Donald R Noble

@eclectech@things.uk there’s no “official opposition” in the Scottish Parliament, that’s just a term the tories used to make themselves sound important

@patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot @eclectech@things.uk the term opposition only makes sense in a (largely) two party parliament, which Holyrood (and most sensible democracies) are not

@opencage there is also the river E near Loch Ness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_E

@peterbrown people who work in the energy sector usually refer to it the GB national grid, as Ireland is a separate grid

@brianbilston 🤣🤣🤣 very good, didn’t see that one coming

@IndyRichard@mastodon.scot because the people who decide accept bribes

@katemorley is 1.4GW a record low for gas? Don’t think I’ve seen it so low before

@withaveeay@mastodon.scot @wavygk@mastodon.nz 2/2 Swedish company CorPower Ocean has a wave energy device at Aguçadora in Portugal where the Scottish Pelamis Sea Snake was tested many years ago. There are quite a few different promising wave energy technologies at small scale, but nobody has cracked it yet. Ps, I’ve been trying to update Wikipedia articles on the topic, but let me know if something unclear or missing.

@blakecoverett@hachyderm.io @1password@1password.social I’m in the same situation

@senanthic on one hand it’s great they did this, but really, it’s shitty that this is remarkable, it should just be normal decency. And to be totally clear, this is meant to reinforce your sentiments, not degrade them in any way

@bleuje@mathstodon.xyz that’s lovely, seemingly simple yet also complex

@withaveeay@mastodon.scot @wavygk@mastodon.nz the MeyGen project has been working for the past 10 years and is starting to scale up from 6 to 50MW over next few years. Similarly with Orbital they hope to have next turbines in a year or so and there are a few other companies aiming to build out tidal stream energy in the UK, France, and the Faroes where Minesto have an underwater kite to harness the currents. Wave energy is definitely more difficult, the sea is a powerful beast. 1/2

@ncdominie you should tag this for #monochromeMarch

@25kV I just use reader view on most sites to kill all their formatting (and interrupting videos)

@StevenLawsonPhotography thanks Steven, you’re certainly welcome to put any of my photos in a e-zine, I’d be honoured

@EdCates they think/wish they are important enough to be on a tv show where we need to hear both sides of the story

@ThistleArts@mastodon.art @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green I would much rather see promotions from creators, than paid adverts for gambling or cars or whatever on Xitter💩

@technicalotter@glammr.us that’s how I did mine, although I think I had a couple of complex tables in their own files. And all figures were made in MATLAB/Inkscape, wasn’t masochistic enough to try and make them in LaTeX 🤪

@simonvarwell@mastodon.scot surely the soundtrack would be Malcolm Middleton!

@compoundchem@mstdn.social I think this is based on this research paper https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article-abstract/81/2/88/1057987/Why-do-bubbles-in-Guinness-sink