Tom Offer

To be clear, as there were a lot of mistaken tweets doing the rounds, there is no question that several hundred million pounds have been spent on fish mitigations at Hinkley Point C. The fish disco cost £50m and the retrieval and return system cost £150m. The first debate is over the extra large intake, which cost £500m. Some fraction of this would have been necessary either way. My guess is about £50m of it, based on the gauge compared with other cases. I could be part wrong, but not hugely. If I’m right, then £650m of it was spent purely on fish mitigations. There is no chance that only £50m was, but perhaps only £600m was. On the other hand, maybe £675m was spent on fish. The second question is the number of fish. There is no question that only a handful of protected fish are being saved, no one disputes this. The 0.083 salmon per year and 100 twaite and allis shad numbers are not disputed. The ‘millions’ of fish people mention are river lampreys and similar, basically microscopic eels, of which there are trillions in the sea. They are therefore not protected and no one realistically thinks we should protect them. Some people are muddying the waters by trying to make this unclear.

We are currently researching how Universal Credit has destroyed incentives to work Findings so far: 🟢A business that splits one 40-hour job into two 16-hour jobs saves between £6,800 and £9,900 per year — roughly a quarter of the cost of the full-time post. 🟢The worker is no worse off, and often better off per hour, because Universal Credit fills the gap. 🔴The taxpayer picks up the bill. Splitting a single-parent role in two raises the state's UC contribution from £916 a month to £2,899 a month — an extra £23,800 a year per role.

Imagine waking up tomorrow to learn that every photo you ever took was... gone. Forever. Every video, gone Every email, gone Every document, gone Every memory, gone Backup your data! WHY: Claude Mythos could be COVID, but for software Anthropic now has zero-days - powerful exploits - into all major OSes and browsers And if this model - or another upcoming model release - leaks and falls into the wrong hands, it could be catastrophic.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Parking lots over a certain size have three to five years to cover at least half their surface area with solar canopies or face fines. The projected output: up to 11 gigawatts of capacity, the equivalent of 10 nuclear reactors. The panels shade the cars. They can charge EVs directly underneath them. They generate electricity for the grid. The parking lot goes from dead infrastructure to power plant without using a single additional acre of land. France plans to increase solar tenfold and double wind capacity by 2033. The US has approximately 800 million parking spaces. Eight hundred million. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

'Even the tree huggers want to drill, baby drill?!' Dr Lawrence Newport discusses research which found 57% of the public back drilling in the North Sea to help soften the blow of the UK's energy crisis.

This is such bullshit. What's the payback period on a £500 panel that may not even produce 2% of its rated capacity? Even well-positioned solar PV cells in well-engineered farms have a capacity factor averaging just 10%. If you're not south-facing, you lose 50% of that. If your panel is facing the horizon, you lose 30%. Michael Shanks and his boss should be laughed out of News studios, not be allowed to mislead millions of people.