Off Topic The Environmental & Pollution Thread

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.

 

Well, yesterday's record of 34.0C didn't last long...



Vin

 

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.

 

There’s knobs everywhere. They are definitely not exclusive to UK.

 

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

 

Ten months since the last post, worth a bump for this.

 

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.

 

Good luck

 

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.