Sorry America, but in the UK we describe a good product as the "Rolls Royce of" such a product, not the "Westinghouse of" such a product. #SMRs #NuclearEnergy #Nuclear #energy #electricity #UK #USA #RollsRoyce share.google/Iq7mDTvliknF...

Apparently, the term "Fish Disco" was coined by former Tory ministers. It's all very well joking about it, how about stopping it? #nuclearenergy #nuclear #HinckleyPoint #ecology #fish #EDF #EPR liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/406...

So I know this #Tylenol /paracetamol/autism thing is bollocks, but I've decided to punt all my books on #correlation, #causation, & the philosophy of #science to the top of my reading list. I've decided not to name any of them online because this correlates with me not finishing books. Or does it? 🤔

The proposed name - London & South East University Group - foretells shenanigans. It could potentially become known as 'LSEU'! 😕 University of London will be as thrilled as The University of Manchester was with the University of Greater Manchester (née Bolton)! #HE www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Congratulations to Polanski who has won a massive mandate as #GreenParty Leader. I hope this will end the Greens hypocrisy of professing to care about decarbonisation & Earth's climate on the one hand, whilst opposing renewable energy & its transmission on the other... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The United States’ carbon emissions increased while China’s declined in the first half of this year compared to the same period in 2024, pointing to a massive shift in roles between the world’s two biggest climate polluters if the trend continues."

Calling all scientists and science supporters! You have a crucial role to play in countering the authoritarian threat we currently face in this country. Learn more about how you can stand up for the facts and truth that are essential for a free and democratic society. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

I don't know if I can blame being a scientist or being a Ghostbusters fan more for the fact autosuggest just went with 'Acetylsalicylic' instead of 'Actually'! 😂 #science #Ghostbusters #pharmacy #aspirin #Salix #willow

You learn something every day. Today in an audio book the word 'Delphic', meaning 'Relating to the ancient Greek oracle at Delphi. Deliberately obscure or ambiguous'; which I misheard as 'Benthic', meaning 'anything related to the bottom of a body of water, or the organisms that live there'!

Has had preliminary sign off from the ONR & other statutory bodies. Interesting, because this would be a new nuclear site & the previous Tory government stated that SMRs would only be built at existing licensed nuclear sites. #NuclearEnergy #UK #Wales #SMRs www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Pleased that Prof Tim Lenton (right photo), Primary Supervisor on my MSc by Research, has been awarded an OBE in the King's Birthday Honours List. news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

"there has been under-investment not just in grid infrastructure, but the tools needed to manage it." Paywall free till 14th June. www.thetimes.com/article/93ac...

We do need to "build baby, build", but we also need to incorporate simple inexpensive measures that protect wildlife baby, incorporate simple inexpensive measures that protect wildlife! #building #planning #homes #houses #wildlife #birds #swifts #YesInMyBackyard #YIMBY 38d.gs/cdpr

If Farage really cared about fishing he would have attended more than one of the 42 meetings of the European Parliament Fisheries Committee he was invited to over three years as a member of that committee. #reformUK #DeformUK

1/4 Yet another issue where it's very hard to take a balanced, evidence-led approach, as almost everybody wants to foment a polarised debate or 'Say Absolutely No To All Of It' / 'SANTA OI'. #planning #strageicplanning #townandcountryplanning www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I think I may have coined a new planning acronym 'SANTA OI'. Say Absolutely No To All Of It. I think it's a genuine rival to 'BANANA' or Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything! #planning #strageicplanning #townandcountryplanning

Residents of #Lakenheath shouldn't worry about a drill so much as the 'Broken Arrows' at RAF Lakenheath in 1956 & 1961, see en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Lak... (not an 80s song by 'ABC'). As John Oliver once said "I'd quite like humanity's last words not to be 'Oh f**k!'" #NuclearWeapons

#Whitewebbs was a 5 min walk from my childhood home. I cannot fathom how Enfield Council can have identified the Oak as a '"fine specimen" with high ecological and landscape value' 13 months ago & not imposed an immediate TPO. Retrospective action is too late! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If #KatyPerry planted an absolute buggerload of them, it would increase the albedo (reflectivity) of the land surface, decrease radiative forcing & thus exert a cooling effect. Send her a copy of 'Ages of #Gaia'. It would re-frame her oft-referenced God, herself, & the 'Overview Effect' completely!

Someone send Katy Perry a copy of 'Ages of Gaia'.

Ah yes, a proportionate response. Every student of history knows that the fences at Auschwitz were there to keep solar panels inside! 🙄

Janne spoke with me about this last September, & he's only gone and done it! 🙂 Common in Continental Europe #ReverseVending is just an up-to-date deposit scheme like my parents remember, & like we've always had with glass milk bottles. #recycling www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kate says nature is family's 'sanctuary' in Mother's Day message www.bbc.com/news/article...

I thought it had been decided to dispose of it and the debate was between how to immobilise it. Viz. vitrify it (turn it into glass) or form Plutonium-complexes with ceramics. One to sleep on! #nuclearenergy #nuclearpower #nuclear www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Solar for schools, coming soon from Great British Energy ⚡️ #energy #renewableenergy #solar #gbenergy #uklabour #ukpolitics

Sensible stuff. Empty roofs are just energy there for the taking! 🌞⚡🌡️

1666 would be about the time Britain began to make the shift from wood to coal, as coal is a cleaner, more energy dense substance than wood. Energy transitions are nothing new! Source - Simon Shows You Maps on FB

At Waveney Valley Labour, we are concerned about the present scale of proposals for photovoltaic solar farms in the constituency and its surrounding area. We are monitoring the situation. 🧵👇

1/2 I realised about the time of the inauguration that I cannot spend 4 years flagging up every stupid act by the right on both sides of the Atlantic, especially when Trump's involved. I'll do my best to call them out & take the piss. Good satire is a tonic.

2024 daily temperatures compared to past years. A frightening graphic from the BBC. #ClimateEmergency

1/2 If this isn't an argument for re-nationalising parts of our energy system, I don't know what is. 'The Rye House [gas] power plant demanded payments of £5,000 per megawatt-hour to keep generating power, over 40 times the government’s official estimate for...' www.theguardian.com/business/202...

1/2 I'm very sceptical about this. The US Department of Energy invested heavily in experimental Molten Salt Reactor research in the 50s & 60s. www.edp24.co.uk/news/2484245...

Iron fertilisation FTW?

UK’s statutory target is net zero by 2050. That’s 26 years away. 26 years is not long. (26 years ago we were dancing to Cher’s Believe which still sounds contemporary) #lunzhub