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My brother has just bought a house in france, in the alps. It's in a small hamlet of four or five houses and in the middle of the place is a little concrete bunker type of thing. Apparently, it's a cap over some kind of fault line in the rock, through which gas constantly escapes under pressure. The gas is not trapped or burned, but is used to spin a turbine and generates enough power that all the houses in the hamlet have free electric central heating.
This sounds genius. Why have I never heard of this before? What kind of gas would it be? I assume it's not flammable, as burning it would surely be more efficient than turning a propeller in a tube... -
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If anyone is doing the Box Hill Knacker Cracker 10k on New Year's day this year, I can offer a lift as I have been stupid enough to enter myself.
Maybe next year, it's sold out. I have to do it to complete my t-shirt collection though.
Nothing like a jolly old sing-song before a run!Good luck. Are you doing fancy dress?
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My next door neighbours.
I've just had to get out of bed and and go into the garden to tell them to shut the fuck up (I used those actual words), because they thought 11:40 on Christmas eve was a good time to demonstrate their new exhaust on their KTM Duke.
I love a loud exhaust myself, but jesus christ, it's the middle of the bloody night, and the bike is in a shed about four feet from my bedroom window.


http://www.goodrunguide.co.uk/ is very good, I used to use it all the time until I got my Garmin.
http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/ is really good for advice and for training plans.