Mark Gavaghan

Leeds United and F1 fan

[Mark Gavaghan @gavaghan_mark]

@AllLoveLeeds @WorldCupMedia I remember watching 1970 World Cup. Now who feels old?

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@RevivedThoughts Must have been through Schipol (Amsterdam) approx 80 times but never count it as visiting the city or country. Same for Paris and Brussels but significantly less times.

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@chris_kammy Congratulations Chris. Mine aswell today. 33 years.

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@NikDaGreek19 @SuperstarDJHWG @ConorMcGilligxn And because they have their SCR, to fit in with UEFA rules, is now set at 70% not 85% like us. Worst thing that could happen for them imo. It going to tough for them, all to see lower league Scandi or eastern european teams play at SOL!!!

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@MartinMoran74 @isaacjohnsonLL Add Joseph, Schmitt and Wober to that list.

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@theadelites Re: Tanaka - The fans have been mis-pronouncing his 1st name for 2 seasons now. Probably doesn't know we are singing about him!

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@celtic_jaime Cresta - its frothy man!

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@Azzaj_93 @henrywinter Wrong, wrong and wrong again on all points. Research more.

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@Neduszn8 Ray Kennedy

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

This isn't just a pile of debris - it’s the future of green energy waste hidden in plain sight.

Millions of solar panels are hitting their end-of-life cycle, and the world is completely unprepared for the coming toxic avalanche. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects up to 78 million metric tons of solar e-waste. Where is it all going to go?

The industry boasts that solar panels are '95% recyclable'. Technically, yes - because they are made of glass, aluminum and copper. But economics always trumps physics. In Australia and the US, it costs roughly $20 to $28 to properly disassemble and recycle a single panel, but only about $4 to dump it in landfill.

Because there is no financial incentive, up to 90% of decommissioned panels go straight into the ground.

Each solar panel is an industrial 'sandwich' bound tightly by heavy polymers. To extract the microscopic amounts of valuable silver and high-purity silicon requires energy-intensive chemical and thermal baking.
When they are crushed or left to fracture in landfills, heavy metals like lead and cadmium can leach into the surrounding soil and groundwater, turning 'clean energy' into a multi-generational hazardous waste problem.

The crisis is accelerating faster than models predicted. Because solar cells degrade and lose efficiency, and because newer, cheaper panels hit the market, consumers and solar farms are ripping out functional systems at least a decade early to upgrade.

This compressed lifecycle destroys the narrative of a long-term, stable asset and creates an endless loop of unrecyclable industrial trash.

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@petermaurice22 @BerenCross Its not about whether they have the same ambitions, it is about whether financially they can be that ambitious. Last week some football finance bod said that with the new SCR our budget would be same or slighty less than this season. Difficult to be ambitious in that scenario.

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@GigaBasedDad If I want to drink fruit juice I'll buy fruit juice.

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@SteveHaylesALAW This was 3 years ago! Not now. Said otherwise since.

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@sportisthething @LeedsAllOver Just that he has changed his opinion since then. Heard him praising Farke plenty of times this season.

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@sportisthething @LeedsAllOver To be fair it was when he was 1st appointed coming up to 3 seasons ago.

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@LUFCMOTcom It switches to SCR next season. Apparently this is not that good for us. Budget will be same as this season or even less. Think some of peoples favourites will have to go to allow us to do decent business.

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@swinnybottom @Boropolis @CraigHope_DM Fir clarity the spying centred around the league game at Leeds, which Leeds won 2 - 0, and not the play-offs

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@benonwine Cabbage & Bum Juice

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@RanTeeThree All the same now. I spend 5minutes switching it all off before each journey.

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@Footballtweet No we're not!!!