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andrewducker) wrote2023-06-07 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 07-06-2023
- 1. Scotland's first electric HGV starts making trips
- (tags:scotland transport electricity )
- 2. Photoshop's new "Generative Fill" feature is really impressive.
- (tags:ai photoshop )
- 3. The science around babies and sleep is, frankly terrible. (And the article assumes you'll be doing sleep training at all)
- (tags:research babies sleep )
- 4. Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
- (tags:Intelligence ai society )
- 5. The cultural bias of "ultra-processed food"
- (tags:food society )
- 6. Edinburgh tram time-lapse shows route extension (opening today!)
- (tags:Edinburgh trams timelapse video )
- 7. UK government ignored that major drinks companies, retailers, and trade bodies, as well as the Environment Agency wanted glass to be included in the deposit return scheme.
- (tags:uk recycling OhForFucksSake glass )
- 8. Your Reminder that "AI" Will Just Flat-Out Make Things Up
- (tags:ai fraud )
- 9. Who wants to eat a giant isopod from the depths of the ocean?
- (tags:animals food weird taiwan )
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4. Some days...ugh!
6. Hurray!!!
(Wishing we had streetcars/trams at street grade running again in specific parts of Ottawa and Gatineau!)
7. Well, glass should be part of the deposit return scheme. This is how it was when I was a kid in Saskatchewan, and the LCBO and Beer Store operations in Ontario still do things that way. If I had my way, that's what would be "normal" from coast to coast to coast in Canada.
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In 1978 the deposit on a "large" glass bottle - 10p - would buy a bag of crisps (7p or 8p).
I suppose the introduction of plastic bottles reduced the value of an empty glass bottle :-(
A year or two back I filled in a government survey on bottle-recycling. Worryingly to save space they were talking of crushing them. No problem for plastic or alumin(i)um but it is much more energy efficient to make a glass bottle from a similar bottle than from a pile of glass chippings.
I think I mentioned that recycling was the fifth of the "Six Rs": Refuse (decline), Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle, Refuse (trash). Thus Reuse should be the aim.
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Bingo.
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And all of the businesses affected had (and still have!) a sound commercial incentive for glass recycling.
...So this is a visible retort to any claim that the Conservatives are 'the business-friendly party'.
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Probably not the 6-8 hours of motorway plus 2 hours of urban traffic that represents the 'ideal' working day for HGV's operated by drivers subject to tachometer-monitored work time limits...
But it's now within reach of a worthwile percentage of HGVs: tho ones with fixed schedules of medium-distance delivery-and-pickup to a central location.
The technology is (I think) about halfway to being equivalent to existing diesel trucks: if it improves by five percent a year, we'll see EGVs taking more than half the current HGV traffic within a decade.