Earlier in the campaign, we were hitting nearly 20K posts. This weekend's tweet storm reached 12.5K, and we did get Martin trending! Great job, but we can do more. For Comic-Con, let's get back to 20K. Reach out to folks who've gone quiet. Every post counts! #SaveStargate
The World Bank ranked every country on earth for practical solar potential.
Britain came second from bottom. Not second from bottom in Europe. On the planet. Out of everywhere they measured, the only place with worse conditions for a solar panel is Ireland. Norway is above us. Norway, where the sun clocks off entirely for part of the year, is a better bet than Lincolnshire.
The reasons are not a mystery. We sit at 53 degrees north, the same line as Edmonton, Alberta. The sun in December gets about as high as a first-floor window and then thinks better of it. And there's the cloud, which is not a detail, it is the national personality. A square metre of London gets 0.52 kilowatt hours of sunlight a day in December and 4.74 in July, so the panel does nine times less work in the month your heating is on than in the month it isn't. Across the whole of 2024, British solar ran at 9.5% of what it's rated at. The other 90.5% is a photograph of a power station.
Now the other column.
The ground we're bolting it to is Trent valley silt and Lincolnshire fen. Some of it took three hundred years to drain. It grows wheat at yields that most of the planet cannot get near, in a climate so reliably damp that grass grows here without anyone asking it to, which is the entire reason this island has cattle and cheese and a butcher.
So we are, measurably, one of the worst places on earth for sunlight and one of the best on earth for food.
And we've had a good long look at both of those numbers and gone with sunlight.
Somewhere in Namibia, which the same report ranked first, there is a patch of absolutely nothing, in full sun, wondering what it did wrong.
Hey, @AmazonMGMStudio@PrimeVideo@mgmplus@primemovies
I'm still waiting on an answer about Martin Gero's Stargate. One thing I liked about Stargate was the uniquely designed space ships. Since the Odyssey has been trending this week, here are some pics of it. #SaveStargate
“Net Zero: Let’s make UK energy the most expensive in Europe, shut our factories, destroy jobs and local economies, plaster solar panels over thousands of acres of farmland, spend £billions turning off wind turbines because we can’t use their energy supply, spend £30 billion on carbon capture machines, ban new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea but spend £40billion buying North Sea oil and gas from Norway, blame cow burps, reduce red meat consumption and freeze pensioners so global CO2 drops by 0.0003%. But we will also build hundreds of AI data centres that guzzle natural resources and energy. China’s still building coal plants like it’s 1950 but at least we get to feel superior while the rest of the world laughs over our sheer stupidity. Genius.”
🚨 NOW: President Trump says he expects Keir Starmer's replacement Andy Burnham as UK PM to be MORE LIBERAL who will REFUSE to open up oil drilling
"The UK IS DYING!"
"Open up the North Sea!"
"I hear he's extremely liberal. EXTREMELY. So that means he probably won't open up the North Sea!"
Energy + immigration failures are WRECKING the UK. They need a Trump figure 🇺🇸🇬🇧
We live in a country where the same people who panic because the news says 30°C is a "dangerous heat wave" previously injected themselves with an experimental "vaccine" just to go on vacation in countries where 30°C is the norm.
Make it make sense 🤡
I 100% agree with Darren and @GateWorld on this. This is still a two-way door reversible decision. All the data is screaming making @martingero 's series with @BaronDestructo and @bradtravelers is what 3 generations of fans want, one of those being a generation of fans who are under 20 and who have only seen the product in syndication/streaming.
@AmazonMGMStudio and @PrimeVideo need to reverse course and give Martin (and this massive fandom) a season or two to prove it. Worst case (highly unlikely), it fails and you have another two seasons worth of content that will help bridge the gap which is still a win. Best case, Martin and team prove what the fans are telling you - there is a massive gap in the market right now for clean, intelligent Stargate brand SciFi and it's the start of another multi-decade run.
This is a super easy Amazonian decision to make.. #SaveStargate
Dear Amazon: Cancelling Stargate Is Bad For Business
https://t.co/27FD3Kry81
An open letter to Amazon MGM Studios (OPINION)
@AmazonMGMStudio@PrimeVideo