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andrewducker) wrote2018-07-25 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2018-07-25 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 25-07-2018
- UK snooping unlawful for more than decade
- (tags: UK surveillance )
- Scottish public asked for views on bottle return scheme
- (tags: UK environment Scotland recycling )
- Chrome browser flags Daily Mail and other sites as 'not secure'
- (tags: security web )
- White House readies plan for $12 billion in emergency aid to farmers caught in Trump’s escalating trade war
- (tags: trade farming usa republicans )
- Russian hackers penetrate US power stations
- How, exactly, is this not an act of war?
(tags: usa russia hacking ) - Here's what Jeremy Corbyn actually said in the speech the anti-Corbyn mob are going berserk about
- (tags: labour )
- Prince Charles and the Archbishop of Canterbury rallied to help ex-bishop later jailed for abuse
- (tags: monarchy religion UK Child_abuse OhForFucksSake )
- Margaret Thatcher’s government drew up a secret blacklist of its own civil servants thought to be “subversives” in order to keep them under observation and block their promotion
- (tags: margaretthatcher OhForFucksSake uk history )
- Scottish voters less awful than English ones
- (tags: polls UK Europe scotland )
- A second referendum would almost certainly require an extension to the Article 50 period
- (tags: Europe UK referendum )
- Sacha Baron Cohen causes resignation of Republican politician
- (tags: republicans racism politics usa SachaBaronCohen )
- It's England in 2018. It's still legal to keep someone in a marriage they want to leave.
- (tags: law marriage uk )
- 'Conjoined twins': how Brexit's Irish backstop conundrum could be solved
- Whole load of maybes in here. And selling it will be tricky.
(tags: ireland NorthernIreland europe uk ) - China is making electric buses cheap, just like it did for solar panels
- (tags: china transport buses electricity batteries )
- "Mary, Queen of Scots" film is, as you'd expect, fiction
- (tags: movies scotland history )
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Which is good, because cheaper battery tech and cheaper buses is more useful (to me) than just cheaper buses.
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There's also the usual optimism about battery pricing, that it's falling so it must inevitably fall in the future and at similar rates compared to the past few years. Right now demand for lithium carbonate, the basic feedstock of Li-tech batteries is pushing up the minehead price of the material. It's currently about double the price compared to 12 months ago. That price increase is in itself driving new production to come on stream but not for a while and if the price falls too far some of that more expensive and marginal production will be shut down until the price rebounds again.
It's still good news generally but lower-cost conventionally-powered internal-combustion buses fuelled by diesel or CNG are likely to remain the regular choice for bus operators, especially those which run long-distance services between termini.
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Hee! Nice summary of the article.