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  1. George and Dragon
    The figures I've seen relate to carbon emitted during the whole process from tree felling to combustion. I have no idea if any measurements have been taken of PM2.5 from the combustion process and how they are distributed by airflow around the plant. Drax has a reasonably tall chimney (almost 260m) so the particles are likely to be very well dispersed.
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    I'm sure they do but all the evidence (see Private Eye, many issues) points to their burn being dirtier than coal.
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    Totally unexpected: cold snaps in winter. Whatever next?
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    Has this one in Knottingley been mentioned? On the river. https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/62577797/
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    Holidaying in the UK is generally at least as expensive as a similar holiday elsewhere with the added bonus of a British summer . Depends where you want to go, of course. If you're heading outside Europe then costs can be eyewatering but they don't have to be.
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    I think it would be quite proper to argue that for a motorised boat to be under way the 'drive' must be engaged. Doubtless there are exceptions but every single hander I've ever encountered has disengaged the drive on entering a lock before leaving the boat. Remote control systems, however...
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    Rather late to this discussion so it may have been covered down thread but the number of patients on GP lists is usually somewhat greater than the resident population, especially in university towns. GPs get paid in part for the number of patients on their list, so they have no incentive to remove a patient whom they haven't seen for some time even if there's a reasonable likelihood they've moved away.
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    That's a european phone - you have to call 112
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    That's going to depend on the exchange rate - the 83rd percentile is assets worth >£1million; US$1million is about £830,000 which is between 78th and 79th percentile. So 20% of UK households may well belong to the global 1%. If we can count households rather than individuals.
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    That looks suspiciously like a clickable link to me...
  13. George and Dragon
    True, he says one quarter of British households. Which is probably less than one quarter of the population.
  14. George and Dragon
    I recently so mangled my typing of 'accelerated' that autokorrekt changed it to 'accreted'.
  15. George and Dragon
    Solid oxide? of what?
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    That was a letter in the Grauniad recently. I'll see if I can find it again. 1st Feb from a Tim Worstall, Senior Fellow at the Adam Smith Institute. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jan/31/the-enemy-within-guardian-readers-and-the-1
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    This is very true. There has been a reluctance on the part of all governments over the past 45 years and possibly longer to think further ahead than the next general election and plan (and therefore spend) accordingly.
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    Apparently one quarter of the UK population has assets worth more than US$1million which puts them in the global 1%.
  19. George and Dragon
    We have a 4kW woodburner in the living room at home. It keeps an 80m^3 space tolerably warm when it's -1 outside. ^^^^^ This
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    We do, regularly. Not for use on the boat obviously; the energy density is too low. People who extol the virtues of hydrogen often ignore the energy density...
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    Not unless you're selling it.
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    It's illegal to sell wood with more than 20% moisture content unless selling 2m^3 or more IIRC.
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    Absolutely.
  24. George and Dragon
    Pensioners don't tend to be very frequent rioters.
  25. George and Dragon
    My parents bought a 5 bed terrace in the same year for £2400. The deposit of £500 was an inheritance on the death of my grandfather.
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