Interesting Links for 28-12-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Edinburgh pubs: The Auld Hoose announces sudden closure

(tags:Scotland alcohol )

2. Who fancies a group of people to quietly read next to?

(tags:reading books silence sociability )

3. Cathedral, Mountain, Moon (an incredible photo)

(tags:photo religion moon mountain NASA )

4. All I want for Christmas is one terawatt of solar deployed annually

(tags:solarpower thefuture )

5. What the Solow Model can teach us about China's slowing growth

(tags:china economics viaDanielDWilliam )

6. Injection of "smart insulin" regulates blood glucose levels for one week (in mice and pigs)

(tags:diabetes sugar insulin )

7. Exposing the secret money behind Starmer's rise to power

(tags:labour corruption politics UK )

Comments

2. Silent Book Club

[snippy]

I'd rather just stay home and not expose myself to COVID.

Re: 2. Silent Book Club

[channelpenguin]

I am really really sick of staying home most of the time and lonely to boot. Also had a booster in October combined with flu vaccine. But I'm still pretty much avoiding congregating inside. I'm fed up with it all, truly I am. But long COVID would be worse. I wish we could develop an effective vaccine that STOPS you getting it and stops you passing it on. I suppose not enough people would or could get such a vaccine though, even if it were developed. :-(.

I don't want this to be the rest of our lives. This horrible choice. Or non-choice, for children who must attend school, and adults with in-person jobs.

4 Solar PV

[danieldwilliam]

If the assumptions in the article are about correct that indicated approx 70TW of installed solar PV. 1TW of deployment in a year would be 1/70th - implying either an increase in deployment is needed or that solar panels have a useful life of 70 years, probably significantly more.

My guess is that solar panels will turn out to have a useful life of about 30 years. So we're looking at say 4TW per year for 20 years (4*20=80 less replacement of existing installations) and then a steady state renewal of about 3TW a year.

3. Cathedral, Mountain, Moon (an incredible photo)

[anef]

That is awesome!