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- Comment on Billionaire bets big on largest solar project ever proposed to deliver power across oceans: 'At the forefront of the clean energy transition' 13 hours ago:
It’s starting to become increasingly common - there’s a project in the offing to run a cable from Morocco to the UK to take advantage of all that Saharan sunshine. There’s long been talk of stringing a few across the Med and building large numbers of solar farms across North Africa to speed up the green transition in Europe (at one point there was talk of worried insurance companies bankrolling such projects as climate change could bankrupt them). Eventually there will be a web of such cables into and across Europe shuttling energy around - excess British being stored in Norwegian HEP facilities, etc.
- Comment on Billionaire bets big on largest solar project ever proposed to deliver power across oceans: 'At the forefront of the clean energy transition' 14 hours ago:
I suppose the craziness comes from it being a $21B undertaken to build two of the largest renewable projects yet, which rely on both working properly. That’s quite a bold move and it’s risking a lot of cash.
- Billionaire bets big on largest solar project ever proposed to deliver power across oceans: 'At the forefront of the clean energy transition'www.thecooldown.com ↗Submitted 17 hours ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 8 comments
- Comment on Sainsbury's staff beat up shoplifter after dragging him into the back room 20 hours ago:
A friend worked at Sainsbury’s and he’d be among the staff who’d chase after shoplifters and I used to ask him “why” a lot. He never really had a good answer but I suspect he was just bored and it livened up his day.
- Comment on New weapon being developed to blast drones out of sky with radio waves, says MoD 3 days ago:
Yes.
- Comment on New weapon being developed to blast drones out of sky with radio waves, says MoD 3 days ago:
Still no nifty little jetpacks like we were promised.
- Comment on New weapon being developed to blast drones out of sky with radio waves, says MoD 4 days ago:
Makes me wonder if there’s a link to the Ghostbusters backpack anti e-bike weapon.
- New weapon being developed to blast drones out of sky with radio waves, says MoDwww.shropshirestar.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 7 comments
- Comment on UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways 5 days ago:
It doesn’t sound like an EMP device - it needs line-of-sight and “works by tricking the engine into thinking it is overheating”.
- Comment on UK police could get Ghostbusters-style backpack devices to halt ebike getaways 5 days ago:
Who ya gonna call? 999, that’s who.
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- Comment on Eurovision loses almost a quarter of UK viewers compared with 2023 6 days ago:
Until the UK grow a pair and send The Northern Boys, people will just stop caring.
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- Comment on Northern Lights could be visible in England and Wales as severe solar storm to hit overnight 1 week ago:
Thanks for that.
A friend went on an excursion from northern Iceland, but I don’t think he saw anything. My brother was working somewhere near Tromso.and was blown away.
- Comment on Northern Lights could be visible in England and Wales as severe solar storm to hit overnight 1 week ago:
See you back here!
- Comment on Northern Lights could be visible in England and Wales as severe solar storm to hit overnight 1 week ago:
Geomagnetic activity is already spiking and articles say it could be visible Friday and Saturday night, so “overnight” means all night but they reckon just after sunset and just before dawn should be the best displays.
- Comment on Northern Lights could be visible in England and Wales as severe solar storm to hit overnight 1 week ago:
The Standard has a London-specific article, which suggests it is guarantee in the North and could cover the whole country. So check your local weather maps (I use Wunderground) for a clear patch and give it a go.
- Northern Lights could be visible in England and Wales as severe solar storm to hit overnightnews.sky.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 24 comments
- Comment on Men over 30, what do you keep in your bedside nightstand? 1 week ago:
My side:
- Top: lamp, candle holder with LED tealight
- Top drawer: books to read and weed, as well as a smart button
- Middle drawer: pills and supplements
- Bottom drawer: hairbrush, hair ties, nail clippers, nail file, cotton buds and my old watch (a present from my late father)
Other side:
- Top: candle holder with LED tealight, my first haircut (waiting to go into the safe), new books and boardgames waiting to be processed and filed
- Top drawer: wrong colour pillow case
- Middle drawer: VHS tape of some video I took many moons ago waiting for me to convert it to digital as it has my Dad on it
- Bottom drawer: ornamental rocks
- Comment on Men over 30, what do you keep in your bedside nightstand? 1 week ago:
I may regret this but how expensive? Is there a big difference between that and the cheaper stuff?
- Comment on Men over 30, have you ever been in a legit confrontation with a stranger? 1 week ago:
Nothing much I can recall since being 30 but people tend to avoid starting fights with me since school.
I did fight a black belt kickboxer on PCP round the back of Leeds University campus one night but I sort of stumbled into that one in progress.
We’d been to the polytechnic (as was) for their Friday night shindig with a bunch of friends (so it must have been someone’s birthday). One of our friends is notorious for disappearing (he is either a drink Houdini or teleports - we’ve never figured out which one) so two of us took him to the toilet. Despite being 3 floors underground and there only being one way in or out he managed to disappear from there, to parts unknown. So at the end of the night three of us stayed behind to wait at the door to grab him while he left and the other four started off for home through the, now deserted university campus, which, in hindsight was unwise as it was a long way from any roads and not overlooked by anything). Or missing friend didn’t appear so we set off to catch up the rest of the party and walked into mayhem.
A gang of locals had cornered them and they had a friend who they claimed was a black belt kickboxer on PCP (everything I saw supported that idea, although as he mainly used kicks I did wonder if it was more taekwondo) and they were egging him on to beat our friends up. By the time the rest of us arrived, he’d already dropkicked one of the women in the back, before anyone knew what was going on, and kicked one of the guys in the face (he had flashbacks to a previous beating he had at the hands of Combat 18 and ran, jumping over a low wall, only to discover it was a high wall on the other side and he was stuck in someone’s back garden with no way to get back).
I told the two.guys I was with to get everyone out of dodge and I tried to block his path but he wasn’t happy about that so started throwing kicks my way. I blocked them (or I might still be wearing my bollocks like earrings) and then landed a solid kick and a punch which sent him to the ground. He then popped up fresh as a daisy and I realised I might have to kill him to stop him, which is not a pleasant decision to make.
His friends gave chase after mine, encouraging him to follow, so he sprinted off after them and I had to try and catch him up. Fortunately it was a bit of a stand-off and I told my friends to keep going. I ended up with my “dance partner” in a bearhug when one of my friends came up behind me to tell me we all had to go. I turned to talk to him and it was the oddest sight as the kickboxer’s foot was somehow coming up under my armpit and was kicking my friend in the face, he was just too out of it to notice, so kept talking throughout. I made him leave and, by this point, had talked the kickboxer around to believing I was on his side (he was high and didn’t seem very smart at the best of times). So I sent him off in one direction to look for “Them” and I headed off in the opposite direction.
We got back to my friend’s house and Houdini hadn’t returned, so we retraced our steps, worried he might have run into the hoodlums. However, there was no sign of either. As we got back to base Houdini is wandering down the road in the other direction. He couldn’t explain what had happened to him but he’d ended up with strangers and had a pleasant hour or so drinking tea and eating toast. Boy did we have a story for him!
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- Comment on Heineken to reopen closed UK pubs as cost of living pressures ease 1 week ago:
That seems a bold move, only a couple of weeks back I was talking to friends in the pub trade and they were naming pubs that were on their breweries death lists.
- Comment on Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England 1 week ago:
Wait, your bathrooms don’t have stripper poles?
- Comment on Archaeologists identify the birthplace of the mysterious Yamnaya 2 weeks ago:
They are key players in the shape of modern Europe as the later paragraphs touch on:
Most European men alive today carry y chromosomes that were brought in by the Yamnaya migrants of the Bronze Age, a legacy of the privileged access the latter managed to obtain, by fair means or foul, to local women. Millions of men in Central and South Asia carry the same y chromosomes, since the Yamnaya expanded eastward too. In January Dr Willerslev’s group reported that a genetic predisposition to multiple sclerosis, an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system, arrived in Europe with the Yamnaya, and spread wherever their descendants did. It may have arisen as part of a package of immune changes that evolved in steppe herders, who lived close to their animals, to protect them against diseases of animal origin—including plague. In a modern context, it causes a different kind of disease.
What of the Indo-European languages? Language, like culture, does not require mass migration to spread, but as David Anthony, an archaeologist at Hartwick College in New York, explained, painstaking reconstructions of the vocabulary of early Indo-European languages, based on comparisons of their living descendants, indicate that their speakers knew wheeled transport, practised dairying and possibly rode horses. That constrains the place and time in which they could have lived, and Dr Anthony finds the Yamnaya to be the best fit. Many are now convinced that they spread these languages throughout the Old World.
Although linking physical remains, modern DNA and language can be tricky, it’s increasingly clear that the transition from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age wasn’t a simple evolution of culture in the existing populations. Instead there seems to be a discontinuity between those two groups caused by an influx of people from outside Europe.
It looks like the Yamnaya/Kurgans spread west from the Pontic Steppe into Europe, splitting into two branches. These are characterised by the Y chromosome R1a and R1b - roughly what would become the Germanic and Celtic people, respectively.
The debate is now largely about whether it was violent or more peaceful - that article is definitely leaning towards the latter and the former seems to largely arise from people struggling to grasp the scale of the timeline. If it had happened in decades it would likely have been messy but it took centuries at a time when people could move a long way in their lifetime (the Amesbury Archer was likely born in the Alps and was buried not far from Stonehenge).
However, this all needs a lot more work, especially ancient DNA analysis especially focused at that transition. They can provide useful results - there was one study done looking at the arrival of Anglo-Saxons into Britain and you can see the different groups mixing where this is, currently, less clear between the Neolithic people and the Celts.
- Comment on Sunak to allow oil and gas exploration at sites intended for offshore wind 2 weeks ago:
This just sounds like someone burning down the house before they can be evicted
- Comment on ‘Huge disappointment’ as UK delays bottle deposit plan and excludes glass 2 weeks ago:
By my own guesstimate 95% of tetra ends up in the bin.
It’s likely 80%+ and will stay that way until councils include it in their curbside recycling collection (some do) because it is either too much hassle.for most people to take to their local tip so they stick it in non-recyclable or they see the recycle sign and lob it into that bin where it gets extracted at the recycling centre and sent to landfill or incineration. It’s the same with “recycle in store” plastic.
Found this (Indonesia)
Making the whole carton into panels or pallets definitely seems the best way to go as it is less water and energy intensive and stops the polyaluminium from eventually ending up in landfill. It’s unclear how much of it ends up on that path.
- Comment on ‘Huge disappointment’ as UK delays bottle deposit plan and excludes glass 2 weeks ago:
I did some looking around. Apparently the paper is washed out and recycled, the plastic and metal becomes polyaluminium which is downcycled into single use products that then end up in landfill. So not ideal but not incinerated. Tetra Pak’s promo video is interesting in that regard as they show the process with the paper being recycled but conveniently forget to mention what happens to the polyaluminium. That video also says the cartons can be shredded and turned into board for construction purposes but doesn’t say how much of that ends up bring used in this way.
It definitely feels like someone needs to do more digging into this.
- Comment on ‘Huge disappointment’ as UK delays bottle deposit plan and excludes glass 2 weeks ago:
Got a source for that as they havr collection bins at all tips and clearly put a lot of effort into this. I’d be saddened to find out it’s a PR exercise.