Imagine building a pipeline big enough to drive a double decker bus down 3.3km out into the Bristol Channel and sucking 250,000 fish into it EVERY DAY? This is the outrage EDF are planning to commit by deciding not to fit Acoustic Deterrent Speakers to the cooling pipes at the years-behind-schedule Hinckley Point C nuclear power station, carefully situated on the already ecologically-threatened North Somerset coast. https://www.somersetcountygazette.c...al-groups-call-rethink-hinkley-c-fish-system/
Can't LIKE your post Chilco, but I agree with what you're saying. Total ****ing outrage. The only saving grace is that Hinkley C is unlikely ever to be turned on. Must alert Robert Llewellyn of Fully Charged. He loves Hinkley C [NOT]. This goes back to 2016. Such is the drawn out time which Nuclear power station building takes from start to finish:
They certainly don't sleep at Wikipedia. I copied and pasted 'Rutger Hauer' into Google and it said 'is..', but immediately clicking to Wiki it said 'was...' Stood up for the environment before it became trendy to do so. And I've known of his existence since before Blade Runner and for some obscure reason thought he was German. He was Dutch.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.” He actually wrote those lines himself for the Roy Batty character’s self-obituary. Not a bad tribute to the man himself. As TSS says, far more than an actor. RIP Rutger Hauer
Great performance in a great film. Only a few months back I discovered my nipper had identified this at school as his favorite film. We'd watched it together a couple of years ago and he'd started with cynicism (as teens do) and ended up entranced. Rutger was his hero in the film, he bought into that performance. RIP Rutger.
Anyone fancy a LIVE rocket launch? You've got 20+ minutes to wait from this post. SpaceX doing their thing: Press the play button though. Don't just sit there waiting. UPDATE: Scrubbed until 25/07/19 [today]
And if you're in Southampton tonight and go out at 11:32pm, then a minute later look west, you'll see the space station going over towards the east. You're looking for a very bright star that you might mistake for a 'plane but that doesn't flash and is far brighter. It's visible for 5 minutes and is travelling at roughly five miles a second. And if you go out tomorrow at 10:43 and look in the same direction, you'll see the space station then, much fainter and behind it, you'll see the resupply rocket behind the ISS. It may be a way back across the sky but it'll be on precisely the same line. Not sure if you'll be able to see this launched supply tonight but it's possible and it'll be on that line again. Vin
Update: They scrubbed the earlier mission due to weather. It was touch and go and the count got down to 29 seconds. The launch is postponed until today [note for overseas peole: posting after 24.00 UTC+1]. If I'm about, I'll post up the new live window. Not SpaceX's greatest day, as their Starhopper was just undergoing a test 10 minutes ago, where it would have taken off upto 20 metres off the ground and landed again - testing a new engine type. But even that got scrubbed after a fault showed up. Tomorrow [err...today] is a another day for that too. I love seeing the ISS, but have missed loads of opportunities to see it. Probably seen it only 3 times over the years I'll try to remember tomorrow night
Won't see that happen for a loooong time. Electric planes are already here though and earliest commercial ones are but a couple of years away. Longer haul might be possible in 5-10 years. Airlines definitely want it too. Electricity is a damn sight cheaper than kerosene, and quieter. There is one drawback, the all-up weight never decreases. Airbus had a stupidly good idea a couple of years back, which is being tested right now. That is two electric engines for all-use, and two traditional engines for take-off assist and emergencies. Once you've climbed to height you pretty much don't need the trad' engines anymore. It's beautifully simple. Elon Musk has that VTOL Supersonic commercial jet design still in his head/on the back of a table napkin, which he is loathe to give up, although he keeps saying he has too much on his plate to do it right now. Which is certainly true. But more importantly, the energy density in batteries isn't there yet to make it feasible. So it's that 5-10 years away thing again.
Yeah, but you only encourage Farage and Buffoon like thinking. You have a responsibility as an older person.
Well done mate. I, unfortunately, am 10 mins away from #onedaysober It will be broken though as there is that ancient law that you can't have a Bolognese without a Chianti.
