How stupid is the water ban - Page 12

Tim Deegan · 07-04-2012, 16:00

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Originally Posted by martyh

did you click the link ?

Yes I did. And they are all genuine reviews, copied and pasted direct from customers e-mails. They aren't on a review site used to attract people to the site. You need to be on the site already to view them.

martyh · 07-04-2012, 16:32

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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan

I'm very suspicious of any product that has pages and pages of 5 star reviews, as most of them are often fake.

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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan

Yes I did. And they are all genuine reviews, copied and pasted direct from customers e-mails. They aren't on a review site used to attract people to the site. You need to be on the site already to view them.

You may know they are real but no -one else does ,so following your advice i will assume the reviews on your site are fake or at least a large portion of them .
I was merely making the point that you cannot state other sites' reviews may be fake whilst insisting the ones on yours are not .
Anywhoo that's all off topic

Tim Deegan · 07-04-2012, 17:20

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Originally Posted by martyh

You may know they are real but no -one else does ,so following your advice i will assume the reviews on your site are fake or at least a large portion of them .
I was merely making the point that you cannot state other sites' reviews may be fake whilst insisting the ones on yours are not .
Anywhoo that's all off topic

I can see what you are saying. But anyone who has seen my mattress advice site will see that unlike many retailers, I tell the truth.

martyh · 07-04-2012, 17:27

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Originally Posted by Tim Deegan

I can see what you are saying. But anyone who has seen my mattress advice site will see that unlike many retailers, I tell the truth.

i'm sure you do

rogerdraig · 07-04-2012, 17:52

desalination is the key i know many will shout about cost and energy but as i see it its an excellent oppertunity for renewables from solar and tidal to produce the energy both electical and physical to run and pump the water

i refuse in a country surrounded by the stuff to limit my use of it

i rycycle and cut use of energy in my life and have ben doing so long before it was the in thing to do but this is just daft when we are an island

martyh · 07-04-2012, 18:17

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Originally Posted by rogerdraig

desalination is the key i know many will shout about cost and energy but as i see it its an excellent oppertunity for renewables from solar and tidal to produce the energy both electical and physical to run and pump the water

i refuse in a country surrounded by the stuff to limit my use of it

i rycycle and cut use of energy in my life and have ben doing so long before it was the in thing to do but this is just daft when we are an island

I think your right .Desalination plants work best with affluent countries and when built close to the sea ,the UK ticks both those boxes .The main stumbling block is the cost of the energy to run the plant .According to wiki the best that can be achieved is 49 us cents per cubic meter of water (2006)which is quite expensive but by using a renewable source such as wind power (plentiful on the coast and we already have the windfarms in place ) then that cost of desalination per cubic meter will get a lot cheaper and the more that are built the better the technology gets and the cheaper the water

mike24 · 07-04-2012, 18:26

It all depends on if you wish to run out af water?
In Hampshire no water restriction.
Michael

rogerdraig · 07-04-2012, 18:43

i think some one said about what to do with the salt maybe we could use it we seem to dig about 57% of what we use now out of the ground here that leaves quite a lot we seem to import seem s like something that could save us importing make jobs and help the economy maybe we could even export the stuff

martyh · 07-04-2012, 18:52

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Originally Posted by rogerdraig

i think some one said about what to do with the salt maybe we could use it we seem to dig about 57% of what we use now out of the ground here that leaves quite a lot we seem to import seem s like something that could save us importing make jobs and help the economy maybe we could even export the stuff

There's always a demand for salt ,even if we use it on the roads in winter .

People keep saying that we some big infrastructure plans to kick start our economy ,well for the south of England a few desalination plants would be a start ,powered by offshore wind farms

Taf · 07-04-2012, 19:21

I don't think the residents of the drought hit areas would like to have "industry" like desalination plants in their back yards... it might ruin their golf courses, riding stables and the views from the west bay windows....

If you want to increse the number of homes, etc., in an area, make sure you can service them with water, power, etc., first.

martyh · 07-04-2012, 20:15

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I don't think the residents of the drought hit areas would like to have "industry" like desalination plants in their back yards... it might ruin their golf courses, riding stables and the views from the west bay windows....

If you want to increse the number of homes, etc., in an area, make sure you can service them with water, power, etc., first.

You are correct but the houses are there now ,what they going to do ,pull them down ?

papa smurf · 07-04-2012, 21:09

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Originally Posted by martyh

There's always a demand for salt ,even if we use it on the roads in winter .

People keep saying that we some big infrastructure plans to kick start our economy ,well for the south of England a few desalination plants would be a start ,powered by offshore wind farms

we have wind farms and salt water in the humber bring it on

martyh · 07-04-2012, 21:23

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we have wind farms and salt water in the humber bring it on

If wind ,wave and solar power are not sufficient for national power generation because they aren't there all the time and cannot generate all the power we need ,then why not use them for something we don't need all the time ,like desalination plants .They do not need to run all the time just to top up the water supply during times of drought and then the power that they do generate when they do work can be fed into the national grid

mertle · 10-04-2012, 22:21

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17656317

Seems they moving water into lincolnshire then anglian water use it for 100,000.

Now flooding the rivers to shift water sounds bit drastic dangerious to me. The oter is it right to sell water like comodity like oil who will end up paying the 30 mill.

Bet anglian water already rubbing hands how much they make in this.

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Tuesday, Severn Trent announced plans were being drawn up to supply more than 100,000 homes in the worst-hit areas. It aims to sell 30 million litres of water a day to Anglian Water, one of the seven companies that imposed a hosepipe ban at the beginning of April to help ease the shortage.
Pumping from boreholes, Severn Trent plans to flow water from sources beneath Birmingham into the River Tame, which joins the Trent.
'Extreme circumstances' The water will then flow to Gainsborough, Lincs, where Anglian Water will take it up.

Arthurgray50@blu · 11-04-2012, 10:06

The River Thames in London has the biggest source of water going, and l know for a fact that it is used by Thames Water into there reservoirs.
The UK is surrounded by water, but the government wont invest in having these special plants to sort out the contents of it, yet waste million of pounds on ruining the landscapes and coastal parts of Britain with these ugly wind sites that are a waste of money, but cost millions to build.
When l go to Norfolk, l can see the wonderful sites at Scratby ruined by these ugly things.
And we have this Water problem everytime there is a drought.