Mountain near me

[Fez_uk]

Went up a mountain near me, also tested out my new camera which has a panorama mode.

It's 610m (2001ft) Above sea level

beautiful day, Love days like this.

http://fez.coldcity.com/downloads/4x4/mountain/DSCF9131.JPG

Panoramas:
http://fez.coldcity.com/downloads/4x4/mountain/DSCF9128.JPG
http://fez.coldcity.com/downloads/4x4/mountain/DSCF9129.JPG
http://fez.coldcity.com/downloads/4x4/mountain/DSCF9116.JPG

Also a big puddle I am been dieing to drive through in my maverick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7w58Xhj9Kg&list=UU18YZhTk7aVWChD1qV2uhWA&index=1&feature=plcp

 

[96terrano]

Puddles, anybody can have fun with them great pics too :thumbs

 

[wildbri]

No electricity from those windmills hight pressure= no wind. No electricity from the solar panels at night no sun = no electricity. both these methods are subsidised by the government as they are so unreliable they would not be built without these subsidies.

So, gas , coal and nuclear power station will still have to be running on full power 24/7 so that we can watch tv and use all the other appliances we have come to expect.

Can someone tell me the point of these other means of making electricity which are very expensive, unreliable and produce so little of our energy requirements, being a cynic I suspect
it is just a sop for the greens and the EU.

regards bri

 

[Fez_uk]

actually there is plenty of wind up there, they are turning most of the year??

 

[solarman216]

No electricity from those windmills hight pressure= no wind. No electricity from the solar panels at night no sun = no electricity. both these methods are subsidised by the government as they are so unreliable they would not be built without these subsidies.

So, gas , coal and nuclear power station will still have to be running on full power 24/7 so that we can watch tv and use all the other appliances we have come to expect.

Can someone tell me the point of these other means of making electricity which are very expensive, unreliable and produce so little of our energy requirements, being a cynic I suspect
it is just a sop for the greens and the EU.

regards bri

well if you look into it in detail I am sure you will find that the very people making the decisions will have a finger in the manufacturing/supply or installation of these useless devices, I speak with some knowledge on Solar as have been involved with it for 24 odd years, PV is a total waste of space, as for being green it is far from it, once you take the energy taken to manufacture the stuff in the first place, plus what the hell are you going to do with them once they have reached the end of their life in 20 odd years time, just imagine the thousands of panels now being installed ending up on the local tip, no not in 20 years time the regulations then will be harsh you will have to pay to get rid, how much I shudder to think, just look at your energy efficient bulbs that you are forced to use, full of "mercury vapor" local tip? no way, pay to get rid!, yea they will be dumped any and every where, not so easy to dump a solar panel though, and as it will be public knowledge that they were on your roof you will be expected to show documentation as to how you got rid, green? no way, Rick

 

[rustic]

Re: wind turbines.
If you look at global warming, they say it's about carbon emissions, however when they manufacture the wind turbines, if you add up the carbon emissions produced during the manufacture, and compare it to the amount of carbon emissions saved by not burning fossil fuels, the outcome is alarming.

It will take 25 years to balance the carbon emissions produced during manufacture, however the expected life of an wind turbine is approx 20 years :doh, so there will still be a net increase in carbon emissions.:doh

As Rick says, there will also be a decommissioning cost at the end of their life.

I also agree with Rick regarding disposal costs of solar panels to the consumer.
At the moment if you dispose of double glazed window modules, which seem to have a life of between 10-15 years, they cannot be recycled, and have to go into land fill :doh
So again if you look at the energy saved vs the replacement cost of these panels, then how much have you saved long term.:nenau

The way to go is hydro, build more dams, store more water, hydro gives you instant power as soon as you open a sluice gate.

You can back pump the water from a lower reservoir when there is excess energy available, so in effect you are storing ac electricity.:thumb2

Storing more water means sea levels won't rise as much...

I just saved the world...:bow

Best regards,
Rustic

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

hydro is the norm in canada, was 20+ years ago when i was last there.

ok the niagra river is something else, but theres plenty more small rivers
doing the same.

i'd have thought something based on thames barrage could have been worked.

ironically all the streams and brooks in sheffield had dams and water wheels
at the start of the industrial revolution, long before electrickery.

on a seperate note has anyone noticed how full the thames always looks
when say westminster is viewed, as a tidal river upto teddington, makes
me think the thames barrage is being used as a dam? I sure that part of the
river should drain, if daming then thames hydro?

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

great pix though franz.

 

[jims-terrano]

Back on topic, we need another thread about green issues but then again if we were green we wouldnt be driving large vehicles or even driving vehicles at all nuff said:doh

Cracking photo's!!! I was stuck inside at an Intermediate Course but good fun non the less.

Jim

 

[rustic]

Went up a mountain near me,
It's 610m (2001ft) Above sea level,

Wow, now that is just a mountain, ( by 1 foot) I remember the film, " The man who went up a hill and came down a mountain"

With errosion and rising sea levels, you will be soon going up a hill :doh

 

[Fez_uk]

Some people class mountains to be different heights, But yeah it's only just there as far as I am concerned .

Another great day today, made the most of this dry weather and stuck my rough country 2"+ shocks on. Then went for a play then bent my metal bumper on the drivers side.

 

[rustic]

Then went for a play then bent my metal bumper on the drivers side.

Am I right in thinking, when crossing a ditch like the one in the picture, you should cross at 45 degrees not perpendicular ie at 90 degrees.

I have never done it, so what do I know, but I do read a bit....:nenau

Just in case I have to at some point in the future.:augie
I haven't done it yet in the nearly 17 years I have owned the mav :doh

 

[Fez_uk]

maybe so, but the side you cannot see is alot more washed out. Maybe 3 times as wide. The further on it's above as wide as the length of the car.

If i went at 45degrees maybe I wouldn't of bent my bumper.

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

arh but isnt gb in the east sinking and in the west rising, so more of it will
become a mountain?

intrigued by this height ruling as that must mean several hills n the pennines
are mountains, the woodhead mountain pass, certainly has a ring to it.

 

[rustic]

arh but isnt gb in the east sinking and in the west rising, so more of it will
become a mountain?

intrigued by this height ruling as that must mean several hills n the penninesG
are mountains, the woodhead mountain pass, certainly has a ring to it.

I thought the south was sinking and the north rising, a slow reaction from the last ice age when the north was covered in thick ice.

 

[geoffdown]

arh but isnt gb in the east sinking and in the west rising, so more of it will
become a mountain?

intrigued by this height ruling as that must mean several hills n the pennines
are mountains, the woodhead mountain pass, certainly has a ring to it.

it also has something i think about it must not join another hill/mountain if that make sense might be wrong but read it somewhere i think:doh

 

[11redrex]

I thought the south was sinking and the north rising, a slow reaction from the last ice age when the north was covered in thick ice.

The ice got clever and moved south