Mike Todd

But you would also have to make marriage mandatory, no cohabitation!

OK (?) if out of the water - plenty of people do this seasonally, mostly at a marina/boatyard. It is assumed that they calculate that they will save money on the licence - seems to me that they must have access to exceptionally cheap cranes!

Yup - when you get under you are low and when you don't , you are high!

I didn't think it counted if you only had a virtual pint with someone. Only counts if you have the real stuff (ie whisky) and not the other stuff!

They may well oft come together but wreck recovery and third party are different things. Wreck recovery covers the costs incurred when a boat sinks or blocks a navigation. It can be rather expensive to recover a boat that is under water in an offside position. There may also be claims for pollution control. Third party is when a boat injures, or worse, someone not connected with the boat and may be the result of a moving incident (ramming into another boat and throwing an occupant into the water, or causing significant damage to the boat) of static, such as when it catches fire and the passes the flames on to an adjacent boat.

PP and LBC are not alternatives - they do different things and at times you need both.

My question specifically referred to London as there are not many places to dig a hole that does not take you into a close encounter with cables, some HT. Barred from disposal into rubbish bins. Use of a third party service us another undocumented cost. I did not mean to imply that the lifestyle described us not possible, more that almost all of these articles seriously understate the actual costs to the point at which the choice is much more finely balanced, if not negative.

where in London can you dispose of composting toilet product legitimately?

The Peter Principle states that everyone rises to their own level of incompetence. The idea is that most people are promoted (or gain a better post) on the basis that they succeeded at their previous one, not that they have been objectively assessed for the new one.

It was listed as Liverpool Canal Link and Salthouse Docks in 2022 when we last visited. Under Stoppages, under Liverpool Link is https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/23941-booking-information-liverpool-canal-link-and-salthouse-dock-liverpool. There was also a stoppage that closed the Stanley locks that should have finished now but has not been updated. Perhaps work is running over and bookings continue to be suspended until a known date for opening is available.

Someone's career is about to take a nosedive. RN do not take to kindly to such incidents. It was going backwards at quite a speed in the wrong direction and appeared to be still in reverse when it collided.

This is exactly the same project (as far as I can see) as started the other thread that has been running for a little while and in which many of the practical difficulties (largely overlooked in the press release) have been discussed. As the OP is a new member (perhaps on a trawl for PR opportunities?) they may not be aware of the other thread. It would be helpful if the mods could merge to avoid unhelpful parallel discussions.

Perhaps I should have added a smiley to my post, as I was trying to stimulate a wider consideration. You are perhaps a little too close to the immediate situation to see a broader perspective. By and large, physics/chemistry does not change but the economics are continually doing so. If we actually reach 'peak oil' and the drop in supply pushes prices sky high, then the relative efficiencies can become much less relevant if they are the only serious option available. The only alternative is that a large part of the world has to be told to go back to a primitive pre-oil lifestyle and that would not be popular! One of the current complications is that oil supply predictions have not ben fulfilled - as the quote from the Birmingham project shows - by now we should be running out! When I described other sources as 'free' I was not especially referring to the retrieval or conversions costs but the global impact of running out - the advocates of battery solutions do seem to ignore the impact of very finite supplies of certain rare substances. Of course, solar energy (eg) is not infinite (as some assume) but timescales are well beyond current human perceptions.

Perhaps it depends on where you were boating: were you down south in softie-land or perhaps up norf where even the ice is much harder!

But that is also true with fossil fuels, solar etc. We only capture a small proportion if the energy supplied but as it is 'free' we don't mind. Timescales are also important. A method that converted 99% of the input eg solar, gravity, or whatever, would not be much help if it took a 1000 years to produce a litre of fuel.

Obvious - steel sinks and wood floats (!)

But it does have something to say about those who think that a process can be 100% efficient . . .

I actually thought it was some years ago but could not remember other than from this year! The launch of the boat is reported here Hydrogen Boat. As this was one project from a number in The Birmingham Centre for Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research at Birmingham University, there will no doubt be a number of papers and PhD theses on the outcomes. However I have not found any reference to any follow on the specific project. It is oft forgotten that a valid and valuable PhD project may well conclude that the specific investigation showed that it was not a way forward. (DAMHIK!) Knowing this is important if it leads to helping others to look elsewhere and not waste time going over old ground. (This is one of the purposes of the important first step in a PhD - the literature survey). It is also interesting to note that in 2007 the lead professor said that we had no more than 20 years to find an alternative to fossil fuels - not long to go now to find out if his warning was justified!

We could not see it when passing a few weeks ago.

I was about to add that the design of the swim can make a significant difference and the pic seems to show a rather bluff one.

Mind boggles given what cornflakes are supposed to have been invented for!

I am sure I managed in the past to locate separate maps of the two canals but not right now. However, as the main purpose of the Barge Canal was to trade salt from the town down to the Severn (and beyond) would they not want to serve the salt mill just above the Barge Lock (on the other side of the main road) as well as the one alongside SaltWay/Vines Park? Otherwise, why build it wide?

I thought that this was the first phase - which is continuing ?

OK, we are talking about road bridges I assumed - there is Worcester Bridge and . . . ?

Canals are much more of a live water object than is oft realised. Even if closed, a canal still needs water management, especially to protect adjacent properties and also to fulfil existing contracts for water in or water out. This has long been a problem for politicians to understand when proposing defunding as they think it is a simple matter of disabling the gates at either end of the canal. If only . . .