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    power cuts?

    mmm thought id get an earlyish night last night, so was having a shower at about 11.30, the lights went out, the shower died.. and i just thought 'oh bugger'.. bout 10/15 seconds later the power came back, which meant i could wash the shampoo out of my eyes etc, and go about putting all the clocks in the house right...

    voila, all done, off to bed... guess what.. yes, another powercut, just long enough to turn off all the clocks again *sigh* anyone else have the joys of living in a field in the middle of nowhere?

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    A few weeks ago we had about 2 powercuts a day for about a week. Now that was a pain...

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    We had the power almost die on us last night, lights when really dim, but just enough to keep all the clocks going. happened twice.

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    You been playing with the light switches too much street?

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    my secret is out hmm its looking the same kinda weather as it did last night, power may die again...

    did a bit of a stupid this morning also.. turned my comp on, wondered why i couldnt sign into msn... realised i hadnt turned the server comp back on, foolish mark!

    could do with a fat UPS thing for our whole house i feel

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    I would need a massive one for the 6+ pcs here. They seem to be coming down in price tho

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    I've got no power to all at home at the present time to anywhere outside the kitchen as we're installing central heating and while we're at it I'm rewiring all the sockets etc as they are in a terrible state ( old wire etc )

    But, over the last week or two, I've noticed we've been having a lot of surges and spikes with one night being so bad I turned the living room light off as the light was similar to a strobe.

    Its the beginning of the end folks

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    Strangely enough these power cuts were predicted a while back, there were a number of them in the USA last year as well, as a precursor to higher prices for energy and privatisation of the industry, same was predicted for the UK, interesting.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blub2k
    Strangely enough these power cuts were predicted a while back, there were a number of them in the USA last year as well, as a precursor to higher prices for energy and privatisation of the industry, same was predicted for the UK, interesting.
    Yeah I seen that documentary type program on TV a while back. Very interesting views by the scientists on there and we do need to find a new power source than Gas/Oil as they shown that the UK could be brought to a standstill and go back to the dark days by terrorists attacking 1 gas pipe coming from Russia to the UK.

    Scary thoughts indeed in this day and age.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WildmonkeyUK
    Yeah I seen that documentary type program on TV a while back. Very interesting views by the scientists on there and we do need to find a new power source than Gas/Oil as they shown that the UK could be brought to a standstill and go back to the dark days by terrorists attacking 1 gas pipe coming from Russia to the UK.

    Scary thoughts indeed in this day and age.
    We have found a new power source other than gas/oil.

    It's clean.

    In plentiful supply.

    Unfortunately the hippies don't like it.

    And the Russians weren't very good with it.

    You guessed what it is yet??

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    Nuclear technology is only clean until it breaks out of its containment and seeing how it corrodes everything that it is stored in eventually you could not exactly call it clean.
    Why is BNFL using a bogus environmental group to block windmills? This should be the way forward were it not for permanent misinformed objections to them, now wind power is a clean source of power.
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    just when i thought i was safe to sit around and enjoy the electricity, it goes and disappears for about an hour *sigh*...

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    Can any one answer one thing that has been puzzling me.

    Why do land line telephones stay on when there is a power cut?
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    Because they recieve they're power through the phone lines as they don't need much iirc

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    Quote Originally Posted by Knoxville
    Because they recieve they're power through the phone lines as they don't need much iirc
    GENIUS!!!
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