Interesting Links for 25-01-2020
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andrewducker- EU draws map for Boris Johnson of where customs checks he says don't exist will go
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- Astronauts bake space's first ever cookies - and are surprised by how long it takes
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- Hydrogen injected into UK gas grid for first time in groundbreaking UK trial to reduce carbon
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- Tesco to stop sale of plastic-wrapped multipacks in stores - saving 350 tons per year
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- The best co-op games on PC
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- Maternity ward dads: Kick them out or welcome them in?
- I was sent home at 10pm, when we'd both been up since 4am, and Jane was still recovering from the birth. I wish we'd had the option for me to stay and support her.
(tags:children childbirth scotland ) - Police begin operational use of Live Facial Recognition in London
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- For Nancy Drew's 90th birthday they're killing the beloved girl detective so that her male counterparts, the Hardy Boys, can investigate her death.
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- Man who called his shop "Singh'sbury" says 'it's just a coincidence'
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- The romance writer who saved Jews from the Nazis
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- Someone forced a bot to read over 1,000 Garfield strips and then asked it to write an episode of its own. Here is what it looks like
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- Watch as 19th century time capsule discovered in Edinburgh Robert Burns statue is opened
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- I would love to know the gender ratio of assholes
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- Boris Johnson warned chances of securing Japanese trade deal hangs on Brussels agreement
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Date: 2020-01-25 01:26 pm (UTC)The official one got really stroppy and when they got a court decision in their favour, the shop renamed itself 'Not 'Arrods'. :o)
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Date: 2020-01-25 01:28 pm (UTC)https://www.facebook.com/251475348296700/posts/2592536934190518/
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Date: 2020-01-25 06:10 pm (UTC)There was 'Billy Sollocks' in Strood, too!
Hydrogen in gas supply
Date: 2020-01-25 03:53 pm (UTC)I still remember the big changeover to natural gas after the decline in coking operations as iron and steel production in Britain fell away. The Gas Board (as it was at the time) replaced the burners on our kitchen stove to cope with the different air/gas burning ratio needed.
Hydrogen is a problematic gas to work with -- it embrittles a lot of common steel alloys at room temperature and it is the escape artist of the Periodic Table, not surprising given H2 is the smallest molecule around.
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Date: 2020-01-25 09:15 pm (UTC)I assume there's a good reason using electricity to electrolyse hydrogen for gas heating instead of sending it over the grid into electric fires. Maybe transmission losses? Or time-shifting? But I'm not sure, it would be nice to know.
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Date: 2020-01-26 07:30 am (UTC)But you're right that it doesn't seem obviously better in the long term if we're phasing out gas entirely