Stop helping Putin

Like Switzerland where all men have a rifle & do military service

I believe a lot of young men would benefit from some formal training in such things, but national service is expensive and may not provide the best end result. A smaller force of volunteers has historically been far more effective than any number of people forced into a conflict.
 

Renaultman

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Darlington
It all began in the later Thatcher years and Tony Blair sealed the deal by opting to generate electricity with gas. There was no reason he could not have opted to build a few nuclear power plants, he had the political majority to do it as well.
We had also built coal powered power stations with scrubbers to make them clean. We're and island built on a mountain of coal it's such a shame it went out of fashion :(
 
We had also built coal powered power stations with scrubbers to make them clean. We're and island built on a mountain of coal it's such a shame it went out of fashion :(

This is the peculiar thing- you can clean coal emissions up to negate their environmental impact and reduce air pollution. If you are burning gas, you're burning hydrocarbons all the same so I don't really see any real difference. I would argue that AD plants have a similar poor environmental impact because they are bound to emit hydrogen sulphide and NOx anyway. Gas is also bad because any gas network will have leaks and methane is a very potent greenhouse gas itself.
 

BrianV

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Dartmoor
This is the peculiar thing- you can clean coal emissions up to negate their environmental impact and reduce air pollution. If you are burning gas, you're burning hydrocarbons all the same so I don't really see any real difference. I would argue that AD plants have a similar poor environmental impact because they are bound to emit hydrogen sulphide and NOx anyway. Gas is also bad because any gas network will have leaks and methane is a very potent greenhouse gas itself.
How does Drax burning wood compare with burning coal when you compare heat output verses pollution caused?
 

Lincsman

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
How does Drax burning wood compare with burning coal when you compare heat output verses pollution caused?
The carbon emitted from burning wood chip does not count as it can be emitted and goes back into a new tree... over the next 100 years and then re-used, coal and oil takes longer.
It also lands at immingham with a zero carbon footprint as all the "work" done to these trees is in another country.
They are very creative with their accounting at Drax.
 

Flatlander

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lorette Manitoba
Why should he. He is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign state. Circumstances may have forced his hand at present but he is not to blame there’s only one person to blame and that’s Putin. The sooner he’s dead the better.
Read a week ago a Russian businessman offered a million bucks fir Putins head. Not the smartest of thing to say and post on social media if you’ve an interest in living a long and happy life.
 

Bury the Trash

Member
Mixed Farmer
Who needs our help?

Last night I was watching some battle footages and observed a tank and an armored personnel carrier being obliterated within seconds and the thoughts of all those young guys being turned into toast within seconds was very moving.

As I understand things, most of the attacking Russian soldiers are not volunteers or professional soldiers but are conscripts that are draftend and in may cases mislead.

Where have all the flowers gons, long time passing; where have all flowers gone long time ago?
"In many case mislead " ?
totally all of them are being mislead actually, by their 'leadership' and its not Washington either.
Dragged into a War ,or special operation as they are told, because Ukraine was " going to attack Russia" says 'Sputum' yeah right..... so tell me what did that have to do with Washington?

and don't claim its complicated because its not far from it. it its simple . very very simple.
 
Just had a very morbid thought concerning economic production power stations. There is in our area a company that operates fluidised-bed boiler sytems that can be used to dispose of animal carcases and raise steam for the production of electricity.

On a mutch larger scale we could dispose of all our nation's human corpses and save land, avoid family expenses, and produce electricity to boot!

Better than Soilent Green eh???
 
Just had a very morbid thought concerning economic production power stations. There is in our area a company that operates fluidised-bed boiler sytems that can be used to dispose of animal carcases and raise steam for the production of electricity.

On a mutch larger scale we could dispose of all our nation's human corpses and save land, avoid family expenses, and produce electricity to boot!

Better than Soilent Green eh???
You could advertise on ITV 3 - way to go ;)
 

Two Tone

Member
Mixed Farmer
Just had a very morbid thought concerning economic production power stations. There is in our area a company that operates fluidised-bed boiler sytems that can be used to dispose of animal carcases and raise steam for the production of electricity.

On a mutch larger scale we could dispose of all our nation's human corpses and save land, avoid family expenses, and produce electricity to boot!

Better than Soilent Green eh???
“Electricity is PEOPLE!”
 

2wheels

Member
Location
aberdeenshire
Shame the poor devils weren't allowed to choose whether they wanted war or peace with conditions attached, still we all know politicians know what's best for a country don't we!
you only have to look at what these lunatics do to their own countrymen. start the terror on their home opposition then spread outwards. lenin, stalin,hitler,putin etc..
 
Right man in the right place at the right moment in time!
So similar to Zelenski then.

Winston Churchill could easily have surrended during the blitz, many allied forces & leaders did to save loss of life.

Where would we be now? Actually a very interesting thought? The German empire against Russia, I imagine, or even whole of Europe plus a big chunk of Asia & North Africa against US perhaps China?
 
So similar to Zelenski then.

Winston Churchill could easily have surrended during the blitz, many allied forces & leaders did to save loss of life.

Where would we be now? Actually a very interesting thought? The German empire against Russia, I imagine, or even whole of Europe plus a big chunk of Asia & North Africa against US perhaps China?

If Britain had capitulated, I'd argue that the Americans and Russians would have fought Hitler anyway and possibly dropped an A bomb to do it.
 

BrianV

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Dartmoor
So similar to Zelenski then.

Winston Churchill could easily have surrended during the blitz, many allied forces & leaders did to save loss of life.

Where would we be now? Actually a very interesting thought? The German empire against Russia, I imagine, or even whole of Europe plus a big chunk of Asia & North Africa against US perhaps China?
Sorry but I think it’ simply the “wrong man in the right place at the right moment in time” as the outcome seems to show. Zelensky didn’t have to surrender, he just had to agree to Ukraine remaining neutral, you have to remember he knew full well at that time that the West would not intervene whatever & the likely outcome of calling Russia’s bluff!
 

Nearly

Member
Location
North of York
Was it still an issue that Ukraine had dammed the river into Crimea after Putin 'nicked' it?
This has been building up for a lot of years.
Putin found he had control of Crimea but it was no longer what he hoped it would be.
 

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