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We have seriously lost our way in terms of getting stuff built, whether it's housing, railways or nuclear power stations.
I don't know abut the figures they claim, but the reasoning seems plausible.
Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of almost 2m cars, researchers say
Free-roaming animals reintroduced in Romania’s Țarcu mountains are stimulating plant growth and securing carbon stored in the soil while grazing
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/15/bison-romania-tarcu-2m-cars-carbon-dioxide-emissions-aoe
The same is probably true for painted portraits. They no longer have a purpose - the previous purpose of portraits now being filled by photography - and so it doesn't matter if they're shite. So they end up being shite.
Tories won’t hesitate to use local housebuilding as a stick to beat Labour if given the chance.
1. Robert Fico assassination attempt
2. Meeting between Putin and Xi
3. Israel/Hamas war
4. US economy focus
5. Floods in Afghanistan.
No mention of any plumbers on the front page!
Now we have this to choose alongside Rishi's enticing 'yeah but we know HOW we utterly broke it so that's something, right?' And Eds blue cardboard box busting yellow hammer of policy free irrelevance. Exciting times for the UK.
"Bison influence grassland and forest ecosystems by grazing grasslands evenly, recycling nutrients to fertilise the soil and all of its life, dispersing seeds to enrich the ecosystem, and compacting the soil to prevent stored carbon from being released. These creatures evolved for millions of years with grassland and forest ecosystems, and their removal, especially where grasslands have been ploughed up, has led to the release of vast amounts of carbon..." So reverting the land to grazing by sheep would presumably have the claimed effect but without the rewilding fairydust sugar sprinkles?
Also bison are bovids and therefore methane farters
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8357158/
But farming bad, rewilding good.
Hydrogen piping is stupid
The government is stupid
The next government is stupid
- E.J. Viewcode, aged 17½
You can't properly read 'first steps' behind the speakers.
Are there actually any new revelations in what the BBC are saying?
I suspect that the answer is to give Parliament the authority over local planning committees and judicial reviews, for projects of national importance, but also to increase compensation to those affected, eg paying 150% of the value of property to be compulsorily purchased. Yes it can be seen as undemocratic by objectors, but if you’re going to run your national infrastructure projects to the agenda of activist groups looking for greater crested newts then nothing’s ever going to get built.
For how long now have we been talking about HS2, Heathrow’s new runway, Stonehenge Tunnel, Brynglas tunnels, Hinkley C, and so many more major projects? All of these should have been completed at least a decade ago, if not two, and the inertia will be causing economic damage and foregone growth.
Perfectly safe, just a slightly lower heating value.
Yes it’s silly to do it in June, the party conventions haven’t even happened yet!
For Trump it gives him a chance to shift the narrative away from his court cases.
For Biden it creates a chance to contrast his greater mental ability with Trump's deterioration, to challenge the narrative that age is more of an issue for Biden than it is for Trump. Plus, it spreads out the campaign commitments over a longer period of time because age is an issue for Biden.
'The artist had just two weeks to complete the project, and while His Majesty did not sit for the portrait, Alastair was able to study him at work at a Buckingham Palace reception on 17 February held in support of global biodiversity, working from his photographs and sketches of the occasion.'
Public info campaigns: "Buy a heat pump or we'll pump hydrogen into your homes", combined with some Hindenburg imagery
Just as @EmmanuelMacron hoped to turn French eyes and ears towards his economic achievements and away from a constant right-wing drumbeat on violence and insecurity, two events – one of them 10,000 miles away – have driven all positive news from the headlines. 1/
https://x.com/Mij_Europe/status/1791035668778426872
Reasons for not using hydrogen are:
- Hydrogen is just greenwashed coal: it takes more energy to produce than it releases.
- It leaks like a bastard.
- It is worse than all the other alternatives.
So it's expensive to make, impossible to store, dangerous to transport and pointless. It has a large red flashing sign over it saying "THIS IS A MASSIVE ERROR". It is Blackadder levels of wrong. It's not just wrong it's stupidly wrong. I could do a Baldrick impersonation whilst saying "wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong..." but I think my view is clear at this point.What's changed since then?
And there was a time when you Tories spent almost all your time talking about "localism"... Of course, it suited you do do so back then.
Now all the Conservative Party stands for is trampling all over the people of this country, ripping us off on an industrial scale and making sure that the fat cats get even fatter.
You might at least try being consistent.
1) the locals are a bunch of fascists resisting giving voting rights to immigrants
Or
2) the locals are defending their post colonial situation
Answers please…
I have heard of combination oil/air source boilers to try to help in rural areas, but to be honest I'd rather just have the oil boiler.
But I don't disagree that domestic hydrogen's a dead end given the continuing development of heat pumps - as you say, there's still no economic source for the volume needed.
It'd be better to just set a date now for switching off gas altogether rather than stringing it out with the promise of a hydrogen transition that will probably never happen.
I am also doubtful about the Workers Party's boasts about how many candidates they will stand. Galloway is too toxic. He's not successfully pulled together a broader coalition of various individuals and bodies. Where does the money come from to pay all those deposits, that are going to be lost?
If you listen to R3, you do come across some
pretty good contemporary classical alongside the unlistenable stuff.
But the good stuff will last - look at the older generation, for example Arvo Pärt, or Steve Reich.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVPsa4---Y4
"He said that 70% of equipment had now been delivered for unit 1, and "many risks are behind us, like the unique British instrument and control system which has been designed and manufactured, with testing under way". He added: "We had to substantially adapt the EPR design to satisfy British regulations, requiring 7000 changes, adding 35% more steel and 25% more concrete. This adaptation and approval process is the same for other developers bringing new designs into Britain."
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/EDF-announces-Hinkley-Point-C-delay-and-big-rise-i
If they fail to stand in half the seats then fair enough.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-69016539.amp
I love the smell of performative cruelty in the morning. It smells of victory.
It’s also easy to go back and think things were better because they eventually happened. What we now know as the Elizabeth Line was 15 years from approval to opening. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossrail
The new Wembley stadium was also years late and nearly bankrupted the contractor.
I knew some bad stuff was done but it’s frankly grim what the colonists did, along with “Native Police” in certain areas. Brutally, almost Nazi in the retaliation, nasty and the numbers, even if you reduce the figures in the doc for an element of bias from those in the programme who state them are terrible. It was a massive eye opener and I almost became woke watching it.
Was v weird though watching the interviewees who represented various tribes who all looked as if they were your average white man or woman on Worcester high St. Interesting how some people cling to a small part of their heritage hundreds of years since an ancestor was that heritage - same with people like Joe Biden thinking they are Irish - and it’s their “identity”.
Anyway, well worth a watch to have three hours of being disgusted at being British, remembering that the people who did its ancestors are today’s Aussies so feeling better about being British again and remembering that about three colonists were also killed so it’s sort of justifiable.
I’m going to take a wild guess that the French, the Koreans, the Emiratis and many more countries also don’t want a nuclear accident, but for some reason a British reactor needs 35% more steel and 25% more concrete than a French reactor.
One might understand if there were specific environmental reasons, such as earthquake or tsunami risk, but there aren’t and it’s just adding cost for the sake of it.
The amount of paperwork of the most pointless type will be 400% more.
Prof. Groeteschele: Who would survive? That's an interesting question. I would predict... convicts and file clerks.
Prof. Groeteschele: The worst convicts - those deep down in solitary confinement - and the most ordinary file clerks, probably for large insurance companies, because they would be in fire-proof rooms, protected by tons of the best insulator in the world: paper. And imagine what will happen. The small group of vicious criminals will fight the army of file clerks for the remaining means of life. The convicts will know violence, but the file clerks will know... organization. Who do you think wll win?
[Groeteschele pauses, and then laughs]
Prof. Groeteschele: It's all hypotheses of course, but fun to play around with.
Is it simply that we're paying too little for the "admin" stuff - dragging out the inquiries, planning process, etc., in order to save a few quid, and setting the project up to fail by doing so?
Certainly, something has gone badly wrong with the abandonment of HS2, and not even starting Crossrail 2. It's beginning to look like Hinkley Point C will be the closest thing to a success that we'll have for a generation or more.
Fair enough. I'd rather the gas network switched to hydrogen.
Yes, of course we shouldn't design rules just to exclude or include certain parties. I support giving a wide range of parties coverage in a general election campaign, and UK broadcasting rules are good at doing that. I am also, however, sympathetic to the logic that a debate should only be between a manageable number of people, with a focus on those who could become PM.
I like the US broadcasters' approach of requiring a polling minimum. I note that the Workers Party polling average is approximately 0%. They stood very selectively in areas with large Muslim populations. That they did relatively well in those areas does not prove they have a snowball's chance in most of the country. I suspect Reform UK will get about the same number of MPs as the Workers Party in the general election, but they do poll across the country much, much better.
(I also note that the Workers Party has 1 MP and 5 councillors, whereas Reform UK has 1 MP (by defection), 9 councillors and 1 London AM, plus they are in an alliance with the TUV, who bring another 10 councillors and 1 Stormont AM.)
I've installed air source *heating* (A/C that reverses) in the room I am typing this in. Plus solar panels to power it. Just works.
Hydrogen isn't an answer to anything - it would be cheaper to go to electric boilers at that point. Given the known (and future expected) falls in electricity prices, electric boilers will be cheaper than gas before the planned ending of gas.
Anyone who wants to ignore the safety rules on handling hydrogen is an idiot.
@nickwallis
Who or what is Lesley Sewell crying FOR?
#PostOfficeInquiry
10:38 AM · May 16, 2024"
https://twitter.com/nickwallis/status/1791040512268398775
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cE0FxhrdMI
For some of the tribes, the reason that their only ancestors look white is because the genocide of the tribe was so compete that those are the only people left with any connection.
Can we deport the Home Office?
Kier In Ending, aRe.
Easy to remember.
But there were rumblings about metropolitan French and possibly other EU ers) pricing out locals
"They are shit" is just ignorance.
I've known people, not on mains gas, but not too far from us (we are on gas), who have replaced worn out oil boilers with straight electric boilers and linked solar and reckon it's working out not too much different, not that I've seen the actual figures.
Yes, sure, there'll be some unsuitable materials used in the 80s before anyone began to think of hydrogen compatibility, and we would need a plan to replace those. But that's mainly an issue in the distribution network rather than in the home, and that can be solved by re-lining the pipes where necessary.
And since more than 95% of the deaths from gas come from CO poisoning, a pure hydrogen network would likely work out as being safer than natural gas.
But I don't see it winning out against electricity, and think the real danger is that certain sectors of industry will try to keep us throwing money at it in an effort to keep the possibility of domestic hydrogen alive. We ought to make a decision rather than dithering.
(I do agree that a 'a few more explosions but far fewer poisonings!' is hardly a great safety case. But that's an argument against all domestic gas, not just against hydrogen)
Knight Expects Imminent Rule
I don't know why you're complaining about the rules that you wanted being enforced. Maybe you should have thought about that when you were busy accusing lefties of being weak on immigration for opposing these sorts of rules?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-inquiry-costs-taxpayers-300k-day-wjgwgfr3d
This was basically admitted during COVID, when the conditions in those factories was exposed.
The bit I never mention about my plan to wipe out the black economy - by being really nice to the victims of it - is the crisis that would result. I'm talking about an overnight hit to GDP, hundreds of thousands of jobs evaporating and a number of business models ceasing to work.
You can't reline domestic pipes - between embrittlement and leaks, you'd have to redo all the pipework between the street and boiler. Even the solder used to join metal has to be the right kind. Hydrogen can leak *through* solid materials.
Gas explosions have dropped massively since the town gas days - the question is whether this was partly due to no hydrogen in the mix. It probably was.
It's interesting that the main barriers she identifies, in addition to various "Schrodinger" type fears (Schrodinger's ASBO Motorcyclist is the one I get most), were around organisational recalcitrance in local authorities, and the planning system.
She wrote a companion piece last week in the Guardian about cycling the Strawberry Line. I did it back in 2015 going to a dance weekend at a hotel in the Levels in winter over frosted roads. I would like her to be more specific in mentioning anti-mobility barriers; it's ironic that the nice level, well-surfaced paths advertised as accessible are exactly the ones that get barriered off.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/article/2024/may/09/somerset-england-growing-cycle-network-strawberry-line
One current project down there is that Cheddar Gorge may be closed to motor traffic one weekend per month:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-68723687
I heard a fascinating presentation this week by a Green Councillor from Darlington about organisational inertia in his local authorities, and how Council officers are overwhelmingly small c timid-conservative driven by fear of the unknown when it comes to new, or different, ideas. A god example is conraflow cycling on one-way streets, which is fine but causes Corporal Jones to have a panic attack.
Plus how traditional democratic structures which are existing-but-unused (eg petitions, questions to scrutiny committee) can be leveraged by activists for these type of opportunities. I'll post in when it hits Youtube.
Keir Enables Irritating Revolution?
Like the post office inquiry you are seeing very highly paid lawyers in action doing work that is bettering humanity.
They do seem to make a point of doing things in the most archaic way possible - there's an astonishing reliance on shuffling physical paper, and there's all that hanging around while other people put materials up on the screen for them, etc.
But even if they'd found some more tech-literate people, how much would that actually have saved?
And beyond that, it's hard to see where any other savings could have been achieved whilst still fulfilling the brief given to them by the govt.
Mobility and heating definitely have a muted presence, with a lot more focus on ammonia, eSAF, P2X, and large scale industrial facilities.
Still a lot of large "hub" type concepts floating, but increasingly project focused and hands start shaking out.
https://twitter.com/NiyerClimate/status/1790345901531189725
Hydrogen will definitely have its place in a renewable economy - but the cost timeline on the production of green hydrogen, and the likely massive cost of upgrading national gas networks (and domestic pipework), make planning to use it to replace gas in domestic heating completely nuts.
As an industrial feedstock, from electrolysis using zero marginal cost renewables which go beyond what's needed to charge whatever battery storage demand is out there from hour to hour, bulk generation of green hydrogen will at some point make quite a lot of sense economically.
Yep - that'll happen !
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3g92zkd7n4o
If you find him sympathetic, perhaps that should make you question your other assumptions on the topic?
https://msn.com/en-in/news/other/benefits-cheat-filmed-running-jailed-for-two-years/ar-BB1mryW1?ocid=BingNewsSerp
These kind of stories polarise opinion. Some would expect a lot of this kind of thing goes on. Some would say its rare, and we get selection bias (we are aware of these cases BECAUSE they get caught). Id be interested to see how this opinion split between left and right and Labour vs Tory.
The cycle of electricity -> hydrogen -> compress/cool -> store -> uncompress -> electricity is so inefficient that hydrogen power storage is unlikely to make sense. Nearly every other method is cheaper and better. Remember you have significant loses per day - several percent.