@tonydeighton.bsky.social
A Stranger in a Strange Land. Brother, husband, father, grandfather, friend. Retired but working hard for a fair society. I live in the UK and long for it to rejoin the EU. No Tarts, no Crypto & no secret societies - FFS!
I think we are going to have to agree to disagree, there are many examples in mathematics where discoveries have been made that only subsequently were discovered to be useful. I’m sure the same can be said of any science. I am also loath to forget the arts & humanities, all are worth of study.
Your approach would see an end to the advancement of science. It would also advantage the rich who can afford for their children to be coached to pass the exams at grades necessary to obtain one of these limited university places. Who gets to decide what degree is worthy and what degree is not?
Which is why education should be free
Place called Horsey on the Norfolk coast, there was a whole beach of seals, the warden told us they will be there until the end of April.
Who knows the telephone number for the editor of the Sun newspaper?
Tip for Americans visiting Europe, leave your MAGA hats at home and wear I Hate Trump shirts.
I completely disagree, education and learning, particularly in advancing knowledge should be the goal. University education is not about turning out posh plumbers (aka lawyers, accountants etc). Thinking of the people I first worked with in a commercial function 1 had a degree in divinity.
Look at the fucking state of this cnut. Honestly, look at it. The disrespect for literally everyone it shows. I cannot begin to express how much I hate him.
Today we have been seal watching
Sometimes 7, sometimes none, at the moment it’s mostly none.
6, all cats.
Absolutely agree
And will the Paster be publishing his tax return?
“Best before 30/9/25”
What word was not mentioned in Billericay Dickie that the lyrics widely inferred?
That’s good news, a weight off your mind.
Best wishes for your treatment.
I know I’m stating the obvious and at risk of mansplaining, but it’s only mid-March, snow in March is not unknown, indeed I was born in April and according to my mum it snowed the day I was born. Look out for hawthorn (aka May) to blossom “don’t cast a clout until May [hawthorn] is out.”
And each one has a picture of a Donkey
Trapped by the salt which acts like cling film when hot & compressed. All these changes in the overlaying geologies are caused by tectonic action & climate change (hotter, drier, colder, wetter). In older rocks it is possible for rocks that were deep to become shallow stressing the rocks. End
Then it became a desert with huge sand dunes in time this became sandstone. Then it became another sea, which dried up leaving a thick layer of salt. Then another sea. In time gas from the coals displaced any oil, which was probably lost to the surface, but the gas remained in the sandstone. 4/n
Trapped. This is a very simplified explanation, it can get more complicated, the oil can contain the gas in suspension (like CO2 in lemonade). Geological age is huge; in what we know now as the North Sea was once a swamp / warm sea source of the coals. 3/n
Upwards until trapped. Coal is buried some more & gives off gas, the gas migrates upwards until it can go any further. But it might encounter the oil, in which case the gas will move through the oil with the possibility the oil will spill out at the edges. Then oil continues upwards until 2/n
Coal is formed when carbon material like trees & ferns are buried. Over millions of years the carbon material is buried ever deeper, eventually the pressure & temperature cooks the carbon material & turns it into coal. The coal is buried even deeper & it gives off oil. The oil migrates 1/n
My guess is that there is probably plenty of oil & gas, but the fracturing won’t work well enough to extract enough oil & gas to cover the cost of fracturing the rock.
Oil & gas is generated from coal, and there is plenty of coal. Oil & gas migrates upwards until it is trapped by an impervious layer (eg salt). Shale has such tiny pores that oil & gas can’t flow, but fracturing the rock creates fissures through which it can flow. 1/2
What idiot didn’t realise Iran can block the straits by taking pot shots?
It’s to do with the stresses that the rocks have been subjected to, geology is not my specialty but I recall that UK rocks have been subjected to stresses such that when fractured the fractures will tend to run in one dominant direction rather that spread out in a 3D cobweb
About 15 miles, but I have run 35 miles
It doesn’t need to cause ecological damage, waste water can be injected into a safe geological strata that would prevent chemicals entering the living world.