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kim jong un is becoming his father kim jong ill allegedly

Ladies and gentlemen, the mayor of Las Vegas:

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1253051235483242502

errrrr…

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/23/man-punched-killed-cyclist-peterborough-receives-suspended-jail-term

"The judge, David Farrell QC, sentencing, said the situation was caused by the victim, who was drunk and damaged Budurus’s car"

What a prick. Same guy:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/shock-as-judge-sentences-rapists-to-just-737039

Drunk idiot damaging property is assaulted by the owner of some of that property with very nasty results. The defendant has admitted manslaughter and I guess the judge took that into account but without seeing the evidence I don't see a huge miscarriage of justice.

Edit - okay having seen @Sumo 's comment maybe the evidence would have indicated a problem with the verdict

Reuters' photo editor with some top trolling this morning

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Bet you that you wont find those words in the court transcript.

Edit: Just read it. He damn well nearly said it, close enough. Just not in those words.

Turns out that the sentence was overturned and both defendants were given seven years.

It was the Graun headline that trolled me, saying he was 'ready to go'. Unfortunately, it meant go back to work.

The ever popular Gridwatch has ditched 'Coal' from the large circular analogue gauges and promoted 'Biomass'.

Does this mean all the UK's coal burning power stations have now reached their end-of-Life?

Recently we've had the seemingly rare combination of mostly-clear skies and a useful breeze, so maybe with higher than usual fraction of solar and wind, maybe it's easier to idle a coal plant than a biomass plant?

Yes.

But biomass is struggling, very hard work to operate fully functioning working plants. Lots are struggling with crop they use being seasonal in new AD plants and older burny burny plants are struggling with lack of maintenance now biting their ass.

Coal is dead as the dodo they burn.

Depends on the bio plant most are tied into contracts with suppliers of the product they use where they can’t stockpile it long due to bulk size and they’re getting that shit whether they like it or not.

Cool thing however is a large company are now using biofuel they produce in their plant to fuel lorries that collect the plant fuel.

Cool shit.

When I looked wind was generating:

https://youtu.be/mjCRUvX2D0E

Couldn't help but giggle.

Also we kept selling (or giving away?) our rubbish to Norway which doesn’t help.

We only burn rubbish so personally I’d be happy giving that away.

The future in the UK in my eyes anyway is Wind, Solar and AD. AD runs incredible off whisky and brewery waste but needs a lot of it, you can run it off farm waste if you have sugar beet to go with it but it struggles without.

Burning plants I hate for many reasons.

AD plants that also burn are a strange concept and I’ve still not seen one fully work to maximum output although they look good on paper.

I am a projects and commissioning manager for a large company in their BioEnergy section. I see a lot of these plants every week except for the last month where I’ve seen a lot of video calls.

Don't forget sewage sludge as another well utilised source for AD, the majority of the WaSC's are now approaching 100% sludge to AD, think they all will be by 2025.
Likely to see greater energy recovery from sludge in the future as well if sludge to land is closed as a disposal route which it already has in parts of Scotland as the Japanese won't buy whisky where sludge to land was used in the crop production. So likely to see the waste sludge burned in one form or another.

New Michael Moore documentary: biomass, solar, wind energy industries

https://youtu.be/Zk11vI-7czE

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH SLUDGE DOESNT EXIST BLAH BLAH BLAH.

I have nightmares about Rothes.

biofuel they produce in their plant to fuel lorries

So this is alcohol?

It's been a few years since I did any work with AD operators, so I hope things have changed. Back then, thanks to government subsidies, they were being built at an unrealistic pace and on the flawed assumption that food waste would remain at the same levels.

Given the amount of energy used in growing, harvesting, processing and distributing food that was eventually thrown away far outstripped the amount of energy it could produce from AD, it seemed to make much more sense to reduce the huge amount of avoidable and unnecessary waste in the first place. And the proliferation of plants meant that none were operating at more than 65% capacity and their feed stock was poor and heavily contaminated. Cue farmers growing crops to be sold as AD "fuel", a not so great use of agricultural land. Instead of charging gate fees for waste, operators were paying for feed stock and their subsidies had gone.

Things may have moved on in the last few years, but I thought it sucked.

I know some hauliers are running their fleet on compressed biomethane from AD, the business case is pretty attractive compared to diesel in the right circumstances

kim jong un very kim jong ill or maybe kim jong un-well
vegetative state allegedly, not sure what caused it .... trump ?

Brain operation apparently. Why for who knows

Doctor dead apparently.

S.Korea defence stocks are through the roof.

Brain operation apparently.

Maybe his bff Donnie suggested a cranial injection of the evangelical wonder stuff as a 'proven fat buster'?

The original source said heart surgery.

The rumours are numerous and varied.