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Glad to hear you made it intact!

@Cowboyinvestor, I was talking about EHV. I think that 11 - 33kV is not too dissimilar in price when buried vs. overhead.

I believe that there are advantages to HV DC transmission but the physics of resistive loss and heating effects must be the same. I was reading something about HV DC transmission within the week, I'll see if I can find it. Here's one view, not the one I read though: https://new.abb.com/systems/hvdc/why-hvdc/technical-advantages, and here's another, although I am not sold on point #4: https://www.engineeringenotes.com/electrical-engineering/hvdc-transmission/top-20-advantages-of-hvdc-transmission-electrical-engineering/29255 - also not the one I read.

I think that this is a good read, but then I'm a techie.

https://www.nationalgrid.com/sites/default/files/documents/45349-Undergrounding_high_voltage_electricity_transmission_lines_The_technical_issues_INT.pdf

I completely ignored the cost of the tunnel too.

Laying underground high-voltage cables is a very much more expensive business than putting up pylons and overhead lines. Underground cables need cooling. Overhead lines get it for free from the air. Underground cables need insulating. Overhead lines get it for free from the air. From memory, there's a six-mile stretch of underground HV cable in an area of extreme natural beauty (Lake District? Peak District?) and it has to be cooled by having a stream running through the tunnel. It cost a phenomenal amount when compared with a six-mile stretch of pylons.

Found this while maudling on Youtube and thought of you lot :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT1LWUckMeA

You're welcome.

I'm doing well, thank you. I see my surgeon later today, actually, for yet another monthly checkup. It's now a year since diagnosis and nine months since end of treatment. So far, so good....

I'd say go for it if it was my neck. In 1986, my legs stopped working because of a sequestrated disc between the L4 and L5 vertebrae. My surgeon said I had about a 90% chance of a fix, 10% chance of no improvement and a 1 in 1,000 chance that he'd have a bad day and his knife would slip.... I said "That sounds like good odds to me, go for it." I'm so pleased I did. I'd say that I have been about 98% ever since. Mind you, I'm careful what I lift and how I lift it! As for bending and twisting at the same time, let me quote my surgeon verbatim: "As long as you live, never bend and twist at the same time. You may bend and you may twist but never the twain shall meet. That will f*kc up a good back, never mind yours." Good luck, whatever you decide.

Thank you for that, faramog. I read it with great interest and can thoroughly recommend it to anyone with the slightest interest in keeping the lights on!

Shan't.

I am grateful to you, helping a daft old beggar in a time of need :-)

I appreciate what you say, Uksteveg. Please don't take this as any kind of criticism, for none is intended, but I pledged to make a donation of my free will, regardless of the outcome of the competition. I pledged two different amounts, win or lose. My trouble is I can't remember how much I pledged. I plead senility. If someone would be kind enough to remind me, I would be grateful, and will make good on my promise to a cancer charity of my choice. My thanks to faramog for organising the Corbine Cup in the first place. My thanks also to all contributors to the Cup and to this forum. We are better united than divided.

GLA!

@ faramog, please can you remind me of how much I pledged? TVM!

What's got 100 balls and sh@gs rabbits?

A shotgun.

My very best wishes to you and GND for your health, happiness and wealth in 2020 and for years to come!

C

Wishing all Bushwhackers health, happiness and wealth in the times ahead.

All the best, Pete

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When I bought this morning, the mid-price was being reported as 21.75. I was offered 21.5 and later 21.6-something by my platform (HL), thus my two buys came in under the mid-price and are simplistically reported as sells. The colouring of trades is determined by whether the trade is below (red), at (black) or above (blue) the midpoint price at the time. Nothing whatsoever to do with what actually was going on in many cases.