In todays news...

[irie]

Central banks and church, in my opinion, should be kept at arms length from government.

Agree with you.

Moreover, the CofE should be disestablised and all the Lords Spiritual removed from the HoL.

[irie]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67548961

Flying to America using used chip fat, I bet it smells great!

Every diesel motor could be adapted to run on chip fat. Think its McDonald who run there trucks on recycled chip fat.

If this flight is successful would this mean to keep the planes flying we'll all be condemned to eating McDonald's deep fried food for the rest of our lives???

[gremlin]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67548961

Flying to America using used chip fat, I bet it smells great!

Every diesel motor could be adapted to run on chip fat. Think its McDonald who run there trucks on recycled chip fat.

If this flight is successful would this mean to keep the planes flying we'll all be condemned to eating McDonald's deep fried food for the rest of our lives???

They could probably develop the idea to pulp fatties and feed them into jet engines....

[JackyJoll]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67548961

Flying to America using used chip fat, I bet it smells great!

Every diesel motor could be adapted to run on chip fat. Think its McDonald who run there trucks on recycled chip fat.

If this flight is successful would this mean to keep the planes flying we'll all be condemned to eating McDonald's deep fried food for the rest of our lives???

It’s ironic that aeroplane food is so much worse than McBurgers.

[JackyJoll]

Every diesel motor could be adapted to run on chip fat. Think its McDonald who run there trucks on recycled chip fat.

If this flight is successful would this mean to keep the planes flying we'll all be condemned to eating McDonald's deep fried food for the rest of our lives???

It’s ironic that aeroplane food is so much worse than McBurgers.

Hold on- I have a cunning plan.

If they put a branch of McDonalds on every airliner, they could fly around forever, on the perpetual fat supply.

[irie]

If this flight is successful would this mean to keep the planes flying we'll all be condemned to eating McDonald's deep fried food for the rest of our lives???

It’s ironic that aeroplane food is so much worse than McBurgers.

Hold on- I have a cunning plan.

If they put a branch of McDonalds on every airliner, they could fly around forever, on the perpetual fat supply.

Now why didn't I think of that?

[Noggin]

Can you not open a €uro-denominated account elsewhere in the EU? My French bank doesn't charge a fee for accepting incoming €uro payments, but I don't send it from a UK bank, I use Currencyfair. Conversion from £ to € is done on Currencyfair's site, and the transfer is €uro to €uro.

The charge is to do with money deposited from a UK IBAN account, I've been caught twice recently, both from Revolut. The first time was my own Revolut account, something changed in the Spanish banking system to target UK IBAN's, I'm far from the only person to get caught out. Today's charge was from a person wifey sold something to on Facebook Marketplace, they then popped the money into our Sabadell account using Revolut. They're newbies to Spain and won't be doing it again.

Which brings me to Wise. My Wise account has a UK IBAN for GBP transactions and a Belgian IBAN for Euro transactions. This means I can pop money into Wise from my UK account, change it Euro with a small transaction fee and move it to my Spanish bank with no transaction fee.

If the French banks aren't charging you for money movements from the UK yet then they will soon. Another Brexit benefit.

I do all my transfer inside Revolut. So that if I transfer money to my French bank, I do it from the euro account in Revolut. Equally, anyone that sends me money in GBP I get them to send it to the Revolut GBP account.

This is mainly because my bank is unhelpful to say the least!! They also wouldn't open an account for anyone with a UK passport!! (Kinda wish I'd gone to a different one - the girl that was the reason I went to that bank left )

[cheb]

Every diesel motor could be adapted to run on chip fat. Think its McDonald who run there trucks on recycled chip fat.

If this flight is successful would this mean to keep the planes flying we'll all be condemned to eating McDonald's deep fried food for the rest of our lives???

They could probably develop the idea to pulp fatties and feed them into jet engines....

An American cosmetic surgeon was jailed for converting liposuction fat into biodiesel a few years back.

[JackyJoll]

It’s ironic that aeroplane food is so much worse than McBurgers.

Hold on- I have a cunning plan.

If they put a branch of McDonalds on every airliner, they could fly around forever, on the perpetual fat supply.

Now why didn't I think of that?

You didn’t patent it in time.

This time next year I’ll be a millionaire. Gonna retire to Bora Bora with Greta.

[Bustaspoke]

Michael Gove was getting grilled at the covid enquiry earlier.It makes interesting viewing!

[ZRX61]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67548961

Flying to America using used chip fat, I bet it smells great!

Regular JP4 is about $2.80/gal, the *sustainable* stuff they used is about $10/gal on a good day & about $25/gal on a bad day. So the price of airline tickets will be just a bit more expensive...

[MyLittleStudPony]

I was working with one of the major aircraft manufacturers before I knocked the old work on the head.

Hydrogen planes are in the pipeline and not that far away.

Ticket prices must go up however. I'd least triple them now to steel is for what lies ahead.

[JackyJoll]

Hydrogen planes are in the pipeline and not that far away.

Those are Zeppelins.

[KungFooBob]

I assumed he ment the previous job where he was a yoghurt weaver, which when he left he learned to stop worrying about the environment and love CO2.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I was working with one of the major aircraft manufacturers before I knocked the old work on the head.

Hydrogen planes are in the pipeline and not that far away.

Ticket prices must go up however. I'd least triple them now to steel is for what lies ahead.

I saw a thing on LinkedIn yesterday about the 'worlds first' wind assisted cargo ship, saves loads of CO2 apparently.

Now, I'm not an in depth expert on shipping, but I'm pretty sure wind powered ocean transport has been done before.

[Lutin]

Well hip, hip hooray for British Baked Beans - First British-grown baked beans get canned in Lincolnshire

The first ever commercial crop of British-grown baked beans have been canned in a Lincolnshire factory.

Specially modified haricot beans designed to grow in the UK climate were harvested in September at a farm in the county.

It is hoped that the baked bean breakthrough will reduce the reliance on imports.

More than two million tins are eaten every day, with all the beans grown in the US, Canada, Ethiopia and China.

The project was developed by scientists at the University of Warwick, who took 12 years to produce the seeds.

A smaller-scale trial to grow them in 2022 failed due to the summer heatwave.

Hmmm, warmer summers you say? Yep, that'll be climate change - and it's going to get worse.

Seriously, when will the UK finally realise that there is no way that they will ever be self sufficient in everything we eat?

[Mussels]

I was working with one of the major aircraft manufacturers before I knocked the old work on the head.

Hydrogen planes are in the pipeline and not that far away.

Ticket prices must go up however. I'd least triple them now to steel is for what lies ahead.

I saw a thing on LinkedIn yesterday about the 'worlds first' wind assisted cargo ship, saves loads of CO2 apparently.

Now, I'm not an in depth expert on shipping, but I'm pretty sure wind powered ocean transport has been done before.

Even wind 'assisted' feels familiar.

[irie]

Well hip, hip hooray for British Baked Beans - First British-grown baked beans get canned in Lincolnshire

The first ever commercial crop of British-grown baked beans have been canned in a Lincolnshire factory.

Specially modified haricot beans designed to grow in the UK climate were harvested in September at a farm in the county.

It is hoped that the baked bean breakthrough will reduce the reliance on imports.

More than two million tins are eaten every day, with all the beans grown in the US, Canada, Ethiopia and China.

The project was developed by scientists at the University of Warwick, who took 12 years to produce the seeds.

A smaller-scale trial to grow them in 2022 failed due to the summer heatwave.

Hmmm, warmer summers you say? Yep, that'll be climate change - and it's going to get worse.

Seriously, when will the UK finally realise that there is no way that they will ever be self sufficient in everything we eat?

Well I suppose that if all you eat is baked beans then baked beans qualify as everything.

[David]

Is the emergence of consecutive posts discussing baked beans and wind powered shipping purely co-incidence or evidence of AI tampering?.......

[MrLongbeard]

Well shit

https://www.foxnews.com/us/indiana-man- ... v2-CJYcxpS