Gas is only contributing 0.8GW to GB's (not UK) electricity at present.

Pretty much as low as it will go so as to keep the turbines spinning and the integrity of the gas seals.

(The article mentions how after your first successful run through with just the chickens then the duck comes out of the cage and flies after you. I remember that after that 2nd run through you then got all the chickens plus the duck combined for your 3rd run through all the levels.)

Chuckie Egg. My favourite game on the BBC Micro as a kid. I discovered a few years back that I even still have the muscle memory for how to start some of the levels, that’s how much I played it! 😳

Gas generation falls as wind farms set new quarterly generation record New data shows wind generation reached 29.2TWh during the first quarter, as gas power output fell 16 per cent year-on-year

Gas generation was down 16 per cent in the first quarter due to the UK's latest wind power generation record. If it weren't for renewables this fossil fuel-induced energy crisis would be even worse. www.businessgreen.com/news/4528492...

Picture of Baroness Finlay speaking in parliament with caption The transcript of the assisted dying debate in the Lords is longer than War and Peace

We could not be clearer. This is an egregious and undemocratic filibuster of the Assisted Dying Bill. No matter what metric is used, the evidence shows that opponents of the Bill, who will never support it and never be satisfied with any safeguard, have deliberately run down the clock.

‘I never said nothing,’ said Nanny Ogg mildly.
‘I know you never! I could hear you not saying anything! You’ve got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn’t dead!’ [said Granny Weatherwax]
– Lords and Ladies

Record number of homes in Great Britain turn to green energy as fuel prices soar Iran war drives demand for solar panels, heat pumps and EVs, with energy bills expected to rise 18% from July

Heat pump orders up 2x in a month. Solar panel inquiries up 250%. EV leases up 85%.

The Iran crisis has made energy security feel personal.
I understand why: I have solar panels, a heat pump & EV on a flexible tariff. When gas prices spike, my bills barely move.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

My photo shows a set of Late Iron Age glass gaming pieces displayed on a sandy surface in a display case at the British Museum. The set is made up of 24 coloured glass domes; six each of white, yellow, blue, and translucent green glass. One of the yellow pieces is out of shot in my photo. Each game piece is decorated with five inset spiral motifs in a contrasting colour. Nearly all pieces are uniform in shape; domed with a slightly pointed apex and a flattened base. Dimensions approximately 2.57 cm diameter and 2.2 cm height. The gaming pieces were recovered from a richly-furnished Late Iron Age cremation burial in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, when it was disturbed during the construction of two gas-pipe trenches during the building of the Panshangar Estate in 1965.

Gorgeous glass gaming pieces from Iron Age Britain! 🤩

This unique set of 24 coloured glass domes with flattened base and spiral decoration may have been used for a game similar to ludo some 2,000 years ago.

British Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Nauseating and terrifying.

Big news! The first power from the third giant offshore wind farm being built on Dogger Bank has been transmitted back to Britain

Rolls of small green pots piled up together. Inside one roll is a bird's next, with a bird perched inside.

Sometimes, we just need to wait for nature first.

This blackbird has chosen an unusual home for her nest - inside a roll of air pots at our Plant Conservation Centre!

Enjoy the spot, we’ll just use these when you’re finished…

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Srsly. Not much we can do, except cross our fingers.

Comic. One... two... THREE! [text in red] X Deprecated [line break] One... two... three... GO! [text in red] Deprecated [red curly bracket around top two lines] Too easy to mix up [line break] Three... two... one... GO! [text in green] [check mark] ISO Standard [caption] If I were in charge of ISO, the first thing I’d do would be to standardize the way people count out loud before doing something in sync.

Countdown Standard

xkcd.com/3232/

Annandale distillery claims 'world first' in bid to produce low-carbon whisky Annandale Distillery claims it is the first to use a new environmentally-friendly way of producing heat to make whisky.

Heat batteries delivering up to 1,200C using off peak electricity:

A Scottish whisky distillery just claimed a world first — producing high-temperature steam for distilling using stored green electricity instead of fossil fuels.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Woke up too early this morning, annoying. I didn't need to wake up early.
The upside, I stood outside for a few moments and heard the dawn chorus. Soul replenished, thought I would share 30 seconds. #soundup

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

I can totally understand why! I’m up to season 3 episode 18 so plenty more to enjoy at the moment 😊

How many birds die from wind turbines? Surprising findings Critics say wind turbines endanger birds but two new studies have now analysed the risk in more detail. What they have found could change the debate.

Two recent studies have re-examined risk of birds colliding with rotor blades of wind turbines.
Research found that there was not a single collision.
"The results from Aberdeen Bay show that modern offshore wind farms can be operated with low risk to wildlife."
www.euronews.com/2026/04/11/t...

Landscape promotional image with cream coloured background with The Mentalist title written in dark red capital letters on the left half, and the right half has some vertical red panels in the background and a head shot in the foreground showing the star of the TV show (side on with face turned to the camera, wearing pale blue shirt with top button open and a darker suit jacket).

I discovered The Mentalist on Netflix recently & am absolutely loving it (only 10+ years after it ended!).

Don’t know why it’s taken me so long to find it but it being older means I get to enjoy not having to wait for new episodes & that there are lots of them (7 seasons of ~24 episodes each 😊)

link in thread for doubters.

Ours arrived today too 😊

Electricity dashboard, showing 5.8% fossil fuels, 77% renewables, 16.9% other sources, 4.2% interconnectors

It's a bit gusty out there, but on the plus side, the UK is currently running on 77% renewable electricity right now. 🎉🎉💨💨
Yay nature!
(screenshot from grid.iamkate.com )

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

France banning gas boilers in all new homes (including flats) from the end of the year.

Black and white cat lying on his side on a small navy blue cat blanket, which is on top of a duvet, with one leg stuck out and showing his tummy. Photo taken from the side.

Black and white cat lying on his side on a small navy blue cat blanket, which is on top of a duvet. Photo taken from above.

Our cat ‘in bed’ on his blanket this afternoon.

CLIFTONVILLE KENT COUNTY COUNCIL BY-ELECTION WIN GRN: 38.8% RFM: 33.1% CON: 15.2% LAB: 10.4% IND: 1.3% LDM: 1.2% GREENS GAIN FROM REFORM Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

🎉 Green GAIN from Reform! 🎉

💚 Congratulations to Rob Yates on being elected in Cliftonville ward!

Surge of funding for dark money anti-abortion group linked to Reform | Good Law Project ADF International (UK) spent more than £1.4m attacking bodily autonomy last year, three times more than in 2020

A US anti-abortion group close to Reform has tripled its spending in the UK since 2020.

This is not a coincidence.

goodlawproject.org/surge-of-funding-for-dar...

When it comes to the energy transition I'm a glass half full person.

I know: plenty of people would say that's terribly naive. They point to the scale of the challenge. They point to vested interests. They point to hard-to-abate sectors.

And they're not wrong. But here's what they miss.

🧵

What an unutterably skid mark on the soul of humanity.

A home made wooden raised bed providing a square patch of soil, currently bare of plants but featuring a black and white cat lying in the middle of it.

A home made wooden raised bed providing a square patch of soil, currently bare of plants but featuring a black and white cat lying in the middle of it.

Cat lying in the sun in a neighbour’s not yet planted veg patch this afternoon!