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Andy_Ross said:
Just as it kicks off in the Gulf, the Royal Navy is unable to put the aircraft carriers to sea due to crewing shortages and delays with outsourced routine maintenance.
In addition for the first time ever, no RFA support ships are at sea due to similar crewing and maintenance problems.
That means the ships that are there will have to return to the UK to resupply. Lets hope they don't have to sail around too much or fire any weapons.
I suppose the crews can live on reduced rations for a while.

5th largest military budget in the world.
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And the Cypriots are annoyed by the use of the island. I see the end of the SBAs coming.
 
Bonhams is holding a current auction of various props from The Crown, with the replica No 10 door they built for the series estimated at £30,000. And according to the Mail, Boris Johnson has only gone and put in a hefty bid for it. Surely this can’t be true? If it is, it honestly has to be one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever read. If only Johnson could have been given the big toy door some time in the 1990s, allowing him to play to his heart’s content and sparing the rest of us no end of grief.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/19/tories-squid-game-rwanda-policy
 
Andy_Ross said:
Just as it kicks off in the Gulf, the Royal Navy is unable to put the aircraft carriers to sea due to crewing shortages and delays with outsourced routine maintenance.
In addition for the first time ever, no RFA support ships are at sea due to similar crewing and maintenance problems.
That means the ships that are there will have to return to the UK to resupply. Lets hope they don't have to sail around too much or fire any weapons.
I suppose the crews can live on reduced rations for a while.

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Well the crews of HMS Chiddingfold and HMS Bangor may be available....
 
Andy_Ross said:
Tata Steel to close its blast furnaces and make 3,000 of its 4,000 workers redundant in Port Talbot.

Tory govt is giving Tata £500 million for 'investment'.

Once British Steel's Scunthorpe plant also closes blast furnaces the UK will be the only G20 country not able to make it's own steel from raw materials.
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Well since we have no domestic source of iron ore, it doesn't seem a huge strategic loss to me.

Furthermore, the blast furnaces at Port Talbot were a significant source of carbon emissions. These blast furnaces were responsible for nearly 2% of the UK's carbon emissions. They have to be replaced.
 
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catsmate said:
Where is the hydrogen supposed to come from?
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The next 20 years will see a steady growth in hydrogen production in the Humber region. Not least as it is the biggest industrial energy user in the country.

I've heard it said we won't really see green hydrogen until 2040 though, but blue hydrogen has already been announced.
 
wobs said:
The next 20 years will see a steady growth in hydrogen production in the Humber region. Not least as it is the biggest industrial energy user in the country.

I've heard it said we won't really see green hydrogen until 2040 though, but blue hydrogen has already been announced.
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I'd like to see some actual plans for "green" and "blue" hydrogen, specifically the sources of carbon free electricity, factoring in the inefficiency of electrolysis, the location of the hydrolysis plants and transport infrastructure for supplying the steel plants. Then here is the source of the hydrocarbons for the 'blue' hydrogen and the sequestration mechanism for the carbon dioxide produced.
 
catsmate said:
I'd like to see some actual plans for "green" and "blue" hydrogen, specifically the sources of carbon free electricity, factoring in the inefficiency of electrolysis, the location of the hydrolysis plants and transport infrastructure for supplying the steel plants. Then here is the source of the hydrocarbons for the 'blue' hydrogen and the sequestration mechanism for the carbon dioxide produced.
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The blue hydrogen would be from nat gas, and the carbon sequestered off shore at an old gas installation. They've been pushing for carbon capture for years, but it finally looks likely, if we're going to go for net zero.

The green hydrogen would be powered by renewables. The Humber region is now awash with wind power.
 
wobs said:
The blue hydrogen would be from nat gas, and the carbon sequestered off shore at an old gas installation. They've been pushing for carbon capture for years, but it finally looks likely, if we're going to go for net zero.

The green hydrogen would be powered by renewables. The Humber region is now awash with wind power.
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And of course it provides an alternative way to store surplus energy from renewable sources beside large battery farms. If our government wasn't so inept/slash corrupt that's where the money would be going.
 
I have seen it argued that

Blue hydrogen - an excuse for keeping pumping hydrocarbons

Green hydrocarbons - a really inefficient* use of electricity produced from renewable means


*probably best discussed by scientists in the science forum
 
Let me get this right, Rishi thinks the BBC is biased but GBNews is balanced?

Even after he appointed the BBC boss??
 
No, his strategists think it might distract a few people for a short while if the Tory party claim that the BBC is biased, that way they won't be asked about the myriad ways in which the country is going to ****.
 
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