Thank you Mr Joseph Bazelgette

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I've just watched the BBC2 program regarding the building of the London sewers taking all the waste away from the Thames. Really excellent program and if it had no been for Mr Joseph Bazelgette then the Thames would be 'orrible.

so you Thames boaters remember his name.

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So the sewers were to remove the floating cr*ap from the river?

Did not work with rowers!

LOL

(Sorry, could not help my self)

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Ah yes...

..but did you stick around for the bit on Stirling engines afterwards.

Got me reaching for the info on Victron Whispergen, a Stirling engine generator that has always fascinated me due to its virtually silent running. Quick search on Internet revealed it to have been developed by NZ company. Anyone have an experience of running one?

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But he discharged completely untreated sewage downstream on the ebb.

Good for London but I suggest that Southend has never recovered, even to this day!

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I thought the oysters I had the other day were a bit pithy.
Didn't baezelgette also run the underground system next to the sewers in the embankments.too

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Yeah I saw that, neat way they launch the rib while underway. Sunseeker should take up the idea. I like the footage of the yank coastguard giving the drug runners a few warning shots.
Just goes to show, Ribsters are just wannabe smugglers!.

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Re: Ah yes...

<<<a Stirling engine generator >>>

I would be interested in knowing how they are getting on too - I have not seen them advertised recently. But I see Victron still have them in their internet site and that one was in your ARC Yachting World survey.

A few years ago in a corporate recovery assignment I was doing, one of the sick company's engineers was providing assistance to the Wispergen developers in testing the development models of it - one of the first things I did was disengage him from it fearing entanglement in yet another stirling engine disaster (and was not core business either). Hence my interest.

John

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Re: Ah yes...

I picked up some Internet comment last night about them being expensive compared to convention gensets and also more expensive to run; the 90 per cent energy efficiency claim comes, I guess, from the fact that they recycle the heat rather than being an indication of fuel to electrical energy transfer.

Nevertheless I love the idea of onboard power without upsetting the neighbours...provided of course, as with a diesel heater, that the exhaust is pointing away from topsides of rafted!

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His descendant Peter Bazalgette is the founder of Bazal Productions, who have given us "Changing Rooms" and other such excursions into the higher reaches of the human intellect.

So the family interest in raw sewage continues unabated ;o)

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I agree, an excellent programme - pity the music drowned out some of the speech. Same thing happened on the other progs in this series.

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Re: Ah yes...

Thanks Kim.

The small electrical energy output is what I recall with, I think, most energy available being recovered from the exhaust for heating.

John

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