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Bloke, teach me how to flounce and pronto... I've no bloomin' hope if leggy here gets in on the act!
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My here & now with hubby, and stubbornly vanilla lover is far more rewarding than pretty much anything else I've ever experienced.
Good thread :thumbup:
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I feel sad.....kind of a failure TBH.......I cant explain it in a coherent way, so I will just babble away for a wee while if I may........
Although swinging hasnt been a raging success for us, I/we have had some really good times, and some very horny times. We've definately had a hell of a lot of new experiences, having been totally monogamous since we met aged 14 & 15.
I personally have made a lot of good friends on here both real life ones and cyber ones, which I value a hell of a lot.....some of those lasted.....some petered out for one reason or another.
I dont know weather its because I am pregnant and/or because of hormone fluctuations, but Ive gone off sex, and thinking back on low days I do feel kind of dirty and cheap for doing what I have done....hence the reason for feeling like a failed swinger.
I so wanted it to be a regular thing we could enjoy for years to come, and for the most part I am sorry that its all fizzled out.....like I say, maybe its hormonal/tiredness/baby related and will all come back and soon we will be back raring to go.
One of the reasons I dont wanna go completely is cos of the people ive made friends with, I'd hate to lose that completely and I feel that they wouldnt continue into real life if I was to leave altogether.
what can I say Im a hormonal and soppy pisces who needs a damn good kick up the arse!! :kick:
yours.....dabbler but wannabe lifer, cheshire xxx
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Firstly, there's a lot more fossil fuel than you think, when an oil well is "dry", there is still around 50% of it left, just that it's not profitable to extract with current methods.
Then there are the vast as yet untapped reserves in polar regions, under the ocean, locked in shale etc etc.
Having said that, I've been concerned about burning fossil fuel since my early teens, it's profligate and polluting.
Electricity is only as clean/green as the method used to produce it, however, long term I feel we will switch to electric cars as an electric motor is around 80% efficient as opposed to the 25% or so for the internal combustion engine. Recent developments in battery technology mean that in 5 to 10 years we should be able to produce an electric vehicle with a range of about 200 miles which can be re-charged in around 5 minutes.
Hydrogen fuel cells require hydrogen (obviously), which using current production methods consumes more fossil fuel in its production than existing petrol engines use, though by pumping steam into coal seams (ie, without having to mine it), the carbon stays where it is, and the yield is higher. This approach is just starting to be trialled.
Atomic fission - which is what current power stations and atom bombs use, has an extremely high energy yield, but leaves a scary legacy of long half life radioactive waste.
I first came across atomic fusion about 30 years ago, and it was touted as the great hope for endless energy, but it seems that we are still a few years away (and has been for the last 30 years), though there have been advances in recent years (fusion generates no long half life waste, in fact, the waste produced is more fuel and thus the process is self sustaining)
I don't buy the whole oil companies stopping technology breakthroughs coming to market thing. Sure, they buy up patents, sure they probably sit on stuff, but if someone really has cracked the electrolysis of water with less energy than burning the resultant hydrogen and oxygen would yield (ie, giving a net energy gain), then you can bet your arse, someone else would have figured it out too and you can't patent scientific principles, only applications thereof - I could design a car that runs on water, but you'd need a power source to electrolyse the water - therein lies the rub.
It occurs to me that the biggest single source of untapped energy available to the planet is geothermal. If you imagine the earth as an apple, the solid bit we live on is only as thick as an apple peel, the rest is semi-solid molten rock (SiAl, SiMa) under intense pressure at zillions of degrees centigrade. It only takes a few degrees of temperature difference to create a water based heat pump which can produce electricity - all you need to do is drill a hole deep enough. Some parts of the apple peel (earth's crust) are thinner than others, in fact the whole crust is fractured in places (tectonic plate boundaries), which is where we get volcanoes. In these places you don't have to drill so deep.
As with all things, it's commerce (ie profit) that drives everything, and thus, sadly, I suspect we won't actually do that much about it until it becomes unprofitable to produce energy by existing methods.
For what it's worth, my cars run on LPG, which is considered a waste product of oil extraction, so the rest of you running on diesel and petrol are driving the production of my fuel
I'd like to say I do it for environmental reasons, but in truth it's the 40p a litre that's the main reason
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my little boy on his 6th birthday, carefully following a diagram on his lego, to complete his chosen vehicle....he looked so studious and so much older than 6!
Kff30
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getting over a hundred texts and 5 phone calls from a very very special lady who i will get to hold tomorrow when i see her
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OOh- this I know a bit about. It used to be part of my "spiel" when we were sailing past & needed to entertain the passengers.
Take a look here:
Really quite interesting if you're a nerd. My favorite bit though when we sailed that area was telling people what would happen to them if the SS Montgomery went boom. Talk about a ticking time bomb...:scared: