My Weather station in the garden peaked at 30.4 at 2:48pm. A lot cooler 29.6 at the moment. All in the shade naturally.
Southampton Council are running a free Big Green Event on 30th July. See you there! https://southernsustainability.co.u...ijbfRL13b0-gsATP0r2CUevK_Rz75HvDSg4zPktoTKJ2U
An estimated 30 MILLION people are homeless and without shelter in Pakistan, due to unprecedented flooding of the Swat River. The cause is the accelerating melting of glaciers which feed into the river.
Just had a refresher as to how powerful thunderstorms are, here in Spain. Dropped my son and his girlfriend off at Alicante airport and the long expected rain started as we said our goodbyes. Five minutes later, on the motorway, the rain became a deluge. Full speed wipers were barely sufficient and the surface water hitting the windscreen totally obscured the view until the wipers could catch up. Most drivers were using hazard lights to make themselves more visible in conditions where visibility was often less than 100m. The lightning was very potent and must have had a direct hit on a tree beside the motorway as it was in flames as I passed it, despite the downpour. The bottom half roads, of the urbanisation I live on, was a foot under water with more water pouring down from the top end, where my house is. And to prove that there are idiots amongst us, I followed a car on to the urbanisation that didn’t even have his lights on, despite the skies being black and the law dictating the use of lights when wipers are needed.
For someone who works in IT and genuinely does have concerns about the energy used by cloud providers like AWS and Azure, this is a step in the right direction: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64939558 It is true that one of the biggest costs and biggest issues a data centre is heat, ingenious that someone has used that heat in a good way. Come on Amazon, how about heating up half of the east coast with your data centres in us-east1 and us-east2
Picking up my first electric car next Saturday - Looking for recommendations of home charging units/installers. We are with Octopus already if that makes a difference.
Ships calling at the UK’s most-polluted ports produce more nitrogen oxides than all the cars registered in the same cities or regions, analysis has shown. A report from Transport & Environment (T&E) said that ships were continuing to discharge huge quantities of air pollutants at ports, with Milford Haven, Southamptonand Immingham topping the list for emissions of harmful sulphur oxides and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) as well as nitrogen oxides (NOx)
We have a PodPoint at home - seems ok, what I like about it is that it is easy to use the nationwide PodPoint chargers (eg Tesco etc).. We really do need to come off EDF though and move over to Octopus.
Pod Point is what my work place use, and until I get a home unit installed, will be my preferred option for charging. I do wish to avoid having multiple RFID cards and app if I can help it. Perhaps I will get Pod point too if it is compatible with Octopus smart metering (or whatever it is called) Cheers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9q4129reqgo I don't know anyone who wants to talk about this so I've gone through the archives to find this thread. How the hell does this still happen with all the technology and equipment we have? The devastation this will cause is unknown, particularly to marine life... It just makes me feel helpless. We, the common folk, generally try and look after the environment and realise it's importance but these billion pound industries who create so much distruction time and time again can get away with an apology and some half arsed conference about how they'll "learn from their mistakes". I know it impacts us all... but it's the wildlife I feel sorry for most of all; humans have let this happen to themselves. The more divide there is the more the crooks who run the world can do this and get away with it. If we can catch rockets, and create quantum chips, surely we can stop large scale oil leaks from happening... Or prevent them at least. Anyway, I'm rambling but this is what's important to me.
Re North sea collision. "Two maritime security sources said there was no indication of any malicious activity or other actors involved in a crash." As reported in the Independent and other sources
A 59-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter in connection with yesterday's collision in the North Sea, Humberside Police says. It has opened a criminal investigation into the incident. We'll bring you more details in a moment. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cgq1pwjlqq2t?post=asset:8d39dcb2-f9be-4333-919f-4e0d84514130#post
