Interesting Links for 15-10-2021

[andrewducker]

Christchurch Council to stop paying The Wizard $16,000 a year after 23 years on the payroll

(tags:newzealand wizardry magic weird marketing )

Don't let environment get in the way of Brexit trade deals, government tells negotiators

(tags:UK environment trade Doom OhForFucksSake )

How do you deal with a shark that won't take no for an answer?

(tags:shark funny video )

Huge rise in domestic abuse cases being dropped in England and Wales

(tags:abuse uk police OhForFucksSake )

Shoppers start to use new £100 contactless payment limit

(tags:payment uk Technology )

Wind turbines are rapidly increasing in size, causing issues in transporting and constructing them

(tags:windpower Technology )

Liquid Gallium Shown to Break Down Carbon Dioxide ($100/ton)

(tags:co2 GoodNews Technology )

Comments

[symbioid]

Curious to read more about the gallium decarbonization process.

If I'm reading it right - it would be like a filter that solidifies the carbon as the air passes through (say, a smokestack), and release the oxygen, etc... Does that sound right?

And since it seems to be a chemical reaction that drives the process via the silver particles, as opposed to needing to dump electrical energy from external sources, it sounds fairly clean...

As usual I'm skeptical but will be nice to see if it pans out at scale.

[andrewducker]

Some fascinating discussion over here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28873458

[danieldwilliam]

When I was a bureaucrat I did not drink lattes and I'd have put the wizard out to competative tender years before he was fired.

[andrewducker]

I'd have run a survey to see how many people had heard of him before they visited, and what kind of impact he has on their awareness as a city.

[danieldwilliam]

Include a requirement to provide that data in the tender pack. Make the potential vendors do the work. I'm too busy trying to drink my bureaucratic fancy coffee.

[andrewducker]

I'm not sure you can easily tender things that include fame/personality.

[danieldwilliam]

And that's why we pay the Big Bucks.