Richard

Putting things in that they shouldn't seems like an excellent way for everyone assigned to the offending opening spending the next few days ankle deep mopping up the consequences.

You'd hope no-one would do it twice.

Well if you bought it, along with some kind of food. No problem at all.

I get the account emails for someones bank. And the sofa they bought on finance and took 3 years to pay off. And their former university.

A very fierce looking pangolin. The shared ancestry with the pink knitted space whistlers is undeniable

Hear me out here: pangolins are nothing more than the Clangers' warrior caste...

I've not seen too much interesting tweeted, but the interviews Ted did on the day 2 notebook had fascinating bits.

Shovlin said they'll be at the start line revving to charge the battery and keep the turbo spooled, but if the battery gets full before the lights go the boost will drop.

This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!

Bees 🐝

Richard has now peed in the sink

Consequences

4tph on current works, don't know how I got confused.

Extension means new platform and underpass at Greenford. The track it would use is only single, so it would block freight. New trip is over 15min so at most 1.5tph/train, maybe less due to the single stretch to Ruislip and the turnaround time.

1.6MW from the overhead is not far off 2MW for under train, difference looks like a cost choice rather than a technical limit.

It charges in more time due to having twice the battery capacity (it's a much larger train).

I'd prefer overhead, safety interlocks fail, height doesn't.

LTO anode and NMC cathode is pretty typical for rail traction.

Good trade offs, charges very rapidly, great endurance, thermal runaway resistant. Not very energy dense but lots more space on trains than cars.

But it might be the only one coating the cathode in in LFP for better cell life.

I believe the service at the moment is 2tph with one unit. The time/infrastructure allows 3tph with two units. But it's already really quiet so it's unlikely the rolling stock costs would be doubled for low-to-none more ridership.

It costs some more to buy BEMU vs EMU. On low use lines the extra performance of EMU matters less than OHLE costing ~£1M/track km, plus the cost of adapting tunnels/bridges/stations. A bi-mode BEMU saves a lot on extra infrastructure but means freight gets no benefit.

At least this battery trial is for a train that runs a two car every hour (at best 3tph). GWR have quite a few short routes entirely on branches, tight clearances and low use so it's not worth OHLE without other benefits.

Cancelling MML/GWML/Others is stupid even without looking at freight.

I expect £10m+ since it has bridges/a tunnel (under houses) and a bay platform to electrify. Also needs a new 2 car EMU to British loading gauge.

Or discontinuous, then it's <£5m for the easy OHLE, plus a bi-mode BEMU (please not class 398).

On a quiet passenger line with no onward freight use.

And a readout of the passing ships.

Like the livestream of that cargo ship where they read out the IKEA catalogue.

Also trying to parse all the emails that read like they were written by a concussed golden retriever I think I finally get why these guys are so enthusiastic about getting chatbots to write for them

A circular white glossy sticker, most of the lower half is taken up by top half of a wide orange cartoon bear face. The word "OVERTHINKING" is handwritten above.

There's definitely humour to be found in impulse buying this sticker then spending the next week unable to decide where to put it

I've been trying to learn the French names of various fish.

There's no profit in doing so, it's more what you might call a poisson project.

Big 'oil prices went negative because a load of venture capitalists were holding oil futures that were about to become millions of barrels of oil presents they'd need to deal with' energy.

You're not alone in missing out - you can get the full mind-blowing aurora experience chez Dread by holding a grey piece of card over your head whilst somebody squirts you gently with a plant mister. Unaccountably I forgot to take photos for the socials.

Well, here we go.

"Everyone come to the office we have an important meeting 10am to 12pm"

22 people, 20 desks, 19 chairs, 18 docks. Cosy.

The meeting is now at 1pm because the hosts forgot to make the presentation. They also don't have a desk because they forgot about the meeting and started working from home.

I still remember DC pulling that birds name out of his arse and being right.

Sorta: Standing 'Seats' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_seat

I maaaay have just bought one for myself...

I was on about the other companies too. But SpaceX playing fast and loose with regulations is a dirty advantage for them.

One wonders what they will do with their prices once they are getting closer to a monopoly. It seems to already be very profitable and Musk probably wants to be king of Mars.

I'm being funny, but not totally joking about how much they worry. They can launch loads of GEO satellites but getting an airline customer makes the news.

I don't think I've been on a starlinked plane, but I've had a some good WiFi from others.

SpaceX has lit a fire under the industry though. If the pricing I can find online is within an order of magnitude, the only reason SpaceX isn't a monopoly is existing contracts (The rest must have responded).

I get the impression that it's easier to launch satellites than it is to get an airline to take a jet out of service for a few days to install the new hardware.