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By johnredwood | Published: February 15, 2017
The news of problems with Toshiba's nuclear power generation investment plans will prompt some new thinking here in the UK. Some in the press are suggesting that in order to carry forward a programme of additional nuclear stations beyond Hinkley, the UK government will now itself have to venture into being a minority investor in these new plants. Private sector companies are finding it a stretch to handle the very high up front investment costs of a new nuclear station. They also have to worry about the long term nature of their commitments, and the eventual costs of decommissioning the facilities when they are worn out.
It is true, as the government argues, that nuclear has merits compared to wind power. It is much more reliable, and the plants can be run permanently without the same amount of back up power than interruptible renewable sources require. Whilst a nuclear plant is dear, you do not need an equivalent amount of stand by capacity, as you do for wind. The idea has been to supply unsubsidised power from nuclear plants. That means guaranteeing them a high and constant price for the power they will generate, given the high fixed costs involved. Some see guaranteed prices as just another variant of subsidy.
The enthusiasm for UK nuclear is based around the decarbonisation plans of Labour and the Coalition governments, in harmony with the EU requirements. The new government, leaving the EU, can rethink our energy needs and vary the policy. The overriding objectives should be to provide a sufficient supply of affordable power. We need that both to pursue the new Industrial strategy,and to tackle fuel poverty. Building a new nuclear industry here may make sense, but only if it can be done in a way which delivers sufficient power at affordable prices. The government is pressing ahead with Hinkley and in Cumbria. It may be the case that a new fleet of gas powered stations will also be needed to ensure plentiful good value energy.
What is sure is that you don't have a meaningful policy to fire up many industries we have lost or where there has been decline unless they have access to cheap power.
Another factor to consider is that a switch to electric cars – currently favoured by tax breaks breaks – will require dozens of new power stations to be built and given the excessive lead times on nuclear they are unlikely to be an
The switch to electric cars with current technology is very misguided. Their range, recharge times, depreciation, battery weight, battery life, complexity and costs (before the absurd grants tax and other advantages) make them largely unsuitable for most people – other than perhaps as a virtue signally second city car for the rich. Why should they pay no tax on their fuel, when a petrol car pays about 300% on it?
They will come in due course when they get them to work. R&D first then roll out only when they work (and are economic without subsidy or government bias). Government subsidies to roll out this duff technology is hugely damaging to the economy.
But Mrs May types like picking "losers" with tax payers money.
Posted February 15, 2017 at 8:25 pm | Permalink
Do you have data and references to back up any of your assertions?
According to DoT 2016 statistics 94% of road trips are less than 25 miles, against a common range of 100 miles for a BEV, so it would appear that range would not be an issue for most car users. The average annual mileage in the UK is less than 8,000 miles suggesting BEVs which have been attaining 100,000 miles would be good for at least 12 years against the average age of a car of 7.8 years and Battery warranties of 8 years.
It seems your main gripe is taxes, though the 5% VAT does pale against the 300% on petrol surely the issue is the government is charging too much tax on petrol not that others pay less.
We are agreed on the grant, I don't think there should be special grant on EVs as they are more economic to run than ICE anyway. But then there must be all sorts of subsidies and tax concessions used by businessmen and landlords that ought to cease as well, where should one begin ….
All current battery technology is basically a chemical pile. At low voltage and high current they are a fire risk. When they burn they are very toxic. Without the CAGW hoax we would not have battery vehicles except for some specialist requirements like flts or limited local delivery vans in city centres.
Do you work for Exxon or one of the oil companies? I have to ask as you don't think there is a fire risk from 60 litres of petrol. The data I have seen is that the fire risk for electric vehicles is LOWER than for petrol. Maybe you could quote me the safety body from which you draw your own somewhat spurious conclusions.
While Petrol and Hydrogen aren't a fire risk?
Petrol is an ideal fuel as it is so energy dense but requires safe transport and storage while IC engines and drive trains are complicated and need far more maintenance than an electric motor.
How many middle east wars are others prepared to fight to access the oil and how much pollution are others prepared to put up with so you can drive your petrol car or bike?
CAGW is not the only motivator.
I don't believe this is necessarily the case. Most EVs are charged overnight when spare capacity is already available and would actually help to level out demand. If anything the problem is demand management rather than simply demand capacity.
"Demand management" = rationing.
No, staging and balancing.
Most EVs are charged at home and at night. Why do you think Economy 7 is cheaper?
Posted February 16, 2017 at 12:24 pm | Permalink
The infrastructure impact of electric vehicles and their storage batteries is complex.
Using housing and vehicle based battery storage gives the opportunity to charge storage devices when demand is low (at night for nuclear) or when supply is high (sunny and windy days for renewables). It also allows stored capacity to be released from batteries rather than start up short term power generators to manage short term peaks. The point is that battery storage is a game changer as far as capacity is concerned and brings intermittent renewables more into the game.
I would encourage the government in developing national infrastructure to support this. In particular further provision of fast charging stations in public and private locations would be helpful. The average journey is 30 miles per day. A charger at home and work would take most of the range anxiety out of electric vehicles; I accept for long journeys with a short range vehicle this is not ideal and other solutions need to be found.
"Some see guaranteed prices as just another variant of subsidy", well of course they do they clearly are. The Hinkley C deal is an appalling waste of tax payers money, it makes no economic sense. Why was it not cancelled, are Hammond and May incapable of basic sums and did they do them?
"It may be the case that a new fleet of gas powered stations would be a better way of ensuring plentiful good value energy." May be? It very clearly is a far better way.
Nuclear is a "reliable" base load but it is not efficient otherwise nor as "on demand" as gas or coal. It cannot be turned up and down quickly and efficiently, as hydrocarbons generators can. Not that I am against the right nuclear projects at the right cost.
The Trump administration is going to expose the great carbon "pollution" lie and all the fraud that has gone on with the climate alarmism agenda, the scientific "experts" and the blatantly distorted temperature records and lies. This will change the agenda, even the BBC may have to stop their climate lies and fire the dreadful alarmists they employ.
The government "expert" forecasts have all proved wrong and all in the same direction high.
No warming now for 19 years, this despite the CO2 increased concentrations. Nothing very significant before that either, it is not driven significantly by human CO2, there is no climate catastrophe lurking round the corner.
Out of curiosity is Donald Trump going to publish the science behind his/ your assertion that carbon emissions are a great big lie? Personally I'm still waiting for a tobacco company to tell me that cigarettes do cause diseases and death. Because they argue it is not 100% certain they will never admit it even as their customers go to to their graves. It's called creating an element of doubt; the tobacco and oil companies have been doing this for decades. Maybe you would like to quote me some peer reviewed papers (not from the phony organisations sponsored by Exxon) which support your statements.
E.S Tablishment
Find which entities use the most power.Then downsize them to manageable proportions.Or, eliminate them.
How much extra power is needed for X amount of railway, including power of those used to service it? Our media has not costed it!
How much power is used in ball-bearing production, for example? Is it cheaper, power wise, for the NATION ( not the private or nationalised company ) to import them?
The point: Electricity and gas are taken for granted in this country. Industrial development is not looked at holistically, merely as unit production/profit/employment. Our nation should not afford high energy consuming industries if low energy ones produce equal wealth.
Tough for people employed in these industries when for green holistic reason you shut down where they work and earn a living.
Me thinks perhaps E S T has never worked at the sharp end of heavy engineering, aircraft, shipbuilding, the motor industry or Civil Construction.
"Industrial development" (I think you mean production) is "looked at holistically" – that's what costing is for.
British Spy
Remoaner French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron,says Russian hackers and media are interfering with his election campaign. Remoaner Hillary Clinton says the same about the US Election. Remoaner Ben Bradshaw MP says the same about Brexit. A Russian plot no less.
Do Russian Intelligence operatives take performance enhancing, ENERGY producing drugs, or are they just working more smartly than our lot?
How can we be sure that British spies are "the best in the world"? As are our police, our NHS, our social services, judiciary, politicians, …
Well certainly not the dire NHS, social services, the (overpriced and absurdly slow and complex) UK legal system. As for politicians the competition round the world for the worse politicians is rather fierce. I suspect the UK's dire politicians are better than the average – but there are certainly far, far better ones around.
And only a year or so ago Senator McCain was telling anyone who would listen that Russia was nothing more than a "gas station with a country attached".
Oh how they laughed!
forthurst
Emmanuel Macron has good grounds for calling out Russian media; it has not been backward in coming forward with film of the rioting taking place in Paris, which the MSM was wisely suppressing as it might deter the French from voting for the latest 'establishment' candidate.
There is a reported coal fired generating plant in Chennai (Madras ) that following capture of it's emissions turns CO2 into baking powder. Can I suggest that this is investigated before we get carried away on a nuclear solution. Of the myriad committees in the H o C, do you have one that is qualified to make a scientific judgement.
Mockbeggar
Without looking into the precise figures, I'll bet you'd find that only about 20% of the CO2 is "captured" and that the cost of doing so increases the energy cost to close to some "renewables".
All scientists should be issued with T shirts saying "I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that."
Mind you, scientists say that mainly because they want more research money to carry on working. (Cynic!)
turboterrier
@ agricolar
do you have one that is qualified to make a scientific judgement.
In a word NO
DaveK
Peter Lilley – one of the few who voted against the Climate Change Act I believe studied Physics at Cambridge. He also knows about the economic fall out of such stupidity which is probably why they ignored his questions and kept him away from Climate Change Select Committees.
Just how much demand for baking powder do you think there is?
When baking powder is used, it releases the CO2 back into the air.
. . . the UK government will now itself have to venture into being a minority investor in these new plants.
No, no, no, no, no !!!!
It is not government money, it is taxpayers money ! I and other taxpayers do not want to underwrite private enterprise and subsidise their profits. If an idea cannot be funded by private capital, then it is probably a bad idea that will not give a return.
We should have an energy policy that allows investors to invest in the best means to provide energy generation and supply.
Early Canals, roads, bridges and railways were all built using private capital. Even our former Empire owned much to private venture than State involvement.
I do not ask the government to subsidise my investments, so why should the government ask me to do so for others.
There is more than a whiff of wrong-doing here for me.
Journo
The BBC is not exerting a massive amount of energy in reporting the riots in France. Truly off the grid.Most of it is conducted by barristers, clergy, business people, rock stars and Daily Mirror journalists
Ian Wragg
I am currently working on a small landfill gas generation facility in the USA.
Compare and contrast prices paid for green energy.
USA $38 per MW or circa £30.
UK renewable obligation £107 per MW.
How can our industry compete on such an uneven playing games field.
We are being deindustrialised in the name of sustainability which is anything but.
Iain Moore
Miliband left a poison pill with the Labour party membership rules that resulted in Corbyn , and another with climate change obligations which will result in the closure of much of our industry, and what is truly staggering is that Cameron and Osborne in a moment of insane virtue signalling doubled up on it. An expanded Heathrow will on its own will consume a large chunk of our climate change allowance. Our political classes seem to have a personality disorder, where one moment they are wittering on about rebuilding our industrial base , then the next they are putting in place virtue signalling legislation on climate change that is going to close it down.
Exactly this government's energy policy is bonkers and it has been for years. Put Peter Lilley in Charge please and get rid of Hulme, Rudd, Ed Davey, Morgan, Grieg Clark types please. Put some decent physicist and engineers in charge instead of the high priests of green lunacy movement.
The laws of physics will not change to fit the green loons religions, or as Richard Feynman put it. For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Furthermore green lunacy is no longer even good public relations (or good politics) it is nearly completely dead! 19 years and counting and still no recent warming.
put it "Nature cannot be fooled"
@ Ian Wragg
Totally brilliant comment.
The lack of any cohesive, long term plans for our existing coal generation stock shows a gross dereliction of duty by successive governments.
Phased upgrades of existing plants to utilise modern, relatively high efficiency turbines (i.e. building in parallel, decommissioning the old generator) on site is cheap and effective. Existing road and rail connections can be used, overall emissions drop, and generation capacity is secured.
Our supply of natural gas depends on comrade Putin's goodwill. Renewables aren't reliable or cost effective yet, and the cold kills more people right now than exposure to emissions or climactic change. Buying in capacity from France is business as usual at the moment, which is scandalous.
Our existing coal fired plants have been made uneconomical to run by Gideons carbon tax.
Together with the tax and stations no longer being run at base load, we are paying subsidies to keep them open.
One arm of government is doing all it can too tax them out of existence whilst another department is giving them subsidies to stay operational.
Only in the UK could this happen.
France has now become a net importer through the interconnector due to their own massive problems with the nuclear stations, so no more relying on them for back up.
….. but not just Putin's goodwill!
Our politicians seem blind to the fact that our gas supplies are dreadfully vulnerable to asphyxiation by others.
The case for reinstatement of coal-fired stations is strong indeed.
Or go all out for fracking.
Oh how I wish our politicians would allow a simple but honest price, reliability, sustainability, and emissions comparison to take place with regards to all sorts of energy production, and without any sort of subsidy involved, so we could actually compare one source with another, and then make some sensible plans for the future based on that, rather than some fake ideology or dogma.
I can see yet another decade of procrastination and muddled thinking taking place whilst our energy resources simply dwindle away, or/and until power rationing is the norm.
Don't expect politicians to "allow a simple but honest … some fake ideology or dogma". Do your own research. Consider who was in power when bad decisions were taken in the last forty-five years. Do not let them bamboozle you into thinking they are whiter than white when their neoliberal policies were at the origins of our present problems (in particular, deindustrialisation).
And one of these less than honest contributors to the situation might be much closer than you think.
@ alan jutson
Got that right in one Alan.
A.Sedgwick
Hinkley C is a massive mistake along with HS2.
Your repeated suggestion concentrating on a number of new gas fired power stations is the obvious 20 – 30 year solution. After that new technology in battery storage and nuclear power and harnessing solar power will have advanced significantly.
Leslie Singleton
Dear A.S.–And don't forget Tidal–More experimental and small at present than much else so admittedly costs a lot but costs will fall given time. Not enough being said about shallow Tidal Stream with loose turbines scattered about rather than their being built in to walls. One reads that a deep scheme has just been set going in the Bay of Fundy. And one sees nothing on Wave Power. I remember discussion on end effects rather than just up and down. I like Lagoons and giving a small experimental one a go makes sense to me. I have often wondered why if a Lagoon can be built (and there seems little doubt about that) we cannot build Lagoons down the East Coast which don't get washed away unlike what we are always told happens when we try to hold back the sea there. And why can't we reclaim and make Polders (and dykes) as they do on the other side so apparently routinely. We cannot just let our already small island get smaller without more of a fight.
Costs will not fall for tidal lagoon energy. Most of the cost is building the enclosing wall, something that is very old technology indeed. There is also very little room for closing the gap between theoretical maximum performance of hydro turbines and current technology. Moreover, studies have shown that using the favourable sites around the UK does not result in smoothing out the power produced, which would continue to have gaps at high and low tide. Tidal stream energy is very expensive – and also rather limited in scope to be anything more than a minor source, even if it can be made to work more reliably. It is also very peaky in power production.
Tidal is far too expensive especially small toy Welsh ones (and the power is not on demand either – nor renewable it slows the earth's rotation) more of a base load with neap & spring tide variations on top. Look at the costs and do the sums they do not add up.
They silt up and the barriers get smashed by storms too.
Dear Lifelogic–Read about the Bay of Fundy scheme–Are they all bonkers over there? Big difference between Lagoons and Tidal streams. How long (I suspect billions of years) till Earth slows down?
Lifelogic, I have already asked you for your reference about the slowing down of the Earth's rotation. In case you had never realised that, there are tides linked to lunar attraction "interfering" with the Earth rotation. Could you please as an engineer make a small calculation of the order of magnitude of the effect of the tides, and of the effect of such a Welsh tidal basin?
I thank you very much in advance for your piece of wisdom.
Michael Fish
I have found this website really helpful. No, not pages and pages of stuff, just a very understandable set of dials which even I can understand.http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk
Nuclear: steady, reliable. Diesel (emitting lots and lots of carbon) comes second easily. Wind, variable and, at peak, only produces a fraction of the power the other two do. Coal (and the hypocritical and stupid biomass): being cut back and phased out, but still there, faithful, reliable. Solar – doesn't register.
If only someone could invent a way of storing electricity for later! The "pumped" system is interesting, but insignificant.
You have missed out gas powered generation – which is the obvious choice both for speed of implementation and relatively low cost of investment to achieve new generating capacity. In its way stands the regulation and political correctness imposed by the climate change agenda.
There should not be a problem with supply – even if UK fracking does not deliver. Global energy demand has been flatlining and is expected to remain that way looking ahead because of long term demographic changes, improved efficiency and changes in the structure of production activities. Energy pricing is likely to remain very competitive. The worst possible thing the UK can do is to saddle itself with ultra expensive long term energy contracts. But with the political class that has been and remains in charge of these matters that seems the most likely outcome.
I have no idea where you are getting your figures from: currently, gas (Combined Cycle Gas Turbine) is supplying over 50% of demand. Where is diesel? Presumably backup is inclusive in the wind capacity, should it be called and diesel which is operated by large energy consumers is not recorded as it offsets demand.
There are some things the state does better than the private sector, nuclear power is one of them. The costs and timescale puts it beyond the capability of the private sector to fund such operations, or as we have seen with Hinkley point the guarantees that have to be given are so extensive it makes private sector an expensive option. We should stop faffing around trying to get private sector involvement with building nuclear power stations, re-nationalise British energy and rebuild our state nuclear power sector.
The is almost nothing the state does better than the private sector. Defence and a system of law and order perhaps. But have you looked at the fiasco of defence procurement in the U.K., or the absurdly expensive, slow, multi level, arbitrary (and totally lacking any real deterrents) the systems of law we have is.
Even when they do something worthwhile they have usually caused more harm than the benefit by extracting the taxes to do it from people who would have used it rather better.
There really is an very simple solution to this
Small Modular Reactors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor
Oh and where I live we are busy decommissioning a perfectly functional nuclear power station, just because the EU told us too
Which reactor?
The Dungeness Magnox reactor was allowed to reach the age of 40 before being decommissioned. The gas cooled adjacent reactor will be allowed to work until 2028. We will then have more nuclear power being shut down than new stations opening in 12 years time, and that is if the regulator approves and decisions are taken now without delay. They will have to build more gas stations or go up the creek.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/WR-Decommissioning-progress-at-Dungeness-A-2101154.html
Agree, SMRs would give more flexibility offering staggered rollout that could accomodate new technologies over time and phased decommissioning. Personally I prefer a more distributed solution, even better if a hybrid approach using a mix of generation and storage were adopted.
Bert Young
Cheap and reliable energy is as important to the domestic consumer as it is to industry . Before putting money into nuclear we must exploit everything that is available naturally and on our door-step . Fracking has come under very heavy criticism but , if the resource is there , we must exploit it . Electric cars have a domesday scenario – the more there are the more generation is required .
It is extreme folly to allow control of strategic or other important industries to be in the hands of foreign investors and government controlled businesses. There is a national interest to protect here, it not a matter of making and selling burgers.
And we have lost manufacturing power because of the foolish idea we can always buy stuff from others, so why make things ourselves. That's how we are being forced to buy French steel for our submarines and so on. Inward investment is just a euphemism for selling our business to foreigners.
At the other end of the spectrum we get US retail clothiers for example who rent a shed somewhere and use it a distribution centre for US made goods. Just adds to our trade deficit and stifles our smaller businesses and prevents their growth. Open for business means come along and help yourself. All the surplus cashflow and profit is then exported back to the US.
There is a role for wind power to meet Climate Change objectives (our own in due course, not the EU's). These objectives ought to allow us to continue with gas-fired and even coal-fired stations with carbon capture technology. But as an island nation we should by now have perfected wave-generated power and aim to build scores (or even hundreds if necessary) of such power stations around the coast to bring the cost down.
Given the horrendous cost of building Hinckley and decommissioning nuclear power stations at their end of life I find it hard to believe that wave power costs couldn't be brought in under the long-term cost of nuclear. Safe, carbon-free, radiation-free. Simples.
We should scrap Climate Change Objectives. It is unscientific drivel, as is now widely recognised by most sensible physics and scientists. Trump will hopefully expose all the tricks and fraud that has been used push it.
The late Prof MacKay worked out the maximum energy available from wave power if wave generators were put all around the UK's coast. It amounted to a very small percentage. A number of wave machines have been developed. All are very expensive and produce variable output. Tidal generation suffers from the same problems. His book 'Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air' is available free on the net. If only amateur environmentalists and ignorant politicians would read it.
Before he died, he gave an interview in which he said that although he loved wind turbines, there was no point in building them with 100% back up, as we might as well build nuclear stations and run them all the time. This interview can be seen on Utube.
I think that where power is concerned, we should be doing three things:
1) Concentrating on making the most efficient use we can of hydrocarbon energy sources;
2) Incinerating waste that would otherwise go to landfill to recover the energy contained therein; and
3) Investing heavily in research into battery technology so that we can store the electricity made from renewable energy for subsequent use. This would be particularly useful on a domestic scale.
As has already been observed, if we are to move to more electric cars on the road, we are going to need a shed load of generating capacity to charge all those cars up overnight, which we do not presently have.
Dear JM–Incinerating waste sounds good and as a child 60 years ago there was a silo thinggie (in Hornsey, North London) doing just that but it became not so simple. My understanding is that this silo (possible not the right word but that is what it looked like) and others along same lines were forced to shut down because the incineration (incomplete combustion?) sent Dioxin in to the atmosphere–not something to mess with. I am not an expert but the flavour was that you were lucky just to get rid of the waste (with gas jets I believe, ie using energy) and producing energy was not within the realm of things.
Storage of electricity is very expensive and wasteful of energy far better to generate as needed. Coal, gas and oil do this very well indeed.
Prof MacKay also pointed out that there is a similarity in capacity between intermittent wind generation and a national fleetof electric cars. The government is keen on you owning an electric car as it hopes the wind will blow at night and everyone will have their car plugged in and not need to use it. Good luck with that one.
No remotely economic way of storing this amount of energy has been found, whether by batteries or pushing stuff up and dropping it down. They think making hydrogen migh work but have not found a way to stop it leaking when distributed or not losing much of the energy in conversion. This is shown on the governments document on the 'smart'grid.
Gas fired powered power stations and solar where appropriate are obviously the most economic options. Domestic gas will be in plentiful supply once fraking commences in earnest. So nuclear and bird mincers are not really an option even if those constantly exposed as dodgy climate change statistics are true. In fact we do know that those stats do not incorporate the beneficial effects of technological advances and advanced they have and will.
So government policy should be to stop subsiding as that is just encouraging malinvestment a burden on the taxpayer and reducing private sector investment in more productive activities. Instead concentrate on incentivising research and development in technologies to reduce CO2.
Brexit is a game-changer in all this, and we are lagging behind, or have less options, than Trump's America.
Not too keen on nuclear, for safety reasons. Earthquakes – OK, we're not like Japan, but who knows what could happen in future – more likely, terrorism or war.
Gas? Only if UK source available. Coal – OK with suitable filters?
Am not an expert, but commonsense, non-doctrinaire approach is now sorely needed.
Obviously absolutely crucial to get this right. As much a matter of national security as defence and a healthy industrial base.
Presumably you mean nuclear 'war'.
In which case a few reactors going *pop* won't make much of a difference.
We need to reconstruct our own civil nuclear power industry, which of course was once a world leader. With some other countries turning their backs on nuclear power there may well be top class nuclear scientists and engineers who could be recruited to work for us if we no longer have enough homegrown expertise.
We will also need to sort out the Euratom business. As I understand it is EU lawyers who are saying that when we hand in our notice that we are leaving the EU legally that will have to be taken as notice that we are also leaving Euratom, whether or not we want it to have that effect. I note that Switzerland has an association agreement with Euratom, but have not yet checked whether that could be taken as a model or it would only serve as a precedent for a country outside the EU nonetheless having links to Euratom. On the other hand I did take a look at the Euratom treaty, and it seems to belong to another era when there was still widespread enthusiasm for the potential of nuclear power.
Perhaps the arrival of President Trump will cause a root-and-branch revaluation of the trustworthiness of the man-made Global Warming claims which are behind all these expensive energy schemes? I hope so.
When have a government that has no money and has to subsidy nuclear power station by way of the end uses electric bill which as you say is not affordable for 35% of the public and most small business and big energy uses like steel, germany has now switched back to coal and shutdown all of it nuclear power station, why not follow their lead, build coal power stations next to the coal field so you have no transport costs, have the latest filtering fitted with 25 MW solar station around it with wind power and a gas power station so you have everything on one site and in the summer you can take the gas offline or the coal and as the coal filtering tec improves you have it fitted, low maintenance costs, coal power station self feed from the coal field or mine, the solar and wind run themselves and gas just switch on and you can build all that yourselves at a low cost while mitigating pollution to a low level and one connection point for the grid.
Off-topic, I read here:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/14/david-davis-brexit-bill-parliamentary-ping-pong-article-50-sweden
"Threats that the government would reform the Lords if it did not pass the bill quickly were empty, Newby said. "There is zero capacity in Whitehall to worry about House of Lords reform, it's ludicrous to even contemplate it," he said."
This arrogant unelected legislator-for-life should be informed that it wouldn't take much "capacity in Whitehall" to draft an amendment to the Parliament Acts to draw the teeth of the Lords, however the chamber may be composed in the future, by cutting the maximum period for which they can delay a Bill from thirteen months to three months.
It doesn't seem to occur to him that if the Lords insist on deliberately wasting time and money by repeating amendments to the Bill which have already been debated and rejected by the Commons then that could not only stir up public opinion against their chamber but also against the resident EU citizens they say they want to defend.
and word of note, if your going to build power station of any kind with public money, it should stay public other wises your just wasting everybody time and money because private will charge the same price as now or more so if want cheap power they need to be public because running costs are low for gas, wind, solar and coal, you can get gas and coal costed price and man power needed is low, it not like the old days with big costs for man power and employing to many people.
Why do we continue to ignore water generated electricity? Looking at the river Thames only four of the twenty eight weirs capable of generating electricity are currently converted. Osney Lock is currently likely to produce an above target 200,000 kilowatt hours of power this year. Enough to power nearly fifty households. Most of those downstream of Oxford would be capable of considerably exceding this amount 95% of the year. For example one lock is providing the power requirements of the 200 households at Windsor Castle.
This power generation is cost effective and each weir can be converted to support one or more reverse archemedes screws in under two years,
We need to
Dear Frog–Yes–Would be nice to go back to the days when every stream in the land produced power, even if only for own use as in water mills. One didn't need a huge flow either, just enough to fill a mill pool every so often. Unlikely unfortunately. Never hear much about how Germany manages so apparently easily and successfully to use its coal in their power stations. And what about that lovely new steam locomotive (Tornado) running on the Settle – Carlisle line? If the railways went back to steam think how much less power needed from power stations. Also unlikely unfortunately.
It should be clear that the decision to go with French EPR nuclear technology is deeply flawed (and probably based on EU politics). At the moment, the country that seems best able to produce nuclear power stations at reasonable cost – under half that at Hinkley Point, and well below "renewable" alternatives – is South Korea. They have a proven design, and are already opening export markets on the back of it. We should try to form a partnership with them to take advantage. We should also be wary of trusting Chinese designs and investment.


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Thanks in advance ..
Edit.. more information:
Image 1: We can see posts 1,2,3 and 4 (in red) in the wall ..
Image 2: We can see that the posts 2 and 4 had disappeared of json result.
both, post 2 and 4 are using "Who are you with?" "With hall9000"..
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Image 2: http://i.stack.imgur.com/9kIKG.png

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Published April 9
Judge to hear arguments on whether Dakota Access pipeline should continue operating without a permit
Shutting down the pipeline 'only hurts working families and American consumers,' trade group says
By Jonathan Garber FOXBusiness
Celebrity activists target Dakota Access Pipeline in letter to Biden
President Biden pressured to cancel Dakota Access Pipeline.
A federal judge will hear arguments Friday about whether the Dakota Access oil pipeline should be allowed to continue operating without a permit while the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts an environmental review.
The $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline transports 570,000 barrels of oil each day from the Bakken Shale in North Dakota to an oil terminal in Illinois. It is the safest and most efficient way to transport the oil, according to operator Energy Transfer Partners.
The pipeline has been under environmental review since March 2020. It was approved in 2017 in the early days of the Trump administration after being denied by his predecessor, former President Barack Obama.
The Biden administration did not respond to FOX Business' request for comment.
"Shutting down an operational pipeline to address procedural matters is unprecedented, and only hurts working families and American consumers," said Robin Rorick, vice president of midstream at the American Petroleum Institute, a national trade group representing about 600 oil and gas members.
The Dakota Access pipeline supports thousands of U.S. jobs and provides hundreds of millions of dollars in annual tax revenue.
BIDEN SHUTTING DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE WOULD CAUSE FOOD PRICES TO SPIKE
A 16-month shutdown of the pipeline would eliminate 7,400 jobs and reduce oil and gas extraction and producer income taxes in North Dakota and Montana by $921 million over a 28-month period, according to a study conducted by consulting firm ICF at the request of the API.
Additionally, shutting down the pipeline would cost Corn Belt farmers more than $1 billion in annual revenue and "drive up food costs for consumers" as oil would need to be transported by rail, taking up key space on cars needed to transport agricultural products, according to a legal filing made last fall by agricultural economist Elaine Kub.
More than 200 celebrities, including NFL star Aaron Rodgers and actor Ryan Reynolds, sent a letter to the Biden administration in February calling for its closure due to its impact on the environment and on the lives of the indigenous people who live in the area.
READ MORE ON FOX BUSINESS BY CLICKING HERE
Biden, in the days following his inauguration, signed a number of executive orders aimed at "transitioning" the U.S. economy away from fossil fuels.
Those orders included canceling the Keystone XL pipeline's permit, implementing a temporary ban on new permits and leases for oil and gas drilling on federal lands and waters and rejoining the 2016 Paris climate agreement, among other things.

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It's such a good feeling: Check.
The everyday events of our lives aren't a checklist.
The gospel isn't a checklist.
Remember in Young Women's when they'd have you write that list of qualities that you wanted in your future husband?
But the problem is, you don't love people because they are a list of qualities.
"Well, ahem, if your boyfriend has five or more of these symptoms, then we're definitely looking at a case of love here."
You love people because you love them.
Because you know they are spirit sons and daughters of Heavenly Father.
Because they have divine worth and potential.
See then when you love someone, it's easy to list the things you like about them.
And that's just the best thing there is to feel.
"God does not have a list of favorites to which we must hope our names will someday be added."
"The Tender Mercies of the Lord"
I am the queen of lists, but you're right.
Very insightful..but a couple of qualities are OK, YKWIM?
Good point; I hadn't thought of that before.


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Palmer calls for party revolution to kickstart economy
Clive Palmer launches his national campaign on the Sunshine Coast.
by APN Newsdesk
CLIVE Palmer has urged Australians to start a revolution by kicking out the two major parties and putting in business people with ideas to turn the economy around.
"The main issue facing Australians today is not what individual becomes Prime Minister, but what Australians can do to regain Australia's status as a lucky country,'' the Palmer United Party leader told his national campaign launch on the Sunshine Coast on Sunday.
"This election has been devoid of ideas. Neither Abbott nor Rudd has offered any hope for Australia, the billionaire mining magnate said.
"Abbott wants to cut Government expenditure and shrink the economy to the size of a pea. Rudd wants to join Abbott, and they both want to tax us to oblivion.
"They are both boring and neither Rudd nor Abbott will debate the critical issues facing Australia. Abbott and Rudd are too scared to tell the truth about the Australian economy.''
"Australians have lost hope in the future.
"We have to reestablish confidence and lead the nation not tomorrow but now.
"The past is gone. We are talking about a revolution. A revolution in the way we think, in the way we boost our wealth and economy for all our citizens.
"We have to, we have to reestablish confidence and lead the nation not tomorrow but now."
Mr Palmer outlined the following during his speech in front of 150 candidates as well as PUP supporters at his Palmer Coolum Resort today.
Turbo Charge the Economy
The Treasury Paper in August 2013 projected company tax receipts for the year 2014 would exceed $70 billion.
Instead of companies paying tax quarterly based on an estimate we need to let them pay it yearly on actual results.
By keeping $70 billion dollars in enterprises' hands Palmer United will create real demand, massive job growth, end unemployment, turbo charge our economy, and by doing so wipe off deficits and make our economy stronger.
This is because we know businesses can spend that $70 billion better than the Government.
If $70 billion is spent by individual taxpayers during the year the Government gets 10 per cent GST.
I estimate that, based on the increased economic activity, the Government gets an extra $7 billion every time it's spent.
The Government will receive the $70 billion at the end of each year anyway.
This will mean more hospitals, schools and a rise in the standard of living. We can use our money better than the Government.
Give Australia Leadership. Increased economy and revenue means we can make immediate changes to make the life of Australians better.
At the current interest rate of 2.5 per cent that change will cost an extra $875 million a year (approximate estimate), but would generate billions each year for the Nation.
From July 1, 2014, Palmer United will reduce the personal income tax the average Australian taxpayer pays by 15 per cent.
This will mean the average taxpayer will have around $2,500 more in their pocket to spend each year.
The increased demand and activity will boost jobs and investment and boost small business profits. It will stimulate the economy and create more jobs.
The $2,500 will circulate in the economy and the Government will get 10 per cent of each transaction from GST, and that money will increase the revenue and provide more support for our hospitals, schools and Universities.
I estimate that if that $2,500 circulates 10 times in the year, which it most certainly will, the Government will get the same revenue.
We can spend our money better than the Government.
That's why Palmer United will abolish the Fringe Benefits Tax to release over $4 billion into the economy. Fringe Benefits Tax is a negative tax.
It stops Australians doing things, stifles demand and growth and kills employment.
We have to remove Fringe Benefits Tax and get the economy moving. We don't want to penalize people for spending money.
Spending money makes the world go round, creates wealth, jobs, and makes the pie bigger for all of us to share.
If we make the first $10,000 paid on a home loan tax deductible each year Palmer United will boost the construction industry and increase home ownership security.
We will make the first $10,000 paid on a home loan tax deductible each year and restore to Australians and revamp the Australian dream for each Australian to own their own home.
For too long Australians have lacked incentive and confidence and felt that they cannot help themselves. We want to change that.
We find that Australians limit what they do because of the burden of taxation. Incentives have been lost and with no activity and growth, the economy declines and the revenue shrinks and schools and hospital close.
Palmer United will reduce the taxation rate on a person's second job, which results in higher earnings over the weekly average earning by 50 per cent, giving all Australians the incentive and providing Government with increased revenue which would not be paid if a person didn't have a second job.
Business happens because of networks. Australia needs to encourage business leaders and Australians to interact to come up with ideas, to make the most of commercial opportunities.
We want to maximize the interaction in business because it creates jobs and opportunity for the economy and we are all investors in that activity and we want to encourage it. That's why we allow a tax deduction for entertainment by businesses.
Our senior citizens are paid less than newly arrived asylum seekers. We must change this as soon as possible. As a first step, Palmer United will increase the old age pension by 20 per cent.
This will amount to an estimated $150 extra a fortnight.
Palmer United will provide $80 billion additional funding for Health across Australia and will make such funding available directly to hospitals.
Palmer United will remove the increases to the Medicare levy Gillard made, and Abbott agreed to, once Palmer United is elected.
Palmer United will provide a leave allowance for all women expecting a baby. It will be a flat rate based on yearly average earnings of $50,000 a year and will be paid for a six month period.
Abbot seeks to put different values on Australian babies and women.
There has never been in Australia's history a more discriminatory policy than Abbott's policy on paid parental leave.
Under Abbott's policy, for example, a Liberal lawyer on $150,000 annual income would get paid at that rate, while a working woman on approximately $30,000 a year would get paid at the latter
Australia's debt increases by $3,000,000,000 each week. That's $30 billion in the last 10 weeks.
The Australian government is the main petitioner of bankruptcy and company liquidations.
As a result of business closures employees lose their jobs. The Government then loses group tax, company tax and, in many cases, exports and GST, as a result services in education and health have to be cut to protect the revenue.
If the Government stopped driving business to the wall this wouldn't happen. We will restructure the system to keep business going and to keep people employed productively.
To transfer people from gainful employment to unemployment just guarantees misery for families and the elderly in our community as Government services break down and Australia heads towards a catastrophe.
Palmer United will inject an extra $20 billion into the Education System in our first three years in Government. It's time to invest in ourselves because if we don't have confidence in ourselves
Palmer United will introduce retrospectively the linking of all service pensions to the male total Average earnings.
Palmer United will expand all Gold Card benefits to peacekeepers. Gold Card Benefits will be automatically delivered to the spouses of all veterans for the term of their life. Palmer United has, and will have in Government, a sole Minister responsible for veterans' affairs.
We have to end the discrimination against rural industries and give them the means to compete internationally.
The Australian Government needs to support Australian industries and ensure that all of its policies are for Australia first.
We must encourage Australians to buy Australian produce, and the labeling and packaging regime needs to be changed so that Australians know clearly what products are Australian.
If the product contained in any package or container is not at least 95 per cent Australian product then it will not have a Green and Gold classification and labeled Australian. Anything less should have a Red label and be marked as foreign.
The Palmer United believes 25 per cent of the wealth generated from regions in Australia must be returned to that region so that the wealth can be reinvested in the region that generated such wealth.
Lobbyists and Political Parties
The Palmer United Party believes that lobbyists should be excluded from holding official positions in Political Parties.
Lobbyist firms often employ former Ministers from both political parties and big business can get policy changes by paying money to such firms to represent their views.
A Palmer United team will legislate to restrict the role of lobbyists in directing political parties.
The Palmer United Party will scrap the Carbon Tax, not from when we are elected but from when the tax was introduced.
Australians will get refunds under the Palmer United Government. In Government we will set up a national commission to investigate the Carbon issue and listen to the voice of the Australian people.
We need to change things. It is the Australian Government that creates the market for people smugglers to prosper. If a person seeking entry into Australia was allowed to board a plane for $800 to fly to one of our airports, such as Sydney or Brisbane, they wouldn't need to pay the People Smugglers up to $20,000 for illegal entry to Australia.
Any person would require their valid passport to board the flight, so on arrival in Australia at the immigration hall we would know who they are and where they came from. At the airport we could have the facilities to deal with them.
Each person or family could be given a fair hearing at the airport facilities when they arrive to determine if they have a lawful right of entry into Australia.
If they don't, they could be returned to where they came from on the next available flight.
This would abolish the detention camps, restore our Navy to its traditional role, save the lives of children and families, keep families together and recognize the legitimate rights of those that have a lawful reason for entering Australia.
This policy would also reduce the risk of breach in our quarantine laws and protect our agricultural industries.
The top six Ministers in the Rudd Labor Government have 181 years of work experience between them, but only 13 years in the private sector.
If you take off the time they spent as lobbyists, lawyers and union officials, they only had two years' experience between them.
Two years' experience to run a $1.5 trillion economy! 95 per cent of Australians agree on all issues. Labor and the Liberals spend 100 per cent of their time arguing about the 5 per cent of things that Australians disagree on, causing divisions when Australia needs unity, causing disruption to our industries, when we need a joint effort.
As a great man once said: "In the final analysis, we all are mortal, we all live on this one small planet, we all breathe the same air and we all want a good future for our children."
When the ANZACs went overseas they didn't go overseas as members of the Liberal Party or as members of the Labor Party.
They went as Australians. We need to put the idea of a class war behind us and unite the nation!
My family has a strong commitment to Australia. My great uncle was killed in the World War I, five of my family served in World War II at Kokoda and Tobruk, and thereafter my nephew Squadron Leader Martin Brewster of the Australian Air Force served with the International Force for East Timor ("INTERFET") and is standing for the electorate of Herbert in this election.
All these people have done more than I could ever do for our Nation.
To raise the issues facing our great country, to stand with our Party members at this important time in our Nation's history is a great honour.
If you're happy with all that's been done now is enough, is sufficient, for you and your family - you should vote again for Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd.
But if you believe, as I do, that this Nation has the strength and potential to live out its heritage and fulfill the dreams of the ANZACs, to return Australia to being the Lucky Country it should be, you must give the Palmer United Party your support.
And we will lead this Nation together! And Australia will prevail!
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Q: How can I use rEFInd boot manager without an enter key? I have a MacBook Air (11-inch, Late 2010) (it's old I know) and I have installed rEFInd on an USB. The thing is, my return key does not work, so rEFInd is basically useless. Is there any way rEFInd can be configured to be used without the return key.

A: You can try using one of the following:

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*rEFInd does have the ability to work will a mouse. If this does not work automatically, then you may have to edit the refind.conf file. This file can be found in the EFI/BOOT folder of the EFI volume labeled ElTorito on the USB.

*By default, you can make your selection by pressing a number key. So for example, if the first row on the displayed rEFInd menu has three icons, the you can make a selection by pressing either the 1, 2 or 3 key. In fact, you can do this before the menu is even displayed.

*The return key has the ASCII code of 13, which is a control M. So you can substitute pressing the control+M key combination for pressing the return key.


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Thinking small pays off for OZ Minerals chief
Andrew Cole's strategy of operating at the small end of mining has delivered huge value growth at OZ. Will a merger with BHP destroy the culture that is central to its success?
Peter KerResources reporter
Aug 9, 2022 – 6.20pm
Andrew Cole spent much of his youth fishing beneath the Old Traffic Bridge that connects his home town of Mandurah to Halls Head, and if his time running OZ Minerals is any guide, he was probably trying to catch the small fish rather than the big ones.
Cole's brand of polite contrarianism has delivered stellar results for OZ shareholders over the past eight years under a strategy that can be broadly summarised as good things coming in small packages.
OZ Minerals chief Andrew Cole is fending off a takeover from BHP. Ben Searcy
As the biggest miner of them all, BHP, tries to court OZ into an $8.3 billion corporate marriage, some wonder whether the clash of cultures between them could undermine some of the obvious synergies that could be achieved by combining their respective assets in the South Australian copper and West Australian nickel districts.
When he arrived at OZ in late 2014, Cole had done 22 years at what was considered to be the mining industry's best finishing school – Rio Tinto.
He had been trusted by Rio to run an exploration project in China and held senior roles at a Canadian iron ore mine, but by 2014 he was still a long way from the executive committee of the multinational miner, let alone the chief executive's office.
In his early years at OZ, he made it clear he would not be running the company – which had just one copper and gold mine at Prominent Hill in South Australia – like a big miner.
He immediately ripped OZ's headquarters out of Melbourne and shifted it to an unfashionable office in Adelaide.
That change prompted an almost complete turnover of OZ's white-collar staff, but means a parochial South Australian government could yet become a valuable ally in fending off BHP's advances if it seeks to protect one of its rare corporate champions.
"He comes out of a big company but he is not a big company guy and he has created something pretty unique," says Pendal Group portfolio manager Brenton Saunders.
"He is value-driven, which is very unique in his space, especially for someone with a big company background like his. I was a big sceptic when he came in, but he has proven to be pretty special in that regard."
OZ was at a crossroads when Cole took over, trying to develop a second South Australian copper mine at Carrapateena in a way that was too big and too expensive for it to do alone.
Pushing ahead alone
A kind of paralysis had taken over the company as it tried to sell a stake in Carrapateena to companies that knew OZ couldn't afford to go it alone. Cole's response was to recast the project to just a quarter of its size, a third of its cost and push ahead alone.
The idea was that revenues from the small starter mine would help fund the much larger block cave at Carrapateena. That block cave is now expected to cost $1.6 billion and is one of the growth projects that BHP says will be developed sooner if its financial firepower is unleashed through a merger.
Determined to foster a culture of agility and innovation, Cole eschewed the sort of binary "final investment decisions" that had become the normal way for mining companies to approve projects. He preferred the approach taken by tech start-ups, where projects are gradually de-risked through incremental funding tranches.
BHP is not the first suitor that has come for OZ during the Cole era. Private equity firm KKR built a 10 per cent stake in the miner in October 2015 at about $3.60 per share – barely 15 per cent of the price BHP was willing to pay this week.
Six months later, KKR sold its stake for more than $5 per share, seemingly convinced that its strategy for the company was unlikely to be better than Cole's.
The swift rejection of BHP's $8.3 billion takeover bid this week belies the fact that OZ has keenly sought partnerships with bigger companies during the Cole era. One of the more notable examples came in November 2019 when it struck a series of cooperation agreements with Brazilian mining giant Vale.
The Vale agreements came after OZ established a small beachhead in Brazil's Carajas mining region by acquiring ASX-listed junior Avanco in 2018.
The Avanco deal was a surprise. Having tripled the value of OZ shares and won market respect, most expected Cole to aim for a big fish when diving into an acquisition.
Instead, he aimed for the smaller Avanco, convinced that greater value could be achieved faster by developing small mines rather than the "tier one" deposits that Rio and BHP focus on.
Mandurah, once a sleepy seaside town, has grown a lot since Andrew Cole left.
The early stage West Musgrave nickel and copper exploration project that was owned by Cassini Resources was another small fish targeted by Cole. It has grown into something bigger, with OZ now planning to spend more than $1 billion turning it into a mine.
Avanco's Brazilian assets will contribute less than 10 per cent of OZ's copper this year; a fact that makes some analysts and investors wonder whether they are worth the effort they take to manage.
But Cole insists that OZ can build a meaningful business in Brazil through a hub-and-spoke model, where many small mines deliver value by sharing infrastructure.
Chasing value
A partnership with Vale was designed to help OZ deliver value from the Avanco assets – OZ would sell copper into Vale's mills in the region and it would be the frontrunner to buy the small assets that were too small for Vale to bother with.
"We would like to think we can support and complement a larger company," Cole told The Australian Financial Review in November 2019 when explaining about the partnership with Vale.
"We are not pursuing partnerships about threat management, we are pursuing partnerships because we see greater value in doing it. When you find organisations that can complement your skillset, you can actually produce better outcomes. The challenge is finding an organisation that you can work with who has the same ethics, morals, culture, values, the same things, but you can find complementary skill sets.
"Our company is developing a fast-paced, agile type of environment where we can get into these smaller projects, get them up and running very quickly and move from one to another and you need a certain business model and a certain organisational culture to do that."
Pendal Group's Saunders agrees that a certain business model and culture are required to thrive on the sort of assets that OZ owns.
"The two cultures could not be more different," he said of OZ and BHP on Tuesday.
"OZ, under Cole's leadership, is a company based on being flexible, open-minded, nimble and a good underground operator. BHP does not share these characteristics. BHP are better at running open-pit, multi-decade, mega-scale, tier one operations. Also, they are not particularly good underground miners.
Large company acquirers like BHP have higher operating cost structures, something these assets can't shoulder."
Mandurah has grown a lot since Cole left. There are now two traffic bridges across the Peel Inlet and in 2007, a 70-kilometre railway line was built, connecting what was once a sleepy seaside town into Perth's central business district.
Now a commuter city, Mandurah is rapidly being subsumed into metropolitan Perth. If BHP gets its way, a similar thing will happen to Cole's corporate home.
OZ Minerals
BHP Group
Peter KerResources reporterPeter Ker covers resource companies for The Australian Financial Review, based in Melbourne. Connect with Peter on Twitter. Email Peter at pker@afr.com
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What do ancient French aristocrats have in common with modern Asians? They equally adore Baccarat! Baccarat, also known as Punto Banco, is a casino card game based on comparing total values of two hands: the Banker hand and Player hand. The game has been played since the middle-ages in Italy, Spain, and France.
According to the legend, the first rules of the game which were close to the present ones were invented by an Italian guy, Felix Falguiere, in 1490.
Since the fall of the 15th century, Baccarat became highly popular among the French elite and is still considered a game of high aristocratic circles (or just the rich guys), mostly because of high minimum bets at most tables. Baccarat is very popular among Asian players, who are known for betting millions on it.
The game developed through the centuries, and now there are three main types of the game: Punto Banco, Baccarat chemin de fer, and Baccarat banque. They all have their peculiarities, but the casino always has an edge of about 1% over the players.
In Punto Banco, the draw of the third card is determined by the rules of the game, while in other variations it's the personal decision of the player or banker to draw or not to draw. As Punto Banco is the most popular variation of the game, played in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and Macau - we'll describe its rules more closely.
As a game catered to high rollers, Baccarat tables are all about luxury as well as everything that surrounds them. Luxurious leather chairs, richly adorned halls, courteous personnel offering expensive drinks - everything around you will scream unbelievable wealth. It's not a rare case to see 1000-credit chips as a basic unit at these tables, and about a table maximum - well, it's almost unreachable.
The casinos are trying to separate their baccarat pits from the regular folk's places to create a feeling of exclusiveness. Some casinos even offer closed halls for baccarat, where you can only enter having a significant amount of money already converted to chips.
The Baccarat tables might be of different size: big, medium and small. Big tables have three dealers with pallets that will take your cards and chips and give you your winnings. It's actually very interesting to watch the pallets fly above the table, turning the chips and passing them around with incredible agility and speed.
Punto Banco is the most common version of the game, where the casino always banks the game. Punto (player) and Banco (Banker) are the names of two playing hands, each of which receives two cards at the beginning of the game. Neither the player or banker can draw a third card by their own choice, as it's determined by the rules of the game. If any of the starting hands' total is equal to nine - that hand wins instantly. If a Player's hand total is equal to eight and the banker's hand is weaker - the Player wins. If none of the hands reached eight or nine - the third cards are drawn.
Another thing you should know is how can you bet. There are three fundamental bets, and dozens of side bets that can be found in different casinos, or, in case of online casinos, in games of different providers.
There are many more side bets, but the ones that you see above are the most popular.
Players always want to know the perfect strategy for games of chance. Novice gamblers, the people who are bad in math, and the ones who take gambling too seriously might think that there is some system of betting or a guideline to win their favorite game. If the favorite game appears to be Baccarat - we'll disappoint you now: there is no such strategy.
Baccarat is a non-countable game. Each player at the table has his sheet to count the streaks and trends, and you can write there whatever you want. Through each game of Baccarat, the 8-deck shoe is being dealt almost to the bottom, and if you count each previous card, you might have a solid advantage over the casino in, say, one hand per hundred.
The problem is that there's no casino where you'll be allowed to sit and wager nothing for hours, and then make a bet when the shoe is almost empty. Counting cards won't help, but there is some intricate betting system for Baccarat, right?
Of course, there is such a system, and it's called the Martingale System! No punching, please, it's a joke! We're trying to say that no system can help you win at Baccarat, and it means that you can use any of them - they all will be equally ineffective.
There are skill games, and there are random games, and you can't beat the house edge of a random game by any means. Literally, in Baccarat there's no difference between plain betting, betting through an intricate betting system, or betting all your money on one round. The sooner you deal with it, the better it will be for your wallet.
Baccarat is a very exciting game that might help you to make the long boring hours at Vegas way shorter and more fun. You can play baccarat right after you read this article, or even without reading it, as the rules are so simple that you can just sit behind the table and learn them on the go.
If you want to know how to win in Baccarat - we can only say that you do it exactly as in all other random games: you play wisely. If you won some - don't test your luck too boldly, and if you lose some - stop before you lose too much. That's how it works at all casinos of the world.


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Homeland variations: a response to the anxieties of self-identification in the context of displacement
Maslowska, Agata (2019) Homeland variations: a response to the anxieties of self-identification in the context of displacement. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
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My PhD thesis addresses the question of how multilingual and exophonic writers used 'other' languages to express distinct cultural and identity concerns. I argue that writers have used languages in their fiction to negotiate the new voice of a migrant/minority community with the dominant culture and to challenge the mainstream reader to find new ways of reading the migrant/minority experience. In the critical thesis I explore such themes as writing in exile, narrative fugues, rhizomatic writing as they weave into my writing poetics. I use the concepts of a musical fugue and a rhizome to explore the politics of identity and language in the context of migration and displacement. These concepts offer a new way of reading the migrant experience by reframing it as the polyphony of multiplicity rather than the monophony of difference. Through my essayistic exploration, the critical thesis becomes a commentary on the novel and my manifesto as an exophonic writer who has chosen English rather than Polish as the main literary language.
I have used the results of my research to write Homeland Variations, a novel merging the interweaving stories of various migrants (Jan, Janine, her parents, Małgosia, Uncle Jurek, Maria, and Sophie in Amsterdam) into one fugal narrative and exploring the questions of language, identity, and place. The novel consists of two parts: Jan's and Janine's stories which stand in a counterpoint relation to each other and exist independently, just like two melodies in a fugue, connected through themes, languages, a character Maria, and a place – Edinburgh where both stories end. The two stories stand independently also with regards to the narrative style, as Jan's narrative is surrealist, while Janine's is realist. Homeland Variations portrays the loss of the mother tongue, the loss of social environment, and all the connections that make us feel that we belong. Through the voices of migrating characters, it looks at interactions within linguistic landscapes, at the distance and separation from everything anyone who lives 'in exile' desires to call home.
In the novel I merge languages on the page to show the multiple, centri-fugal, rhizomatic nature of being a migrant and writing in a foreign language. My creative vision goes against the monolithic "one nation-one state-one language" approach to both writing and migration. Both the critical thesis and the novel are my attempts to find language to talk about language in the acceptance of our state of being unsettled.
Exophony, language, identity, displacement, migration.
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College of Arts > School of Critical Studies > English Literature
Strachan, Dr. Zoe and Herd, Dr. Colin
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Dr Agata Maslowska
glathesis:2019-72471
Thesis DOI:
10.5525/gla.thesis.72471
http://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/72471


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3 reasons why Sheffield Wednesday must win race for talented Leeds United target
Chris Gallagher
Sheffield Wednesday have endured a dismal season so far, and they face a real battle to stay in the Championship this season.
Boss Tony Pulis hasn't made the instant impact that he would've wanted, although he did pick up his first win as Owls boss against Coventry City last time out.
Despite the victory, the Yorkshire outfit are four points from safety, so the January window is going to be crucial to their survival hopes.
Providing Wednesday aren't hit with a transfer embargo due to recent unpaid wages, Pulis will hope to be busy. And, Wales Online have revealed the strugglers are one of several clubs interested in Leeds United's Sam Greenwood.
The striker is highly-rated at Elland Road, and he could be available for a loan move next month. Here we look at THREE reasons why Wednesday must do all they can to win the race for his signature…
Quiz: Did these 25 players make more or less than 100 Sheffield Wednesday appearances?
Did Lee Grant make more or less than 100 Owls appearances?
He's an exciting player
Firstly, and most importantly, Greenwood is a player who boasts a lot of quality.
He is a striker who scores goals for fun at youth level, but he can also link the play and run the channels. The obvious doubt surrounding the teenager is the fact he hasn't proven himself at this level, but he has the potential to be a clear upgrade on what Pulis has.
They need a striker
Additionally, Wednesday are desperate for a new option up top.
It's been clear in the past few weeks that the boss isn't keen on Jordan Rhodes, whilst the same goes for Elias Kachunga.
A new number nine has to be a priority, and Greenwood fits the bill.
He will be eager to prove himself
Finally, the Owls will be getting a player who will be keen to pull on the shirt, and someone who will give his all during his time at the club.
Even though he isn't contracted to Wednesday, this would be Greenwood's big opportunity to impress. So, he will want to take the chance to show his ability by scoring goals in the Championship.
Related Topics:Sam GreenwoodSheffield WednesdaySky Bet Championship
Article title: 3 reasons why Sheffield Wednesday must win race for talented Leeds United target


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Александра Младеновић (Житорађа, 2. јун 1994) српска је поп-фолк певачица која је средином 2010-их постала популарна захваљујући Звездама Гранда.

Биографија
Године 2005. се први пут пријавила за такмичење Звезде Гранда. У сезони 2015/16 поново је учествовала у овом музичком шоу програму. Стигла је до суперфинала и најбоље се пласирала од женских извођача. 2016. године је снимила своју прву песму чији је назив Мој си нек' си најгори. Идуће године избацује сингл Љубав или лудило за Гранд продукцију с којом остварује велики успех, а потом сарађује са МС Стојаном, са којим је снимила песму Чекај, чекај. Године 2018. објавила је песме Нема љубави да није болела и Само ми судите поштено које ће се наћи на новом албуму.

Дискографија

Синглови
 Мој си нек' си најгори (2016)
 Љубав или лудило (2017)
 Чекај, чекај (дует са МС Стојаном) (2017)
 Нема љубави да није болела (2018)
 Само ми судите поштено (2018)
 Јача сам од тебе (2018)
 Посебан (2019)

Видеографија

Референце

Рођени 1994.
Житорађани
Српске певачице
Поп-фолк певачи
Српски гласовни глумци
Учесници такмичења Звезде Гранда

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These apartments probably offer the best option to enjoy two distinct lifestyles on a year round basis.
The town of Amantea effectively consists of the old village with its cobbled streets, bars and small local shops which perches on a hill overlooking the sea. Its younger cousin on the waterfront boasts a bustling and eclectic mix of restaurants and shops, which is swelled in the summer months by visitors from all over Europe.
This pretty town certainly has something for everyone with sandy beaches, a marina and the promenade in the summer months with ski-ing in the mountains only an hour or so drive away in the winter. Being a short way distance from Lamezia Airport, it is certainly a destination which can be reached for a weekend.
The Apartments are ideally situated only a short walk to the beach and again steps from shops offering fresh produce, and of course that Italian must have favorite the famous ice cream.


In 2012 an employee at South London Healthcare Trust in the U.K. lost an unencrypted USB drive containing sensitive information from several hundred patients. He had taken the memory stick out of the office to work from home. In an online post, the chief executive officer of the company said the incident occurred because the employee wasn't adequately trained on data security and compliance policies.
The fact the information was decoded is concerning but what's even more worrisome is that the executive knew the employee lacked training.
Workplaces are still struggling with a lack of security awareness and business information security, according to recent findings by Beazley, a breach response insurance company. After analyzing more than 1,500 data breaches that occurred in 2013 and 2014, it found that the two most common sources of data breaches were 'unintended disclosures' such as misdirected emails and faxes (31%) and the 'physical loss of paper records' (24%).
Furthermore, the 2014 Ponemon Cost of Data Breach Study showed that almost one third of data breach incidents are caused by negligent employees or contractors.
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Compliance and governance regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, mandate security awareness training too.
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Regular – not one-time – training ensures that employees stay on top of data security best practices. Shred-it's 4th Annual Security Tracker showed that in the U.S. only 46% of organizations hold regular training sessions with 15% of C-Suite executives reporting that employees are never trained. A majority of small businesses in both Canada and the U.S. say they either don't train their employees or they do so only on an ad hock basis.
Training must address risky work habits. Losing laptops and other mobile devices is common, according to The Human Factor in Data Protection survey; so is mishandling data, sharing and reusing passwords, and handling unencrypted sensitive data.
Implement business information security policies and procedures that support security awareness in the workplace. For example, a Clean Desk Policy is recommended; also partner with a paper shredding services provider and replace recycling bins with locked storage consoles. Introduce a shred-all policy so that all information that is no longer needed is securely destroyed.
At the end of the day, the goal is to make employees a security asset. These practical security tips will help get employees to commit to information security in the workplace.


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Aleksander Rei (24 January 1900 Uuemõisa Parish, Saare County – 6 November 1943 Usollag, Perm Oblast) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of the Estonian National Assembly and VI Riigikogu (its Chamber of Deputies).

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1900 births
1943 deaths
Members of the Estonian National Assembly
Members of the Riigivolikogu
Farmers' Assemblies politicians
Estonian people who died in Soviet detention
Mayors of places in Estonia
People from Saaremaa Parish