You wouldn’t know them, they go to a different school.

Might owe Ake an apology! Didn’t put a foot wrong (well, maybe once)

I enjoyed Martin Samuel’s piece in The Times. I thought his “invite to train either the squad, but not be in the squad “ suggestion was sensible.

Had this exact conversation with my run loving friends this weekend. It’s a necessary evil for me but never enjoyable.

The Met Office obviously hasn’t met the public.

Oh god, now I look like I’m trying to give oven tips to the great Nigella. I just meant that ovens do vary and perhaps your followers may wish to check on their peppers earlier than I did.

You may want to take a view on whether your oven needs to be at 230C(!) for 25 minutes to roast some strips of pepper. I ended up with charcoal. Not very sunshiny.

You could argue that putting Khusanov at RB strengthens the centre…

Why transport companies?

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Nebuchadnez-car is right there

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I think the reason this isn’t done is that it’s “low quality” heat, i.e low pressure gas (air) at relatively low temperature. Expensive to move it around (need compressors) and too cold to raise steam or heat water for a local heating system.

''It seems to me a really cruel thing to do.''

Join Dr Jenny Drife in telling Keir Starmer that he has a choice to make: act now to end street discharge or continue to watch as people's lives are put at risk: pathway.eaction.org.uk/openletter

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And the way the dispatchable power agreements are written, if it doesn’t work (high recovery, high availability, efficiency at the level promised in the DPA) then it doesn’t cost the government anything as the up front costs are borne by the private sector.

Have to disagree with you on this one. Boundary Dam in Canada has been running for 10 years.

It is expensive but it is reliable and (relatively) quick to deploy. I think that it’s odd that the gov has chosen to back a new build rather than adding CC to an existing plant.

But this assumes that the gas burned in the new power station is *additional* gas . It’s not, it’s replacing the gas that would have been burned in an unabated power plant. I agree that more renewables is better, but we can’t (largely) decarbonise our grid by 2030 without CCUS.

I’m not familiar with CC off-setting. I’ll read.

Not the case in the UK. The grid selects lowest carbon generation 1st. Fossil fuel power stations will only be used when wind/solar/nuclear can’t meet demand. Power stations with CC will then be called on ahead of unabated power stations. It’s not correct to say it will increase fossil fuel use (UK)

(I’ll watch the film this evening!)

Hi Emily, do you not think that carbon capture is a necessary short term (~20 years) solution to reduce carbon emissions while other (better) solutions are matured and deployed?

Heathrow blame game is not a sign of resilience The search for instant scapegoats is a symptom of chattering class ignorance of how the world around us works

A rare piece of journalism (@edconway.bsky.social excepted) that recognises the role of engineers in the modern world (paywall). Now I’m off to read some Kipling.

Heathrow blame game is not a sign of resilience

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Being reported that it will reopen at midnight, so there will be redundancy in the system, but with a fire like that it’s going to take time to safely switch over.

Oo whatcha getting?

Thanks. I think the age of my own car meant that I hadn’t even considered this was possible!

But what can the car manufacturers actually do?

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See also Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times yesterday.