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Post by captainconfident on Jul 22, 2024 18:00:16 GMT
I watched it but I've got by on a lentil a day since the 80's. Your veggies come in old and new varieties, old ones are objecting to the farming of animals ( and/ or saw a BBC 2 programme c1985 about how black pudding is made). The new ones are climate angst ones, a distinctly inferior breed.
While I would feed insect food to my dog and cats, I'm not keen the idea for myself. But I would happily eat lab grown meat.
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Post by bracknellboy on Jul 22, 2024 18:16:22 GMT
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Post by mostlywrong on Jul 22, 2024 19:17:51 GMT
I reckon that I can pin down when I heard that: early 1971 from AWRE Harwell. AERE until 1954, then UKAEA - Atomic Energy Research Establishment, then UK Atomic Energy Authority - before privatisation as AEA Technology PLC in 1996, now part of Ricardo PLC I can take a guess at what you had the W standing for... I would have sworn that it was AWRE Harwell.
Oh well. Maybe that explains why I flunked my Physics, Maths and Chemistry A Levels.... 
MW
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Post by angrysaveruk on Jul 22, 2024 20:55:23 GMT
You are not going to be able to save the world unless you make sacrifices like eating bugs, you need to set an example for the rest of the forum.
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Post by michaelc on Jul 22, 2024 21:07:49 GMT
Even the teeny weeny enforced sacrifices that we must make are pi**ing me off. No carrier bags anymore and today Tesco announced tinned 4 packs won't be 4 packs anymore as they'll be nothing to hold the tins together.
1st world problems I know but all feels backwards to me.
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Post by agent69 on Jul 22, 2024 21:16:47 GMT
Even the teeny weeny enforced sacrifices that we must make are pi**ing me off. No carrier bags anymore and today Tesco announced tinned 4 packs won't be 4 packs anymore as they'll be nothing to hold the tins together. 1st world problems I know but all feels backwards to me. I drink cans of San Miguel. The ones they sell in my corner shop no longer come with the plastic rings holding the 4 cans together (like the rings that Mr Burns used in the Little Lisa recycling plant). Instead the cans are glued together.
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Post by ilmoro on Jul 22, 2024 21:55:22 GMT
Even the teeny weeny enforced sacrifices that we must make are pi**ing me off. No carrier bags anymore and today Tesco announced tinned 4 packs won't be 4 packs anymore as they'll be nothing to hold the tins together. 1st world problems I know but all feels backwards to me. String? Wire? Cardboard box? 4 separate cans the same. No carrier bags, where are you shopping? ... free no, but available
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Post by michaelc on Jul 22, 2024 22:00:59 GMT
Even the teeny weeny enforced sacrifices that we must make are pi**ing me off. No carrier bags anymore and today Tesco announced tinned 4 packs won't be 4 packs anymore as they'll be nothing to hold the tins together. 1st world problems I know but all feels backwards to me. String? Wire? Cardboard box? 4 separate cans the same. No carrier bags, where are you shopping? ... free no, but available Screwfix.
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Post by ilmoro on Jul 22, 2024 22:05:16 GMT
String? Wire? Cardboard box? 4 separate cans the same. No carrier bags, where are you shopping? ... free no, but available Screwfix. Get one of those canvas ones that rolls into a very small ball and attach it to your keys. Youll always have a bag and everyone will know you're pleased to see them 
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Post by michaelc on Jul 22, 2024 22:07:07 GMT
Get one of those canvas ones that rolls into a very small ball and attach it to your keys. Youll always have a bag and everyone will know you're pleased to see them I meant the shop.
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Post by bracknellboy on Jul 23, 2024 7:35:06 GMT
You are not going to be able to save the world unless you make sacrifices like eating bugs, you need to set an example for the rest of the forum. and ? The concept that bugs could be a significant and eco friendly source of animal protein to replace far more climate unfriendly sources such as methane emitting cows has been around for many years. It's hardly "news". You need to keep up. A Tucker Carlson / Fox News piece designed to "scare the horses" that some mythical woke socialist eco warrior green movement is going to force feed them multi legged bugs nd stop them eating 30 billion pounds of beef a year if they vote Democrat is not terribly illuminating, to anyone. Other than Maga cultists. And Fox news accountants and owners.
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Post by captainconfident on Jul 23, 2024 10:00:14 GMT
Even the teeny weeny enforced sacrifices that we must make are pi**ing me off. No carrier bags anymore and today Tesco announced tinned 4 packs won't be 4 packs anymore as they'll be nothing to hold the tins together. 1st world problems I know but all feels backwards to me. I drink cans of San Miguel. The ones they sell in my corner shop no longer come with the plastic rings holding the 4 cans together (like the rings that Mr Burns used in the Little Lisa recycling plant). Instead the cans are glued together. San Miguel? Your working man pretensions don't fool me. I've heard its cocktails at six served by your footman.
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Post by crabbyoldgit on Jul 23, 2024 10:26:31 GMT
The W stood for weapons, the old magnox reactors were built to generate weapons grade plutonium for us but mainly the Americans. Electricity was just a fortuitous by-product and cover. Winthrift near me produced little else until the experimental fast breader reactors came along.
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Post by benaj on Jul 23, 2024 10:27:24 GMT
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Post by bracknellboy on Jul 23, 2024 12:10:49 GMT
I've always assumed that aluminium cans are, in a decent recycling economy. Extracting aluminium from bauxite is very energy intensive. But when it comes to recycling, alu is the king of things to recycle: I've always had in my head that from an energy perspective it was about 90% efficient (i.e. compared to extraction from ore). Whereas, glass recycling was about 40% efficient (the latter in particular may have improved over the years). There is also the rather obvious point that an aluminium container is significantly lighter than the equivalent glass container. And so environmental packaging transport costs are correspondingly lower. [Which is another reason I've never really bought into this idea that having your milk delivered in glass bottles is necessarily smart]. Also I think that alu is almost indefinitely recyclable. [Not read the article so I may now have made a complete fool of myself]
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