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Manufacturing industry cannot decarbonise overnight (other than shutting down operations) so I think there must be a place for interim, stop-gap projects to yield some significant reductions in atmospheric caron release while industry steadily adapts to non-fossil fuel energy sources over a normal generational rebuilding period of 25 years. And carbon storage within an established O&G field is not so expensive. Existing production pipelines can be repurposed with flow in the reverse direction, and most production wellheads can be converted to injection wells quite simply. This is common practise within the O&G industry for boosting the pressure of depleted reservoirs.

Getting back on topic, no, I don't see Marxism as inherently religious in any meaningful way. Being profoundly atheist since the age of 7 ('They're all telling me lies!!'), I find it refreshingly free of the spooks, miraculous transformations, and immaculate conceptions that are the typical hallmarks of religion. As for dialectical materialism, the clue is in the name: it's a materialist philosophy, not a spiritual one.

Others may see it as much needed investment in an area of the country whose engineering and manufacturing base took a battering under the Thatcher regime, and has been largely neglected in the decades since. To describe such investment as a 'waste' flies in the face of historical evidence such as the economic recovery of Western Europe post WWII. Such as, say, the 8+ GW now being generated off the Yorkshire coast by the Dogger Bank Wind Farms, effectively more than replacing the peak outputs back on the day of Drax, Ferrybridge, and Eggborough - the heart of the National Grid? You now have a Government with a very progressive commitment to renewables. I really don't understand why you refuse to acknowledge that.

They're not consonant clusters though! the 'm's are vowels (like the 'n' of Ngorogoro); and the 'kp' is a single doubly-articulated (lips and pharynx) sound that doesn't exist in any European language.

Perhaps you can try one from my wife's language - mkpumkpu. It means a person of restricted height. But get it slightly wrong, and you're calling them a hunchback (same spelling!)

😂 Apparently, Wroclaw ~ vrot swaff Is that close enough?

My daughter was trying to teach me how to pronounce Wroclaw at the weekend (my son and family live in Warsaw - my daughter visits often)

Round trip was it? 😉 Lenin's 'Left wing Socialism: an Infantile Disorder' is quite an interesting read for those interested. He definitely saw the Bolshevik model as very distinct from more orthodox schools of socialist, and even Marxist thought. Largely forgotten now I guess, but it was highly influential in its time and led to quite a reshuffling of the West European left. (Birth of the CPGB among others)

It's a pretty stable part of the world. The O&G reserves have sat there in the Kimmeridge quite happily for 150 million years.

Quite unnecessary, I assure you.

Are you telling me or asking me? Wtf is a shitton?

Not sure how accurate the numbers are. When I was there over thirty years ago, Drax at full load pumped out around 50 million tpa CO2 with the adjacent Eggborough and Ferrybridge together producing a similar amount. How times change.

Some would say that the necessary advanced wave handshaking from absorber to emitter is retrocausal in nature. ie actions in the present being influenced by future microstates. This idea is central to the Transactional Interpretation (TI) of quantum mechanics. The jury is still considering the matter.

... and I thought it was just a recasting of the algebra of capitalist microeconomics.

The UK government is backing a plan to capture a good part of 12 million tpa CO2 produced by power generators and other industrial produces along the Yorkshire half of the M62 corridor. Disposal will be via the existing coastal gas pipeline infrastructure at Easington out to a subsea saline aquifer. BBC Link PS Primary target is one of my old workplaces

I concur. Leaving aside inundation through rising sea levels, the only way to make non-capital buildings safe from such wind forces would be a total rebuild from the ground up. Save on the demolition costs. Let the hurricane do it.

In my schooldays we were told to spell it 'cello with the apostrophe included. Not a word I write very often despite having a musical background. I guess the apostrophe has gone? I imagine it confused the hell out of the alphabetic sort routines.

Stands to reason. The JWs are obligate proselytisers with much persistence and few scruples over method. From family experience, I know they targetted the deaf community and other vulnerable groups in the UK. I would have thought that even they would realised that there are slim pickings to be had amongst the science community. Honing his debating skills possibly?

Lectures and occasional teaching at Harvard and Cornell; speeches on stuff like slavery to the UN; that's his usual sort of itinerary. Nothing any reasonable person could possibly take exception to.

Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka was informed by the US embassy this week that his visa had been revoked. No reason was given. Report here

Personally, I try to be an adult: that is, I choose to take full ownership of my actions, inactions, and their consequences, foreseen or otherwise. If I succeed, I try at least sometimes to give credit to others. If I fail, I blame no one (natural or otherwise) but myself. I understand that their are different paths to take - my wife of 22 years for example, is quite religious, and it doesn't lead to conflict; the diversity of approach can be made into a common strength. However, on my chosen path, there is no place for a either a god or his babble. They simply become irrelevances.

And it's wrong. The bible has no intrinsic meaning of its own; only the meaning you choose to assign to it. Whatever that was you wrote (tldr).

Some time in the mid-sixties, my mother visited a woman in a neighbouring village, taking me along with her. For a while, I was left alone sitting in this exquisitely decorated sitting room too scared to move for fear of knocking over some precious ornament or other. So I just sat there listing to the ticking of an expensive looking carriage clock that had pride of place on the mantlepiece. I began counting the ticks. For some reason, that experience embedded itself so deeply in my memory that I can recall it at will. And I do, even now sixty years on whenever I need to time some activity. Shortly, I'll be making some rotis. They need 40 seconds each side in a dry pan on a medium high gas flame. I'll just put myself back in that room and count the ticking of that carriage clock. Am I really a six or seven year- old boy in some suburban bungalow in Copmanthorpe or wherever it was? No, of course not. It's just a figment of my imagination rekindled by circumstance and amplified by emotional association and habit. Is it 'right' or 'wrong'? Wrong question. It just works for me.

Lifted lock stock and barrel from Gilgamesh. It's someone else's mythology.

Metal screw caps don't work here as corrosion makes them jam fast. I've got a bunch of small (1 litre-ish) wide-necked jars with cork stoppers which I find very handy. But otherwise it's the Kilners. They're wonderful devices really. And burping them each morning during the ferment isn't much of a chore. Actually, it would be a doddle to fit a length of 5 mm flexible pipe on those cork stoppers. Loop it with a couple of cable ties for an airlock and Bob's your uncle. Bet I could make them fit the Kilners too. Why didn't this occur to me months ago? Of course, 4 mm OD silicone air hose would be perfect! Now all I need to do is find someone who services pneumatic equipment and cadge some of their stock. How much can a couple of metres of that cost? Bottle of Jack Daniels?