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[ann post]

Looks like my plan to retire to southern Europe is kind of cooked

Southern Europe will be retiring to here

 

[Space]

Southern Europe is cooked.

 

[ann post]

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his own statement* on twitter

*it's on twitter

 

[magicbastarder]

trouble at'mill.

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[ann post]

How can Ireland’s media be so unaware of its role in delaying sustainable transport projects? -- IrishCycle.com

Comment & Analysis / Long-read: How can the media be so unaware of its role in delaying and increasing the cost of sustainable and public transport projects? Yesterday in The Irish Times Cliff …

irishcycle.com

sorta on the same theme

 

[GO]

The end is nigh AF

 

[flashback]

Looks like my plan to retire to southern Europe is kind of cooked

One of the reasons I left the US was the heat, which seemed to me to be getting worse even over the last two decades. I don't know if that's only because I got old and fat, or if it's also related to hotter temps, but in the last couple of years it was going beyond what i could handle.

When you can't really go outside to do stuff like gardening or cycling or whatever for months of the year because your blood pressure crashes, and nausea, and you start getting visual distortions, that's the line for me. You're scurrying from one building to another, because that's where the AC is, and in the US electricity is more or less free compared to the EU it seems.

So yeah, maybe from October to May, but it's no fun to get overheated.

 

[Deadmanposting]

Southern Europe will be retiring to here

Stop the boats and/or planes!

One of the reasons I left the US was the heat, which seemed to me to be getting worse even over the last two decades. I don't know if that's only because I got old and fat, or if it's also related to hotter temps, but in the last couple of years it was going beyond what i could handle.

When you can't really go outside to do stuff like gardening or cycling or whatever for months of the year because your blood pressure crashes, and nausea, and you start getting visual distortions, that's the line for me. You're scurrying from one building to another, because that's where the AC is, and in the US electricity is more or less free compared to the EU it seems.

So yeah, maybe from October to May, but it's no fun to get overheated.

Couldn't you have just moved to Maine instead?

 

[flashback]

Couldn't you have just moved to Maine instead?

With respect to weather, Maine is actually grand in the summer, admittedly. I wasn't there in the winter, but it's true it seemed OK. Also Seattle seemed pretty ok when I was out there, although I think there was some class of heat event out there recently?

The weather wasn't the only motivator I should add. But yeah, maybe there's areas up north in the US that don't melt your face off during the summer. Ireland never gets hot, but it also never really gets seriously cold. Like I live in basically a pile of rocks, and survive winter here. That's not going to happen in a lot of places.

 

[therealjohnny]

With respect to weather, Maine is actually grand in the summer, admittedly. I wasn't there in the winter, but it's true it seemed OK.

Isn't Maine a hotbed of spooks and supernatural shenanigans though? I've read Steven King's books.

 

[flashback]

Isn't Maine a hotbed of spooks and supernatural shenanigans though? I've read Steven King's books.

More spooks around the DC area than Maine.

 

[magicbastarder]

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[ann post]

hydrogen strategy roadmap just dropped.





Looks like they want to run the trains off it first.

 

[pete]

We have hydrogen buses up here in the big (no) smoke, dribbling water behind them everywhere they go. And that’s just the drivers, ayuyyy

 

[ernesto]

hydrogen strategy roadmap just dropped.


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Looks like they want to run the trains off it first.

Hydrogen won't work for people driving cars. Look at the Uk, wasted their time

 

[ann post]

Hydrogen won't work for people driving cars. Look at the Uk, wasted their time

The idea with hydrogen that's being developed here is small stations that scrape off night time/wind energy excess to generate hydrogen, and then are called in to reverse the process to make electricity during low wind/high demand. They've 2-3 test mules already. They aren't trying to put hydrogen in vehicles.

 

[pete]

We have hydrogen buses up here in the big (no) smoke, dribbling water behind them everywhere they go. And that’s just the drivers, ayuyyy

€2.4m for three hydrogen buses in drive for clean fuel
€2.4m for three hydrogen buses in drive for clean fuel

 

[magicbastarder]

Gulf stream could collapse for first time in 12,000 years as early as 2025, study suggests

New analysis estimates timescale for collapse between 2025 and 2095, with central estimate of 2050

www.irishtimes.com

 

[Space]

Gulf stream could collapse for first time in 12,000 years as early as 2025, study suggests

New analysis estimates timescale for collapse between 2025 and 2095, with central estimate of 2050

www.irishtimes.com

Just in time for the train to Letterkenny.

 

[pete]

‘Do these f***ers not read the news?’: Coalition rift sparked by Varadkar comments on rail plan

Fine Gael sources say the party is seeking a meeting with Eamon Ryan to discuss future roads projects and their belief that they are being undermined or abandoned

www.irishtimes.com

The Fine Gael leader’s comments sparked a backlash in the Green ranks, with one source asking: “do these f***ers not read the news? Do they not see that the world is burning?”

I wonder who that source could have been???

Speaking after Mr Varadkar made his comments, Mr Ryan said the “world is burning” and transport emissions needed to fall.

oh.