The wave machines never did get the serious research it need(s)ed.

Like tidal, benefits of Tide are obvious, it happens twice a day…rain or shine, wind or not.
But, all the gubbins and mechanics are underwater, maintenance costs are a nightmare. It would need doing daily, seeweed and other bits would need clearing from the kit, or from the filters of the kit.
Maybe wave kit/machines are also difficult to maintain too.
Osmosis power never got alook in either, exploiting the saline sea vs fresh water in a large tube with a membrane bottom. The pressures or the vacuum created can be immense, ergo energy.
I like windfarms, they are hypnotically beautiful and a darn site prettier than pylons.

I don’t watch news or buy a paper and I’ve only just heard this news off the better half.
I feel a part of my upbringing has gone. Not only did he install into me a sense of humour which has got me through some bad times, but as said above, a genuine warm gent.
And, don’t forget he had a singing voice worthy of far more credit.

sorry to disagree but i have worked with them on the streets
>>>> well thanks.

i could scan and display my numourous certificates obtained for working in the field , including first aid ( passed 98% ) customer care city and guilds , health and safety , drugs awareness , handling agression , racial awareness , disability awareness , and a whole host of other team building exercises
>>>>and?

we were not sat in a nice cosy office or a nice cosy house or hostel
>>>>so?

we were on the streets , breaking up fights , attending to o.d’s , giving first aid , chatting , writing reports , girls that are abused who wont go home or talk to social workers , people who have lost fammilys ‘ drunks , mentaly ill ,
>>>> so it still isn’t your problem.

a lot of comments on here show how little folks do actualy realise what goes on on the streets around them.
>>>> oh, more than you know.

i live in a reasonably well off area it opened my eyes wide to the reality of street life when taken into an area they lived in an old disused asbestos factory ( they weren’t worried about the asbestos , they didn’t foresee living that long ) and these are people in thier 20’s
>>>> it still isn’t your responsibility, to feel guilt or to sort out.

they slept in a sea of hyperdermics one must have struggled for a human one and robbed the vets as there was a horse hyperdermic ( god knows how they managed , but needs must )
>>>> again, me hearts bleedin.

as i said you won’t like it when told but middle class hippy social workers who’s only wory in life was where to spend thier gap year from uni
>>>>if that’s aimed at my missus then you are 100% from the truth. She is the total opposite, and has 25 years or more in the job.

are the last people they want to see ( or indeed get help from )
>>>>tar one brush etc.

mostly because thier clueless interferance has usualy led to them being there in the first place !!
>>>>this could be true, but giving up is the main cause.

you can take as many cosy uni exams as you want when they turn round and refuse help as they say ” because you don’t understand ” they have hit it bang on the head !!
>>>> we went to uni when they were uni’s. A gap year wasn’t even heard of.

would you trust a spinster or bachelor for giving marriage guidance !!
>>>> No, nor would I trust a childless midwife, nor a airline pilot that hasn’t done 10,000 hours, nor a vicar or preacher of any determination to tell me about faith. But that is the way it is.

I’m not a total heartless git, I buy big issue when I need something to read on the train, it’s better than a newspaper, and it assists a tramp that is at least trying to get out of it.
And I give to a charity for peoples that do not even have clean water.

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a total load of tosh !!

i actualy worked on the street with the real problem !!

a big percentage have mental problems /addictions
>>>> Hospital / yawn, my heart bleeds.

a loveley outcome from beurocrats thinking ” care in the community ” actualy works if you have no family support in todays britain.
>>>> Plenty of support available, start with hostels, get back into the habit of being responsible.

you have but two endings on the street or in prison !! a lot don’t fancy prison and try to keep out hence they are on the street !!

>>>>No, that’s the tosh.

mental conditions include P.T.S.D. (again incidentaly mostly ex services ) for one and a whole list of others the absolute last people they want to see is some middle class pratt from an office that has absolutely no idea of why they are there and that think one size fits all cures exist
>>>> there is a zillion charities for PTSD.

sorry it far from works out that way

there is one guy on the streets i stop and talk to regular you can give him a house , a regular income , and yadda , yadda

but you will never solve the problem unless you could magicly give him his wife and kids back !!
>>>> Person I know has lost house / wife / kids and job in a spell of two months.
He rented a poohole of a flat in a ghetto for £20 a week (This was 2008!), damper than you can imagine. It took him a year of dole but he pulled out of it.

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No matter the budget cuts, Tory, Labour or the other lot in power….there is actually no need for anybody in the UK to be scrounging in the Street. The welfare system is the envy of the world (It costs us a fortune to upkeep of course) and there is provision for all. Of course, some of the homeless choose not to be involved with “authority”, their choice.

And that’s the opinion of my wife, a Local Authority Social Worker for 30 years, and a damn good one.

And now Ladies and Gents..you really must listen to Santana “Guitar Heaven”. Oh, it certainly is.
All cover versions, special guests singing. Some are better than the original, dare I say.

Booze fridge in the back?
Proper window blinds and compartment seperation for those special times with little boys.
Some parts of Catholicisim is as fundementally sick as any other extremist believers in imaginary friends.

Don’t forget, the original popes got into office by mass murder. The handbag on fire is to keep the smell of the poor at bay. Based on great respect of the common people isn’t it.

Get shut of him, his churches and all the others too.

Yes, a lot of bull in his story as per the poster above.
It seems you were being conned or about to be conned. Have you checked your belongings?
Your kindness is saintly, but the truth is that genuinly desperate people don’t approach strangers in the street and invent a sympathy tale. You getting the Vicar involved (Or any 3rd party) probably spooked him.