TopGun

How long and prominent is the print version? If it exists. I might have to buy a copy later.

I used to take a g/f to the Dell. But I gave that up quite soon, as she was too fixated with Shearer's legs. Plus any time I went off for a leak, there were a load of scrotes like you lot trying to chat her up!

Can anyone find a link to the South China Morning News where BC says "I will get my money back"? That article needs to be emailed to Matt Scott pronto.

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/pompey/pompey-past/appleton-wants-football-league-talks-over-recruitment-power-1-3977721 Appy wants special concessions to recruit players from the FL if the CVA is passed without waiting for the 28 days cooling off period.

I'm not bothered. He's particularly unctious at the best of times.

Whitey, you've found the most ugly shot you can of some older turbines in California The shot below is of Scout Moor Wind Farm, above Rochdale, north of Manchester. It provides enough average energy throughout the year to power 1/3 of Rochdale.

As pointed out Whitey in my previous post, wind can never be base load. But gas-fired power stations are cheap to build and run. The National Grid is getting ever smarter by connectivity. So wind and gas (even forgetting nuke) can be harmonised with ease. IMO (as I work in the exact area), people need to stop reading the nonsense talked about inefficiency of wind in the Daily Mail etc and wake up to the energy security issues we face as a nation. We need ever increasing energy so need a diverse portfolio of generation. Subsidies for new forms of low carbon energy such as wind are exactly right. Once that is sorted, subsidies should be paid to new gas-fired power stations that sit on stand by until needed. I can argue this until the cows come home. And I know I'm right as nobody else here has the same knowledge or expertise.

I expect that Dune and UKIP have an answer for that problem though....

I can only reply to your comments aimed at me Dune.

Absolutely. No arguments there Whitey. Wind is a good top up that can produce about 30% of the UK's electricity on average in the future. Usual argument is that requires base load power stations sitting in reserve. Also absolutely. A gas-fired power station can go from low spinning reserve (to keep it warm) to full capacity in about an hour. What's the issue with that?

If you bothered to read my post, you'd see I put no "global warming mumbo jumbo" into it.

Go for it, it might be enlightening!

Dulldays does inherent and irrational xenophobia from time to time. I thought he'd grown out of it. Shame.

Glad you agree :-)

Pathetic thread.

No Dune, what the Mailygraph readers fail to realise is that, within 10 years, if no new energy infrastructure of whatever type is built and operating, they'll be reading their newspapers by electricity rations in the evening time. We can build new gas power stations to sort that out in the short term but we will have no control over the imported fuel sources. I can sense a fracking argument coming forth from you, but none of that is proven in resource terms and there would also be many other arguments also. More than 10 years worth.

It's really incredibly simple. * Fossil fuels pollute so it is better that we find viable alternatives - green argument * Fossil fuels are finite so it is better that we find viable alternatives - economic and energy security argument New nuke is over the horizon - they're all pulling out and it takes 10 years to build a nuke. We are short of energy and we will have problems within a decade as older coal and nuke plants are decommisioned. We have a fantastic wind resource. Better than nearly any other nation. Let's use it to fill some part of the upcoming energy gap. Or we can have blackouts...

Either way, the long and the short of it, given the CVA has a 28 day consultation period, means that Appy will be starting his pre-season training with 11 or so players he doesn't want and 11 or so players who don't want to be there. He can't sign anyone in that period and Chinny may just decide to give it up and liquidate at the end of the CVA period if there is no club buyer or player outward movement. Catch-22. Even if that is surmounted by all those players agreeing to forfeit or further defer deferred wages, let alone outstanding contracts (which seems unlikely), if Appy is still about, he has to get the embargo that Birch denies exists lifted and get in anyone he can. Appy daze.

I agree with this point as it is not explained well enough by the govt. Also, if you read the Mailygraph you could be forgiven for thinking that green energy taxes on utility bills run into £100s each year. Well, here's news for you. OFGEM (the energy regulator) calculated a few months ago that each house hold pays an average of £21 per year that goes towards green energy subsidies. The subsidies are the necessary incentive to get developers in a wholly privatised market to invest in low carbon technologies. Funnily enough, the OFGEM report was not reported in the Telegraph, Mail or Express.

I'm pretty sure it's to do with their repressed right wing culture (one for Dune to ponder on).

Varney comments: ‘Trevor knows the lads won’t be leaving unless they are paid what they are owed. ‘It’s not money going forward. ‘When you leave a club you ask for a bit of the money from the future that is on your contract. ‘But this is money from the past, so the lads are going to want that before they leave. ‘I’ve not heard from anyone from Portsmouth. ‘And I’m sure there is a lot of work to be done before anyone leaves the club. Lovely jubbly. Total impasse.

Club 24, I like it!

Waste of a thread IMO.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/9334182/Wildlife-camera-catches-Austrian-politician-having-sex-in-forest.html Alpine isn't a politician, is he?

Will just increase player wage inflation to no good end. There should be some rule about clubs having to spend a fixed percentage of additional TV income on improved infrastructure etc.