Engineer. Historian. Beer-Drinker. Publican's Friend. Hi-Fi Anorak. Technocrat. Patriot. Improving Husband. Feminist. “The Attenborough of the Relay Room”
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We are not the BEST commissioning engineers on the British power system, but we are in the top two 💁🏻♂️
!⃝ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 ⚡️👆🏻
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NESO has issued an Electricity Margin Notice for today’s evening peak period. This is a routine and precautionary operational tool, there is no risk to customer electricity supplies and Great Britain’s electricity system remains secure.
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there are literally foreign countries that are celebrating the UK not building things
fuck my chungus country man
Goed nieuws voor Schiphol: derde landingsbaan Heathrow op losse schroeven door premier Burnham telegraaf.nl/financieel/goed…
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Treasury minister Dan Tomlinson leans in hard to back Heathrow expansion, after Andy Burnham said it was a matter for London.
The Barnet MP says he watches the planes with his 2-year-old in the back garden and adds: “I am pro more flights over North London in particular.”
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🚨 NEW: The Government has announced Avanti West Coast will be nationalised from 7 March 2027
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You also have to contend with outright ignorance. This is in response to a solar farm near where I grew up. It cannot be seen from the village. People going on like it'll be a nuclear power station
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“It may have been Scotland Yard”
It worked out great 👏🏻👏🏻🇬🇧🇺🇸
🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump responds to the suspected bomb plot at RAF Fairford
"Working with Britain, it was an amazing job. We had them under investigation. They were looking to do big damage to our fort, and working with the British worked out great and we got them"
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Britain if the government stopped holding a thousand "consultations" on every new idea and instead just did things
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has refused to back the third runway at Heathrow
“It’s not right for me to jump straight in on this issue off the back of a consultation”
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This @LRB piece from @DowningAm is just a fantastic tour d'horizon of Britain's energy system. A must-read for anyone hoping to navigate the coming decade. Remember: energy is more or less EVERYTHING! lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n17/…
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The panjandrum to engineer ratio in GB is now around 1200:1 🤦🏻♂️
Britain's first reservoir for 30 years has been delayed another five years.
Now, Heathrow 3rd runway delayed until 2039
Why? The regulatory purgatory that imprisons UK growth - and will imprison Burnham unless he reforms.
My Times column:-
times-comment.com/hs2
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Britain's first reservoir for 30 years has been delayed another five years.
Now, Heathrow 3rd runway delayed until 2039
Why? The regulatory purgatory that imprisons UK growth - and will imprison Burnham unless he reforms.
My Times column:-
times-comment.com/hs2
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As 2 PARA advanced towards Goose Green, they suddenly came under heavy enemy fire.
Chris Waddington recalls what happened next.
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56112 Powers through Melton Ross heading east with MGRs. The loco had 21 years of service before its withdrawal in 2003. It was a further 8 years until the loco met its end at Kingsbury.
#Class56 #Grid #RailfreightCoal
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In 1934, engineer James Martin and famous WW1 pilot Valentine Baker founded small aircraft company in England. Martin designed planes. Baker, his closest friend, flew them.
Sept 12, 1942, Baker was testing their new fighter prototype when the engine failed. Baker lost his life.
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Last night at the launch of @DowningAm best seller- POWER AND THE PEOPLE 💪🏻
Get yours here 👇🏻
versobooks.com/en-gb/product…
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After @DowningAm prestige book launch last night I found this clue in Soho. Yes it pays to be cautious. But we are electricity’s master; not the other way around. We are, after all, engineers 💪🏻
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