The river, however is a disaster, and any energy-generating potential it had has been destroyed (although it could of course, in principle, be rebuilt). The excuse is increased health of fish life in the river, which argument seems scientifically doubtful, but the reason, I suspect, is that the state wants to claim the right to generate electricity, in, say, 30 years' time.
There are four buildings in all; the main house, two independent dwellings (one with a kitchen) and a shed, plus ten hectares of managed forest. Although the buildings are beautiful, in the end we reckon that three separate living spaces isn't going to suit our lifestyle as we get older.
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Good luck with that search.
Can you explain the bit about draining a river to preserve fish life?
Also, what does "in columbage" mean?
Hi Mark, the argument really is that removing dams and reducing the amount of water in the rivers preserves fish life. Utter bollox in my view. Apparently there is an EU directive on water quality that involves returning rivers to their "natural" state (see, for example, the floods in Fenland). So dams are being destroved, deep rivers are becoming shallow and faster-flowing, and the big fish are dying. Also the pollution-free, highly efficient (energy out/energy used in construction) water mills are being got rid of.
Columbage is the technique for building houses around a wooden frame - it's not well-exemplified in the blog post, but the bottom right picture is an example. A type of timber frame construction.
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