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Millions of Brits made ill because their home is too hot, study finds – as UK faces heatwave

Is your home too hot in the heatwave? As new research from Warm this Winter shows the dangers of a hot home, experts share their advice for keeping your home cool without spending too much money

 

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Number of homeless children in UK highest since records began: 'A genuine humanitarian crisis'

'It is deeply worrying to see the number of homeless children in England living in temporary accommodation increase by more than 20,000 in a year to reach another record high'

 

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"‘Travesty’: How the Olympics’ breaking farce was allowed to happen
A look back at breaking’s murky entry into the Olympics - and Australia’s qualification process - explains how Paris ended up in this mess."


 

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Electric 'superhighway' approved between Scotland and England
This is long over-due. There has been talk of Scottish wind farms being paid money to keep their generators out of production, because there was no grid capacity to transfer the energy south. One big blockage was the trip through Northumberland. The Conservatives should have bulldozed through new pylons, but for obvious reasons they would not do it.

Sub sea cables do pose a strategic risk though, at a time when we are not getting on well with Russia. If things get any worse between us, you can expect that they will blow up lots of sub-sea, vital infrastructure. They have already been sniffing around internet cables and gas pipelines. They blew up a big pipeline of their own in the Baltic, a couple of years ago just as a warning of what they might do if we interfered anymore with their war on Ukraine. Russia has a well developed sub sea capability.

CNN reported that European security officials observed Russian Navy support ships nearby where the leaks later occurred on 26 and 27 September. One week prior, Russian submarines were also observed nearby.[92]

In September 2022, the former head of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Gerhard Schindler, alleged that Russia sabotaged the gas pipelines to justify their halting of gas supplies prior to the explosion and said Russia's "halt in gas supplies can now be justified simply by pointing to the defective pipelines, without having to advance alleged turbine problems or other unconvincing arguments for breaking supply contracts.”[93]

Finland's national public broadcasting company Yle compared the incident to the two explosions on a gas pipeline in North Ossetia in January 2006, which were caused by remote-controlled military-grade charges.[94] The explosions halted Russian gas supply to Georgia after the country had started seeking NATO membership.[94]

In December 2022, The Washington Post reported that after months of investigation, there was so far no conclusive evidence that Russia was behind the attack, and numerous European and US officials privately say that Russia may not be to blame after all. Others who still consider Russia a prime suspect said positively attributing the attack — to any country — may be impossible.[95]

On 25 March 2023 T-Online reported on Russian naval activity near the Nord Steam pipelines just a few days before the explosions. On 19 September the Russian Baltic Fleet began maneuvers involving vessels and 313th Spetsnaz Special Forces frogmen out of the Baltiysk naval base. On 21 September the SS-750 salvage ship, which is designed for specialized underwater operations and able to launch the AS-26 Priz-class mini-submarine left Baltiysk with its AIS inactive. Analysis of satellite imagery and AIS-data indicate that the following day SS-750 was operating in the area together with five other Russian naval vessels including the rescue tugs SB-123 and Alexander Frolov that are capable of lowering into the sea objects weighing hundreds of kilograms such as mines and other explosive devices.[96] Also in March the Danish and the Norwegian engineering newspapers Ingeniøren and Teknisk Ukeblad cited a named lieutenant commander of the Danish navy and analyst at the Royal Danish Defence College for reasoning that the sabotage used several hundreds of kilograms of explosives likely in the form of a naval bottom mine with 500 kilograms (1,100 lb) of explosives.[97][98] T-Online additionally reported that on 22 September when the six Russian navy ships were operating in the area a Danish navy patrol boat and Swedish navy and air force were also present.[96]
 

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...but only a couple of people earn hundreds of thousand pounds from promoting the far right movement.
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Campaigners hold 'vomiting' protest at Moy Park

"The group said more than 100 activists took part in the action to highlight "the major role of factory farming in killing Lough Neagh and accelerating climate breakdown". "

Lunatics.

They should be certified and locked up.

How do you recognise if someone is a vegan?

You don't need to. They will soon tell you.

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Nuclear fusion by 2938?
Liquid Lithium on the walls and ReBCO tape magnets.
CFS demonstrated a 20T magnet in September 2021. The UK's JET has a field strength of 13T.
Fusion efficiency is proportional to the square of field strength.

 
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Ghost1951

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I'm not against experimenting with human made fusion, but as the Energy Prof points out, we already have a gigantic fusion reactor working only 93 million miles away and in areas like the Sahara, the sun provides 2.8 Mega Watt hours of energy per sq meter in a year. That is a phenomenal energy source and we do nothing with it but heat up sand.

What a waste.

We should be making deals with governments in countries like Morocco and other North African states and building ultra high voltage DC transmission lines under the Mediterranean.

A few years ago there was a company called Desertec, proposed powering Europe from North African solar energy. Vast areas of that land in North Africa are nothing more than wastelands and the profit from exporting power would be a real bonus for the countries hosting the equipment.

I would not limit the power distribution to Europe. I am sure the Africans have need of it too. It would be a game changer for Africa and Europe and the rest of the world if we could get this going.


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All the necessary technology to do this already exists and is well proven - unlike man-made fusion which has always been supposedly just fifty years away, but never gives a real world return.

Get those relationships developed between our selves and the African governments, supply the investment and build the solar thermal and photo voltaic solar farms on a giant scale. Pay a proper royalty on the power to the African partners and everyone is a winner.
 
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Fusion is particularly difficult to develop. It's always been predicted in 20 years away. This time, it's more likely. The new SPARC tokamak design addresses two immediate problems: prevent or at least reduce the damage to the walls and the cost of building experimental tokamaks.
 
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Fusion is particularly difficult to develop. It's always been predicted in 20 years away. This time, it's more likely. The new SPARC tokamak design addresses two immediate problems: prevent or at least reduce the damage to the walls and the cost of building experimental tokamaks.
Yes - but meanwhile..........

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