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its the end of the world!!!!
gtomo2:
--- Quote from: "Lord Shagg-Pyle" ---The only problem with desalination plants is that they use a load of energy to convert the water. A bit of a Catch 22.
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Nothing a nice big nucler power station cant handle :wink:
Thats the thing its all down to give and take if you want water then something has to be done its either flood some valleys and upset the ramblers by flooding there footpath. or go the disstil route and build a few power stations and upset greenpeace. or just do both and tell them to live with it or leave the country :roll: :wink:
thermidorthelobster:
It really gets right on my wick that we PAY the water companies to provide a service, then they tell US we can't use the water because there isn't enough. That's the whole damn point of PAYING them for the service! If they can't provide the service they exist solely to provide, then it's because they're either totally incompetent, or they prioritise their shareholders over their customers. Almost certainly the second.
Can you imagine if you went to the supermarket every couple of weeks, and they said sorry, we don't have any food at the moment, you'll have to make do without? Any supermarket which did that would quickly go out of business. But this is exactly what the water companies are doing, but NOTHING HAPPENS!
Well, the way to reverse this is for the customers to kick up enough stink so that the shareholders get jittery. For example, if everybody withheld their water bill money for a quarter, it would cause carnage.
I don't know why we put up with this rubbish; mainly because nobody's sure what to do, I suspect. Anybody want to help me start a revolution?
thermidorthelobster:
--- Quote from: "gtomo2" ---Nothing a nice big nucler power station cant handle :wink:
Thats the thing its all down to give and take if you want water then something has to be done its either flood some valleys and upset the ramblers by flooding there footpath. or go the disstil route and build a few power stations and upset greenpeace. or just do both and tell them to live with it or leave the country :roll: :wink:
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It's nothing to do with being short of electricity. It's the economics of it. Desalination costs too much. Building more power stations wouldn't bring the costs down. Nuclear power isn't free.
tomarse:
--- Quote from: "thermidorthelobster" ---It really gets right on my wick that we PAY the water companies to provide a service,
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and we are paying them for something that falls out of the sky for free (they just need to catch it!) and we return most of it back to them after using it!
The gas company have to have lots of equipment, drill big holes and then pipe it hundreds of miles and be more careful storing it and transporting it and it costs about the same!
Rich_P:
--- Quote ---The Environment Agency points to the Bewl reservoir in Kent - the South East's biggest stretch of open water - which last year was only a third full, having been drained by the worst drought since the 1930s.
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Oh, so the weather cycle every hundred or so years means that we should be in fear? :roll:
Wasn't it proven on TV a few years back that there's a clear cycle that the weather has a complete cycle every hundred years or so?
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