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I can remember the Seventies, when they had White Shuck Dog Eggs.

The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
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And a perfect complement to...
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Only Murmurs In The Building

There are data centres that don't use excessive water (Google has some in Nevada), but they tend to use more energy...

3GW, btw, not 3,000. Still not necessarily a great idea.

The Durrells took a turn...

Turnkey battery storage system prices are down 54% JUST IN THE PAST TWO YEARS

Like the industry has really only existed for about 6 years but the cost is dropping like a stone! To the point where *on an unsubsidized basis* solar+storage and wind+storage is the same or cheaper than cc natural gas

I assume Chuck Brown did some sort of takeover of the Soul Searchers in the Seventies.

It looks like a Fifties bathroom.

Have you ever come across the UK sitcom 'Rising Damp', from the 70s? Leonard Rossiter, Frances de la Tour, Richard Beckinsale and Don Warrington in the classic 'confined space' setup of a boarding house, with Rossiter as a seedy landlord with grand ideas. It's marvellous with two Ls.

YouTube video by Pooky Knightsmith Mental Health She’s Not Broken - She’s Autistic: 6 Things You Need to Know

Autistic girls aren’t broken. They’re exhausted from trying to fit in.

Here are 6 things they often wish you knew.
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YouTube video by Siseja John Finnemore Souvenir Programme - Seashells

The last word...
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A 1907 American Underslung

Now THAT'S a stance.

Maybe you could ask Rory.

In a couple of years, the boys might love any of Wallace Tripp's collections of (other people's) poems with his glorious illustrations. In the meantime, you'll enjoy them!

Seconding Click, Clack, Moo!

Absolutely! Her books are marvellous - and those with Axel Scheffler's illustrations are somehow even more charming. I'm tearing up thinking of how much I enjoyed reading them to my kids.

Except the ones in the capital city.

Why is Hulk Hogan wearing a cowboy hat?

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oh, OK

one like = one pre-1960 horror film recommendation

Watching the new series with Keeley Hawes - The Durrells took a turn, didn't it?

A phenomenal singer, but with a divisive voice. I can appreciate her skill, but really can't listen to her for any time.
Also, bloody 'Cavatina' AKA Theme from 'The Deer Hunter' AKA 'He Was Beautiful' was on the telly every 20 minutes in the 1970s.

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Left Behind?

Avon & Somerset Police, surely?

Should've been a dynamo (more euphonious anyway) or - at a stretch - a magneto (even more euphonious).

Ooh! Loving 'Bookish', but will need to refer some of the car stuff to 'Dr' Naomi Wolf.
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