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A long but amazingly interesting thread about energy storage. A potential game changer for heavy industry.
tsubaki
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The most depressing day of last year, which was a pretty depressing year, for me was the morning after the 40 degree heat down here.
A village outside London burned to the ground, loads of major fires, the LFB having its worst day since the Blitz, 30 degree heat at half six in the morning and tens of thousands of people still driving around solo in their air-conditioned SUVs and big cars. It was all I could do not to walk around with a big sign saying YOU ARE THE FKIN PROBLEM.
That last summer didn't terrify these obnoxious clowns in just the slightest change in there lifestyle is extremely depressing,
I do believe we have to attempt to prevent doomism as much as possible in those willing to make changes and try and present positive stories as much as possible. It's completely understandable why people do give up the fight though. Especially when being patronised by tools who couldn't explain the basics of the carbon cycle and yet still believe they've got a better handle on things than the leading climatologists.
sbbefc
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I'm far from perfect but I've tried to make changes to my own lifestyle. I'm eating less red meat, I'm holidaying in the uk and taken the train/drive to France. But that small change to my lifestyle is absolutely meaningless when hundreds/thousands of private jets and helicopters take off every day.
It's not meaningless mate (I understand what you mean) and you should be happy with yourself, you are acknowledging the issue and contributing to a solution. We've all got habits that are either financially or logistically impossible to change right now, but the ones we feasibly can change we should, like yourself.
British steel had a mention again today amongst the issues with governance and environment. I do find it odd, are there any credible shouts by anyone that the Aukus subs could possibly be made from cheap chinese steel? It'd be some level of irony that the pact to contain aggression in the pacific was being patrolled by subs made by the industry of the considered aggressors.
There's also been a fallout re households invited to join a hydrogen scheme finding out there wasn't much invite at all, more a unilateral forced volunteer system.
Had a chat with a lady pushing the tidal energy in the Mersey scheme last week or so, I couldn't help but ask about the implicit racism surrounding the world wide energy debate and the 'alright jack' attitudes that prevail from developed countries. I raised the fact that it is a little rich for the west or lets say the UK to go mouthing off about the environment when here in the UK the forests have been chopped, the coal dug, the local seas extracted of oil and gas, species hunted to extinct, the coal burnt for electricity, the benefit of the industrial revolution had and moved passed. (she is some local politicians flunky)
She obviously had no answer but 'we have to look to local to make change' which is utter horsespit! My house isn't on fire but my neighbours is simply is crass denial. Anyway, I coughed up that I could knock the carbon climate change issue on the head overnight, by outlawing meat worldwide and using arable for veg and grain - she was onto me in a flash 'oh are you a vegan are you?', no of course not, are you? I replied - no answer.
Easy living, easy answers, it's someone else's problem is what has got us here (alongside greed and zero care for the impacts of that greed) - there is only difficulty and pain and suffering to come to alter the decline, there isn't the will on a grand enough scale to alter this. Business as usual.
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www.thetimes.co.uk
Could have sworn there was a situation where nuclear/toxic waste had been buried by a British firm (at tender to the Gov) in Kenya and then the Gov had to pay out to dig it up and ship it back. Can't find yet, might be a mix of memory of stories.
There's also been a fallout re households invited to join a hydrogen scheme finding out there wasn't much invite at all, more a unilateral forced volunteer system.
Had a chat with a lady pushing the tidal energy in the Mersey scheme last week or so, I couldn't help but ask about the implicit racism surrounding the world wide energy debate and the 'alright jack' attitudes that prevail from developed countries. I raised the fact that it is a little rich for the west or lets say the UK to go mouthing off about the environment when here in the UK the forests have been chopped, the coal dug, the local seas extracted of oil and gas, species hunted to extinct, the coal burnt for electricity, the benefit of the industrial revolution had and moved passed. (she is some local politicians flunky)
She obviously had no answer but 'we have to look to local to make change' which is utter horsespit! My house isn't on fire but my neighbours is simply is crass denial. Anyway, I coughed up that I could knock the carbon climate change issue on the head overnight, by outlawing meat worldwide and using arable for veg and grain - she was onto me in a flash 'oh are you a vegan are you?', no of course not, are you? I replied - no answer.
Easy living, easy answers, it's someone else's problem is what has got us here (alongside greed and zero care for the impacts of that greed) - there is only difficulty and pain and suffering to come to alter the decline, there isn't the will on a grand enough scale to alter this. Business as usual.
Dumped in Africa: Britain’s toxic waste
Children exposed to poisonous material in defiance of UK law
www.independent.co.uk
UK class action starts over toxic waste dumped in Africa
· 'Botched disposal affected 40,000 in Ivory Coast'· British freight firm denies responsibility for illnesses
Australia to receive UK nuclear waste shipment amid bitter dispute over national storage facility
Two-tonne load to be stored at Sydney’s Lucas Heights until national facility built in several years
Britain finally waves farewell to radioactive waste from abroad
A cargo of highly radioactive nuclear waste set sail for Japan last night, after a breakthrough agreement that will cut Britain’s stockpile of high-level waste by almost 40 per cent over the next
www.thetimes.co.uk
Could have sworn there was a situation where nuclear/toxic waste had been buried by a British firm (at tender to the Gov) in Kenya and then the Gov had to pay out to dig it up and ship it back. Can't find yet, might be a mix of memory of stories.
Haydn
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The hate Sadiq Khan gets for expanding the ULEZ charge zone shows how much they care.
There’s nowhere in the country with public transport links like London and the SE.
People openly post, it’s gonna cost me a fortune to drive Corinthia and Hector to school and back in my £75,000 Chelsea tractor. Outrageous, it has to be stopped.
I’ve also seen many bile filled posts on FB from people up north about Khan. The orchestration of prejudices to oppose any climate change mitigation initiatives and vilify those implementing them says much about our society.
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Ohhhh according to my favourite bstshit right-wing broadsheet poor old drivers are being victimised by 'out of touch elites'.
Um, the Conservative government then?
*cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo*
Extremely dishonest stuff from that blob, water is not declared a bathing site based on award winning cleanliness, its usually because locals apply for bathing status as it forces the environmental agency to test it regularly.
More areas are applying for bathing water status because they want the water companies held to account.
Germany ends nuclear era as last reactors power down
Germany switched off its last three nuclear reactors on Saturday, exiting atomic power even as it seeks to wean itself off fossil fuels and manage an energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.
www.france24.com
Are they just going to buy nuclear made energy from the French instead? Some level of faith in god only knows when winter rolls round...
orchard
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There were protests over Winter about Germany digging more coal, but inland reactors using river water for coolant whilst droughts may well be becoming more frequent is a dangerous game to play too mate.Germany ends nuclear era as last reactors power down
Germany switched off its last three nuclear reactors on Saturday, exiting atomic power even as it seeks to wean itself off fossil fuels and manage an energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.
Are they just going to buy nuclear made energy from the French instead? Some level of faith in god only knows when winter rolls round...
Review highlights lifelong health impacts of air pollution | Imperial News | Imperial College London
A new review of evidence highlights the impact air pollution has on health across the life course, from before birth through to old age.
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Black Belt Jones
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Was riding in Wales last weekend around Trawsfyndd nuclear power station - first gen magnox and I think the only one in the UK on a lake. Decommissioning proceeds apace - should be complete 2083.
Was reading that the second gen AGR design is now considered one of the most expensive failures of UK infrastructure spend / planning ever. Set back the UK nuclear industry a decade, before the mass hysteria of the 80s killed it for good (in terms of UK being a technical and engineering leader in nuclear, which it should have been given the start it had).
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