Posts by graeme leggett 2469 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Oct 2007
The Germans are removing some wind turbines (eight in total by end 2023) to extend an existing mine
This was known to be an issue when the turbines (1MW/hour types) were first built twenty years ago
About 500 turbines were given planning permission in Germany this year.
The optics of this one case aren't good but the situation is nuanced and Germany is not turning its back on renewables.
Earlier today, someone tried telling me that an asylum seekling migrant only becomes a net benefit to the UK once they earn over £45,000 (I presume they meant per annum).
Which seems a bit off given the median household disposable (ie after income tax etc) income in UK is around £31,000
An important takeaway form the Crimean War, is that the Russians lost. Suing for piece after the siege of Sevastapol ended in 1855 with French and British taking control.
Also, on the other side of Europe, there was a blockade of the Baltic (the RN has a thing for blockades) which affected Russian economy.
For what its worth there were a lot of caualties among the non-professional Russian army - it's losses were about half a million, twice that of the opposing British, French, Ottomans.
The subsequent peace treaty banned Russia from having a fleet turning the Black Sea into a demilittarised zone.
Hardly worth mentioning really.....
The German war reparations were proceeding fairly well post WWI.
The Allies did rescale the payments with a bit of American nudging. American money was going into Germany which meant that Germany could produce stuff for export which gave them income to pay reparations; an interesting money-go-round but it worked.
And then the Great Depression dried up that source of financing after which the little corporal got his chance.
Can recommed Tooze Wages of Destruction for explaining it properly
Lend Lease effectively gave materiel to the Allies.
The recipient nations didn't pay for anything that wasn't returned because it had been destroyed during the war.
They didn't even have to physically return some materiel, bulldozing American-built aircraft into craters, or pushing them off aircraft carriers into the sea was sufficient.
And the stuff UK did keep hold of post war was charged at only 10%, still enough to put UK finances in a dire state but a very large discount.
Tolkien's world is formed out of his experiences, and his passions. It's informed by the First World War, the 1920s and the 1930s.
As one example, the hobbits return to an industrialised Shire.
Tom Holland and Dominica Sandbrook cover the historical cues in their Rest Is History Podcast
https://shows.acast.com/the-rest-is-history-podcast/episodes/226-the-lord-of-the-rings
The army high command- basically a junta - removed Richard Cromwell.
Richard had allowed Royalists and moderates back into parliament. The army didn't like parliament asserting authority and Charles Fleetwood (Richards brother-in-law and commander in chief of the army until parliament removed that authority) and General John Lambert expelled parliament
And the Commonwealth's "Committee of Safety" mobilised a force against General Monck's Scottish army but the English army collapsed and Monck effectively drove the restoration of the monarch.
By ESM-5 someone might have cancelled the project or moved other mission goalposts but the rest of the systems should be settled by then.
And that's presuming they don't have to make other changes along the way, which could have an effect on the choice of engine.
1) I haven't seen any mention that the ban includes agricultural vehicles
2) The idea is to phase out diesel haulage, but again, is that in the same time frame as cars
3) A lot of the taxis I see are hybrids
The rest of your post is further mix of strawman and Nirvana fallacy.
Largest grain exporters in recent years is USA, Russia is largest wheat exporter.
If Russia is exporting a lot of wheat, it may be at expense of internal supply. I see Russia has banned grain exports which means another source of income is cut off.
And "man cannot live on bread alone"
"Pan American Security Zone" (waters off North and South America) from early 1941 US warships in the zone escorted convoys bound for Britain and reported sightings of German submarines "in clear" for shipping to pick up on.
Many Americans were against intervention but Roosevelt wasn't
This is a study of actual effect to date. Which is bit late to determine the cost benefit ratio other than in hindsight.
Expect more papers will come out along the line of "Starlink messed up things this much" but they aren't going to stop Starlink.
Perhaps its a plan to push more observatories into space - they'll be needing rockets to put them up there. Cynic, moi?
There was a study predicting effects.
https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa37501-20/aa37501-20.html
But those approving the products are not the employees of the manufacturer seeking approval as it seems in the case of Boeing/FAA.
Safety studies etc are paid for by the manufacturer (the alternative could be the manufacturer paying the regulatory body to carry out the testing but as it's an open-ended process I don't see anyone signing up to that) and are generally contracted out to others, so it's a bit more separation there too.
"the fragility of this planet and its environment that is only something you experience in space,"
Absolutely. If you get up there and remember what little there is protecting you when you're down on the ground, then you might be minded to look after it a bit better.
" include expanding the protected airspace to allow for a greater variety of trajectories and adding steps to ensure real-time mission notifications"
So basically Virgin need to ask for more space to fly inside (because they can't guarantee their aircraft will stay inside the lines) and they need to talk to air traffic control?
There was no "horrendously stupid' idea! approved in the TM office.
as Affinity puts it
"Affinity Consultants..is hired by more than 100 Greek Organizations to manage the commercial use of their trademarks"
"The trademarks include the organization's name, nicknames, Greek letters, crest, badge, symbols, and other insignia"
is this drive for free access to standards also present in other areas of industry?
eg in food industry example BS ISO 3103:2019
Tea. Preparation of liquor for use in sensory tests £67 (discounted price for members)
or ISO/IEC 17025:2017
General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories.138 Swiss francs
Char.gy say up their lamppost chargers deliver up to 5kW depending.
a random selected council specification says cable supply to street lights should be minimum 6mm² and laid in ducts.
In a domestic situation 6mm² Twin and Earth is rated from 23 to 47 Amps depending on insulation level.
commenting on my own comment, tsk.
Jim deals with people after money by exploiting a fear (loss of computer/files) in an area where they are ignorant
in playing the ignorant victim, Jim has the advantage that 1) he has no files to lose so can remain emotionally detached and 2) he knows their tricks (remote, blanking screen, editing webpages) - hence he remains in control of the interaction and comes out ahead.
In this reported incident Jim had something on the line (his channel) and he has less knowledge (youtube channel deletions by scam uncommon - though held to ransom possibly a problem?) - so the attacker has an advantage even though Jim may be more savvy/sceptical in online interactions than the rest of us.
second point - instead of being up against scam call centre drones, he might have been targeted by a more competent group (whether for hire or the jollies) able to make their interaction more convincing (eg IP not resolving to India, fluent English speaker, less bafflegab/working from script in conversation)
Some people are saying 'Jim' is doing it for publicity, but I think this line
"3.28 million subscribers he had gathered" says otherwise
When you've got a follower base that big (and are doing team ups with Mark Rober that exposes how the scammers launder money through) then you don't put your reputation on the line by that kind of stunt.
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