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andrewducker) wrote2023-11-07 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2023-11-07 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 07-11-2023
- 1. Happy Mastoversary!
- (tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
- 2. Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay's numbers
- (tags:renewables windpower solarpower uk )
- 3. Dengue rates plunged by up to 97% after release of lab-altered mosquitoes
- (tags:disease mosquito GoodNews )
- 4. It's nice to know that I'm not the only person who looks up the plots of movies too scary for me to watch on Wikipedia
- (tags:Wikipedia horror movies video funny )
- 5. File this under "Headlines that should be satire but somehow aren't."
- (tags:headline Israel Palestine wtf OhForFucksSake health weight )
- 6. The UK planning system is a disaster
- (tags:UK planning building infrastructure OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Not content with scamming people out of large amounts of money for bad monkey art, NFC companies are now trying to blind them
- (tags:eyesight light OhForFucksSake EpicStupidity blockchain )
- 8. EU equality laws to be reinstated by the UK to avoid 'gap in protections' for workers
- (tags:UK Europe equality law )
- 9. Scottish ministers refuse to comply with UK government strike plan
- (tags:uk scotland unions strike )
- 10. Is 'Long Covid' similar to 'Long SARS'? (If so it can persist permanently)
- (tags:pandemic disease )
2 David MacKay
I did always think he was too pessimistic. That he'd assumed a conservative and static technology base and a hostile public response based on cost. Not unfair assumptions at the time when he was trying to address some Polyanna-ish handwaving on the part of the renewables sector. I always took his work to come from a position of asking the renewables sector if they were sure they could deliver and if not, then the future looked like this. Which was a good and worthy challenge.
He certainly challenged me to make a better case for a renewable future. I'm sure his challenge improved the work of many people in the energy sector.
I'm also sure he would be pleased to have been wrong.
Re: 2 David MacKay
I'm very glad that things are going better than he predicted.