James Stevenson

Things that make you go 🤔

A US aircraft has been moved to a Scottish airport after RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk reportedly received an Iran-related threat.

Your toilet takes water from the mains supply to fill up the cistern for flushing the bowl. It's pressure. To flush without pressing the cistern fill the bowl with water from a bucket. The pressure clears the bowl.

The Economist vs The Realist.

Has to be a mock post, the UK isn't on it. 😂

When a Radio Broadcast caused a mass panic. The War of the Worlds. The hyper-realistic style caused some listeners who tuned in late—missing the initial disclaimer that it was a drama—to believe a real alien attack was underway. Meanwhile, at the BBC Blackout Broadcasting emergency service.....

Start thinking outside the Box and Observe the information before Absorbing it. Understanding that the people who are in control have been playing this game longer than you. It's a system of control.

It looks like they are planning a blackout. Just like when your computer is running slow with too many apps and pages running, it needs a clear out. To upgrade the system the old system needs shut down and rebooted. The fact that this is planned and the BBC has a script running in the background as an Emergency Broadcast during the event. Propaganda Machine instructing the masses during the transition. If it does happen, it will happen for 3 days at the most. This is because they need the New System up and running and it won't take too long for the switch over. Like going from Analog to Digital. Ignore all broadcasts, this is when they know people will be panicking and they will use it to their advantage. There will be no power, no Internet and no mobile phone service. Have enough supplies to last you for a good few days, keep an eye on the neighbors and watch out for each other. Keep doors locked and secure especially at night time and wait for it to all boot back up. The most important thing is don't panic!! This is all planned so you should have a plan too. My plan is to enjoy the Silence.

THE SEWER GAS LAMP OF LONDON 🇬🇧 Tucked away down Carting Lane—right behind the luxurious Savoy Hotel off the Strand—stands a tall, green Victorian street lamp that looks like any other antique gas light in London. But this lamp holds a pungent distinction: it is the last surviving sewer gas destructor lamp in the capital. In the late 19th century, London's newly built underground sewer network generated dangerous pockets of volatile methane and foul-smelling gases. In 1894, inventor Joseph Webb patented an ingenious solution: a street lamp connected directly down into the sewer line below. The heat of the burning gas mantles created an upward thermal draught, pulling volatile methane from the sewers into the flame, burning off the dangerous build-up while sterilising the horrific stench. Because Carting Lane sat directly downhill from the opulent Savoy Hotel, its residents and staff quickly gave the alley an irreverent Cockney nickname that still sticks today: "Farting Lane." While modern sewers rely on electric fans and the lamp has since been retrofitted to run primarily on mains gas, this lone cast-iron sentinel remains lit 24 hours a day, burning off whatever sewer fumes rise up from the depths.

Instead of storing wind and solar power inside chemical lithium cells, this 35-story tower in China stores electricity by lifting giant blocks of concrete against gravity. Built in Rudong, Jiangsu province alongside Energy Vault, the EVx gravity energy storage facility stands nearly 400 feet tall and holds a 100-megawatt-hour grid capacity. When nearby wind farms produce excess electricity, computer-controlled electric winches hoist massive 24-ton composite blocks (made from local soil, sand, and recycled waste) to the top of the tower, converting electrical energy into gravitational potential energy. When the grid needs power, the blocks are lowered back down — spinning the hoist motors in reverse as regenerative generators to deliver electricity at over 80% round-trip efficiency without a single gram of lithium.

When the cost of energy goes up due to these Data Centers using the National Grid, it'll be the people paying extra to cover the costs not to mention the water consumption for cooling. If the military can transport Micro reactors by road for deployment, why can't these places use these instead of using up the energy required to keep a Region with essential power that already costs a fortune?