Edmond Ebby

HS2 was never about speed. It was and remains about capacity.

The British are the most zoophobic people in the world. That whole David Attenborough thing? A big lie. Most Brits want to live in a parking lot. No wildlife at all. Or at least nothing more charismatic than a blue tit. So depressing.

DeepMind stayed in London because it is better for talent than Silicon Valley. "I saw London and the UK as having incredible talent from top universities like Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial and UCL. There is a deep heritage of scientific breakthroughs and world-class thinkers. There was less competition for that talent, which made it a huge structural advantage for building DeepMind." @demishassabis What is the single biggest advantage of building in Europe for you @torsten @antonosika @MaxJunestrand @matiii @ChrisParsonson @cjpedregal @matthewclifford @torstenreil @alanchanguk

@giveashitnature "one of the largest solar plants in the world" + produces 20MW huh? 20MW is a blip for some solar plants

A zoo in Belgium turned its parking lot into one of the largest solar power plants in the world. Pairi Daiza, voted Europe's best zoo, covered 80% of its 7,000 parking spaces with 62,750 solar panels. The installation produces 20 megawatts of peak power, which is more than the entire zoo consumes. The surplus charges electric vehicles at onsite stations and sells the rest back to the grid. It's the largest solar carport in the world, and it was built on land that was already paved, over cars that were already there. Nobody had to choose between wilderness and energy production. Covering all existing US parking lots with solar panels could generate 1.7 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity, which would power half the country. Why aren't we funding this?

Is Manchester considered England's second city? bbc.in/4shF1su

@policy_uk "only a little higher than Britain’s" 93.1% of GDP ($3.4trillion) vs 115% of GDP ($4+ trillion)

Don’t get this. French national debt is only a little higher than Britain’s. But they have A LOT more to show for it. I’m a frequent user of the TGV and French Motorways. I am wowed by them and wish Britain had infrastructure to match.

I'll vote for literally anyone, from mental Trot to boring lib to neo-fascist, that can tie Liverpool & Manchester together as one de facto city/functional economic area, linked by high-speed rail + dense, integrated tram/bus networks. It's 30 miles distance, lads – two-thirds the length of the Central Line. One big, North-Western megacity with a 4.5-million-strong labour market, advanced industrial clusters, top universities, a massive visitor/night-time/cultural economy, a major transatlantic port & relatively affordable housing. A genuine counterweight to London in the cradle of industrial modernity. Just. Get. It. DONE. (And onwards to a trans-Pennine high speed rail megalopolis encompassing Leeds-Sheffield-Hull etc etc. obvs.)

Them: "What radicalised you..." Me:

This is a little known piece of knowledge for the Reels generation, but scenes used to have many other scenes attached to them, and you were required to watch all of them - we called the combination ‘movies,’ and sometimes some scenes were good but more were bad.

@LoftusSteve It's all subsidies all the way down

There's no greater advert for privatization over public ownership than SpaceX's complete destruction of NASA in less than ten years, despite NASA having a fifty-year head start.

My country has contributed more to humanity than any other and I am immensely proud of it 🇬🇧 -World Wide Web, Jet engines, antibiotics, vaccines, steam engines, Industrial Revolution the television -Parliament, first country to enforce worldwide slavery ban with military.

@miriam_cates Absolutely insane take

This is ridiculous. The frontline barely moves, thousands continue to die. The $billions of aid from UK, EU & US have only prolonged the conflict & reduced our own fighting power. When, inevitably, a peace deal is struck, it will be worse for Kyiv than it could have been in 2022.

In the Spectator, Tara Singh of Renewables UK says "Spain enjoys some of the lowest power prices in Europe", claiming that this is down to renewables. It isn't true. It's mid-ranking in both price and wind/solar generation.

@mr_james_c By that logic houses shouldn't be built with gas central heating installed.

This will push house prices even higher while creating something else that will break inside new houses and homeowners will have to pay to maintain them. If these things are that good, people will install them and the market will decide.

The civil service is so massive, pensions alone are now costing the taxpayer £56 billion a year. We need to massively shrink the state. This is totally unsustainable.

@thesundaysport @tomhfh

@tomhfh I'm not entirely sure this administration should be anywhere near something that can go 'Bang' with such gusto

Reeves commits to fast tracking 'full implementation' of the Fingleton Review in the next parliamentary session. If the government genuinely does this, that's very good news for British nuclear energy.

Power in unity 🤍

@2147mill But what is that 200k house worth in 25yrs time? Definitely more than 350k.

The average UK mortgage is £200,000 at 5% over 25 years. Total repayment? £350,000. You borrow £200K and pay back £350K. £150,000 straight to the bank. For nothing. Then you pay to fix up the house. Stuff breaks. You pay insurance monthly. Fees when/if you sell the property. And we act like renting is throwing money away. There is a strong argument for renting.

The emperor of electrical sockets laughs at your inferiority

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