Epic WTF

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/15/amazon-reunifies-ireland-and-apologises-for-troubles?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Woops... !

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If you'd like to protect Peatlands and bog than I'd look more at the Grouse shooting problem than windfarms.

Windfarms don't burn heather every year to allow the 60 million non-native grouse and pheasant shoots.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/peat-burning-grouse-moor-fire-carbon-wet-bog-rspb-cpre-george-eustice-b723260.html

which has a knock on affect on the drainage, causing more water in the bog.

/BuzzKillington

Peat bogs actually depend on water being present there. That's why they are boggy.

Spagnum moss absorbs the water, keeps it locked up with CO2 from the atmosphere and produces peat.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/28/ultimate-bogs-how-saving-peatlands-could-help-save-the-planet

Jesus. Have you actually gone beyond the Watford Gap?

More likely to be vibrations in the turbines that transmit into the peat and destabilise it.

Once it has been destabilised then the wind would blow the trees. The wind farms tend to be built in windy areas.

I read that out loud to the Mrs 5 minutes ago and she's been laughing since then and saying "bollocks" intermittently.

Peat behaves like a thick viscous liquid. The ecological and geological surveys would preclude anything risky being built and the foundations go down to the bedrock below the peat.

Also. She is/was involved in pretty much every single windfarm in the British Isles for the past 26 years.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

Don't you know people have had enough of experts?

IIRC peat is 10cm every 100 years.

I'm not sure any windfarms have been built in Yorkshire on peat bogs. Not even sure that would be possible.

At the moment the bogs up here are getting dams built to stop the water draining off them. They used to be deliberately drained for the farmland below them. This has now stopped.

It's now recognised that peat is the UK's most important carbon storage.

She’s in the pocket of big wind.

I just ate a naga chilli infused dahl so I expect there'll be a pocket of big wind under my duvet tonight.

She’s in the sock of big wind.

Shirley?

What if those tree's are static and the turbines forcing everything else to move backwards?

The Earth is round, so the peat is just sliding down the curve.

Round? ahahahaha......nice try round earth truther

The Earth is round

How dare you

It's got nothing to do with the huge volumes of rainfall with had over the past six weeks of course.

read that out loud to the Mrs 5 minutes ago and she's been laughing since then and saying "bollocks" intermittently.

Julia can laugh and curse all she likes, but I stand by the post.

All I claimed was that my (admittedly unlikely) theory was more likely than the turbines creating a breeze that blows the ground, using the trees like a sail.

The fact that my idea is less likely than the real explanation is neither here nor there.

I'm not sure any windfarms have been built in Yorkshire on peat bogs. Not even sure that would be possible.

It's not. The Dales are all protected. Nothing to do with peat.

It's got nothing to do with the huge volumes of rainfall with had over the past six weeks of course

https://twitter.com/beyonddc/status/1329467529610326018?s=19

Spotted this bellend on a ride this morning, unfortunately my camera isn't good enough to show the text clearly but on the back of his jacket is:

2 World Wars
1 World Cup

With the obligatory St George cross

I received an email, from a tie/ clothing company, my initial thought was theses blankets look terrible, they’ve just used up some ties they couldn’t sell, added them to a blanket, comically bad.
Then I felt a bit guilty, given the current climate they might be finding it difficult etc.
Curiosity had me click the link... £3500!!
Fair to say I’ve gone full loop.

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on FB just now

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Ha!

I was wondering where ol’ T2 had gone

Dial only goes up to ten, do not want.