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I paid this as the wording was so broad that it seemed almost impossible to not fall into their definition of data storage.
Up to you, 40 quid to never have to worry about it, which you can also write off as an expense. I always treat these things like tax, what ever savings you can make are dwarfed by the penalties if you get it wrong so better to err on the side of caution.
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Making coffee this morning, all throughout the brew I was thinking 'it looks funny today, never seen the grounds dissappear into the clever dripper like that before.'
My wife's away and it turns out I'd managed to grind coffee for one but put in water for two. Tried it, turns out homeopathic coffee isn't for me.
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What’s to stop me just continually buying Ardbeg 10?
Nothing.
is there anything similar/better in the Islay style? Or up to £60?
At ardbeg 10's price point there's not really much to touch it from a value for money stand point. I'd be looking at a laphroig 10 cask strength, bruichladdich port Charlotte 10 if you want to stay in the same world. Ledaig 10 or Longrow peated if you want to try a different peat offering to the islay style.
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Of course it was based on science.
The speed of the decommissioning was absolutely not based on science.
She even went against her own party's long-established position.
Yes, because she is a very good politician, she knew the tide was against her party and anti nuclear sentiment is high in Germany. It was a very smart political move in the moment, not so much in the slightly longer term.
The few short-term problems the transition caused will soon be forgotten. The long-term problems caused by nuclear power are absolutely immense and far outstrip any damage caused now by coal and gas.
Don't worry, we won't need to worry about the longer term problems when everyone is dead in couple of hundred years anyway.
All risks that exist for nuclear in Germany still exist now but the difference is they're not getting any of the energy benefits.
The transition to renewables can't happen without sorting the storage solution and we're nowhere near that, your desire for a reduction in energy consumption will only happen by making things more energy efficient.
You're the one who appears brainwashed, if every country with nuclear power plants did what Germany did it would be catastrophic.
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Er, are you still so German that you let an irrational fear of nuclear guide your decisions?
I'm not pro or anti nuclear, I'm pro the best energy sources to give people the best quality of life with the least harm done. Now there are many reasons not to build new nuclear plants, cost being a big one, but the decision to shut down Germany's nuclear plants so quickly was purely political and not based on science.
Wind farms and solar are great but don't come without environmental problems of their own, plus we still need to solve the storage problem. There are no easy fixes but ditching nuclear so quickly and increasing reliance on gas and coal was not it.
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Merkel, unimaginative and managerial, only really did two things that broke the mould--the exit from nuclear power (I assume that she, as a physicist, was one of very few politicians who would have had a proper understanding of the issues)
Yes, and she proved that she, like all politicians, are more than capable of going against what they know if it is politically advantageous.
No warning necessary.