Storm Arwen vs Net Zero…..nature vs arrogance??

upnortheast

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Northumberland
News last night pics of oldies in care homes without power for 3 days. Our cows were without power for 15 minutes and never without water . Should be in the rules that care homes have a change over switch and Genny socket and contract with Genny supplier. Do they not have to have a contingency plan like dairy farmers
 
4 days with no electric which is our only form of heating or any energy, a comlplete shambles it will be a disaster when everything is electric without major work on the electric distribution network. I personally cannot see it happening . They will need wires everywhyere . Has anyone worked out the requirement at peak times, reckon the wires will be glowing or losing volts. UNLESS WE CAN. GO WIRELSS
and with this current mad rush to plant more big weeds everywhere,storms of the future will have an even bigger effect 🤦‍♂️
 

BobTheSmallholder

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Angus
I don't understand why anyone who lives rurally would ever rely on a single power/heat source, it just seems crazy. I live off-grid anyway so have a small gennie that tops up my battery, I cook on gas, always keep a spare 47kg gas bottle, have a wood burner with a good stock of wood, I keep a couple weeks worth of bottled water on hand and plenty of tins in the cupboard. Nothing crazy, nothing expensive yet I completely breezed through the 10days that the houses near me were without power for. The only annoyance was that the nearby phone masts were down too so I didn't have any internet and barely a bar of phone signal.

I have very little sympathy for those living in £500k houses with multiple cars that were apparently "suffering" for the lack of a £250 gennie and a can of petrol...
 

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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