Powerhouse Central.

[Gramaisc]

Is this real - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-26562757 ?

20,000 jobs in Staffordshire? Electricity from water from disused mines?

 

[Sir BoD]

Is this real - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-26562757 ?

20,000 jobs in Staffordshire? Electricity from water from disused mines?

"A statement from the partnership said 9,000 job-seekers would receive training to get them back in to work.
About 3,900 apprenticeships and 1,100 traineeships aimed at 16 to 23-year-olds would also be created, it said."

So that's around 14,000 whom will be paid peanuts or nothing at all. So what about the remaining 6,000?

Answers on a local forum website to.....

 

[Gramaisc]

Answers on a local forum website to.....

It sounds like a scam to me - am I missing something?

 

[John Marwood]

Cameron walks on water Staffordshire councillors turn it into wine

Simples

City Sentral, Powerhouse, Smithfield, Staffordshire Place - The Ministry of Truth

Two kegs bad, four kegs good

Mind the Gap

Behind your back

One potato, two potato, three potato, four

 

[tek-monkey]

Cameron walks on water Staffordshire councillors turn it into wine

Simples

City Sentral, Powerhouse, Smithfield, Staffordshire Place - The Ministry of Truth

Two kegs bad, four kegs good

Mind the Gap

Behind your back

One potato, two potato, three potato, four

Have you ever considered running for parliament?

 

[tek-monkey]

"A statement from the partnership said 9,000 job-seekers would receive training to get them back in to work.
About 3,900 apprenticeships and 1,100 traineeships aimed at 16 to 23-year-olds would also be created, it said."

So that's around 14,000 whom will be paid peanuts or nothing at all. So what about the remaining 6,000?

Answers on a local forum website to.....

Well actually the 10,000 only get training, not a job. And I'm not sure a traineeship is a job either? So what we're really asking is what about the remaining 16,100? Although a 80/20 bullshit to truth ratio is about right when looking at data from a government source.

 

[Gramaisc]

Well actually the 10,000 only get training, not a job. And I'm not sure a traineeship is a job either?

They will not be in receipt of Job Seeker's Allowance, therefore it's a job - in the government's view of reality.

 

[Bob]

The answer is in small local businesses up and down the country, the Government need to give incentives to create more jobs and an investment into a company that will then employ 1,2 or 10 additional people surely is the way to go.

 

[Gramaisc]

I'm still intrigued by the "electricity from waste water". Any ideas?

 

[John Marwood]

Have you ever considered running for parliament?

Yes

 

[Withnail]

I'm still intrigued by the "electricity from waste water". Any ideas?

The link within the link ^ -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-18578223
- talks of using the heat of the underground water to heat buildings.

Initially the idea is to extract the hot water from the mines and use it to heat buildings in Stoke-on-Trent's business district. But if all goes well then the aim will be to expand the project and use this water to heat other areas of the city including homes. If you can make the water a little bit hotter, say 60C, then you can actually use the temperature difference to generate power.

 

[John Marwood]

Stoke on Trent has no business district just a building site for a second civic centre and a loan for £43million to build it

 

[Withnail]

This technology allows the use of much lower temperature resources than were previously recoverable. In 2006, a binary cycle plant in Chena Hot Springs, Alaska, came on-line, producing electricity from a record low fluid temperature of 57°C (135°F).


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_cycle_power_plant

 

[Gramaisc]

Mmmm, boiling butane.....

 

[Withnail]

Mmmm, boiling butane.....

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Gramaisc]

What could possibly go wrong?

Doesn't matter, it'll be mostly trainees about, I should imagine..

 

[John Marwood]

Every local politician imagines himself to be more intelligent than the one that went before him, and wiser than the one that comes after him

 

[Withnail]

If you can make the water a little bit hotter, say 60C, then you can actually use the temperature difference to generate power.

Owners of low-temperature geothermal resources are often interested in the possibility of generating
electricity with their resource. This is a natural question given the fact that electricity has been commercially
produced from geothermal since 1960 in the U.S. and even earlier in other countries. Although large
commercial geothermal power generation is an established industry, the potential for it’s successful
implementation on a small scale (less than100 kW) is less clear for several reasons: ...

Successful applications in the U.S. are characterized by resource
temperatures of greater than 220oF, plant sizes of greater than 0.5MW (500 kW) and sales to a utility (as
distinct from generation for on site use). The application of this technology to lower resource temperatures
or in very small plant sizes, absent unusual considerations, while technically feasible, is unlikely to be a wise
economical choice for the owner.

Mr Styles, who suggested the idea to the council, also said the North Staffordshire coal field was one of the hottest and could get up to 43C (109F) in some places.

http://geoheat.oit.edu/pdf/powergen.pdf

 

[John Marwood]

Is this the one with James Mason and Pat Boone?