able to see if the fire is still burning and as I never clear the glass...

What you did, referring disparagingly to "Greta and her disciples": https://www.grammarly.com/blog/straw-man-fallacy/ "A straw man argument is the logical fallacy of distorting an opposing position into an extreme version of itself and then arguing against that extreme version. In creating a straw man argument, the arguer strips the opposing point of view of any nuance and often misrepresents it in a negative light." Not only does Greta know a damn sight more about the issue than you seem to, she's shown on many occasions that she understands the difference between emissions in use and total CO2 burden (including manufacturing/disposal and other overheads) of many things, EVs included -- and that though EVs may not be perfect they're much less bad for the planet than ICE. An equivalent argument would be to refer to people like you as "ignorant petrolheads" who don't care about the planet and just want to carry on driving your massive gas-guzzling SUVs everywhere, including to the shops and taking the kids to school... 😉 (which I'm sure you not -- but it's the same type of argument you're putting forward...)

Yep I was hoping to beat your 85 year liveaboard record, but alas I'm just getting too fat for a narrow boat.

Just to put a spanner in the works..... Fossil fuels are also carbon neutral, its just that the timescale is rather long 😀. and talking of spanners.... Get a big battery and put it on trickle charge for weeks and weeks till it is absolutely fully charged.....then drop a spanner across the terminals....that is what we are doing to our planet 😀