Was wondering about batteries

[islaydarkblue]

Off shore wind turbines are fine but on shore wind turbines cause problems with flicker when the sun is shining through the spinning blades plus there is the noise from the spinning blades when the wind turbines are installed close to existing properties.
The noise from the spinning blades is bad enough but it will be a lot worse if the huge wind turbines BCram wants are installed.

[noahrab]

I'll ask the question. I do a fair bit of sea fishing a lot of it in the dark in Winter and just 10-15 years ago we used to wear headlamps that were powered by 6V motorbike batteries that we carried in a kidney bag in a belt round our waist, for a decent length of sesh we carried 2 or 3 spare batteries plus a petrol Tilly lamp that we set up, see now 3 triple A,s will light up the beach all night thanks to LED's. I'm also a joiner and 10 years ago I was doing a loft extension and there was 14 downlighters in it and the sparky pointed out to me that the lights alone were drawing more than a kettle, now that's LED's and drawing nothing. Thing's are changing rapidly.

Must’ve been some size of lamps to draw more than a kettle ffs.

No danger 3 AAA batteries will ‘light up the beach all night’.

Too much mulled wine.

[BCram]

Off shore wind turbines are fine but on shore wind turbines cause problems with flicker when the sun is shining through the spinning blades plus there is the noise from the spinning blades when the wind turbines are installed close to existing properties.
The noise from the spinning blades is bad enough but it will be a lot worse if the huge wind turbines BCram wants are installed.

I was merely questioning if there might be merit in putting the connecting cables from the turbines to the national grid up in spec so that they could carry a higher load. Like making the A9 dual carriageway might have been easier if the original construction had been made with the vision that a dual carriageway would be needed.

[islaydarkblue]

I was merely questioning if there might be merit in putting the connecting cables from the turbines to the national grid up in spec so that they could carry a higher load. Like making the A9 dual carriageway might have been easier if the original construction had been made with the vision that a dual carriageway would be needed.

I have often said to my wife that the journey from Kennacraig in Kintyre to Dundee would be a lot quicker if the road had originally been designed in a straight line with causeways installed across sea lochs. Unfortunately a lot of the roads in Scotland have previously been old drove roads for cattle going to market.

[Deeranged]

I have often said to my wife that the journey from Kennacraig in Kintyre to Dundee would be a lot quicker if the road had originally been designed in a straight line with causeways installed across sea lochs. Unfortunately a lot of the roads in Scotland have previously been old drove roads for cattle going to market.

Would these straight lines have gone over or through the mountains?

[BCram]

Would these straight lines have gone over or through the mountains?

If the hills had been higher and bigger we might have gone through them with tunnels but winding through the glens with cattle guaranteed that we would take the path of least resistance. Would love to see some planning in principle moves to show how the dual carriage way would work.

[islaydarkblue]

If the hills had been higher and bigger we might have gone through them with tunnels but winding through the glens with cattle guaranteed that we would take the path of least resistance. Would love to see some planning in principle moves to show how the dual carriage way would work.

A lot of improvement work was carried out on the A9 in the early 1970’s from Perth to the Tayside Region boundary which was north of Blair Atholl. I remember the Sunday Post have a campaign around 1970 to make the A9 from Perth to Inverness a dual carriageway
Bypasses of Luncarty, Bankfoot, Dunkeld and Pitlochry were installed whilst bypasses of Newtonmore, Kingussie, Aviemore and Carrbridge were also carried out. Unfortunately a quite a lot of the A9 between Perth and close to Inverness is single carriageway with long sweeping bends which makes it difficult to overtake slower moving vehicles such as cars towing a caravan.
This is what can cause accidents on the A9 and other single carriageway roads.
It is a great pity that A9 was not made a dual carriageway between Perth and Inverness in the early 1970’s when they had the opportunity to do it.
As far as I am aware the Scottish Government are planning to make the whole of the A9 a dual carriageway from Perth to Wick with it now due to be completed by 2035.
It will be interesting to see which is finished first.
The dualling of the A9 from Perth to Wick or the new stadium development at Campy Nou.

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A lot of improvement work was carried out on the A9 in the early 1970’s from Perth to the Tayside Region boundary which was north of Blair Atholl. I remember the Sunday Post have a campaign around 1970 to make the A9 from Perth to Inverness a dual carriageway
Bypasses of Luncarty, Bankfoot, Dunkeld and Pitlochry were installed whilst bypasses of Newtonmore, Kingussie, Aviemore and Carrbridge were also carried out. Unfortunately a quite a lot of the A9 between Perth and close to Inverness is single carriageway with long sweeping bends which makes it difficult to overtake slower moving vehicles such as cars towing a caravan.
This is what can cause accidents on the A9 and other single carriageway roads.
It is a great pity that A9 was not made a dual carriageway between Perth and Inverness in the early 1970’s when they had the opportunity to do it.
As far as I am aware the Scottish Government are planning to make the whole of the A9 a dual carriageway from Perth to Wick with it now due to be completed by 2035.
It will be interesting to see which is finished first.
The dualling of the A9 from Perth to Wick or the new stadium development at Campy Nou.

I'm going for the A9 to be finished first

[Deeranged]

Unfortunately a quite a lot of the A9 between Perth and close to Inverness is single carriageway with long sweeping bends which makes it difficult to overtake slower moving vehicles such as cars towing a caravan.
This is what can cause accidents on the A9 and other single carriageway roads.

I agree with most of your post but can't agree that accidents are caused by the road or road conditions. Road accidents are caused by people and particularly how individuals drive on roads or in road conditions. I consider myself a pretty safe driver and have been up and down the A9 countless times. I've only had one near miss caused by an idiot pulling out on me into the road at a junction when it wasn't safe to do so, fortunately my brakes were good and there was nothing coming in the other direction.

There's also a massive difference between driving today and driving in the 1970s, cars are much faster and more powerful in general now and there are significantly more of them for starters. The A9, particularly the single carriageway sections, isn't designed to be driven on the same way as we drive on the M9 but some people think they can just tank up and down overtaking without adequate care.

[BCram]

I agree with most of your post but can't agree that accidents are caused by the road or road conditions. Road accidents are caused by people and particularly how individuals drive on roads or in road conditions. I consider myself a pretty safe driver and have been up and down the A9 countless times. I've only had one near miss caused by an idiot pulling out on me into the road at a junction when it wasn't safe to do so, fortunately my brakes were good and there was nothing coming in the other direction.

There's also a massive difference between driving today and driving in the 1970s, cars are much faster and more powerful in general now and there are significantly more of them for starters. The A9, particularly the single carriageway sections, isn't designed to be driven on the same way as we drive on the M9 but some people think they can just tank up and down overtaking without adequate care.

Deffo difference between dual carriageway and single carriageway driving is not appreciated. I think lorries should be able to go at 60 on all the A9.