@jfang
Rubbish pianist, dog lover, retired but still conscious Owned by bonkers Irish Terrier pup (they said get a puppy,it’ll be fun). He’s on the 97/3 scale, most times 97% gorgeous with 3% crazy dog No DMs please No bio, no posts, dodgy photos = block
Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied.
But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.
France and Italy have opened talks with Iran in the hope of securing safe Hormuz passage, the FT reports.
War in the Middle East and push-backs on the Green Deal from the Right means higher prices and more dependency on oil and gas. Now, more than ever Governments must help hard-pressed households to move to cleaner energy. europeangreens.eu/news/middle-...
TRUMPS WAR ON IRAN MAKES LIFE DIFFICULT FOR HIS EUROPEAN RIGHT WING ALLIES
Georgia Meloni of Italy is finding support for Trump increasingly difficult as his unpopular war on Iran, which is sending fuel prices soaring across the world and could be deeply impactful the longer it goes on. She’s not
You've all heard of the Resource Curse: countries are impoverished by rich resources in their territories, as these trigger colonial looting.
Now we see the Base Curse: if you host a US base, you don't enhance your security. You make yourself a target.
“The other Taco problem. This takes place when he wants to chicken out but is unable to. This is probably the most dangerous possible scenario. It’s the one we’re in right now. Trump cannot chicken out of Iran because he is not the only actor participating in it.” open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
We have an ASHP which keeps our home pleasantly warm with plenty of hot water. We are currently getting YTD a COP of 4.21.
Today temp outside is 5 Celsius, temp indoors in 21 Celsius.
Brilliant piece of technology.
Taco is an increasingly unhelpful way of looking at the Trump administration open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Plus #Iceland and #Ireland
If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one.
My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes 🙌
Psssst, let's just slip this decision out whilst everybody is focused on the Strait of Hormuz
Israel: rogue state
BBC News - Israeli military drops charges against soldiers accused of abusing Palestinian detainee
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
REMINDER: The only route to lower bills and secure energy is to free ourselves from oil and gas through homegrown renewable energy and upgrading homes - whether that’s with solar panels or heat pumps.
This is just common sense in today’s world.
Another interview on the impact of the war on energy:
We should fix the roof when the sun is shining not when there's a thunderstorm.
Only when we shift energy demand from burning fuels to using clean power will we shield ourselves from crises.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgm4...
Thermal storage goes from strength to strength:
Tata Steel is piloting a 20 MWh thermal energy storage system at its Jamshedpur plant in India, using a so called heat battery to capture and reuse high temperature waste heat from the sintering process.
www.canarymedia.com/articles/gre...
Solar panels losing power due to grime? It's a bummer. But check this out: a new PFAS-free coating combines hydrophilic sol-gel and hydrophobic nanoparticles to keep them clean and efficient. Efficiency jumped from 13.90% to 14.56%! Testing for extreme weather is next—market launch in about 5 years.
1st batch of Mandelson vetting documents points to 2 things. The Government knew plenty (if not everything) about Mandelson’s relationship with Epstein, sufficient for Jonathan Powell, Starmer’s NSA director to raise a 🚩. McSweeney’s opinion was preferred
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/peter-...
New Origin Story, on an absolute unqualified piece of Nazi shit, who is as close to the brains of the Trump operation as it gets.
🇺🇸🥲🇺🇸🥲🇺🇸🥲🇺🇸
Couldn’t express it better!
#trump #iran #illegalwar
Read this article. Every single world of it. Read it!!!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden.
The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite.
The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.
Telling how confident Starmer now feels in owning his Iran decision. His best outing against Badenoch at PMQs in months. KB not alone in shifting her position. Many of those in the press and politics demanding war and condemning Starmer loudest have been far quieter since the inevitable chaos began.
Irish terrier resting his head on the back of the sofa looking as if butter wouldn’t melt
It’s impossible. We try and fail
Mick North's five year old daughter Sophie was murdered 30 years ago along with 15 other children and their teacher at Dunblane's primary school.
He has called on Nigel Farage to renounce his description of the UK's handgun ban as 'ludicrous', but Farage refuses.
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk #PMQs
She is very dim… and repulsive with it
Universities provide an interesting testbed for adopting innovative technologies. Here is Princeton using what appears to be a very large ground source heat pump with 2,000 (!) boreholes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjdS...
A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”
This is from 1975.
Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.
Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Operating costs for vehicle fleet operations can be cut dramatically by switching to battery electric vehicles.
The UK currently leads the way in Europe.
@bobbyllew.bsky.social
🔌💡
evfleetworld.co.uk/uk-fleets-ca...
