Ian Thomson

Retired Antiques Dealer, Amateur Photographer & Electronic/Electrical/Calibration Engineer. Radio Amateur Callsign GM0URD.

[Living In The Past @LivingInThePas5]

New Buffalo Bills logo as approved by Yellowstone National Park!

[Ian Thomson @GM0URD]

Dunfermline Glen. #Dunfermline #Fife

[Ian Thomson @GM0URD]

Around the Loch-side. #Townhill #Dunfermline #Fife

[snipy.in @snipy_in]

JUST IN: Two Greek oil tankers attacked in the Hormuz Strait. Bahrain also came under attack. Mediators are pushing for a 10-day ceasefire.

[Ian Thomson @GM0URD]

AI Art Steampunk Video | “Creator or Critic” | Chris & Crystal AI Art | ... https://t.co/GZsnFD2VqY via @YouTube

[Above The Norm News @abovenormnews]

🚨 M5.6 Strikes Off Vancouver Island 🚨

📅 Monday, July 20, 2026

A shallow magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck 208 km southwest of Port McNeill, Canada, at a depth of just 10 km.

A magnitude 4.8 followed only minutes later near the same offshore fault region, close to the northern edge of the Cascadia Subduction Zone.

The area has a history of powerful earthquake swarms and remains one to watch closely.

#CanadaEarthquake #VancouverIsland #Cascadia #EarthquakeWatch

[Vox Ethica @VoxEthicabr]

Iranian retaliatory strikeshave targeted US proxy-Kuwait's power & water desalination plant.

AJ’s @VictoriaGatenby explains what that means for Kuwait & the rest of rogue USA's Arab lackeys members of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Discarded wind turbine blades equal to the volume of 215,000 steel locomotives will need to be recycled, incinerated or sent to landfill sites by 2050.

This crisis is no longer a distant possibility set somewhere in the future. It's already happening, and a massive wave of early-generation turbines is reaching its end-of-life. By then, there will be 1.3 million decommissioned turbine blades weighing as much as 43 million tons.

These blades are made of high-strength composite material designed to survive decades of brutal weather, and are notoriously difficult to recycle. They were built to last, but they weren't built to disappear into thin air.

The European wind industry has already enacted a landfill ban on decommissioned blades from January 1, 2026. Panic is spreading about where to put them — because a blade recycling infrastructure doesn't exist yet. There is a growing repugnance at the thought of creating endless turbine blade graveyards despoiling our fields and hillsides.

In France, at least 55% of a rotor blade’s mass must be recycled or reused, effective since January 2025.

While European industry groups have pushed for a blade landfill ban, the reality is that recycling these polymers costs up to $2,000 per ton — compared to just $60 to dump them in landfills. The infrastructure simply doesn't exist to handle the volume.

Without a cost-effective, workable way to recycle fibre-reinforced polymers, the majority of them are destined for blade graveyards somewhere. Or they will have to be stockpiled indefinitely everywhere blade landfilling has been banned.

China, Europe, and the US will account for the vast majority of this waste, creating a mountainous industrial heartache that many Net Zero models simply haven't priced in.

Or has anyone even thought about it yet?

[This Is My Glasgow @is_glasgow]

The rather stylish Douggie the Deco Doggie outside the Burrell Collection in Pollok Park in Glasgow. One of the Maggie's Scotties in the City, it celebrates the Art Deco designs of the 1920s and was created by Michael Richardson.

#glasgow #burrellcollection #publicart #artdeco

[GulfHindi.com @gulfhindinews]

Bahrain में फिर से बजे एयर रेड सायरन, ईरान के हमले के बाद US ने जारी किया अलर्ट https://t.co/8FoFQratCw

[LeoDaVinciWave @LeoDaVinciWave]

19th-century double-decker horse-drawn bus, built by Coyaltix, a carriage manufacturer based in Poland.

[The Edinburgh Minute @EdinburghMinute]

1am update: Photo of the fire on the Crags in Edinburgh by Minute subscriber Adam Johnston.

[Indranil Mukherjee @Indrani54204140]

https://t.co/U6Enf8IRFe
Flights Cancelled Across Middle East as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain Delay 705 and Cancel 168 Flights at Riyadh, Doha, Dubai Impacting Emirates, Air Arabia, Saudia and Other Airlines

[Ian Thomson @GM0URD]

The biggest funds JUST FROZE clients' money ! (it's worse than you think) https://t.co/EKNrIU16yC via @YouTube

[CityNews Toronto @CityNewsTO]

More people flee fires, destruction in northern Ontario as blazes rage across Canada https://t.co/3xbVGJTEjl

[Truth Troll Official™️ @truthtroll_X]

• JFK
• Lyndon Johnson
• Israel
• Dimona
• USS Liberty

[Dr Naomi @BooksTeaFilms]

St Margaret of Antioch, in Christ Church cathedral, Oxford
#StainedGlassSunday

[Ian Thomson @GM0URD]

@BooksTeaFilms Stone carving representing the story of St.Margaret of Antioch above the main entrance door of Dunfermline City Chambers building. Patron saint of pregnant women. I wonder how many newly weds know that when standing below it. #Dunfermline #Fife #Scotland

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

#BREAKING Witness reports from Iran suggest multiple explosions in Iran's northwestern city of Tabriz.

[Threatwhere @threatwhere]

🌊 ERBIL, IRAQI KURDISTAN: Explosions reported at oil refinery at 21:15 UTC July 19. Subsequent fire engulfing facility. Cause under investigation. No casualty figures confirmed.

#Erbil #Iraq #InfrastructureAttack #ThreatIntel #Threatwhere

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