Michelle Nichols

Carbon capture and mitigating climate change, is there a better way? Industrial v Holistic? This will be the question behind my PhD study with the university of Aberdeen, which hopefully will start in September although I’ve already been doing a lot of research. I have decided to use X as my platform to receive public opinion on each element of my study. The more holes you guys can pick in my research the stronger my research will become so thank you in advance. I look forward to everyone’s comments and opinions whether they be positive or negative.

Great video explaining local geology just south of Aberdeen, you will never look at the cliffs in stonhaven in quite the same way as you did before. #studygeology Ancient Deserts and Giant Faults: Secrets of the Cowie Foreshore youtu.be/4l-RMfKiyRU?is… via @YouTube

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The University is at the Annual Conference of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers at the P&J Live this week. We have a large number of academic talks throughout the week on a range of industry research topics and you can come and speak to us on stand #Uni3 in the main atrium. We hope to see you there! #EAGEAnnual2026

Well that’s a beautiful thing!! I looked but can’t find actual plans anywhere. Are they going to hide it somehow or just slap it wherever they think is best? Also would it not make more sense to hide it nearer the existing infrastructure in Peterhead? I’m sure it would compliment The already beautiful Peter power station.

Inverurie battery storage plans to be decided by Scottish Government after council refusal aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-…

@FamersDog I thought it was and still is a brilliant show which highlights how hard farming is. It’s entertaining and educational, what’s wrong with these 1 star reviewers? If they don’t like it they can watch something else!

Easy answer. No

@aroog1278 Depends how messy your house got during the drug fueled party lol

@NoFarmsNoFoods @JamesMelville The solar panels went up after the turbines 🤷🏻‍♀️ The once feild full of sheep or cattle is now a black span of panels and beef is £40+ a kilo????

Solar panels have to be a waste of time money and space in Scotland. There’s just not enough of that shiny thing in the sky to make it worthwhile. I could work it out but I think it would annoy me either way. They are hideously expensive and spend much of there time in The dark for 4 months of the year

And guess what? They need the prime farmland to plaster solar panels & wind turbines across thousands of acres to power the AI data centres (which they also need the farmland for). Join the dots…

@JamesMelville Policy made by people who want to stop thinking for themselves. Hey! Perhaps the data centre will tell the government what they are doing wrong lol

▪️By 2030, the global data centres powering artificial intelligence (AI) are projected to consume 945 terawatt-hours of electricity. ▪️To produce that scale of electricity, AI data centres will produce a carbon footprint of nearly 400 million tonnes carbon dioxide, requiring the equivalent of 6.7 billion trees grown over a decade to offset. ▪️By 2030, the water footprint of AI data centres will equal the basic annual domestic water needs of all 1.3 billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa. ▪️AI infrastructure is projected to generate up to 2.5 million tonnes of e-waste annually by 2030. This is a staggering amount of natural resources being plundered and used for AI data centres combined with a huge environmental risk. It appears that governments are facilitating the greed needs of tech giants before the essential needs of people. So much for ‘environmental sustainability’ and ‘saving the planet’.

@CarbonBrief @hausfath Net zero is surely not sustainable for so many reasons 🤷🏻‍♀️

Explainer: Will global warming ‘stop’ as soon as net-zero emissions are reached? | @hausfath #CBarchive Read: buff.ly/v5OslxB

@JamesMelville Buying shares in tin foil lol But I do see your point, it’s the same as everything else, people making policy about something they have never done themselves shouldn’t be a thing.

1. Create a farming crisis. Farmers are forced into selling their land. 🔻 2. Solar panels & wind turbines plastered on the sold farmland. 🔻 3. Build AI data centres near the solar panels & wind turbines for power supply. Nah. It’s a conspiracy theory. Apparently.

@moveon_9910 Weights from a clock

Definitely not ornaments. My friend is sorting through her grandma and aunt’s house and came across these odd, very heavy solid objects. Any idea what they are?🤔

@RGS_IBGschools We need this in Scotland too please

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@PNUKcom @LBC @NickFerrariLBC Poor operators who relied to much on one demographic of customer 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Michell19797703 @LBC @NickFerrariLBC They didn't survive though did they.

"We simply don't need as many pubs as we once had." James May tells @NickFerrariLBC the 'honest truth' about Britain's boozers.

@ClarksonsFarm1 Expert farmer but not so good at understanding how air works lol

But how?

@aberdeenuni Having lived in coastal areas I can confirm that the jobs these facilities generate are rarely advertised locally where the local population would easily find them. Probably because It’s easier to advertise through an agent who doesn’t know the local areas.

The energy transition could bring jobs & investment to coastal communities. But history shows a pattern: impacts stay local, benefits often don’t. Our research looks at 200+ years of change and how to get this transition right. More - abdn.io/2eJ #JustTransition

@PNUKcom @LBC @NickFerrariLBC 2008 sucked but we survived that too

@Michell19797703 @LBC @NickFerrariLBC 10 Pubs within 2 miles of the pit have closed and have been closed for 10 years + but ok had nothing to do with it.

@PNUKcom @LBC @NickFerrariLBC I’m saying it’s not the only reason

@JamesMelville They don’t do any joined up thinking either where’s the plans for mitigation of their own CF? Eg. Redirecting the hot water they produce into heat flow systems and put it to good use.

AI data centres: The monstrosities that guzzle energy and water supply: ▪️84% of proposed UK AI data centres are planned in areas that are projected to be water stressed by 2040.  ▪️If AI data centres electricity use doubles as projected by 2030, the associated carbon footprint would require 6.7 billion trees grown over ten years to offset this demand. ▪️Data centres would also require 9.3 trillion litres of water and land nearly ten times the size of Mexico City. As global energy and water supplies are already under strain and with fragile water ecosystems worldwide, can there really be any justification for governments to facilitate tech giants and their plundering of energy and water? And while the AI centres guzzle water and energy, we will be told by the government to switch off our lights and switch off the hosepipes due to supply shortages.