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Mike Ross

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Oct 29, 2009, 3:46:07 PM10/29/09
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Moving my shamefully neglected Hydro Board project forward, I've finally got
round to putting some of my videos on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/abaduck#p/u

Comments and questions welcome as always!

Mike
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http://www.corestore.org
'As I walk along these shores
I am the history within'

Roger

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Oct 29, 2009, 7:32:20 PM10/29/09
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"Mike Ross" <mi...@corestore.org> wrote in message
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> Moving my shamefully neglected Hydro Board project forward, I've finally
> got
> round to putting some of my videos on YouTube:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/user/abaduck#p/u
>
> Comments and questions welcome as always!
>
> Mike
> --

Can you explain why you have filmed a video IN THE DARK ?
People can NOT see anything apart from the odd light on a wall
It is completely pointless, did you watch it before uploading?

Your web site is good, but filming a video in the dark is stupid!


Jules

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Oct 29, 2009, 7:36:09 PM10/29/09
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On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:32:20 +0000, Roger wrote:
> filming a video in the dark is stupid!

You can always watch it later and check for ghosts, I suppose.

Mike Ross

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Oct 29, 2009, 7:44:59 PM10/29/09
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On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:32:20 -0000, "Roger" <roger2...@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>
>"Mike Ross" <mi...@corestore.org> wrote in message
>news:a5sje5590b0acppqh...@4ax.com...
>> Moving my shamefully neglected Hydro Board project forward, I've finally
>> got
>> round to putting some of my videos on YouTube:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/user/abaduck#p/u
>>
>> Comments and questions welcome as always!

>Can you explain why you have filmed a video IN THE DARK ?


>People can NOT see anything apart from the odd light on a wall
>It is completely pointless, did you watch it before uploading?
>
>Your web site is good, but filming a video in the dark is stupid!

'Stupid' huh... It wasn't a planned trip, I didn't expect to get in, I didn't
have any lighting, I was lucky I even had cameras. I shot what I could using
available light and salvaged the least worst. Most of the videos are reasonably
well lit.

I'd like to see you do better in the circumstances. In fact, I'd like to see you
even manage to get access...

*Constructive* comments are welcome! :-)

Gavin Christie

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Nov 5, 2009, 1:55:42 AM11/5/09
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Great videos Mike !

The muppet that complained about them being badly lit needs to see an
optician or buy a new monitor.

I always loved the architecture in the old hydro stations, even though the
public never sees them they still saw fit to put in tiled floors and nice
wooden handrails etc. I remember seeing inside the Loch Tummel station at a
young age and thinking how great it was that electricity being made has a
smell. They always seemed like very cosy places to be in winter.

I think many countries could learn a lot from Scotland's Hydro-Electric
scheme. It seemed to not just work, but work really well. I wonder what Al
Gore thinks of it. It does kind of put solar energy to shame and continues
to do so. As long as it just keeps raining we are in good shape !

G

p.s. I see you are in Westchester? I'm living out on Long Island and I need
little or no excuse to hook up with another Scot for a good old fashioned
pub crawl in the city. unless you have become so Americanised you cant
handle your drink anymore? :)


"Roger" <roger2...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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NOSPAM

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Nov 5, 2009, 3:52:23 AM11/5/09
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The message <4af276eb$0$31269$607e...@cv.net>
from "Gavin Christie" <gavc...@optonline.net> contains these words:

> I think many countries could learn a lot from Scotland's Hydro-Electric
> scheme. It seemed to not just work, but work really well. I wonder what Al
> Gore thinks of it. It does kind of put solar energy to shame and continues
> to do so. As long as it just keeps raining we are in good shape !


Not just other countries, I don't think Hydro needed to close any
stations for a year(?) soon after opening because of rockfalls!

alexander.keys1

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Nov 24, 2009, 3:13:25 PM11/24/09
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Check this out:

http://www.corestore.org/sub.htm

he's got some great pix of underground Hydro-Electric stations in
Scotland, they're like Dr.Evil's Secret Underground Lair! Would make a
good movie/TV location, as long as they don't let off any explosives,
its some distance underground with a lot of water in those pipes...

On 29 Oct, 19:46, Mike Ross <m...@corestore.org> wrote:
> Moving my shamefully neglected Hydro Board project forward, I've finally got
> round to putting some of my videos on YouTube:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/user/abaduck#p/u
>
> Comments and questions welcome as always!
>
> Mike

> --http://www.corestore.org

Sofa - Spud

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Nov 24, 2009, 5:18:26 PM11/24/09
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alexander.keys1 wrote:
> Check this out:
>
> http://www.corestore.org/sub.htm
>
> he's got some great pix of underground Hydro-Electric stations in
> Scotland, they're like Dr.Evil's Secret Underground Lair! Would make a
> good movie/TV location, as long as they don't let off any explosives,
> its some distance underground with a lot of water in those pipes...
>

Good stuff - there used to be a tour of an underground hydro station I
can't remember if it was Scotland or Wales. That said for the best
**Evil Professor Fuckflaps mountain hideaway** it has to be a damn and
concealed buildings high in the Dolomite Alps. it looked like a James
Bond set.

AC

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Nov 25, 2009, 4:43:17 AM11/25/09
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"alexander.keys1" <alexand...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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Not power satiations, but if any one is in to underground stuff:

http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/sites.shtml

Same site, obviously, but its not very well constructed, so the links above
get you to the main list pages. Hopefully from there you can navigate to the
interesting stuff.

AC

David Skinner

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Nov 25, 2009, 8:41:17 AM11/25/09
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In article <43418a65-ccfc-4528-b99d-b2b9952039d5
@l35g2000vba.googlegroups.com>, alexand...@googlemail.com says...

>
> Check this out:
>
> http://www.corestore.org/sub.htm
>
> he's got some great pix of underground Hydro-Electric stations in
> Scotland, they're like Dr.Evil's Secret Underground Lair! Would make a
> good movie/TV location, as long as they don't let off any explosives,
> its some distance underground with a lot of water in those pipes...

I've been on tours of a couple of those - Dinorwig in Wales and Clachan
in Scotland. It's an interesting way to kill an hour when it's raining
outside.

NOSPAM

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Nov 25, 2009, 10:44:31 AM11/25/09
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The message <MPG.25774457c...@news.individual.net>
from David Skinner <drsk...@ntlworldERASETHIS.com> contains these words:

Clachan?

Calum

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Nov 25, 2009, 8:12:44 PM11/25/09
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On 24/11/09 22:18, Sofa - Spud wrote:

> Good stuff - there used to be a tour of an underground hydro station I
> can't remember if it was Scotland or Wales.

You could certainly (and still can, AFAIK) get a tour of the one at Ben
Cruachan in Scotland.

David Skinner

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Nov 26, 2009, 4:25:52 AM11/26/09
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In article <hekkmc$m5f$1...@reader01.news.esat.net>,
com....@scottishwildcat.nospam says...

Aye, that's the one I meant when I said Clachan.

Mike Ross

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Nov 27, 2009, 8:12:48 PM11/27/09
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Your wish is my command:

http://www.corestore.org/clachan.htm

Mike
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