tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post2987836939537307773..comments2024-03-28T13:06:29.793+00:00Comments on conradwalks: Following the coast (11)Sir Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-37473615679301089462020-03-16T22:32:03.649+00:002020-03-16T22:32:03.649+00:00gimmer - Splendid! Just what I was hoping for. I a...gimmer - Splendid! Just what I was hoping for. I am surprised - I thought it would need to be much bigger than that.<br /><br />My goodness how things have moved on since this post<br /><br />I had a circular trip up Wild Boar Fell today - there and back in the car and no cafés. I met a lone builder working on a farmgouse restoration - been on it on his own since Christmas. I've just finshed precessing the photos - post will follow tomorrow.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-16790277724211219872020-03-16T22:14:39.086+00:002020-03-16T22:14:39.086+00:00As there seems to be little interest in your proje...As there seems to be little interest in your project, here are my calculations to show why - very approximately,<br />the lift of a M3 of hydrogen at 10C and Standard Atmospheric pressure at 100M above sealevel is approx 1.2kg, it would need an airship about 100 M long by 12 m wide and 12m deep - too narrow for good aerodynamics - but make it 20 m wide and deep and the length required falls to only 40M long - like a US Blimp - about 1/10th the size of the R100 or Graf Zeppelin II. <br />Easier to take the bus.gimmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-31854378567494808062020-03-16T19:37:58.670+00:002020-03-16T19:37:58.670+00:00needlesshaste - Ah my mystery commenter! I know yo...needlesshaste - Ah my mystery commenter! I know you have comented occasionally before but I have no recollection of uncovering your identity (sorry if I have and it now having slipped my mind.) For some time I thought you were one of my friends using a new name for some unknown reason but I have checked and that is not the case.<br /><br />Whatever, I welcome your comments.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-20424292729287723032020-03-16T16:42:18.800+00:002020-03-16T16:42:18.800+00:00i'll have a go if forced into isolation by the...i'll have a go if forced into isolation by the virus policeneedlesshastehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12683913882103699241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-64718183327743268422020-03-11T22:24:39.468+00:002020-03-11T22:24:39.468+00:00gimmer - given time and hard graft on the Internet...gimmer - given time and hard graft on the Internet I reckon I cpuld come up with an approximation - I just thought you may not be able to resist the challenge.<br /><br />--------------------<br /><br />Kendal grufties - more my language, thankyou. I love "bleak urban fringes" - I can feel another poem coming on, but I would feel guilty pinching your creation.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-42782825407271926922020-03-11T22:03:07.728+00:002020-03-11T22:03:07.728+00:00You have a real talent for finding beauty and inte...You have a real talent for finding beauty and interest in Britain's bleak urban fringes!kendal gruftiesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-32911627780429721382020-03-11T18:56:35.515+00:002020-03-11T18:56:35.515+00:00A Distinction for the first person to answer that ...A Distinction for the first person to answer that without consulting Wolfram ! gimmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-35196265343749963152020-03-11T14:31:39.829+00:002020-03-11T14:31:39.829+00:00gimmer - a little research tells me that an averag...gimmer - a little research tells me that an average narrowboat weighs around 18 tons. So, how big in metres length and depth (roughly) would the hydrobgen lifting device need to be? That could be a good question to put in an A Level physics exam paper?Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-2905123375174154952020-03-11T13:18:18.829+00:002020-03-11T13:18:18.829+00:00I've always believed that hydrogen is the way ...I've always believed that hydrogen is the way to go and that battery powered electrically driven motors whether cars, lorries or planes, is a chimera - ok for a relative few, but not for the very many, and not at all sure that overall it is all that 'CO2 neutral' given the generating, transmission and charging infrastructure required to 'fuel' it.<br />As coal gas of old was about 50% hydrogen and the most of the rest the highly toxic CO, fears about the dangers of the hydrogen network are somewhat exaggerated - we used to work with pure chlorine at 1500C so hydrogen even at high pressures and ambient temperatures, should be quite possible with modern materials and engineering (solid state reversible absorption of hydrogen seems to be another unrewarding diversion , so far at least).<br />But the comment about the cut was a flight of fancy - using hydrogen buoyancy to lift the craft over and along the muddy bottom when the tide is out - a sort of amphibious Hindenburg or R101 perhaps.gimmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-38159531352663461092020-03-11T09:23:52.865+00:002020-03-11T09:23:52.865+00:00BC - I saw a sign pointing to The Dolphin and cont...BC - I saw a sign pointing to The Dolphin and continued with anticipation but missed it. Now looking at the map I see I was following the Ribble Way embankment having passed the footpath leading off to the pub. Here is part of an email reply I ssent to gimmer on the subject of that esturial riverbank region:<br /><br />"Not quite as desolate as Magwitch’s marshes as I remember them as conveyed by CD but still with that lonely atmosphere of land that man has found little use for."<br /><br />Little chance there as you say but the shuttle bus from Preston Bus Station to Portway Park and Ride was a different matter!Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-18637510003662247712020-03-11T08:58:13.134+00:002020-03-11T08:58:13.134+00:00A lonely stretch on the southside.Not much chance ...A lonely stretch on the southside.Not much chance of catching Coronavirus from anybody.<br />You must have passed close to The Dolphin pub which truly had a Dickensian feel when the tide was in, the road flooded and the mist down. Haunted by some dubious characters.bowlandclimberhttp://bowlandclimber.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-80896820683805374032020-03-11T08:26:32.923+00:002020-03-11T08:26:32.923+00:00Ruth - When I arrived back home and viewed the pho...Ruth - When I arrived back home and viewed the photos I went and gave the lens on my camera a good clean - not sure if that's had any effect but it was worth a try.<br /><br />--------------------------<br /><br />Gayle - Well its more valid than the claim for the "centre of England" which if you Google gives rise to much nerdiness, much of which one would not understand without a double degree in mathematics.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-29735509333002680672020-03-11T08:03:01.021+00:002020-03-11T08:03:01.021+00:00In Germany we have seen many a tenuous claim made ...In Germany we have seen many a tenuous claim made to the oldest/biggest/wonkiest, going to extremes to narrow the categorisation so as to claim the prize. The fact you cite about the spire on St Walburge's church passes my criteria of a valid claim to fame. Gaylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08648378503343413924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-61856877911266080022020-03-11T06:40:17.400+00:002020-03-11T06:40:17.400+00:00What gloomy weather we’ve been having. I could fee...What gloomy weather we’ve been having. I could <i>feel</i> the dampness of this area from your photos. When I walked this stretch it was in blazing sunshine and I remember sheltering under the shad of a bush to eat my lunch! I didn’t know about that Preston church and it’s tallest steeple. Impressive.Ruth Livingstonehttp://www.coastalwalker.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-87775032205752684062020-03-10T22:39:39.122+00:002020-03-10T22:39:39.122+00:00gimmer - Narrowboats are flat bottomed enabling us...gimmer - Narrowboats are flat bottomed enabling use in shallow water but conversly more vulnerable in the potentially more turbulent waters of the river - not sure why you refer to hydrogen?<br /><br />The esturial embankments are not quite as desolate as Magwitch’s marshes as I remember them as conveyed by CD but still with that lonely haunted atmosphere of land that man has found little use for.<br />Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-24805422520906747662020-03-10T19:31:37.316+00:002020-03-10T19:31:37.316+00:00It would indeed require courage and a lot of hydro...It would indeed require courage and a lot of hydrogen to take that Ribble way cut in the state it appears to be - where's the water ?<br />Your walk has distinct over (or should that be under) tones of Dickens and the Kentish marshes - beware both the revenue and the smugglers as well as the enveloping abyss !gimmernoreply@blogger.com