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14,547karma·4,845submissions·June 3, 2013
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From the Editor’s note: “I tried to keep to Shelley’s unusual (and non-standard) rhyme scheme for the sonnet, but I departed from it in the second-to-last line for poetic reasons. For a language which…
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Or pedestrians could walk around with halberds to fend off cyclists steaming through pedestrian areas.
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Peterborough at 179? Was this published on the 1st April? How on Earth, it is a hollowed out car city with soul less out of town shops, albeit the absurd juxtaposition of thatched cottages subsumed in…
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Fascinating
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A plant with its own green house! Cool, or should that be warm?
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I was after an article extolling Bristol as a tech hub, it does seem to be sponsored content, but maybe just to raise the tech hub’s profile.
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But is the juice worth the squeeze?
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A great video following the day in a Loughborough bell foundry
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OK not right first time, but Starship seems to be making good progress. It is extremely ambitious, and no doubt others are deterred by the amount of derisking needed. Being first is hardest, this addi…
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Thanks, yes I could see the link
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Thanks, this link therein looks very impressive, about the usage of space for parking, and the roads needed to connect them too: https://www.racfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads&#…
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Looks good. London, Paris, Copenhagen, Rome, Madrid? I guess it takes a while to add each new one in.
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Looks good, is there anything more?
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This presentation suggests that BESS is used to keep the frequency stable, and remove huge price spikes: https://cigre.org.uk/web-cont1001/uploads/Integrating-Grid-F... This…
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Is this set up for a remake of the Italian job? Were electric minis used in this heist? Was the Turin traffic system hacked? Were only the doors blown off (come on baby light my fire)?
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Don’t KitKats have AoP status and can only authentically be made in York? The craze for Japanese KitKats being an exception. Having bought a triple pack of 7 double finger KitKats in the nineties and …
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“Use the KNOWLEDGE Luke, always”
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I mean negative prices should diminish if there are batteries to charge on it.
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There are grid scale batteries on the UK grid. Surely they’re being used. One could work out what the discrepancy between consumption and production during the day to infer the battery discharge rate,…
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“Performs its own peer review” You just can’t do that, I mean the code might be different and this should be perhaps worded differently. But a peer is someone expert but different. I would have though…
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