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Europe Says 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.europesays.com/1361594/ ich🥱iel #DeutscheMemes #IchIel #Memes #SelbstiesDerSeele

#memes #deutschememes #ichiel #selbstiesderseele

tillian 🇰🇿🦊:anarchism: ACAB 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

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Lulu · לולו 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

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Lulu · לולו 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

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@Brie (robot girl)

Wausau Pilot & Review 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

ICYMI: #AfternoonUpdate #AMUpdate Marathon County Public Library programs: adults https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2024/07/24/marathon-county-public-library-programs-adults-16/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#afternoonupdate #AMUpdate

Wausau Pilot & Review 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

ICYMI: #AfternoonUpdate #AMUpdate Column: Playing the green grass game https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2024/07/24/column-playing-the-green-grass-game/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#afternoonupdate #AMUpdate

Wausau Pilot & Review 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

ICYMI: #AfternoonUpdate #AMUpdate Wausau area obituaries July 24, 2024 https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2024/07/24/wausau-area-obituaries-july-24-2024/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#afternoonupdate #AMUpdate

Paul 💙 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I cannot see the need for some big projects that cost billions and provide little return in the future.. GBPower

HS2 from London to the North.. Destroy communities, cost more than planned, will be costly to use, used by only a few.. And won't be ready for decades.

Nuclear power.. expensive to build.. takes years to come on line and money to decommission.

But smaller changes now like cancelling the 2 child cap is what reaches those in need now

My grandad use to say small fish are far sweeter

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Europe Says 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.europesays.com/1361580/ Voter registration up over 35% in Virginia with VP Harris now leading Democratic ticket #Politics #U.S.Politics #UnitedStates

Voter registration up over 35% in Virginia with VP Harris now leading Democratic ticket - EUROPE SAYS

Voter registration up over 35% in Virginia with VP Harris now leading Democratic ticket https://www.wric.com/news/politics/capitol-connection/voter-registration-up-over-35-in-virginia-with-vp-harris-now-leading-democratic-ticket/

^{EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)}

#UnitedStates #Politics #U

U.S. Politics in Real Time 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Harris Taunts Trump After He Backs Out of Debates

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/kamala-harris-trump-backs-out-debates-1235068484/

Harris Taunts Trump After He Backs Out of Debates

After Trump vowed that he would debate the Democratic incumbent "ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE," Trump backed out of that promise when faced with Harris

^{Charisma Madarang (Rolling Stone)}

Europe Says 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.europesays.com/1361576/ JO Paris 2024 : la SNCF se dit victime «d’une attaque massive pour paralyser le réseau» des TGV #Actualités #france #LActualitéAuQuotidien #L'actualitéAuQuotidien

JO Paris 2024 : la SNCF se dit victime «d’une attaque massive pour paralyser le réseau» des TGV - EUROPE SAYS

JO Paris 2024 : la SNCF se dit victime «d’une attaque massive pour paralyser le réseau» des TGV…

^{EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)}

#france #L #actualités #lactualiteauquotidien

Yogthos 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Netanyahu receives standing ovation in #US Congress while anti-genocide protesters brutalized at Capitol gates.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/07/25/netanyahu-receives-standing-ovation-in-us-congress-while-anti-genocide-protesters-brutalized-at-capitol-gates/

#US

End Israeli Apartheid 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#Gaza #Palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes

Israel should not participate in the Paris Olympics, Palestinian Olympic Committee President Jibril Rajoub said on Thursday, urging the International Olympic Committee to reconsider its decision and make the world aware of the atrocities committed in Gaza.

Speaking to reporters at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, where he arrived for the Paris 2024 Olympics, Rajoub said Israel has lost the right to compete in the Olympics.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240725-israel-should-be-barred-from-olympics-like-south-africa-during-apartheid-says-palestinian-official/

✡️ 🇵🇸 ☮️

#Gaza #Palestine #IsraelWarCrimes

Kailee ♾️ Voting Midterms God 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Let's be clear, Trump is a 78-year-old convicted fraud and rapist who stole classified documents from White House, incited an insurrection to overthrow an American election, and is completely incoherent and incapable of being President. And rants daily about a serial killer cannibal. Slept through his criminal trial. Criminal Trump also slept through the RNC convention, SLEPT through Vance's speech, & DonJrs' speech.

Where is the MSM reporting on this walking, talking National Security threat?

#election2024

Criminal Defendant Trump

a. I don’t want anybody looking, I don’t want anybody looking through my boxes, I really don’t, I don’t want you looking through my boxes.

b. Well what if we, what happens if we just don’t respond at all or don’t play ball with them?

¢. . Wouldn’tit be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here?

d. Well look isn’t it better if there are no documents?

#Election2024

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muıııo 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I love it how Spanish speakers pronounce Splunk as "Esploonk" 🥰

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muıııo 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@panther_ Ma certo, ho vissuto lì e mi sono innamorato della lingua 😊

@panther

muıııo 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@panther_ Ai, is it wrong? I only got to B2 and then French and Spanish totally destroyed it 😅

@panther

Wilshire 4 months ago • lemmy (AP)

An art installation in memory of Ukrainian athletes was opened in London. According to official data, 487 athletes have been killed since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

https://t.me/astrapress/60432

An installation in memory of the murdered Ukrainian athletes was opened in London

At the center of the installation, painted in the colors of the national flag, is the number 487. This number symbolizes the number of athletes who, according to official data, were killed during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Around the numbers are equipment used in different sports.

The installation was organized by the British Foreign Office and the Freuds agency.

ASTRA

^Telegram

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OtownKim 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

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CelloMom On Cars 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Thread on new finds of fossil fuels.

I don't know how, in this year of searing heatwaves, exploration is still allowed for oil and gas,. But here we are, and it keeps resulting in finds.

For comparison, I looked up the existing proven reserves of oil (barrels) and gas (cubic meters (m^3)).

Saudi Arabia
267 bn barrels, 9,500 bn m^3

North Sea
4 bn barrels

United States
48 bn barrels, 690 Tcf gas = 20,000 bn m^3

Venezuela
300 bn barrels, 195 Tcf = 5,500 bn m^3

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CelloMom On Cars 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Mind you most of the oil and gas reserves, not to mention the even huger reserves of coal, need to stay in the ground if we want any hope of keeping climate change survivable.

Global oil consumption is about 100 million barrels per day, or 0.1 bn bpd.

Global consumption of fossil gas is 132 Tcf per year which is 10 bn m^3 per day

CelloMom On Cars 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Kuwait

2.1 bn barrels oil,
145 bn m^3 gas

"The preliminary estimates of the hydrocarbon reserves present at the well were estimated at approximately 2.1 billion barrels of light oil, and 5.1 trillion standard cubic feet [Tcf] of gas, which correspond to 3.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent."

"Barrels of oil equivalent" or boe refers to the energy content of a fuel.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/kuwait-announces-giant-oil-discovery-2024-07-14/

CelloMom On Cars 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Bolivia

1.7 Tcf = 48 bn cubic meters gas

"President Arce said the field had a capacity of 1.7 trillion cubic feet (TCF), making it the biggest discovery in the gas-rich country since 2005. "

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c25lpxzw9wlo

Bolivia discovers huge natural gas field - biggest since 2005

The discovery comes at a time when gas exports - one of Bolivia's main sources of revenue - had dwindled.

^{Vanessa Buschschlüter (BBC News)}

CelloMom On Cars 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Guyana

11 bn barrels

"The Bluefin discovery joins more than 30 already since 2015 in the Stabroek block, an 6.6 million acre (26,800 square kilometers) area that has been the site of more than 11 billion barrels of recoverable oil and gas."

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-led-group-strikes-new-oil-gas-discovery-off-guyana-2024-03-15/

CelloMom On Cars 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"A surge in new oil and gas #exploration in 2024 threatens to unleash nearly 12bn tonnes of planet-heating emissions, with the world’s wealthiest countries – such as the US and the UK – leading a stampede of fossil fuel expansion in spite of their climate commitments

Five wealthy countries accounted for 56% of oil and gas licences since 2000.
#Australia, #Canada, #Norway, the #UK and the #US made up 71% of leases in 2023.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/new-oil-gas-emission-data-us-uk

Revealed: wealthy western countries lead in global oil and gas expansion

The US and the UK among countries with low dependence on fossil fuels criticized for ‘hypocrisy’ on climate pledges

^{Oliver Milman (The Guardian)}

#uk #norway #Australia #Canadá #US #exploration

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CelloMom On Cars 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#petrostates

"The #US, #Canada, #Norway, #UK and #Australia are best placed to step up and help. They have the financial clout, the experience and the economic diversity to be frontrunners in the [energy] transition. Yet they are doing the opposite: criticising others and claiming to be environmentally friendly, even while they lift production targets for oil and gas."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/drill-us-petrostate-climate-crude-oil

‘Inexcusable’: should climate hypocrites get the petrostates label?

Suggestions definition of petrostate is too narrow as many rich countries that could phase out fossil fuels double down

^{Jonathan Watts (The Guardian)}

#uk #norway #Australia #Canadá #US #petrostates

CelloMom On Cars 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"To deliberately increase emissions in such circumstances is so obviously contrary to the public good that it suggests a capture of politics by a powerful minority that represents fossil-fuel interests – exactly the behaviour expected in a classic petrostate.""

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/drill-us-petrostate-climate-crude-oil

‘Inexcusable’: should climate hypocrites get the petrostates label?

Suggestions definition of petrostate is too narrow as many rich countries that could phase out fossil fuels double down

^{Jonathan Watts (The Guardian)}

CelloMom On Cars 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The US is now the world's top producer of oil and gas.

"While the vast, diverse US economy doesn’t hinge upon oil and gas like Libya’s and Kuwait’s economies do, some regions have become hooked on industry incomes, research shows."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/24/fossil-fuel-liquified-natural-gas-louisiana

“We don’t really have a Gulf coast in the US,” said Allaire. “We have the east coast, the west coast and the carbon coast. This is simply a sacrifice zone for the oil and gas industry.”

Four part graph, production (left column) and exports (right column) of fossil gas (top) and oil (bottom) for various countries.

‘This used to be a beautiful place’: how the US became the world’s biggest fossil fuel state

No country has ever in history produced as much oil and gas as the US does now and Louisiana is ground zero

^{Oliver Milman (The Guardian)}

Mac Knowles 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Meanwhile in Texas....
The Permian Basin with the most fossil fuel extraction has so much dirty water pumped in that it now has earthquakes. Lots of earthquakes.

JustAFrog 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Ah, yes.

That thing, which the IPCC said to never, ever do again?

Let's keep doing that without any restraint, because "economy" and "growth"!

CelloMom On Cars 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@justafrog

"The rich people's yacht money", amirite.

@JustAFrog

Space Information Aggregator 4 months ago • hubzilla (AP)

Luxembourg Space Week

EU Agency for the Space Programme: Luxembourg Space Week

Space Information Aggregator 4 months ago • hubzilla (AP)

GNSS, Earth Observation and SatCom – a space-based triathlon to Olympic glory

EU Agency for the Space Programme: GNSS, Earth Observation and SatCom – a space-based triathlon to Olympic glory

From the training pitch to the medal ceremony, EU Space is a driving force behind this summer’s Olympic Games.

Space Information Aggregator 4 months ago • hubzilla (AP)

CASSINI Business Acceleartor - Application Webinar

EU Agency for the Space Programme: CASSINI Business Acceleartor - Application Webinar

Radical Anthropology 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Encyclopedia entry by Joe #Henrich on his coinage #WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, 'Democratic') and its disproportionate influence in sample populations in experimental behavioral sciences, including psychologists, cognitive scientists, and economists.

'Because many researchers grew up in WEIRD societies, or at least trained in WEIRD universities, the WEIRD coinage reminds them to question their intuitions, assumptions, and expectations. Most societies over human history, well back into our evolutionary past, lacked money, schools, supermarkets, insurance, clean water, phones, police, antibiotics, hospitals, courts, democracies, jobs, universities, or even diverse occupations'

I would query lack of 'democracies' in the above.

#anthropology

https://oecs.mit.edu/pub/spow8trw/release/1

WEIRD

^{Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science}

#Anthropology #weird #Henrich

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Radical Anthropology 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

For example, what is not democratic -- best kind of participant democracy -- about hunter-gatherer consensus decision making?

https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-ju-hoansi-can-tell-us-about-group-decision-making

rato 🍉 kill transphobes today 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I'm in real financial shit right now and if you're feeling generous, I could use some help. Unfortunately, I have damaged a rented property. It wasn't really my fault - it just sort of happened on its own without my input. But I'm the one to pay for it.

You can support me on https://ko-fi.com/szczursky

I'm really sorry I have to ask for this, but it's getting more and more difficult.

Thank you. #mutualaid @mutualaid

Boosts welcome.

#mutualaid @mutualaid group

Tom Tailor :damnified: 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Happy #sysadminDay ! 🥳

#sysadminday

Sue Stone 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers | Ars Technica

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/secure-boot-is-completely-compromised-on-200-models-from-5-big-device-makers/

Hans-Cees 🍋 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

In a public GitHub repository committed in December of that year, someone working for multiple US-based device manufacturers published what’s known as a platform key
#infosec #secureboot #securitybooted

#infosec #SecureBoot #securitybooted

Kernou 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Richard Murphy 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Starmer’s choice: to facilitate an apartheid state, or not? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/07/20/starmers-choice-to-facilitate-an-apartheid-state-or-not/ Israel has found to be an apartheid state by the International Criminal Court. What will Starmer do in response? He has to make up his mind now. Does he still back it, or not?

Starmer’s choice: to facilitate an apartheid state, or not?

I wrote this on Twitter yesterday in response to the International Court of Justice decision on Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian Territories: It is not easy on occasion to hang on in quiet desperation, believing that there is a sane …

^{Funding the Future}

Richard Murphy 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Labour could end no-fault evictions https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/07/20/labour-could-end-no-fault-evictions/ The Tories said they would end no-fault evictions from private-sector accommodation but failed to deliver. Labour could deliver this reform now, and end this threat hanging over millions of people. They have said they will, but will they do it properly?

Richard Murphy 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Wes Streting can’t blame the NHS for its failings: that’s all down to political choice and he’s now responsible for them https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/07/26/wes-streting-cant-blame-the-nhs-for-its-failings-thats-all-down-to-political-choice-and-hes-now-responsible-for-them/ Wes Streeting is saying the NHS has failed. But that's not true. Tory decision-making on the NHS failed. Now, he has to show he can make better decisions, and not blame NHS staff if he can't.

Wes Streting can’t blame the NHS for its failings: that’s all down to political choice and he’s now responsible for them

The Guardian has reported this morning that: Wes Streeting has called England’s healthcare watchdog “not fit for purpose” after an interim report found significant failings were hampering its ability to identify poor performance at hospitals, care h…

^{Funding the Future}

taz 4 months ago • diaspora

Sommerpressekonferenz

Scholz hat die Symbolik umgekehrt

Von Cem-Odos Güler

Wo Merkel einst ihren berühmten Satz sagte, kündigt der Kanzler nun Abschiebungen nach Syrien an – und hat damit den Anschluss zur Mitte verloren.

#taz #tageszeitung #Olaf #Scholz #Gaza #SPD #Ampel-Koalition #Abschiebung

Sommerpressekonferenz: Scholz hat die Symbolik umgekehrt

^taz.de

#Gaza #sPD #taz #tageszeitung #Abschiebung #Scholz #olaf #Ampel-Koalition

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Aladár Mézga 4 months ago • diaspora

Und Gernot Hassknecht hatte noch so über seine Nominierung gelacht:
https://youtu.be/HN2Gwh8sHdU
02:50

virgil tibbs 4 months ago • diaspora

😀

taz 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Ein Gericht entscheidet, dass ein abgeschobener Marokkaner doch nicht zurückgeholt wird. Gleichzeitig gestehen Behörden erstmals Fehler ein. https://taz.de/!6025971

Behörden ignorierten Gerichtsbeschluss: Wende in Chemnitzer Abschiebefall

^taz.de

muıııo 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I was just in a morning call in Spanish and I was told my Spanish has improved a lot recently, so YAY!

Heidi Li Feldman 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

What a day. We are still fundraising fiercely at https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris. I took time to set up #MastodonBlueWave at https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodonbluewave. But what has kept me busiest - apart from getting ready for out-of-town visitors - is that I’m starting to make modest inroads with people in and adjacent to the #HarrisForPresident campaign. This is a painstaking process, lots of emails, calls, texts, everybody sounding each other out. 1/

I just gave to Kamala Harris!

Show your support with a contribution.

^ActBlue

#harrisforpresident #mastodonbluewave

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Chuck 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

There was a weird glitch with it but I think the agent got it sorted out. Worst case it got doubled. 😃

Heidi Li Feldman 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@ChuckMcManis Act Blue will refund if the agent didn’t fix it.

@Chuck

Space Information Aggregator 4 months ago • hubzilla (AP)

U.S. military urged to embrace smallsat revolution

SpaceNews: U.S. military urged to embrace smallsat revolution (Sandra Erwin)

Mitchell Institute report: Now is the time for the United States to fully leverage the unique attributes of small satellites

The post U.S. military urged to embrace smallsat revolution appeared first on SpaceNews.

Alex Psmith 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I was cycling on the road and was catcalled by a car full of women, and when they got closer, I heard one of them exclaim, "Ewwww, it's a girl!"

Just in case you folks were wondering where my love life's at.

Emeritus Prof Christopher May 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

it now seems clear that GB Energy, to be set up in the next few months by the Labour Govt. will focus on expanding the provision of off-shore wind power generation, by working closely with the Crown Estates (already doing well from the sector) and seeking to de-risk investment in the sector.

Of course, off-shore wind in many ways is more expensive than its onshore version, but does side-step the planning friction(s) often encountered... but interconnection issues remain!

#energy #wind
h/t FT

#Wind #energy

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Paul 💙 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

On my way to work on the train... I look out on acres of flat roofs of industrial buildings .. only one... An Aldi store has solar panels... Seems an ideal area for other solar panels...

Plus the bonus of an above ground conduit along the railway for cabelling

As another site... Most cities have rows of terraced houses... Ready made sites and customers

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Estarriol, Cat owned Dragon 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I have been banging this particular drum for years.

Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

One of the sad side-effects of selling off council houses is that grand schemes like estate-wide solar are way more complicated to roll out than they could have been. 😢

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Paul 💙 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

It's a big puzzle to me ... That all new builds and conversions both domestic and commercial don't automatically include solar electric generation and rain storage

With the push to build houses it should be a stipulation... Garages that recharge the electric car ?

Stoneface Vimes 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

warehouse roofs, single level car parks, schools - so many big spaces that could be solar. So many being neglected.

Estarriol, Cat owned Dragon 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

All those Wickes/B&Q etc sheds.....

Lesley M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I agree. Especially the large car parks these have. they could be covered protecting us from poor weather, or stopping cars getting roasting in the hot sun, all while providing power.

A large car park, with cars and car bays covered with a large solar panel structure.

sunflowerinrain 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I love our (government-mandated) solar panelled carparks. It's bliss to come out of the shops and into a car that isn't burning hot; also useful when it rains so you don't get soaked while loading shopping into the car.

Ombrière de panneaux solaires sur le parking, à Mirambeau

Paul 💙 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I love multi purpose usage and correctly constructed will collect rainwater

I remember going. ..to an M and S in the UK many years ago with solar panels, green plant walling, low water collected rainwater usage in the toilets... Suspect if built now it would have other green credentials.... But we still build now without any... That needs to change quickly, a quick hit for the government

Estarriol, Cat owned Dragon 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I have a horrible feeling that built now would basically have no green features as all the requirements were strip0ed out during 14years of tory landlords.

Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I have that concern too. We need to up the building standards urgently!

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Andreas K 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

UK building standards are, despite some random stuff that might be nice (yes the electrical plugs are not the worst, but also not necessarily the best in the world 😛 ) rather 3rd world-ish. Or if you want to call it in Tory-speak, “very minimum-regulated”.

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mike805 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

We have one of those at work, and the covered parking is always taken first.

Paul 💙 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Easy option is to use the generated electricity to charge electric cars while you work

mike805 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Has any city done "solar eminent domain" for parking lots? I.e. if a parking lot does not have solar, and a third party is willing to spend the money to install it, then the owner of the parking lot is required or strongly encouraged by property tax differences to allow that.

Stoneface Vimes 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

not sure. But it seems like a good idea

Paul 💙 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

It's like the ease of construction...speed of implementation, The lack of transmission lines and ready local consumers play no part in the consideration

Let's go for really expensive projects .. in the hardest location and then say ship the power across the country... Like that sounds sensible.

Martin Vermeer FCD 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The lack of transmission may solve itself as batteries are cheapening. OTOH the military vulnerability of all off-shore infra.
But, I can sort-of understand it as a strategy to defang the alliance of NIMBY and fossil-fuel lobbies: on-shore wind will become easier once fighting it can no longer prevent the transition.

Estarriol, Cat owned Dragon 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

yes especially watching tye way both russia and the idf have targeted all parts of the power infrastructure.

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Estarriol, Cat owned Dragon 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

my favourite wind turbine plan is being tested/used in Netherlands.

It is a vertical stack of small cup type rotors down the central reservation of motorways, so the passing traffic power them.

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The housebuilders lobbied against this requirement

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Paul 💙 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The answer should have been .... **** ***

The world and UK weather is changing ... As highlighted on BBC news now

beemoh 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Problem is, every time someone stipulates that a new build has to have X, Y or Z they developers complain that if they have to they won't make any (read: excessive amounts of) money and whinge until the regulator capitulates and gives then an exemption from the doing it.

See "every request for x% of the builds to be affordable"

Paul 💙 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Know what you mean... profit over the environment.. Energy efficient houses should be a selling point

Epistatacadam 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

it would be best to simply include them in the building regs that already specify how badly homes in E&W are insulated. They could as a first step catch up with Scotland, then perhaps aim to reach Nordic standards.
But change the measures to kWh/person/M2, to be achieved.

Paul 💙 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

👍 Exactly

Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

It’s not a puzzle when you remember we've had 14 years of Governments pandering to their rich mates. Quite a few of these ideas were on the table when I was involved in writing such standards, twenty years ago. We have half a generation of house building to inadequate specifications as a result.

Mike 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

And with properly designed secure bicycle storage

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

As I posted a while back, our experience with community broadband is the National Rail jealously guard their tracks & resell other uses.... might change, though?

Paul 💙 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

challenging problems but not insurmountable...

Emeritus Prof Christopher May 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Well NR will have to be a lot more cooperative than they were a decade ago... which they may be?

Paul 💙 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

might help if they were in part the recipients of the electricity generated.

Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

One thing I’ve often wondered about, but not seen data on, is whether offshore wind is more reliable than onshore? That could be a good reason to support the option.

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Reliable in terms of wind being there to power the turbines, or reliable as in uptime/MTBF and frequency of maintenance? Wind is easier to model over expanses of sea as there is little to block it, cause turbulence or take the energy out. On land you need to factor the topology far more carefully, whether you’re placing turbines on the coast at sea level or inland on hills and moors. Putting turbines on hilly land does have the advantage of..

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

..raising the turbine blades into the faster and more reliable wind flow above 100 meters, whereas offshore turbines have at least part of their swept area close to sea level. Power output varies with the cube of incident wind velocity so tapping into faster wind flow really matters for power factors. Windy.com allows you to see separate wind layers and I’ve found that very instructive. It’s worth noting that a great deal of Scotland’s wind output..

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

..comes from onshore installations in the northern highlands. The highlands benefit over the rest of the UK mainland in that prevailing westerlies come straight from the Atlantic whereas, further south, the English west coast is sheltered by Ireland being in the way. We get the best winds from the south west, barrelling up the Irish Sea. The south west peninsula is similarly blessed but wind (offshore and onshore) has been held back there by NIMBYism.

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The crown estates have also been slow to auction sea bed in the south west, perhaps anticipating the outcry, but there is also the problem of getting power out of the peninsula and onto the core grid. Notice that a whole new grid connection has had to be built for the 3.5GW coming out of Hinkley.

Hen Gymro Heb Wlad 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I'm all for more wind power but the Bristol Channel remains one of the best UK locations for reliable tidal energy.

I recall there were plans to build relatively low-impact tidal lagoons with smaller turbines, which would have been delivering energy fairly quickly, while the network could be extended over time depending on resources/requirements.

Not sure why the plan was dropped - Tory hostility to "green crap"? Instead they're still building another nuke.

Emeritus Prof Christopher May 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Likewise Morecambe Bay, up here - tidal power in both would be a major thing.... but seems like a pipe dream

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

And then there’s the Menai Straits and the body of water between Scrabster and Orkney in the far north of Scotland.

Estarriol, Cat owned Dragon 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

the lack of action on these plans is deliberate, it is what huge fossil fuel profits can buy with bribes....

Ways to keep the money flow running. Of course no planet to spend it on....

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The failure to tap into the absolutely predictable twice-a-day movement of water in the Severn estuary is shocking.

Hen Gymro Heb Wlad 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I think one problem was the fixation on a massively environmentally damaging and colossally expensive barrage that would take decades to deliver any benefit to anyone except the contractors, if ever.

The idea of building smaller tidal lagoons that could deliver energy sooner with far less cost and damage, plus flexibility for growth and upgrades over time, seemed like a winner to me.

But perhaps not so tempting to the big contractors and their Tory mates?

Emeritus Prof Christopher May 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Crikey, Christine that was a much fully & more detailed repose than I expected this morning - really interesting - thanks (and boosted)

MarjorieR 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

not sure how much can be mopped up by local demand. At the moment it's mostly coming into the penisula.

Steve Woods 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The connection to which all of N. Somerset objected...

beemoh 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Windy looks interesting.

Seems to be a bit much for mobile, but I'll be giving that a look later on.

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

There’s a mobile app which is a delight to us3 on iPad.

Quixoticgeek 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

do we have data on the MTBF of onshore Vs offshore? Operating something with moving parts in a salty environment is an engineering challenge. Personally I don't understand why we aren't filling the north sea with 20mw giant wind turbines. It avoids the eyesore objections. And we need all the wind we can get.

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I don’t know what the MTBFs are. All I’ve seen are descriptions of how each turbine is closely managed from shore. I believe the emphasis is on timely intervention to deal with any sign of degradation before failure occurs. The height of the newest 13-15MW units is such that spray is less likely to reach the hub and the insides of the nacelle. YouTube features maintenance visits a lot. The great thing is that, whereas repairs..

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

..on a thermal generating plant (coal or gas or nuclear) can take a large slice of it offline for months, the distributed nature of wind farms means that maintenance can be done on a rolling basis. Losing 13MW out of 1500MW is a mere blip. In the very worst case you can send in a ship, pop off the blades and nacelle, and have it back in action in days.

The Penguin of Evil 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Ukraine is the worked example. They are building huge wind farms because their distributed nature makes them far less vulnerable

Home solar and batteries is even better for this but would require the UK put sensible amounts of solar on roofs not the G98 regulation driven 3.68KW (by comparison sunny Australia averages 9KW)

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

An onshore wind farm is also a lot quicker to build than a replacement coal or gas fired power station. And, yes, it’s interesting to speculate how the UK’s power system would look if a more significant number of homes and small business units had solar and batteries. A sizeable chunk of demand would ‘disappear’ on the DNO side of the meter and, with surpluses exported, grid demand would change.

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The other thing we shouldn’t lose sight of is that further out in the North Sea, eg on Dogger Bank, wind is much more of an international effort. Big chunks of the North Sea are being turned over to wind farms and the companies operating them have the choice how to balance where they send the power and, indeed, how they distribute between adjacent wind farms. Outside national jurisdictions they are far less controllable by states.

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Something else to add: All this wind farm rollout is proving beneficial to marine species. Fish benefit because trawlers aren’t allowed within the boundary of a wind farm. That gives them space to recover their numbers from over-fishing. Shellfish are also rather liking the piles on which turbines are built.

Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Should I be surprised that Microsoft's ChatGPT is broken with #Firefox ?

#Firefox

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Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@vyskocilm

Tried twice to create an account and failed twice when the confirmation URL ended up in nowhere. No error, just a blank page.

@Michal Vyskočil

Michal Vyskočil 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

can't confirm - my signup attempt I did right now ended up with https://platform.openai.com/onboarding and I was able to access a chat.

Firefox 128 from a flathub.

Maybe it's some extension that breaks the process?

Europe Says 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://www.europesays.com/1361561/ Oil Kills International Uprising continues in Canada with redecoration of Montreal Airport #Climate

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Today I learned 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

TIL The word "man" was originally gender-neutral, hence "one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind". In Old English "wæpman" = male, "wifman" = female, "man" = gender-neutral

https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/man-woman
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eci5sa/til_the_word_man_was_originally_genderneutral/

man / woman / wife

3 May 2021 There were three basic Old English words for male and female humans, man , wer , and wif . And from these came two compounds also meaning man and woman, wæpman and wifman .

^{David Wilton (Wordorigins.org)}

#TIL #todayilearned

muıııo 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Literal thirst trap, look away

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Naughty Gil 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Literal thirst trap, look away

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taz (inoffiziell) 4 months ago • friendica (AP)

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NPR News (unofficial) 4 months ago • diaspora

COVID is having a summer wave. Here's what it means for older people

What's with the uptick in COVID cases? There's a pattern that's been repeated each year since COVID started -- a late summer wave. Older people and those who are immuno-compromised should be careful.

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