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Post by Mr Whippy on Feb 10, 2017 13:49:47 GMT
Alan Blumlein awarded a Posthumous Technical Grammy.
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Post by MartinT on Feb 10, 2017 15:38:26 GMT
Well deserved!
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Post by Mr Whippy on Feb 12, 2017 10:57:42 GMT
6p-a-minute cafes gaining popularity.
Eat, drink and as much Wi-Fi as you want for 6p a minute.
Russian concept spreading here, and probably elsewhere.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Feb 16, 2017 16:43:51 GMT
The Woolly Mammoth. Set to make a come back. Oh yes.
Scientists have completed the second stage of creating a hybrid.
Remember where you heard it first, folks.
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Post by MartinT on Feb 17, 2017 7:56:32 GMT
I heard it on the radio this morning and checked the date in case April had arrived early.
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Post by Slinger on Feb 17, 2017 13:53:47 GMT
I'm sure that I saw a documentary about that. It was called "Jurassic Park" I believe.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Feb 19, 2017 21:12:28 GMT
Russians turning to religion.
5,000 churches built and 10,000 ordinations in just the past 6 years.
It's "The End Times", we're living in. Gotta be.
Gotta be.
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Post by MartinT on Feb 20, 2017 8:51:26 GMT
You can't help people from themselves.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Feb 24, 2017 17:38:44 GMT
Foreign diplomats owe £105 M in London congestion charges.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Feb 27, 2017 9:00:05 GMT
Nokia 3310 - Relaunched! Oh yes.
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Post by MartinT on Feb 27, 2017 13:06:09 GMT
I still have an old one in the drawer.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Mar 4, 2017 21:36:42 GMT
UK tankering gas fracked from the Peruvian Amazon.
Hard to credit.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Mar 8, 2017 9:29:49 GMT
Half way into UK Pie Week. Just thought I'd mention it. As you were.  |
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 19, 2017 19:05:03 GMT
Retirement age up to 68 for those in their 40s.
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 24, 2017 20:08:52 GMT
Revolution under way in the generation of energy.
More and more renewable sources are coming on stream feeding energy back into the grid. The problem now is battery technology that needs development. And so the Government has created an initiative to look into improving such battery use. This is a bit of a change, and about time, as it is now recognised that the country's energy needs cannot be left solely to the market.
The other aspect is increasing the use of electrical appliances controled on-line to manage power needs. Switching a freezer off for 10 minutes has no real negative effect. And if 100s or 1000s can be switched off for short periods, significants amounts of energy can be saved. Rather than spending billions on new power stations, the focus is going to be controlling/modifying how energy is used. As it's a lot more cost effective.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 26, 2017 6:01:17 GMT
New petrol and diesel car sales to be banned in the UK from 2040.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 26, 2017 6:02:40 GMT
Switching a freezer off for 10 minutes... ...is exactly the same as changing the cycling by adjusting the temperature up a little! |
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Post by Mr Whippy on Jul 26, 2017 17:48:11 GMT
New petrol and diesel car sales to be banned in the UK from 2040. Wow! Wonder what the impact on secondhand will be? From 2020 Volvo are producing either hybrid or electric. The times they are a-changing. |
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Post by MartinT on Jul 26, 2017 18:23:36 GMT
Electric Mini to be built in the UK.
That's the good news. The bad is that the whole shower of politicians haven't between them cooked up exactly how all this power is going to be generated. As the head of Aston Martin said today, the announcement without the infrastructure plans behind it is simply 'absurd'.
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Post by stanleyb on Jul 28, 2017 11:05:02 GMT
Ferrari 430 Scuderia veers off motorway in South Yorkshire and bursts into flames an hour after new owner had collected it.
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