@SBarrettBar A few years back Newcastle United fans were screaming for Shearer (as the new Messiah) to be the new manager - he was abysmal. We now have sheep calling for Burnham (the new Messiah) to save the country - Parallels???
Activist: "You can graze sheep underneath solar panels. It's called agrivoltaics."
Farmer: "I've read the brochures."
Activist: "Best of both worlds."
Farmer: "The panels shade the sward. Productive species die back. What grows is what tolerates shade and compaction. Sheep won't finish on it."
Activist: "But the trials show it works."
Farmer: "The trials run three years and measure ewe presence. Not lamb growth rates. Not finishing weights. Not what the soil looks like in year fifteen."
Activist: "It's still better than nothing."
Farmer: "It's a 30% stocking rate, a steel frame I can't plough around, panel-cleaning chemicals running into the watercourse, and a 40-year lease I can't break."
Activist: "But you're getting energy AND lamb."
Farmer: "I'm getting a third of the lamb, a maintenance contract, and a field my grandson can't farm."
Activist: "You're being negative."
Farmer: "I'm watching a thousand-year-old way of feeding people get traded for twenty-five years of subsidised electricity. Negative would be the polite word."
@stephenpollard If Starmer and Khan grew backbones and cancelled the hate marches and stopped supporting people who use the term `Holocaust' for Gaza maybe these attacks would decrease - their (non)actions just inflame the situation. Jewish people are a part of the UK and we need to support them
@SBarrettBar Local elections are for local councils, local councilors have no say on the cost of living, NHS, Gaza, assisted dying .... its about potholes, lighting, rubbish collections and rip off doubling of council taxes!
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It is this secondary hazard of fire created by ruptured gas pipes that the ITO gas cut off system has been designed to prevent. Using no electricity, the ITO systems shuts down the gas system immediately in the event of ground shaking, https://t.co/lRIE1letiw
In the 1906 San Francisco earthquake an estimated 3000 people died due to the quake and subsequent fires which were started by ruptured gas mains-90% of the destruction was due to fires. This is a major concern today with gas supply lines running to most buildings.
Tomorrow marks 120 years since the San Francisco #earthquake, April 18, 1906. A slip of the San Andreas Fault over a segment 275 miles long caused the quake. The shock waves were felt from southern Oregon to Los Angeles. View is towards SF Bay. Photo via the National Archives.
Maybe if we used farmland for producing food and not allowing solar farms or building then we would not be facing potential food shortages? https://t.co/PcNjhu0jJn