There’s loads of wind power in Scotland. How and why it does, or doesn’t, reach the rest of the UK is a complicated subject. Here’s more on curtailment costs https://ukerc.ac.uk/news/transmission-network-unavailability-the-quiet-driving-force-behind-rising-curtailment-costs-in-great-britain/
NASA makes yet another last-minute save of Voyager 1, keeping this dying craft sciencing for another day https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/voyager_1_survives_with_thruster_fix/
What exactly is a decibel? Probably not what you think. Decibels are ridiculous https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/decibels-are-ridiculous
NASA makes yet another last-minute save of Voyager 1, keeping this dying craft sciencing for another day https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/15/voyager_1_survives_with_thruster_fix/
Carole Cadwalladr gives another emotional, and somewhat frightening, view of the present and near-future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE
Here's a detailed look at the total cost of ownership comparison of an internal combustion engine vs an electric vehicle.
Has anyone else noticed that the BBC News headline/top-of-hour countdown has changed to count each second down from :96 to :00 in multiples of 4 instead of from :24 to :00
No, just me?
Millions of pounds a day are spent in the UK paying for wind turbines to be curtailed, paying again for other (dirtier) electricity generation to replace it.
See exactly how much has been spent today (and previous days) with Wasted Wind
Hopefully more media companies will follow The Guardian here and stop using that site
I am 42 years old, and have been a school governor for two years. Yet I still feel weird…
• calling teachers by their first name
• going in to the staff room
