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The big news in the White House race overnight are the first revelations from a book that’s just about to be published by John Bolton – who served as the National Security Advisor for seventeen months.
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I'll let you all get back to sleep.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-17/trump-lawsuit-against-john-bolton-book-is-beyond-frivolous
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1273468029712707584
Dunno know who keeps hiring all these clueless wackos to the Trump Administration.
I have always thought Bolton was in the same "dangerous fruitbat" camp as Benjamin Netanyahu. For Trump to attack Bolton is absurd. He really seems to be marginalising all the right-wingers who helped get him where he is. That probably means he will get re-elected because I just cannot fathom out the American electorate. One lot of cousins think Trump is a basket case but don't much like Biden either. Another lot think Trump walks on water! Some just despair for their country.
World’s biggest liquid air battery starts construction in UK
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/worlds-biggest-liquid-air-battery-starts-construction-in-uk
... Construction is beginning on the world’s largest liquid air battery, which will store renewable electricity and reduce carbon emissions from fossil-fuel power plants.
The project near Manchester, UK, will use spare green energy to compress (sic) air into a liquid and store it. When demand is higher, the liquid air is released back into a gas, powering a turbine that puts the green energy back into the grid.
A big expansion of wind and solar energy is vital to tackle the climate emergency but they are not always available. Storage is therefore key and the new project will be the largest in the world outside of pumped hydro schemes, which require a mountain reservoir to store water.
The new liquid air battery (sic), being developed by Highview Power, is due to be operational in 2022 and will be able to power up to 200,000 homes for five hours, and store power for many weeks. Chemical batteries are also needed for the transition to a zero-carbon world and are plummeting in price, but can only store relatively small amounts of electricity for short periods....
It Doesn’t Look Like the Protests Are Causing a COVID-19 Spike
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/protests-covid-outdoor-masks.html
... Shaman said that he and his team at Columbia modeled the demonstrations as they were occurring, to see whether they could lead to a surge in COVID-19 infections. They ran their model through three scenarios, each with a different premise on how much masks and the open air would suppress transmission of the virus. In the scenario of lowest suppression, there should have been a substantial bump of cases by now, nearly three weeks after the protests began. In the medium scenario, there should have been a slightly lower bump. In the scenario where masks and open air suppressed the transmission to the greatest degree, there was no bump. “That’s what we’re actually seeing,” Shaman said. “The most optimistic scenario turned out to be most accurate.”
There are caveats to this news, expressed by Shaman and by New York officials. First, they note, the vast majority of protesters were young. Given that people above the age of 50 are more likely to get sick when exposed to the virus, it is not clear that an older crowd would have emerged equally unscathed...
Mr. B, that may change, though. And if it does, complacency may make it much worse.
On-topic: is Trump holed below the waterline?
But if compressed air can be used in this way, that would change things.
That’s pretty hardcore levels of incompetence we’re talking about.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/jun/18/end-of-tourism-coronavirus-pandemic-travel-industry
That, I think, is set to change in a year or two, as there’s a new technology for separating it out (which I’ll try to post about later).
Battery makers are gradually getting rid of the need for cobalt.
There’s a lot of other stuff going on (silicon/sulphur battery chemistries, for instance).
We’re not there yet, but a fully sustainable battery economy isn’t all that far off.
Anyhow, got to get to work. Have a good morning.
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FanGOP service.My sense is that Trump is in trouble and I'm starting to agree now with Robert that this could be a 'blow out' election.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/06/15/donald-trump-niece-mary-trump-tells-all-family-new-book/3191031001/
What’s your view on the Rolls Royce “mini-nuclear” SMR development? This is a based from a naval nuclear reactor, but on land, is that right? Could be a big win for UK if it’s workable and exportable.
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-8417289/Rolls-Royce-triggers-250bn-nuclear-mini-reactor-race.html
To dismantle Trump, requires a different approach. So long as he owns the MAGA theme, he will be hard to shift.
Bolton says that Trump sought President Xi's help to win re-election.
That's going to go down well.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53086042
Nationally she was ahead by similar amounts but statewide the polls were faaaaaaar closer than they are now.
Trump is much further behind, his opponent is far less divisive than his last one, and the left are motivated in a way they weren't last time. So I think the most likely outcome is a comfortable Biden victory.
It does seem to be an obsession of journalists though - they appear collectively as if they'll be unable to function if they don't get their three weeks in Tuscany in August, because they've done that for the last two decades. The print media especially benefit from a lot of tourism advertising, which will also be a factor in their coverage.
IMO inbound tourism to the UK is going to be pretty much non-existent this summer, it would be good to see a big marketing campaign encouraging people to holiday within the UK to help support the economy. As we all know, many businesses in this industry are on the brink, and need every penny they can get in the next few months.
I have long believed that batteries are the key to renewables taking over from base load power production from nuclear or the like but if 30% of the energy is lost by the conversion the cost advantages will not be as great.
Pumped water storage may be highly efficient, but you can't build it in the centre of Manchester
Underground flywheels might be efficient, but they're not safe.
So, again, if this is compact, and safe, efficiency is not a factor if the energy is "free"
I do think the demand is there. Enthusiasm for flying will take a while to return and there are a lot of people who have accrued both cash and holidays over the lockdown. Its a question of ensuring the supply.
Families that I`ve spoken to split roughly 50/50 on the "would you get on a plane when gov permits, assuming no quarantine" question?
I think they`ll be a decent enough demand for flights as soon as corridors are agreed and FCO advice changes.
We`re looking at Greece or Portugal - staying in Europe while the EHIC cards work.
There may be a few twenty-somethings up for that, as something to tell the future grand-kids they did during the 2020 pandemic, but anyone elderly or with kids sure as hell doesn't want to go near a plane they don't have to be on.
This is the first time I've heard of a perceived association between moustaches and untrustworthiness, but it seems to be well known. According to one survey the prejudice varies by shape of facial hair such that apparently a full beard is seen as trustworthy whereas a "soul patch" is viewed as threatening:
"The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event. That said, there are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot."
"I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you [expletive] with me, I'll kill you all."
"The most important six inches on the battlefield is between your ears."
"There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It's really great."
"I'm going to plead with you, do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years."
"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."
If you say so...
(source: BBC, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38056197 )
The most undesirable effect will be noise pollution from the compression (low frequency noise) and decompression (high frequency noise, it is noticeable for some people, especially people under 40) of air.
How many shy Trumpers are there, not telling pollsters the truth?
Seems to be the bug question on the polling.
Any new polls out this weekend?
As DavidL points out, if the storage isn't efficient it may be more efficient to simply feather the turbines rather than run them (and wear them out) when supply exceeds supply.
There's a lot of moving parts (sic) to energy supply, there still has to be peak demand capacity so your inefficient storage might play a part if it means a coal plant can be decommissioned for example.
But the question remains, is this liquid air system something that moves the storage game along, or is it simply another storage method?
Presumably quite a release of heat energy on compression to liquid (and in-take of heat on transfer back to gas. I wonder whether anything interesting is done with that (it has the potential to be a giant heat pump depending how it's set up, e.g. heat transfer to another fluid at compression point, cooling of another fluid at the re-expansion point).
(As an example, outbound departures from Dubai International are currently being asked to arrive at the airport *SIX HOURS* before their flight time, to allow for distancing, immigration, enhanced medical and security checks).
https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1273521745140596740
Flights with Qatar are likely to be safer than supermarket shopping in the UK. In fact, being in most parts of the world is likely to be safer than doing anything in the UK.
People are going to be much more virus conscious on planes, unlike most of the ill-informed and ill-led wandering around British streets.
What you're writing is an antipathy to long haul flights and has little or nothing to do with coronavirus.
And as for the quarantine on return ... lol
Of course, in other countries it's a bit different. In the Sahara Desert, such tech would be absolutely perfect, because you will never go a long period without some sunshine. But where our weather system is so variable, we need longer term storage if renewables are to work.
Or to go back to tides, which Mrs May so foolishly kyboshed.
He would turn them from rather pompous virtue-signalling fellow travellers to full fledged violent anarchists.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/schools-and-coronavirus-head-teachers-need-a-clear-message-from-ministers-and-time-to-plan-7ftbdt7gj
There seems to be a pattern here.
(fun fact, different chemistry to grid storage etc, but an AA battery contains approximately enough energy to lift a 1kg weight to a height of 1km)
He literally wrote the book on how wrong the use of torture is.
That does not mean that I am saying he is in favour of torture. Just that if he wanted his statement to be watertight, he should have said, 'is never a permissible option.'
Anyway, I have teaching to do. Later.
Edit: ok you were referencing something else. But still disagree. The question of whether it is moral or not when it saves lives is the very crux of the debate.
The Scottish government gives £1820 per student with a set number of places. This of course is absolutely unsustainable for anything other than the most basic of institutions so Universities have sought English students (£9250 a pop) and foreign non EU students (up to £24K) to cross subsidise. The Russell group members in particular have been very successful at this allowing the Universities to thrive with an ever smaller part of their cohort being made up of Scottish students.
Boris has now capped the number of English grants that will be paid to Scottish Universities and the foreigners are not coming because of Covid. The Scottish Government is not able to increase the number of places it funds because it has no money. I am not sure whether the likes of Edinburgh, St Andrews and Glasgow will survive. It really depends on how long the foreign market takes to recover but the clock is ticking
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