(for the North end of the infamous Park & ride busway system) ...cheaper to drive your EV into Cambridge
There are numerous park & ride car parks in & around cambridge, all need to proactively adopt this strategm.
The mostly empty field of tarmac finally gets solar renovation in Jan 2022
More of this as part of the pre-requisite for Supermarket planning permissions please
(this is another test bed for roll out elsewhere after it has proved itself to council & government, ..another too little WAY to late by the time they've got the results in)
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We /they are still fiddling while Rome burns. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57988023 makes it clear that the scientists think we are already past the point of no return - and the report was only written based on data up to last year. Not even taking into account this year's catastrophes.
A while ago there seemed to be a recognition dawning that unless we put the economy on something like a war footing - with second world-war or 1950s restrictions and limits on consumption levels - we have lost.
We need stuff like motor fuel - including electricity - rationed (credits given to everyone with unused quota saleable, like the mik quota was,) a drastic re-organisation of transport and distribution so that public transport replaces lots of private vehicles, one centralised parcels network to replace the dozens of courier vans currently duplicating each other, massive investment in housing (replacements and energy efficiency upgrades.)
If we are to survive (and avoid more appalling costs, as in Germany etc. at the moment) then we have to face up to a massive change in our lifestyles.
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2.0 kW/4.62 MWh pa in Ripples, 4.5 kWp W-facing pv, 9.5 kWh batt
30 solar thermal tubes, 2MWh pa in Stockport, plus Congleton and Kinlochbervie Hydros,
Most travel by bike, walking or bus/train. Veg, fruit - and Bees!
Yup, I think the majority of us here & the elsewhere place are all in agreement that it is now WAY too late, if the 2015 migration to Europe was /IS a problem, we aint seen anything yet.
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Trouble is, whilst population growth is frightening, the key issue has to be resource consumption - population growth is highest in the third world where resource consumption is, generally per capita, lowest.
Surely our first world habits have a lot to address - whilst still facing the issue of poverty, or maybe the imbalance of wealth, that drives so much of the ‘economic migration’. Surely we’re all potentially, to a degree, financial migrants ? I’ve moved around the place for a ‘better job’, as I’m sure many have.
No comparison to wanting to achieve a basic lifestyle.
Unfortunately, I can’t see our current comedians, whoops, government, taking any form of drastic action. Or even, any other future government.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti migration, but the stresses from 2015 wave migration are still painful, borne by europe daily ever since & the wave keeps coming (as a trickle by comparison).
I'm trying to point out that we are not prepared, not for a drop in our carbon lifestyle, not to limit our childbirth rates to a sustainable level, not to house, not to feed & many other elements, if we cannot do it in 6 years, we simply will not be able to deal with catastrophe level migration, whatever views go with it.
The procrastination of "we'll need 5 more years to absorb the obvious data before we consider another project" is galling as to stabilising & hopefully clawing back on temperature acceleration craziness.
It's as if they (govt) think they can just extend the timeline without consequence.
Govt.
It's solar
It produces renewable solar energy
You already worked out the likely minimum the site has to over per annum, so really you have the results, if not look elsewhere at similar sized solar projects within the region.
It will very likely exceed lifetime design length significantly
Old panels can be re-used / sold on / recycled
it shades nasty hotspot tarmac
It helps cool the immediate environment
& lastly, it offers more weather protection than we've been afforded on that site waiting for buses than in the past 10? years, encouraging uptake of the overpriced over-budget busway
NB this busway simply encouraged mass house building on productive green field land, cancelling out any good in the low carbon "DIEsel" fuelled transportation area because of perceived "access" to the city.
(oh & the "need" for yet another train station in cambridge)
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Mr Gus wrote: ↑Thu Jul 29, 2021 7:52 pm
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti migration, but the stresses from 2015 wave migration are still painful, borne by europe daily ever since & the wave keeps coming (as a trickle by comparison).
I'm trying to point out that we are not prepared, not for a drop in our carbon lifestyle, not to limit our childbirth rates to a sustainable level, not to house, not to feed & many other elements, if we cannot do it in 6 years, we simply will not be able to deal with catastrophe level migration, whatever views go with it.
The procrastination of "we'll need 5 more years to absorb the obvious data before we consider another project" is galling as to stabilising & hopefully clawing back on temperature acceleration craziness.
It's as if they (govt) think they can just extend the timeline without consequence.
I agree Gus. We’re all probably doing a lot to mitigate our environmental impact, but it’s, unfortunately, p’ing in the wind.
Unless there is massive societal change, which can probably only be achieved by an inter-governmental, coordinated policy change NOW, we might as well carry on p’ing it up the wall.
An update to progress, we were passing St ives(hunting down a couple of specific product necessitating me to run into numerous shops whilst wife sat in car,..reason being I'm less likely to spend 1/2 hour & £30 on other stuff whilst looking for a fivers worth of something we actually came out for!
So, in twighlights last gleaming we took an additional turn from morrisons to the park & ride which I had not seensince last summer when workwas supposedly going on.
The poster stating " completion in quarter 3 of 2022 was faded & had slipped..
The barriers are still up, barring use as parking space, which means it is not yet powered up in late march 2023 (ffs)
It is "lovely" to see the protection offered to parked cars with little thought of extending another row of solar canopy to offer dry area for passengers & cycle storage which are still about as much use as the locked toilets!
I jumped onto a dwarf wall to take some wobbly shots with wifes iphone, will try & post images shortly
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1906 ripplewatts @wind Turb-ine-erry
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Leaf 24
Celotex type insulation stuffed most places
Skip diver to the gentry
Austroflamm WBS
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Still not hooked up & could have been MUCH bigger!
1906 ripplewatts @wind Turb-ine-erry
It's the wifes Tesla 3 (she lets me wash it)
Leaf 24
Celotex type insulation stuffed most places
Skip diver to the gentry
Austroflamm WBS
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