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Can the insurance industry save the planet? With the nod from insurance companies a must for everything from coal mines to new homes, is the industry ready and willing to wield its power?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hbkc
Presenter concluded his optimism of a few years ago has turned more to cynicism…
This from STV News is typical. Are the people 'nimbys' or do they have some justification?
I can't speak to all of them but the ones I've seen are on brownfield sites. Usually ex-industrial that had HV power access which is obviously a pre-requisite for grid scale batteries.
Stationary batteries are almost always lithium iron phosphate which is stable and not prone to thermal runaway so safe, safer than the oil filled transformers at the end of your street.
In most cases, yes, NIMBYS.
I've mentioned it before, MS had a plan to put a data centre in Scandinavia some where rural and cold but were advised they'd only planning permission if they sited in a town so it could be used for local heating.
Tynecastle used to be heated by the waste heat from the distillery.
There are plans to put GS heatpumps in london to extract heat from the Underground. Isn't there one planned for old mine workings in the South of Edinburgh?
Loads of good ideas just need gas to be more expensive, drop the green levy from electricity and put it onto domestic gas, that might help.
“Tynecastle used to be heated by the waste heat from the distillery.“
Didn’t know that.
Used to get water from Union Canal near where it crossed South Sub.
“drop the green levy from electricity and put it onto domestic gas, that might help”
That seems ‘obvious’ - no doubt why it doesn’t happen!
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The EU aims to phase out Russian oil and gas entirely by the end of 2027 but Budapest and Bratislava oppose such a move, arguing that Russian energy supplies are vital to their national economies
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More trouble in an energy intensive industry.
Highlights many interrelated factors - energy, industrial ‘policy’ - whether to abandon such things domestically and let ‘others’ deal with emissions, employment, ‘left behind communities’, ‘need for specialist steels for defence reasons’.
Etc.
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A disparate collection of steelworks in Australia, the UK, Romania and the Czech Republic at the start of the year had two things in common: they were part of the metals empire of Sanjeev Gupta, and they had fallen silent.
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The boss of the firm behind ChatGPT and the UK technology secretary discussed a multibillion-pound deal to give the entire country premium access to the AI tool, the Guardian has learned.
Sam Altman, a co-founder of OpenAI, talked to Peter Kyle about a potential agreement to give UK residents access to its advanced product.
According to two sources with direct knowledge of the meeting, the idea was floated as part of a broader discussion in San Francisco about opportunities for collaboration between OpenAI and the UK.
Those close to the discussion say Kyle never really took the idea seriously, not least because it could have cost as much as £2bn. But the talks show the enthusiasm with which the technology secretary has embraced the artificial intelligence sector, despite concerns over the accuracy of some chatbot responses and implications for privacy and copyright.
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