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I find this guy very good. https://youtu.be/ZGFpBU37riM

Yup. Acres of greenhouses using the waste heat in the cooling water. Just to put this CCS project in perspective, some back of envelope calculations. 12 million tonnes per annum of CO2 is: 1 million tonnes per month, ~36,000 tonnes per day, 1,500 tonnes per hour, 25 tonnes per minute, ~400 kg/s. Picking a liquid CO2 density of 800 kg/m3 off the top of my head, that's 0.5 m3/s. For a pipeline velocity of 1 m/s, internal x-section of 0.5 m2 sounds very much like bog standard 36" ND pipeline. 200 bar sounds like a reasonable pressure, so 2*107 N/m2 * 0.5 m3/s = 10 MW Couple of Siemens multistage barrel pumps? In the greater scheme of things, this is a very typical pipeline job. A single operating company could easily take this in their stride. For a G7 nation? Peanuts.

Me too. But forgive me if I go on to play devil's advocate for what follows Are you seriously suggesting that going beyond nett zero and removing CO2 out of the atmospheric cycle is undesirable? Why? Why are you introducing this neoliberal BS? Unlike a household economy, the UK government has the Royal Mint. If it needs money for capital investment, it can print it. For wood chips? How do you arrive at these figures? The UK no longer produces power from coal (and please give them credit for that landmark achievement). How does the project in question impact fuel transport costs or combustion efficiency? There are no ongoing CCS costs. What fuel costs are ongoing remain unchanged by the project and are therefore irrelevant to the topic. What point are you trying to make here? Over 250 million years of self-evident containment of the southern North Sea gas fields not long term enough? This is no more than an argument from incredulity. And flies in the face of hard geological evidence. After decades of neoliberal economic austerity and the severe negative impact on growth of Brexit, some would argue that this is a good thing. Another neoliberal mantra. More of a Keynesian myself. Right now, the UK is paying for wind farm capacity simply as rolling reserve to offset the recent large reductions of power generation rotating mass to maintain mains frequency and keep the grid stable. This will become an even more critical issue as the transition to EV proceeds. A holistic approach isn't just a matter of preference; under the circumstances, it's obligatory. Sorry for taking you to task a little here, but do you think the 'other side' would be less robust in their arguments?

A tetrahedral stack of 35 spheres?

A couple of pieces where I think the viola gets some of the best lines (and that's coming from a brass player!) I think they're both gorgeously played, though the AI may disagree.

😄 I understand that it means 'colourful' in the German source name Buntsandstein. It may well be over there, but the bits we dug up in the subsoil at Askham Bryan were just a uniform buff.

The Zechstein actually outcrops 10 miles west of York as magnesian limestone at Tadcaster (Latin name Calcaria) where I went to secondary school. It's an excellent building stone used in the construction of York's Roman walls and the Minster. Our history, geography, and chemistry courses all referenced it to some degree as a relevant local feature, and being fascinated by geology from primary school days, the Zechstein and overlying Bunter sandstone sequences are my 'home turf'.

I was rather impressed that the first thing I saw on emerging from the railway station was a Chinese takeaway called the 'Kerry Oot'. Mind you, that was close on fifty years back.

... chooses to keep quiet about being born within 10 miles of Stamford Bridge (1066), Towton (1461), and Marston Moor (1644) 🤐 The real battles are fought at Winterfell... And winter is coming!

I can't claim to be an expert but l can tell you a little about the southern North Sea gas fields and the importance of the crucial Zechstein Group that caps them. Most of the gas is contained at a depth around 2,500 feet (I think) within permeable Permian strata called the Rotliegend which was marks a low lying depositional area where a sea was starting to form. The area was near the equator at the time, and the sea was either landlocked, or perhaps had a limited connection to the Tethys Ocean in the south around southern Poland. Evaporation rates were high, leading to an overlying deep series of evaporites extending beyond the areal limits of the Rotliegend as the proto North Sea increased in size. This is the Zechstein Group. It's mainly halite, continuous, highly impermeable, and within broad limits, immune to faulting as it self-heals. Things are a little different further north as the salt becomes diapiric and tends to migrate upwards where it forms the cap rock for the younger oil fields. Having said that, the report didn't say how deep the 'saline aquifer' was that they were going to use for storage, or exactly where it was. So that's important info to look out for. If they're putting it under the Zechstein, then there isn't really an issue here I think. A very timely report of an about turn in Dutch policy wrt wind farms.

Yes indeed. And all because of a misapplication of Engel's 2nd Law.

One single mutation does not a new species create. If only Lysenko had interpreted genetic evolution as the qualitative outcome of the total genetic diversity of the collective, rather than the triumph of an individual over the collective, how different the world would have been.

The major sharehuder in Dogger Bank Wind Farm is StatOil, (wouldn't you know).

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.