Fidel Castro wrote:Why the fuck are the Falklands so important to us anyway? Hand it to the Argies for all I care
Mikhail Chigorin wrote:Is it me, or does anyone else have any concerns with the developing situation in Argentina, together with the possible footballing repercussions for City ??
Mikhail Chigorin wrote:
Moreover, the Argentinians will have been taking a close interest in our Government's continuing defence cuts, no doubt gleefully noting that we now have no aircraft carriers left and that the remnants of our army not being killed in Afghanistan, will be needed to police the 2012 Olympics.
To my mind, it's a racing certainty that, at some point in the not too distant future, they're going to try a (this time successful) repeat of their 1982 South Atlantic adventure, safe in the knowledge that we no longer possess the military capacity to do anything/much about it.
Mikhail Chigorin wrote:
Such an action would result in political humiliation for our shambolic Coalition Government and, whilst I'm not averse to a bit of political humiliation being handed out to this inept bunch of retards
Mikhail Chigorin wrote:
I wonder if our owners are monitoring such developments and might be considering lining up another expensive attacking purchase to add to the squad and, if necessary, replace Aguero, if ever the situation required it ??
Mikhail Chigorin wrote:.
My question is this; how would it affect two very important players in the squad ?? Would they stay here and continue to fight for the team, or disappear back to their own country ?? If they stayed, how would their form be affected in the hostile climate they would have to face ??....and what would be the aggravated backlash of animosity directed against City be like, simply because we continued to employ and play them ??
Dameerto wrote:Fidel Castro wrote:Why the fuck are the Falklands so important to us anyway? Hand it to the Argies for all I care
They've just discovered new oil reserves within Falklands territorial waters. The sooner we all switch to solar/fart/bio diesel the better.
CityFanFromRome wrote:Dameerto wrote:Fidel Castro wrote:Why the fuck are the Falklands so important to us anyway? Hand it to the Argies for all I care
They've just discovered new oil reserves within Falklands territorial waters. The sooner we all switch to solar/fart/bio diesel the better.
Sorry to step in on this, but imho solar/wind and other kind of "green" energies are not reliable for mass use. You can't know when there will be enough sun, or enough wind, to produce the needed electrical power. Imho the answer is in Hydrogen fuel cells. You can use solar/wind/etc. as a mean to produce hydrogen and then exploit its much richer energetical content to produce electricity for cities, factories, and the likes.
This said, back on topic I hope that Argentina has something more important to think about than a war for the Falklands. But even in the event that they conquer those islands, I don't think the Argentinians on the pitch would be abused too much. As someone said, it could be considered racist chanting and lead to opposing teams being deducted points or something like that. It would be silly of fans to damage their own team that way imho.
Socrates wrote:Sun doesn't have to be out for solar to work. Needs an international grid to make it work on a big enough scale. Would give some much needed wealth to sunny African countries so I guess that could never be allowed to happen.
Dameerto wrote:I vaguely remember half watching something where a car was being powered by human shit. No idea how many miles to the turd though.
CityFanFromRome wrote:Socrates wrote:Sun doesn't have to be out for solar to work. Needs an international grid to make it work on a big enough scale. Would give some much needed wealth to sunny African countries so I guess that could never be allowed to happen.
True, but during summer solar works best because of two reasons, one is the better weather providing more sun rays hitting the solar panels which produce electricity, and the other one is that during summer there's a more favourable angle for the sun rays to hit the panels, and this leads to a bigger percentage of solar power being exploited.
Of course, these factors would be far less important in Africa because of their proximity to the equator and the fact that weather is generally much drier there, so I guess Africa would be an ideal place to put the panels. Another problem is the quantity of panels needed tho; they would occupy huge areas (there's a formula to calculate the area needed to produce the desired power) and it's not the prettiest thing to see, not much better than the present power plants.
But I guess we are going a bit off topic here ;)
Dameerto wrote:Speaking of solar - there was an item on TV the other day about an experimental self sufficient town in development in Abu Dhabi, called Masdar. Amongst many other things they have a solar panel electricity generating station providing a surplus, and a prototype one-of-a-kind strange dish thing suspended on a huge tripod where sun light is reflected from panels on the ground up to the dish, then from the dish down to a water filled turbine to provide steam powered energy. All very interesting.
A quick google found they have their own website: http://www.masdarcity.ae/en/
Dameerto wrote:Speaking of solar - there was an item on TV the other day about an experimental self sufficient town in development in Abu Dhabi, called Masdar. Amongst many other things they have a solar panel electricity generating station providing a surplus, and a prototype one-of-a-kind strange dish thing suspended on a huge tripod where sun light is reflected from panels on the ground up to the dish, then from the dish down to a water filled turbine to provide steam powered energy. All very interesting.
A quick google found they have their own website: http://www.masdarcity.ae/en/
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