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Thread: Visa Query

1181.       KeithL
1455 posts
 02 Feb 2007 Fri 05:55 pm

Quoting Deli_kizin:

However he is, like me, a citizen of EU. This could not work for US citizens, you should try to work this out.



Deli, this works for US citizens also. You only have to leave Turkey and re-enter. You simply get a new 90 day turist visa.
We had this discussion earlier, but if there is a turkish consulate in your home country, you can get a 5 year turist visa. Much cheaper than getting many 90 day visa's in that time period.



Thread: Visa Query

1182.       KeithL
1455 posts
 02 Feb 2007 Fri 05:50 pm

You dont have to return home. All you need to do is leave Turkey. A bus to Bulgaria is the cheapest way to do this (if you are in western Turkey). There is also a bus to Greece but its more expensive.



Thread: Global Warming - Make a statement today :)

1183.       KeithL
1455 posts
 01 Feb 2007 Thu 11:16 pm

Quoting aenigma x:

Quoting KeithL:

I would get kicked off the bus with my smelly hockey bag.



Hahaha that bag is probably the cause of global warming



Actually, it would be quite the alternative fuel...



Thread: Global Warming - Make a statement today :)

1184.       KeithL
1455 posts
 01 Feb 2007 Thu 11:13 pm

I would get kicked off the bus with my smelly hockey bag. I am doing istanbul a favor by driving myself...



Thread: Global Warming - Make a statement today :)

1185.       KeithL
1455 posts
 01 Feb 2007 Thu 11:09 pm

I walk everywhere. I only drive to get to the ice arena on weekends...

but ice rinks...another bad addition to my environmental footprint...



Thread: Global Warming - Make a statement today :)

1186.       KeithL
1455 posts
 01 Feb 2007 Thu 11:04 pm

Quoting aenigma x:

Quoting KeithL:

My carbon footprint is horrible. 50,000 -100,000 miles a year flying some years...



I must admit flying and driving are my downfall . Its impossible to live where I do, without a car. I do feel guilty but try to compensate in other areas.



Flying and driving are the two worst contributors.....



Thread: Global Warming - Make a statement today :)

1187.       KeithL
1455 posts
 01 Feb 2007 Thu 11:02 pm

Quoting aenigma x:

Quoting SuiGeneris:

Actually, its is understandable for goverments to choose fossil fuel using plants as they are cheaper...
and planting nuclear plant is too risky we all remember the accident chernobil... and the place they have wouldnt be avaliable for alternative energy sources... it has many relations...



I think nuclear plants are actually very safe (the waste is DEFINITELY another matter ). Chernobil was due to human error and poor management as far as I am aware. Keith will know



I agree with this. Considering all the years of nuclear power operations, the worldwide saftey record is very good.
A great documentry on Chernobyl was released in the last few years. Basically though, if Russia would have been more a part of global society, they would have accepted more help from the west and saftey features used by the rest of the world would have not allowed it to happen. Even as it was, the operators were performing safety testing at the time ironically. All safety warnings worked as they were supposed to. but operators ignored them and overrode them...



Thread: Global Warming - Make a statement today :)

1188.       KeithL
1455 posts
 01 Feb 2007 Thu 10:58 pm

My carbon footprint is horrible. 50,000 -100,000 miles a year flying some years...



Thread: Global Warming - Make a statement today :)

1189.       KeithL
1455 posts
 01 Feb 2007 Thu 10:49 pm

Quoting libralady:

What really bugs me (and perhaps this is the wrong thread) is the number of people that complain about wind turbines. The most easily captured source of green energy we have. There is a small town near me that has two wind Turbines, enough to power nearly the whole town. I know of industrial estates, one in Lowestoft for the English folk, that powers the estate. We have further wind turbines of the north norfolk coast and then there are others around the country. What is so difficult with wind turbines.

It is all a matter of education and that is down to governments, and our government is bad at that. To little to late.



Wind Turbines are terribly expensive and produce very little electricty. The gebze power station produces about 1/10th of all the power in Turkey (not enough to electrify Istanbul by the way) To duplicate gebze with wind turbines (over 2000 MW of electricity), nearly 1500 wind turbines would have to be built, maintained, and on-line. Interesting future technology actually invoves building turbines on sea beds and utilizing global tides. But for now, nuclear remains the cheapest and greenest.



Thread: Global Warming - Make a statement today :)

1190.       KeithL
1455 posts
 01 Feb 2007 Thu 10:42 pm

Quote:

Quoting aenigma x:


I'll buy that. Your not actually buying "green energy". You are donating for R/D for green energy. Which is admirable.



No, read the link . I am BUYING non-fossil fuelled energy



I already hate myself for disagreeing with you....but everyone in your area gets the same electricty from the same source. Otherwise, they would need two sets of ditribution lines. One for traditional fossil fuels, and another for clean energy. All the power generated enters the grid the same way and its simply distributed as needed.



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