Fleur Loveridge

Had an unexpected stab of sorrow today. Realised it was the anniversary of VJ day. 80 yrs to the day since my mum was concieved as my grandparents celebrated the end of the war. Born mid May the following year. She would have been 79 now, but passed away 10 years ago. Miss her still.

Just to note the dates are wrong on the website. The role is for start asap and will be fixed term for 8 months.

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Geothermal Seismology Salary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience) University of Leeds (with scope for hybrid working). We are open to discussing flexible working arrangements.Are you an ambitious geoph...

📣Job alert: geophysicist required for seismic interpretation at shallow geothermal research sites. Its only a short term role, but is on the existing SmartRes Project (www.imperial.ac.uk/earth-scienc...) with @geophysics-adam.bsky.social @geosolutions.bsky.social.
jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

An example of the map explorer within the UK Geothermal Platform, with layer controls. The graphic shows an illustration of a computer screen, with a map of the UK on it, and to the left are the layer controls. Above it says in blue text 'UK geothermal platform'. The BGS logo is to the top right.

An overview of geothermal energy potential for four geothermal technologies in Great Britain: Closed loop GSHP, open loop GSHP, hot sedimentary aquifer and deep geothermal, EGS granites. Contains OS data © Crown Copyright and database right 2025, data © Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 2025, data BGS © UKRI 2025.

BGS has launched the UK Geothermal Platform, which provides national- to local-scale information on geothermal potential.

Geothermal technologies have the potential to decarbonise heating and cooling, supporting the energy transition to net zero in the UK.

www.bgs.ac.uk/news/new-pla...

Welcome back!

But doing nothing and continuing without functioing services also helps them. The brave would support growth as an actual exit strategy from the predicament. But there seems very little bravery anymore.

And again!

So far so good!

Because each event is independent, every time Nat does the toss the chance of her winning it is still 1 in 2. But if you look back and say what was the chance of her calling correct in 8 cases, then you need to multiply the 1/2 up 8 times to get 1 in 256. But its still 50/50 tonight!

I am so pleased you have this joy. At a time where the world contains many aweful things, you are also one of the most uplifting follows on here so i wanted to say thank you for sharing your journey and your joy. Keep up the good work.

Quote from the restaurant at the end of the universe. "The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. "

Adams was an excellent observer as well as prescient on many things. The quote i think about a lot these days is

It's no exaggeration to say that heating will determine whether the UK can meet its climate obligations over the next few years.
We've made some progress over the last year, but there is a daunting amount still to do...

Progress in reducing emissions - 2025 report to Parliament - Climate Change Committee Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 36 (1) of the Climate Change Act 2008. This report was laid…

The Climate Change Committee has put out its annual progress report today.
While it highlights some progress on EVs and heat pumps, some things haven’t changed:
a) heating is still the big problem child
b) make electricity cheap is still the top policy rec

www.theccc.org.uk/publication/...

And substantially about buildings and substantially about heat. We know what to do. Its time to do it.

Too late for both my parents, but very pleased indeed to see this happen.

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Freestanding 3d model of a town using mine workings for geothermal energy.

Photo of the towering steel headframe of the German Mining Museum in Bochum. The sign reads Gluck Auf! (Good luck): a traditional German miners' greeting.

An information poster (in German) describing the process of mine water heat storage.

Just returning from a few days in Bochum, Germany, learning about progress towards underground thermal energy storage.

The last German hard coal mine closed in 2018, so using mine cavities for sustainable heat potentially represents an exciting new phase for areas such as these.

And for the lay person who is not as clever as you?

Its both sad and telling that many of us are thinking along those lines.

Painstaking measurement of fibre optic cable ahead of borehole deployment.

As part of the geothermal campus project, Dr Adam Booth @geophysics-adam.bsky.social and colleagues explore the potential of novel distributed acoustic and temperature sensing methods. 

Learn more🔗https://geosolutions.leeds.ac.uk/news/fibre-optic-distributed-sensing/

This is exactly what I just did

and educators! AI potentially so useful, but can be really bad for student education. It provides short cuts which means sometimes you miss out on the all important learning bit.

Train departure board. 06 35 LNER to Edinburgh.

All-Energy take two. After rail lines closed last night due to fire I am on the first LNER going north this morning. Anyone else is Glasgow today?

This. We will not have an energy transition without addressing infrastructure: transport (railways, metros, trams) for modal shift from cars, district heating network construction, wind turbines, grid transition & distribution investments for increased renewable electricity, energy storage etc.

Its great, but what I really want are women who will come if there is no road at all. Luckily I know quite a lot of those.

Technology can be incredibly useful. It can also lead to down-skilling. I worry about AI in this respect too. Sometimes there is no substitute for thinking about things for oneself.

You can't out right the right. You need to actually invest in services and yes infrastructure that will make people's lives better. This includes the energy transition that will create jobs, and transport so people can get to them.

Makes me nostalgic

Is clean energy hiding just beneath our feet? Every day, thousands of students and staff at the University of Leeds walk across a campus that’s sitting on a powerful, untapped resource…

Our campus geothermal project has arrived on the @universityofleeds.bsky.social Medium site. medium.com/university-o...