CharlieT Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 do you have a well? Nothing so fancy. We have a spring at the top of the farm which flows down a gulley into a holding tank and then piped into the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wandringstar Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 Nothing so fancy. We have a spring at the top of the farm which flows down a gulley into a holding tank and then piped into the house. sounds great, how big is the tank, is the water drinkable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckandswing Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BNC61-OOPdA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKPoacher Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 Arnie will sort the computers out if they get to big for their boots My wife would be able to sort them out. She has a foolproof plan that involves unplugging them at the wall socket then plugging them back in . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKPoacher Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 sounds great, how big is the tank, is the water drinkable. I used to live in a cottage on a farm that had a similar system. After heavy rain the water in the house ran brown for days and we'd often get shrimps in the bathwater. The current house has a well with a 3 phase electric pump that we use for watering the garden. Whenever I fill the water tanks I take a look in and it is amazing what bugs and stuff are floating about in the less than appetising water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshAndy Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 nope , full on stinking piles of poo at the moment. roll on april then ill be back to my own job as a green waste collector. Boo green bins are easy.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wandringstar Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 I used to live in a cottage on a farm that had a similar system. After heavy rain the water in the house ran brown for days and we'd often get shrimps in the bathwater. The current house has a well with a 3 phase electric pump that we use for watering the garden. Whenever I fill the water tanks I take a look in and it is amazing what bugs and stuff are floating about in the less than appetising water. surely a modern system would have filtration and pumps? so presumably, there are no water charges? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKPoacher Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 surely a modern system would have filtration and pumps? so presumably, there are no water charges? The 'system' consisted of an underground concrete tank about 1 km from the farm. The pipe came down the hill and serviced a cattle barn, our cottage, the farmer's cottage and the owner's chateau in that order. Now there are another two houses on the system. No filters, no charges and no water in freezing temperatures. Not uncommon out in the sticks in France. We are on mains water now and the sewage charges are based on mains consumption. But if I turn a valve and press a button we are on well water and that is free and does not attract any sewage charges. Given that we use over 1,000 litres a week watering the garden in summer that is what we use. I've also got plans to use the well water in an open loop geo-thermal heating system in the future. There are two wells, we take water from the higher one and there is pipework in place to dump the used water in the lower well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buze Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 Egghead with absolutely zero knowledge of actual technology writes a 'paper' about technology. Always hilarious. Anyone hyping 3d printers is a laughing stock. I know, I'm an expert. The rest is pretty much also 'daily mail' grade. Even just 'life expectancy' -- that number is made up using the age people are dying *now*. People who are dying now at at ripe old age retired in the 80's, at ~60. They had a fantastic retirement, fantastic (non cutbacked) healthcare. They die at 85+, sometime having spent more than a good third of their life retired. Nowadays *we* will be expected to retire at 75, with a healthcare system that more or less hope you die quickly and quietly so no money has to be spent on you, cause you know, it costs a BOMB. Anyone dying while waiting for a consultant appointment is a HUGE saving. The result is that the 'life expectancy' age will /plumet/ in the next 10 years, it already has, I had quite a few mates in their 60's (or sometime less) dropping dead. The rest of the paper is just uninformed idiocy. Self driving car are *not* there, they will solve perhaps 80% of the driving around 'normal' roads, but there is a reason companies like Apple and Google *canned their self driven car projects* -- the problem of doing 80% of the job when driving a car is that the remaining 20% are nearly impossible to solve, there are just too many situations that you can't find 'training material' to teach your neural network with. The human brain uses *indirect* training to 'solve' these situations (not perfectly, but still). So you can have a 'driving assistant' but not a 'self driven car'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wandringstar Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 The 'system' consisted of an underground concrete tank about 1 km from the farm. The pipe came down the hill and serviced a cattle barn, our cottage, the farmer's cottage and the owner's chateau in that order. Now there are another two houses on the system. No filters, no charges and no water in freezing temperatures. Not uncommon out in the sticks in France. We are on mains water now and the sewage charges are based on mains consumption. But if I turn a valve and press a button we are on well water and that is free and does not attract any sewage charges. Given that we use over 1,000 litres a week watering the garden in summer that is what we use. I've also got plans to use the well water in an open loop geo-thermal heating system in the future. There are two wells, we take water from the higher one and there is pipework in place to dump the used water in the lower well. very interesting, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FatFreddysCat Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 Quite a frightening prospect. Especially as my hamlet has no mains water or gas, only got mains electricity 10 years ago, still has no mobile signal and broadband clocks at 1.5. Where are you? I wanna live there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 Boo green bins are easy.... thats what lightweight binmen always say . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshAndy Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 thats what lightweight binmen always say . Haha! I only help out on Saturdays or bank holidays so that must make me a lightweight... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mungler Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 (edited) Blockbuster, Yellow Pages and Kodak - all pretty obvious and that's not applying hindsight. I'm just amazed that estate agents are still going, let alone being on high streets. Doesn't buying and selling property now just spin round Rightmove? Edit: And so what's next? Any shop selling CDs. Cinemas. Newspapers? . Edited January 11, 2017 by Mungler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted January 11, 2017 Report Share Posted January 11, 2017 Haha! I only help out on Saturdays or bank holidays so that must make me a lightweight... Those are the best days to work , theirs always less to collect lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlieT Posted January 12, 2017 Report Share Posted January 12, 2017 The 'system' consisted of an underground concrete tank about 1 km from the farm. The pipe came down the hill and serviced a cattle barn, our cottage, the farmer's cottage and the owner's chateau in that order. Now there are another two houses on the system. No filters, no charges and no water in freezing temperatures. Not uncommon out in the sticks in France. Our current system is virtually the same as this without the chateau. I'm in the process of having a sediment and UV filter fitted to the house inlet, so we shouldn't, in the future, have any more shrimps, bugs and frogs in the domestic water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wandringstar Posted January 12, 2017 Report Share Posted January 12, 2017 Blockbuster, Yellow Pages and Kodak - all pretty obvious and that's not applying hindsight. I'm just amazed that estate agents are still going, let alone being on high streets. Doesn't buying and selling property now just spin round Rightmove? Edit: And so what's next? Any shop selling CDs. Cinemas. Newspapers? . do you think the physical yellow pages book will disappear one day? it gets thinner each year. I have a feeling it will hang on, maybe almost note pad size one day, I think they (hibu) make big money on it still, and its good for their own advertising, with its 'yellow' presence. I think if they did stop printing it, people would keep the very last one instead of binning it, and it would almost be free advertising for the final advertisers for donkeys years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKPoacher Posted January 12, 2017 Report Share Posted January 12, 2017 Our current system is virtually the same as this without the chateau. I'm in the process of having a sediment and UV filter fitted to the house inlet, so we shouldn't, in the future, have any more shrimps, bugs and frogs in the domestic water. What about catfish? As well as the houses and chateau I listed I'd forgotten about the Latvian's cottage between the farmer's cottage and the chateau. Two or three Latvians lived there and worked on the chateau. The owner called it renovations, but really it was deteriorating faster than the Latvians were improving it. The thing about one of them is that he used to fish the River Vienne and any catfish he caught he would put on the BBQ. Given that the fish were usually around 20lb they ate a lot of catfish through the summer months and any that they couldn't fit into the fridge were kept alive in the bath. Now you couldn't do that with fluoridation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentalmac Posted January 12, 2017 Report Share Posted January 12, 2017 The insect bit made me laugh, I publish a trade magazine in the Fine Food industry (The Delicatessen Magazine). I was at a event in September and got made to eat 'Crobar' protein bars - they are made from milled crickets (Cricket flour). Actually quite tasty! Then, I was at an event in November when all of a sudden there were about 5 companies there all selling various insect products. Good source of protein, and easy to find I suppose.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrowningB525 Posted January 12, 2017 Report Share Posted January 12, 2017 Now you couldn't do that with fluoridation. Course you could. People have goldfish in fluoridated areas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVB Posted January 12, 2017 Report Share Posted January 12, 2017 A colleague gave me a lift in a Tesla this morning. I must say it was mighty impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hambone Posted January 12, 2017 Report Share Posted January 12, 2017 I used to live in a cottage on a farm that had a similar system. After heavy rain the water in the house ran brown for days and we'd often get shrimps in the bathwater. The current house has a well with a 3 phase electric pump that we use for watering the garden. Whenever I fill the water tanks I take a look in and it is amazing what bugs and stuff are floating about in the less than appetising water. get the water hot enough and you could snak while soaking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted January 12, 2017 Report Share Posted January 12, 2017 Course you could. People have goldfish in fluoridated areas. And the fish have lovely teeth! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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