My GP retired. I only found out when I went to see a man about a knee and his secretary, who sends results of X-rays and scans to the relevant GP, told me it was no longer Dr Cossard but a Dr Parmentier. I learned a few days ago that the new chap has been sacked for having to much interest in lady patient boobs.
No idea what'll happen now but as I'm otherwise fit and healthy, no doubt I'll find out when I go for scans next spring to prepare the other new knee. Touch wood there's nothing untoward till then.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Our surgery has 18 doctors and 3 Advanced Nurse Practitioners. The person my wife and I were told was 'our assigned GP' isn't even on the list any more. Not that it makes any real difference as he spent all his time on one Hospital Trust board or another. He hadn't actually seen patients in the surgery for years.
I don't quite see how we wean the UK off fossil without a climate independent energy source. Wind/solar are grand for when it's windy and sunny. But what happens on still cold nights? Without some other form of energy generation you can't stop fossil usage can you? I don't see any difference between having a policy to import LPG or use Russian gas over reopening North Sea sites - until reliable, replacement greener sources have been put in place.
Battery storgae looks like it may be a long term solution to lack of wind and or sunshine.
Battery storage may be part of the solution to how we keep electricity available, but how are the components of the batteries mined? I've never heard any politician or those opposed to the use of fossil fuel actually answer the question @steveTu raises.
"but how are the components of the batteries mined?"
In the same way batteries are mined for every thing else you use or does your phone and every other item that contains a battery not count in the fossil fuel arguments, and lets not even get started on the lithium used to refine petrol.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
Maybe all electric cars should be fitted with solar panels and wind turbines. They could only be driven using the power generated by those devices. That would remove the need for them to draw power from the grid. Alternatively, as around 20% of power generation is from renewables, the cars can only be charged to 20% of capacity. We would be able to see how practical they really are then.
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No idea what'll happen now but as I'm otherwise fit and healthy, no doubt I'll find out when I go for scans next spring to prepare the other new knee. Touch wood there's nothing untoward till then.
"but how are the components of the batteries mined?"
In the same way batteries are mined for every thing else you use or does your phone and every other item that contains a battery not count in the fossil fuel arguments, and lets not even get started on the lithium used to refine petrol.
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.