Snooker legend John Virgo has died aged 79. Although he won the UK Championship in 1979, he is probably best loved for his TV presenting and commentary. Ronnie O'Sullivan summed up what many are feeling now: "Such a great mate who I loved spending time with, absolutely gutted."
@TOEwithCurt Curt please get @memcculloch Mike McCulloch on. His Quantised Inertia Theory is a game changer and the theory is about to be tested on a satellite launching later this month
@elonmusk I've published 25 papers, 2 books & been funded by #DARPA to prove we can get quantum thrust. We & other labs have it, from capacitors. Small but scalable. Sorry to bother you, but it will be helpful for space exploration.
@SaturnMonolith @jackklok@AndrewDessler That’s not the exact logic at all!! Chernobyl was a one-off tragedy caused by poor design and human errors. There are thousands of reservoirs releasing CO2 and CH4 right now. Don’t get me wrong - I like hydro - but it ain’t ever gonna be zero carbon
@SaturnMonolith @jackklok@AndrewDessler In most cases hydro involves building a dam (millions of tons of concrete at 0.5 tons of CO2 per 1 ton of concrete) and then flooding a valley. Rotting vegetation and flooded soils release CO2 and CH4 for decades at levels that can be worse than equivalent fossil fuel plants:
@jackklok @SaturnMonolith @AndrewDessler Providing low carbon baseload to the grid. No other current technology can do that. Hydro is not low carbon- for instance