Road Congestion Charges

So there is talk of having a toll on UK roads to ease congestion.
What a load of bull.

Initially there will be a reduction until wages are ajusted to cover the toll charges.

Food prices and other goods will rise and make the poorer members of the UK population worse off, since transport costs will rise.

Constructive criticism is offering advice that is considered to be beneficial when being critical. No good saying that is crap without offering an alternative.

The conjestion (search engine spelling mistake)is caused by the volume of traffic using a particular stretch of road. However if you look at a section of a motorway then this cannot be true since the volume of traffic can and does excede that of other types of roads unless influenced by external factors like roadworks accidents or cars wanting to exit the motorway.

Cars exiting the motorway, why are they responsible for holding up traffic flow on the motorway?

Where there is a large volume of traffic wishing to leave the motorway the design of UK roads is such that there is insufficient throughout using conventional roundabouts. Traffic wishing to leave the motorway are forced to wait at the end of the motorway until traffic that may or not being going in their direction clears.

If the traffic that wished to turn left had a bypass and joined to the main carriageway later then these would only be delayed by having to merge with traffic on the road.

If traffic on the carriageway of the road crossing the motorway could fly over or under the roundabout then the only traffic that would now cause a delay to the traffic coming off the motorway would be those wishing to make a right turn.

In conclusion to the first part, roundabouts need to make such that traffic using them is traffic wishing to make a right turn.

Where is the money coming from?

If we assume for one moment that all persons using a road are paid £6.00 an hour then every lost minute is a loss to the country of 10p. Not a lot until you calculate how many cars and lorries can be delayed in a traffic jam of 10 miles.

Green gasses are another issue that would also be reduced. If you have a mpg indicator in your car, travel at 70 on the motorway and note on the level the reading. Mine did 38 to 48 mpg. Now check your average over a couple of months, mine read 32mpg. The difference is due to the constant stop start or slowing and accelerating that the design of UK roads creates. If the roads allowed for a constant speed over longer distances the green house gasses would be reduced.

Roundabouts are one of the obstacles to a constant speed, irrespective of the time of day and thus the volume of traffic.

Dating -- Why are there so many single people

In my life it seems that there are many people, both male and female that are not paired up. Yes, some are single but many would love to be in a relationship.
Some of those that stated they had no interest in having a relationship do in fact want to have one. This is because when cupid calls they open the door to love.

Why is it that there is so much difficulties in finding love.

Do we expect that we will find the perfect partner for us?

Are we looking for the impossible?

Pull The Boys aimed at women to help find a man to have a relationship with

Pull The Girls is aimed at men to try and get notches on their belts. However what many of us men do not know is there is a yearning deep withing to find love and if sex is a motivator then let it be the reason they go out on the prowl.

Well let us face it, how men would be willing to say they are going out to look for a wife.
Ask if he is going out to get into bed with a women and I bet he will say either yes, or maybe?

CF Bulbs and statistics (or Lies?)

Compact fluorescents are supposed to save the planet and save us loads of money.

A typical 20W CF lamp consumes only 20% of the power for the same light output as a 100W incandescent bulb. In theory this would mean that your running cost is a fifth of the cost.

Now take the time your light is turned on in a room in your house. If the heating is turned on then the 20W of heat generated by the lamp is added to the heat output of the primary heating source. Since the room is generally controlled by a thermostat then this 20W lamp will reduce the amount of time the primary heat source operates. Now if we have a 100W lamp in the same circumstances then the primary heating source operates even less.

My theory is that there is no difference to your energy costs when you have the heating turned on and are using CF or incandescent lights.

Money Saving with Vinegar

I have been busy putting some money saving ideas involving the use of vinegar on my gardening database forum. There are a lot of uses for common household items and I hope to be adding to these soon. Also if others do too all the better.
I like the one for keeping the windscreen smear free in the rain simply by wiping the blade with vinegar.

Joss Stone is off men

PR Inside says Joss Stone is off men since her break up with BEAU DOZIER. I think she should not be too hasty about men just learn from the experience. Men are not women and think and act different that is what she should be learning. She needs to accept men for what they are.
She should tell others of her woes at the Dating forum For Women

Boiler TDS and RO Calculator

So you have a steam boiler with automatic control of TDS to maintain the level. Just what savings could be made a reverse osmosis unit.

Well to help I have created an online calculator that will work out the blow-down rate provided that the average steam flow, feed-water TDS, and the maximum allowable TDS of the boiler are all known. It will also work out how much this loss will amount to in a year given 50 weeks 5 days production of 24 hour operation.

It will further go to show loss achieved using RO and thus the potential savings.

Not sure if an EDI unit applied to the permeate of the reverse osmosis is feasible but also added a calculation just in case.

I calculated a saving where borehole is used for a 15 Tonne steam feed of £402768 based upon a tonne of steam costing £24 to generate.

Anyone wishing to work leaner and those involved in TPM that use a steam boiler should look at Reverse Osmosis Savings

Boiler TDS and RO Calculator

So you have a steam boiler with automatic control of TDS to maintain the level. Just what savings could be made a reverse osmosis unit.

Well to help I have created an online calculator that will work out the blowdown rate provided that the average steam flow, feedwater TDS, and the maximum allowable TDS of the boiler are all known. It will also work out how much this loss will amount to in a year given 50 weeks 5 days production of 24 hour operation.

It will further go to show loss acheived using RO and thus the potential savings.

Not sure if an EDI unit applied to the premeate of the reverse osmosis is feasible but also added a calculation just in case.

I calculated a saving where borehole is used for a 15 Tonne steam feed of £402768 based upon a tonne of steam costing £24 to generate.

Anyone wishing to work leaner and those involved in TPM that use a steam boiler should look at Reverse Osmosis Savings

Water companies, water shortage, RO, Wind Power

I always seem to come up with some weird concepts so here is one, note the date for reference in case it gets used.

I was chatting to a Reverse Osmosis engineer and it came to me that the droughts of last year could be avoided by the water companies around the Kent area of the UK.
If large reverse Osmosis plants were to be installed along with wind generators then during the times of strong winds the RO plant could be used to extract potable/drinking water from the Thames or other rivers in the area.
Apart from the initial installation charges the running costs would be cheap since the power is generated with the wind.
There is also another benefit to the electricity supply companies in that they will not need to increase or decrease the supply based upon the wind. This is one of the concerns of the increasing usage and dependence of wind power in that it is not available 24/7.

There are also several other ideas forming that have been sparked by balancing wind power and conventional electricity supply.