NeilM

22 minutes ago, Fozzie said:

 

This is the ideal time to buy a PS5/Xbox series X and enter the world of Call Of Duty, or Halo

Ohhh go no....lol

I very occasionally play fifa against lad. Thats my limt.

Good morning all.

Still far from right. Went to the drs again yesterday and he's persuaded me to stay on sick. Also changed prescriptions etc.  Bloody inhaler etc...  Could be worse tho.

So to stop me absolutely driving Lisa n kids to insanity I'm off to the coast tonight for a few days. @Stu give you a shout mate, cuppa either Hornsea or Hull. 

Me n dog.  Netflix. Crosswords and sleep.

Saying that. I'll get bored and end up causing havoc.....lol

Yes

5 minutes ago, MikeHorton said:

I'm with u there I tend to bottle things up. A lot going on atm which got too much last month. Took a step back and topping up on support via work and NHS. It's just being able to take time out from your problems and many problems can sometimes get overwhelming. Hope this gs are well with u presently Neil

Everyone needs something.   I've had untold amounts of councilling over years.  Nowt to be ashamed of.

On a sports note.

Thursday.  I'm off for a little walk and coffee with the batley bulldogs foundation.  Loads of very big lads talking about their issues.  We as a sport now recognise the need to support each other and that we all suffer to differing degrees, irrespective of male macho rugby bollox.

4 hours ago, Fozzie said:

 

I think he had probably thought for a while he was going to start fresh somewhere else, so let things pile up. But there was a member of staff warning he'd been doing it more or less since he started 3 years ago. I thought it was poor confidence, as his CV is academically very impressive, but recently it just started to look like someone who had no interest in what he was doing, and let it build up knowing he was just going to dump it on his co-workers. 

 

It just seemed the furthest thing away from what you expect from someone with that background, and a big rugby player (130kg, 6ft 4). 

 

At least if I decide to go I can't do worse, and it has crossed my mind as I'm pushing for a promotion, or at least the company car as the competitors are offering me these things. The system at work has a marker against old staff, which basically alerts future managers if that member of staff tries to come back. It tells them whether to re-hire or tell them to get stuffed. I think I know which box this chap has just ticked. 

Believe me. It doesn't matter one iota your size or choice of sport.

As those you know me well will testify, I'm 6ft 3, big lad, used to play rugby. (Would still turn out now for any vets given half the chance)

And I'm an absolute gob shite at times. Life and soul etc.

BUT I suffer from stress, anxiety and have PTSD.

Unless I had a full blown episode in front of you, you'd never guess.

The thing with mental health is people learn to mask. 

And masking id extremely dangerous because people are unaware they are suffering until its too late.

9 minutes ago, MikeHorton said:

Fred a cabinet maker I'm sure he will be he's a friend of an old work colleague who I've not seen since covid etc. Leeds always seems to have some great gigs a bit like Wolvo. Good to see people getting the chance of a bit of normality. Let me know if ur ever this neck of the woods river rooms and the town hall in Stourbridge get the odd decent act. 

We used to go down a fair bit on the early 90s for obvious reasons....lol

I'm fortunate that I never really stopped going to gigs.  Didn't go to many when the kids were young but never stopped.  

Nowadays I'm back at it.....lol

I'm also fortunate that my kids are musical.  Lewis comes to some gigs with me.  Infact to be honest I wouldn't have bothered with "Stiff little fingers " Saturday if he wasn't going.

Grace doesn't go as often.  But, her claim to fame will always be that her first ever proper gig was "the stone roses".

10 minutes ago, MikeHorton said:

Mission drive was my favorite, where ru seeing them in June? 

02 academy leeds.

They are doing a full UK tour.  Saw them 3 year back at the same venue with the neds as support.

First time I saw them would have been 89 I think? I know I was quite young.

Your mate who was into CUD.  Is he still going to see them?  They have a quite cultish following, especially in the North.  The same faces can be seen at the gigs from the last 30 years.  The picture i put up last night, my mate was just about to show Carl (lead singer) his CUD  tattoo.....

We had a good chat to his daughters. They find it really strange that a band with very very limited mainstream appeal and 1 significant hit record can on occasions attract such fanatical following.

The leeds hometown gigs are always chaotic.  Most of the crowd 50 ish and still jumping around like teenagers....

22 minutes ago, MikeHorton said:

Medicine head not one I'd heard of and localish to me too. CUD, I had a friend from scunny who loved them. 

Lucky to live in a smallish town with I few well known groups, pwei, wondersfuff, neds atomic dustbin and diamond head. Brien Tatler from diamond head along with Robert Plant can regularly be seen drinking and shopping in the town. Roberts son Logan was at my school a few years younger than me, does well with his brewery in London beavertown. 

Stourbridge at a guess.  Well not a guess, I have tickets for the wonderstuff in June. Seen neds loads back in the day and of course PWEI. 

This was also one of my favourite gigs of all time.

Miles Hunt did a load of free stuff during the lockdowns. Just him, a guitar and going back over a quite extensive back catalogue. 

15 minutes ago, fastbob said:

I reckon it's an Asperger's thing but I only like music that I can predict . Which is why I'm drawn to Blues and  Boogie . Once you know what the structure of the song is you are free to absorb the details and the texture of the piece . To quote from Phoenix Nights when they attempted an alternative comedy night ,  " Tell us some jokes that we know ! " 

I'm going through all the Aspergers tests now!!!! 

Started to get suspicious when 3 different councillors over several years when dealing with my PTSD enquired if I'd ever been tested...... 

This is a niche band. CUD. Massive in Yorkshire indie circles early nineties.

That's the lead singer after a recent gig we were at.

His daughters were laughing.  50 year old blokes mobbing him....lol

Supposed to be seeing these on Saturday in Leeds. Still a bit poorly tho.....

We foolishly bought the kids a car prior to them passing their tests.

Mate of a mate sketch. Far cheaper than book price etc. Its been sat on drive for 2 weeks as I've been poorly.

Anyway thought I'd better go fill it with diesel. 

£48 and it had quater of a tank in......

This is in a 1 litre kia ceed!!!

3 hours ago, Fozzie said:

I think I've seen you say you work in a power station, and I'm curious, what type and what role? 

I'm E&I in CHP and localised power gen (Typically under 50MW). We get away without using urea dosing in some of the MTU engine types we use, but even the "low" stuff is now under pressure. You can see this in the SCR kit we get as well, I think the amount of sensors has doubled in the past 5 years to maintain that umbrella effect, otherwise the rated 99% reduction in NOx becomes a dream.

 

To bring it more on topic, I suspect the price of Urea will go up further as it's one of Russia's exports. Uralchem I think it is? And they've just applied sanctions on us... Which I can't fathom as they are the ones hurting most in these sanctions. 

I've seen too many Russian officials just deny an invasion of Ukraine is even happening. All theatre to keep as many people back home in line I guess. 

I'm a shift manager in an EFW.

Mechanical bias originally. 

Thick as a brick me. Left school at 16 and did it the hard way.....lol.

Good morning all.

Well. Had a strange couple of weeks. Monday before last. 11 days back I tested positive for covid again.

This time tho it proper knackered me. Comedy day in hospital Tuesday having all the lung x rays etc.

Put me on some horse antibiotics and they seem to be working. 

Tested negative for the first time today so happy with that. Still a bit poorly but Lisa is no longer asking me to donate my organs (i kid you not. Poor lass was in a right state) lol.

Tell you what though.  First person to tell me covids nowt when I'm fit again will get a right slapping 

12 hours ago, onesea said:

I am sure @S-Westerly will me along to advise that I am wrong but transporting goods in bulk by sea is surprisingly efficient.  
from his 50t a day @ saying @12kts 288 miles a day.  Say 200,000 tons of cargo.

 

Purists will hate my maths….

Say 800kg/m3 for fuel oil so 50t = 62500 lts ish 

62500/288 = 2232.1 lts/mile. Divide that by 200,000tons

thats 0.01116 lts per ton per nautical mile.

A nautical mile = 1.15 statute miles

 

A quick google say a artic does 8mg say heady at 40t that’s about 0.5 lts per mile…

 

 

Thats my style of maths. With the ish in...lol.

10 hours ago, Fozzie said:

Good description, this has been a discussion in my industry (historically built a lot of gas engines), especially in regards to mixing different reactants into the methane, such as hydrogen to try and control levels of emissions.
 

We can reduce the CO2 output, but due to the higher burning temperatures of hydrogen, NOx output becomes a problem again. 

 

I’m currently working on a job in London, which is part of a district heating project. We’ve gone for a urea dosing system combined with a low NOx MTU engine.

 

Before this goes too far off topic, Russia has hit my companies future plans hard. Not least as we own British Gas! Who last year hoovered up customers from collapsed energy companies, honoured fixed rates for 1-2 years, and is now having to foot the bill until their tariff changes. And equally in my side of things, its highlighted the need to shift sooner to hydrogen. 

Off topic ish but.

We use Urea injection to control Nox emissions.  This works alongside the combustion air ratios as described previously.  Thats the balancing act, CO vs Nox.

The key to urea injection control is the location of injection and method. If its wrong initially and is not creating the umbrella effect then its useless. 

Urea/carbamin has nearly doubled in price post brexit. Hence why recently we've modified our system to make it more efficient. 

District heating. The dream of all councils/boroughs for the last decade. We've had it in the pipeline for the last 15 years but never finished or commissioned due to us being a single line plant.

27 minutes ago, onesea said:

China or Russia

Canada....

Very environmentally friendly 

3 hours ago, Fozzie said:

 

The idea behind using wood, is you plant it to burn it, not deplete naturally occurring reserves (causing a net carbon release). And creating a cycle of trees that grow, capturing C02, and are then cut down to make way for a new tree that absorbs the carbon released by burning the tree it replaced as it grows. 

 

When you burn coal, there's no way to easily recapture that released carbon. So while wood releases more, you can recapture it, so long as it's sourced properly. With coal, there's no chance of that, so it's a bad idea to turn back to coal for power generation. And C02 emissions aren't the only factor, just have a read of what it does to air pollution, even with clean coal technologies reducing the ash and sulfur release. 

 

Carbon monoxide emissions are controlled via stoichometric combustion. I.e how the fuel is burnt.  In our case usually with approximately 30% secondary air which gives you an excess of around 7% air. This completes the combustion, and minimal CO is produced. 

The biggest issue with coal is the production of acid gases. Hcl and SO2. These are not as prevalent in wood.

The capture of CO2 has been an ongoing debate in the energy sector for years and yes the only way to balance this is the farming of trees.

What is not taken into account is where the wood pellets are shipped from.

Take a wild guess where the pellets are from for a rather large station on the east/ west Yorkshire border??

@dynaxyou need to ride down to the entrance, turn right into the carpark and then ride back up towards the road.

oh and then head across said road for fish n chips....

14 minutes ago, dynax said:

 

Okay I will have to go and do a reccy at some point

At the top of the car park. Room for several bikes

21 minutes ago, S-Westerly said:

Given that it cost $1.5 million to fit a flue gas treatment plant on a ship which is a fraction of the size of a large power plant I'd imagine the cost for one would be huge. As for coal I don't know if we'll reopen mines here as where would we get the experienced miners? There's also plenty of it available from overseas but it will be interesting.

Thats what started the downfall. Polish coal.

We do tours on plant which the public can book onto. What tends to amaze them is the fact the FGT takes up around a third of the footprint of the entire site.

Ours, as like most nowadays is direct link to the EA. Thus, it cannot be "frigged" and legally we can't operate without it in service.

The old mantra was "burning n turning" i.e fire in boiler and the turbine generating.

Now its "burning, turning n monitoring"

On 07/03/2022 at 16:19, Trooper74 said:

 

I have heard a rumour that there are millions of tons of coal below the fields around Drax and Ferrybridge power stations ....... can’t be true or they wouldn’t be burning wood pellets that cause greater output of harmful emissions than coal ...

I mean .. that would just be stupid !

Coal can be environmentally safe ish if burnt in conjunction with a flue gas treatment plant.

The reason they were shutting the cokers is because to retro fit a FGT costs millions.

Yes I work in a power station.

Yes I think eventually we will be digging for coal again....

These are going to become big very quickly.