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In his book about Henry Blogg of Cromer, Cyril Jolly recounts a tale of the sinking of a ship off the beach at the town on a winter's night with mountainous seas during WWII. Townsfolk saw a sailor making for shore in a small boat which overturned in the surf. Bystanders formed a human chain and...

In fairness he was only 47 at the time Pole to Pole was filmed. Landmark show though. Watching it over the last few weeks brought back strong memories of it.

Japan was mentioned upthread. As this article https://www.energy-reporters.com/storage/tokyo-olympics-to-showcase-hydrogen-progress/ discusses, the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics were to be used to showcase Japanese progress on hydrogen. There is mention of fuel cell cars and buses and a filling...

And this is why you need a means to store renewable energy . Your options broadly are hydrogen, batteries, pumped hydro, solar thermal, and something called CAES which I think is a popular niche in Germany and the US. Batteries are an established and improving technology but what about weight...

Yes this is of course correct, but those who adhere to this thinking need to think about the fact that when they are in distress there is no automatic right to assistance. It cuts both ways

I challenge any of the self justifying contributors to this thread to produce evidence that face masks are not effective. I shall produce evidence to the contrary, and yes I know how hard it is to get proper randomised trials in epidemiological settings and that I am linking to a preprint which...

Nonsense. https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2020/09/covid-19-uk-lockdown-saw-unexpected-rise-in-air-pollutant/ So a mixed bag. Perhaps more importantly this from Nature Climate Change https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0797-x has a title which speaks for itself

Give over, you'd be hard pressed to spin out a copy of The Sun over 90 minutes

I have used Slateford because it is across the road from the Corn Exchange where I once saw Amy MacDonald in concert. I live half a mile from Dinsdale and use it regularly. It is less than a mile to the celebrated Teesside Airport but I've never used that (obviously). Actually, that's not fair...

Houghton and Sunderland? No way! Riddled with colliery lines and I think the Leamside lne.

I once met Prince Edward in bizarre circumstances. He was representing Really Useful Films or some such and I was on a training exercise for investigators which happened to include an auto-erotic asphyxia scenario. Anyway, he turns up with a Special Branch minder and a youth in school uniform...

But the fuel produces no CO2 when burnt, you capture the carbon at the refinery where it is easy to do so..

Hydrogen can be made at scale either by Steam Methane Reforming (but this produces carbon dioxide so you would need carbon capture and storage) or by electrolysis from water. Before all the squealing starts about energy efficiency, that argument is moot if the energy you use for the electrolysis...

It absolutely is necessary to rid the network of as many emissions as possible. Having an impact on climate change isn't about everybody doing a little bit. Everyone has to do a lot, and relatively quick wins are welcome.

They should split the BA to Saltburn service into BA-Darlington and Darlington-Saltburn. Improved reliability and timekeeping on both branches, no paths to find across the busy ECML (which has constrained growth) and potential for heritage services to work in from the Bishop branch to...

Not entirely true. Many MPs make more money elsewhere because they are or have been an MP or Minister. There value is their contacts and insider knowledge

Has anyone mentioned firearm calibre? Its a free-for all. 9mm, .357(inch), ...erm... 12 bore

I used to have a job where I had to visit people at home and they were usually not pleased to see me so I always thought that it might be nice to be a florist's delivery driver. Cruise around in someone else's vehicle listening to Radio 2 (but not Jeremy Vine between 12 and 2 obviously), and...