29/01/2007 by peter.

if you look at Scotland’s power generation facilities (Power stations in Scotland) you will see that usually we have Torness and Hunterston B for nuke and Longannet and Cockenzie for coal power. However since Hunterston B (along with Hinkley B) has been shut down due to the possibility of boiler tube failure (HSE) and the coal conveyor at Longannet has collapsed and will take until mid February to be repaired while they hope they will get a licence to run it on gas in the mean time it not a good situation to be in. Another factor to consider is that the black start facility for Scotland is Cruachan hydro plant which recently had serious problems with it’s generators after they were reconditioned.

All i can say is that i hope it doesn’t snow!!!

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28/01/2007 by peter.

I have been playing with celtx  recently and have just finished the first script using it. Called “Three Men (and a Woman) in a Room” Now all I have to do is film it. Any one interested in helping, let me know. Main problem is the requirement for 3 actors and an actress and as all my friends are engineers I don’t know any.

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28/01/2007 by peter.

Many aeons ago in the early 90’s when AOL and Copuserve battled for control of the internet I was faced with finding a new screen name that didn’t have numbers in. I found “binraker” was not accounted for and no one in their right mind was likely to use it. so from then on I have used it as my on-line alias. Recently I posted an article on the Elektor forum about their milling machine kit and they put one my posts in the letters section of the magazine under the name Binraker. Who would have thought that the ridiculous name I chose to get a unique AOL address would end up in a well respected publication? It just makes me chuckle!