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MartinVeart

@MartinVeart@mastodon.scot

A bit political. Not fond of nationalism in any form but extremely depressed with the current path of the UK therefore open to options. Very pro-EU. UK and Irish citizen, living in Scotland since 2000. Knows a bit about energy, both renewables and fossil fuel. Does Human Factors for a living. Will toot on radio and trash television programmes.

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reiver, (edited ) to random
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Since Twitter (now called 𝕩) purged the words "tweet" and "retweet" from their platform —

Should we (in the Fediverse) claim these words for our ourselves, and start using them over here?

MartinVeart,
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@reiver we ain’t here to tweet. Let’s just be and do, without the baggage.

MartinVeart, to random
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What is the use of Conservatives that cannot conserve anything?

MartinVeart, to random
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Watching the Russel Brand documentary on C4. “Boys will be boys” and “enabled predators who make production companies and agents a ton of money” will continue to be predators.

georgetakei, to random

For as long as I can remember, politicians have been promising to involve the government in negotiating down the cost of prescription drugs. Now, the Biden Administration has finally achieved that goal. Medicare has announced it will negotiate prices on 10 popular prescription drugs, making them more affordable. Joe Biden is getting the job done. And we, the voters, should support him to finish the job.

MartinVeart,
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@georgetakei I don’t understand the US attitude to healthcare. The Conservative government in the UK are slowly killing the NHS, pushing private solutions so folk jump the lengthening queues. Plenty of companies already make a profit from supplying the NHS but it is never enough. In the UK it is consensus that being poor should not dictate the medical treatment one receives. No one should suffer through inability to pay. But UK Conservatives look to the US and think it is good.

ScienceDesk, to science
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A recent study reports that exposure to intense light almost instantly provokes courtship behavior in male fruit flies. Phys.org tells us more: https://flip.it/3cbX2K

MartinVeart,
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@ScienceDesk how odd. It’s Barry White in humans.

MartinVeart, to random
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An expert has responded to Trump’s claim to be 97.5kg.

MartinVeart, to random
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The forgotten disaster. I never realised the report on the Alexander Keilland disaster (which rivals that of Piper Alpha and predates the more widely-known tragedy) has remained closed and has yet to be made available to the public. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-66621414

fulelo, to France
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- to spend €200m destroying as demand falls
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-66623636

MartinVeart,
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@fulelo nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

MartinVeart, to random
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“The problem is the system” says David Davies MP, former Brexit Minister and member of the Conservative Party that has been in charge of the system since 2010.

MartinVeart, to random
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On Today Programme this week, Yvette Cooper MP speaking for Labour claimed that hotel costs for refugees stood at £5000 a minute. This equates to £7.2 million a day.
The Conservatives earlier claimed that accommodation for refugees and asylum seekers cost £6 million a day.
I have written to BBC More Or Less team to look into this, asking what is the true figure of hotel accommodation for asylum seekers? Personally I think it is sick of both parties to use refugees as a political football.

MartinVeart, to Energy
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Reflections on the current debate. A thread. Until 2015 I was employed in oil and gas exploration. With the price crash, I lost that career. Effectively unemployed 2016-2019 during which time I gained an MSc in Energy- with the focus on renewables and sustainability. Couldn’t get work in the sector so now back in the oil industry in a different career.

MartinVeart,
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  1. Sadly since 2015 UK progress on renewables has stalled. The Cameron government cut a lot of then current research, initiatives and support, including the carbon capture and storage Sunak is seeking to reintroduce. That is eight years wasted.
MartinVeart,
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  1. Focus has to be on cutting energy consumption and that means both insulation of our current poor quality housing stock and tighten building regulations. Under Labour and the LibDems (Coalition), new housing would have had to been carbon neutral by now. Guess what, it still ain’t. Forget about installing a heat pump until your property is very well insulated.
MartinVeart,
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  1. as of 2022, 79.1% of the UK’s energy usage is still fossil fuel-based. We need that cut and fast but that is the reason it has to be a transition. A nation cannot swap to import the majority of its energy supply in the course of a few years.
MartinVeart,
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  1. the energy sector as a whole needs clarity from government, which since 2015 there has been none. Exploration will end but when? I honestly do not recognise the figures for commissioning a new field bandied around by the panel. 28 years? Buzzard Field - discovered 2001. First oil 2006. Ten years would be a conservative estimate. So oil and gas discovered this decade would be online by the late 2030s, not the 2050s as stated.
MartinVeart,
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  1. production in the North Sea is already fallen 70% since the turn of the century.

Finally jobs. Do not get me started. There are about 200,000 oil-related jobs in the Uk. That is down from the 450,000 in 2014. Offshore jobs in wind were 7,500 in 2017, and I hear 32,000 now. I get annoyed when politicians state we need good renewable jobs but offer no figures as to the current situation.

MartinVeart,
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We need a greatly enlarged renewable sector but it isn’t really a choice between the two. We need both. The ultimate challenge is to maintain energy supply while reducing CO2 output. That is not easy at all but has to be done.

lowqualityfacts, (edited ) to random
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Please take a few minutes to answer this very important survey. Boost because maximum participation is vital for scientific rigor.

How do you pronounce Mastodon?

MartinVeart,
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@lowqualityfacts Hairy elephant.

BBCRadio4, to random
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Hello everyone! 👋 We've joined the fediverse as part of an experiment with our friends from BBC Research & Development. Read more about it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

MartinVeart,
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@BBCRadio4 Welcome. I take it the mad X rebranding was the final straw? You will be relieved to know it is quite nice here; even relatively sane.

MartinVeart, to random
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This is welcome. Just a shame the Cameron government pulled the plug of carbon capture and storage in 2015. Eight wasted years under the Conservatives. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-66354478

MartinVeart,
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Having said that, insulating every home and business in the UK would have been a better move but the Conservatives only deal with big business and not the likes of us. That’s communism apparently.

SmudgeTheInsultCat, to random
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MartinVeart,
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat Smudge, you deserve a vacation. Where do cats go on holiday?

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Obviously.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

MartinVeart,
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@lowqualityfacts the winners smoke Hoyo de Monterrey cigars.

JamesGleick, to random
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“Better to talk to people than communicate by tweet.”

The former tech giant known as Twitter has a new company motto.

MartinVeart,
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@JamesGleick it cost Musk $42 billion to learn that? Impressive.

stephenfry, to random

Words fail me…

MartinVeart,
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@stephenfry it can always, always be worse. Thank God Treblinka isn’t on the tour. Sadly there is nothing that cannot be commercialised.

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