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"There used to be legislation relating to broadcasting tapes of Jerry Addams... if you remember you used to get a still and an actors voice or some such whenever he had something to say for himself. " Thats exactly what I recall Matt, cheers for clearing it up. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"I don't need the pull-up cord, but I know what it is. It's an artwork "tree" metal sculpture made up out of guns turned in by Africans, which I think is on display in England." Close, close enough for a free pull up, I'll drop one off at Waller next time I'm passing.

"The only government born restraint over here is with regards to the incitement of racial hatred." Isn't there something that prevents the likes of the IRA using the BBC as a soapbox? I definitely recall Maggie bringing something in along those lines. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

http://www.sarcoinc.com/krummerlauf.html -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"In the time it takes to capture the footage to the comp you could almost be done on a linear board " This will always be the case John, as Chuck rightly points out, linear editing is inherently faster for relatively short movies like tandems. Where Non Linear wins, is making longer movies, its more accurate, and if you make a mistake, you don't have to start over. I reckon a hybrid solution is probably ideal, eg you make a kick ass leader from your stock footage, nice titles, DZ contact details etc, on an NLE suite, then you mix it with a traditional linear board for the Tandem's actual footage. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Seen Bugsy Malone? Their Thompson machine guns definitely fired something more akin to meringue. You can always out run a pie, but can you out run meringue?" Tests have repeatedly shown that an assailant armed with a pie can cover 21 feet before you draw, cock and aim a meringue gun. For close quarters work a pie will beat a meringue gun hands down every time. For plinking away on the range, sure a scotch egg is your friend, but for urban, or close quarters use, you can't beat a pie. You are probably too young to recall Benny Hill's hit 'Ernie', he faces an assailant armed with rock cakes and stale pork pies, and loses in a pitched battle. full lyrics here http://www.tnsf.ca/bennyhill/display.php?filename=ernie_2&type=lyrics "Now Ernie dragged him from his van and beneath the blazing sun, They stood there face to face, and Ted went for his bun. But Ernie was too quick, things didn't go the way Ted planned, And a strawberry-flavoured yogurt sent it spinning from his hand. Now Susie ran between them and tried to keep them apart, As Ernie, he pushed her aside and a rock cake caught him underneath his heart. And he looked up in pained surprise and the concrete hardened crust, Of a stale pork pie caught him in the eye and Ernie bit the dust." Have good weekend folks, I'm off to a traditional highland wedding, expect photos of hairy guys in frocks early next week. And I'll keep an eye on the cake in case any shenanigans occur. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Crumble is different, crumble is not pie, in my mind a pie has a base, and can stand alone without the support of a bowl or tin etc. A crumble is more like a bowl of fruit preserve with a crusty shortbread type topping. Sure crumble has its merits, but for concealed carry and consumption, you really can't beat pie. You can't really carry a concealed crumble, well not without spoiling the cut of your strides. Both are good though. I've been in some tight spots where a pie could well have saved me some grief, and all that was available was a pain au chocolat. This is why I am never too far away from a pie these days. If you are going to take your patisserie welfare seriously, get a pie. Its good for anyones constitution. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"I'm not sure how that changes anything from previous years thgouh" Your speling and grummer has improved no end since I first started posting here. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Guys, if the only difference between our respective country's crime rates is down to gun control (or lack of it), then this thread would make a lot of sense. But the situation is far more complex than that. There are cultural, societal, historical, and even legislative differences that have an influence here. JohnR, shame on you, we've discussed this before and agreed that the situation is not really that simple. To say that the difference in our crime rates and even their rates of change is solely influenced by gun control is somewhat narrow minded. Here is what we do know as fact. Gun legislation in the US appears to be working fine for the majority of the American people. Gun legislation in the UK appears to be working fine for the majority of British people. John, Kennedy, et al, keep your guns, enjoy your security, enjoy the right to bear arms as part of a militia, hell, just enjoy them for the pleasure they bring you from the act of maintaining and discharging them in controlled situations. At the same time appreciate that your tastes may or may not be shared around the world. All we have to do is respect and tolerate these differences, then we can spend more time disussing more important matters..... Someone mentioned pie? I really like my mom's home made rhubarb pie. There, you made me break one of my new year's resolutions, I posted to yet another SC gun thread. As a peace offering, the first person to highlight the relevance of my new avatar to this conversation will receive a free, fine pull-up from my rig bag. (Tonto is excluded as I have already talked about it with him, its important to his Gal..happy birthday Taz

To be honest, I only looked into the one situation, IE an offshore platform that is basically still in good shape, being used as the host installation for this purpose. Oil production from BP Miller is about to cease, and it is relatively new, so makes an ideal long term host. Its just in the wrong place right now. Power generation in that instance would be local, probably by importing gas from another installation to run its own existing turbine generators. With relatively efficient generators and compression trains we would probably not be generating as much CO2 from the turbines as we were shoving down the hole. Very few offshore platforms are connected to the grid, notable exception being the Beatrice field which is about to converted into into a massive wind powered generator, and I do mean massive, the generator head on its own (not including blades and mast) will weigh 300 tonnes. The other main stumbling block that we saw was that of gathering the CO2 and transporting it to the installation. We looked at cryogenic tankers, a bit like the LPG ships, or pipelines. Both routes have their challenges, eg you don't want lumps of dry ice forming in the piping as they will mash up the compressors, any water forming in the pipeline will increase corrosion by forming carbonic acid, the pipeline is extremely temperature sensitive, etc. BP made the decision on the economics of the project, we were simply looking at technical feasibility and costing up some options. As Billvon pointed out, reducing our CO2 emissions should be the preferred strategy. Sorry, I don't really know much about the other options such as soil sequestration or deep mine disposal. I know deep mine disposal is expensive, we priced up disposing of a large amounts of LSA scale (naturally ocurring radioactive limescale type stuff that comes up with oil and water in certain fields) from Miller at Dounreay, and I was really surprised at the cost of that. I'd guess that in deep mine disposal, it would be relatively straightforward to 'capture' the methane by-product , treat it then pump it into the local gas grid. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Wow, thats pretty cool Dave, I haven't seen Skygeek posting for ages. If you see him about say hi from me. Well done fellas.

"Me thinks that the UN bashing in the US is motivated by a policy to condition the population for a much more unilateral and aggressive foreign policy. " I agree with you Mikkey, but the Oil for Food scandal has not done the UN's cause any good whatsoever. I, like you, have high hopes for the UN. I just wish people would realise that the OFF scandal involves individuals, not the entire organisation. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

It looks like a fall restraint harness, and by the way, it looks shagged to me.

see also, this from the Beeb on this very subject today.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4233011.stm -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"I'm still waiting for him to move out of the US" Nobody wants to give him a visa, not even the Canadians. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"You rock Cora." Alternatively, Your rocks, Cora.

You'll certainly never be stuck for something to talk about. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"What impact would the CO2 liquid have on the environment if it was to escape? You mention that this is a very expensive procedure - which means corners will be cut somewhere ..... " Indeed, which is why we have to have responsible engineering consultants like me look into it more carefully. The effect would probably be very little, but that would depend on the nature of the leak, we already have existing leak detection techniques for gas and oil wells, so the technology and practices are a relatively straightforward transfer, eg annulus monitoring (for anyone who is aware of wellstrings). Permeation through the rock formation etc is very unlikely, those same formations held gas for millions of years, often at much higher pressures than we would expect to be reinjecting CO2 at. Probably the bigger concern would be infrastructure breakdowns, IE large bore ruptures of topside piping, pipelines, or compression systems. One of those 'events' would look like a huge Pink Floyd gig. 'I tend to believe that we will not make significant changes in time to prevent long term damage.' Sadly I agree with you, many people now reckon we are on a 'topple point' IE everyone accepts that climate change is a natural process, and cyclic, however we are at the point where a wee nudge in the wrong direction, at the wrong time, could change that cycle significantly. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Aw, I didn't mean to insult folks, just joshing, if its any consolation, I'm older than Andrea, and I'm probably not that roadworthy.

"What ever happened to all the hippys? " A lot of us are still around. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"I read somewhere that it has already been done in Texas I believe. Still trying to find more info on it." Spindletop was the name of the field they used for that trial, maybe that will help.

"So... 85% of DZ.commers are younger than me.. " Just voted, probably brought that figure down a little, so if more old farts like us keep the numbers up, it won't look so bad....right? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Och Andrea, we are like cars, its not the years that count, its the miles. The big four oh isn't that bad once you get used to it.

We are not giving up on it though, I looked at converting a big installation due for decommissioning (BP Miller platform) to this purpose just last year. The economics didn't stack up in that instance, but it doesn't mean to say that it can't happen. It all depends on the rising costs of CO2 emissions, potential for carbon trading, and the government's wish for this to happen (tax incentives, etc). -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

The idea of carbon sequestration is not new, the downside is that it is expensive. Its not as simple as pouring the CO2 down a hole, or burying it. If we could get an economic means of transporting the CO2 to the well site, then a safe and managable means of compressing it, maybe it will fly CO2 is not very good for 'gas lifting' residual oils in the reservoir either. It does nasty chemical things to steel work topsides. Plus when you gas lift a well, much of the lift gas comes back up to surface in the well fluids, so you still have to separate it and re-inject, or vent it to atmosphere which kinda defeats the point. I prefer natural sequestration, eg the rainforests etc. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson