Cara Delevingne Champions Fossil Free Hydrogen In Dazzling Beauty Campaign
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Hydrogen Fuel News.
This is the sub-heading.
The eco-conscious Delevingne teamed up with Vattenfall to raise awareness about clean energy.
This is the first paragraph.
The English model and actress is no stranger to beauty campaigns, having experience as the face of Burberry, Chanel, and Yves Saint Laurent, but her latest campaign with Swedish multinational energy company Vattenfall, aims to raise awareness of clean power using fossil free hydrogen compared to burning fossil fuels.
There is also this video.
I suppose she was paid well for it and after her BBC series; Planet Sex With Planet Sex With Cara Delevingne, we all know she’s game for many things, but you wouldn’t catch me jumping into water like that, as I can’t swim, despite endless attempts to learn.
Dutch Stop Offshore Wind Turbines To Protect Migratory Birds In ‘International First’
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on offshoreWIND.biz.
This is the sub-heading.
The wind turbines at Borssele and Egmond aan Zee offshore wind farms were stopped for four hours on 13 May, to help migrating birds pass by safely.
These three paragraphs outline the measures taken to protect the migrating birds.
According to the Dutch Government, this is the first time such a measure has been applied and is in line with the approach of the government and participating companies to increasingly focus on ecology and biodiversity in offshore wind farms.
The wind turbines’ speed will be reduced to a maximum of two rotations per minute during the predicted night-time peak migration to give the birds a safe passage.
The shutdown was part of a pilot phase, which could become standard this autumn and will also include wind farms that are still being built or will be constructed in the future.
I wonder how this Dutch action fits with research from Vattenfall, that I wrote about in Unique Study: Birds Avoid Wind Turbine Blades.
New Jersey Police Apprehend A Suspected Meteorite
This article on The Times is entitled Stone Me! Meteorite Crashes Into New Jersey Bedroom.
These are the first two paragraphs.
Police were called early on a Monday afternoon after a break-in, of sorts, at a small house in New Jersey.
Something had come through the roof at tremendous speed and into an upstairs bedroom where it dented the polished wood floor, bounced up and struck the ceiling and then came to rest.
This was the response of officers at the Hopewell Township Police Department.
They telephoned Shannon Graham at the nearby physics department of the College of New Jersey, telling her they had apprehended a suspected meteorite.
It doesn’t appear that they shot it!
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Simon Reeve’s South America
I am just watching episode two of this television series on BBC2.
It is definitely a must-watch. You can watch it here.
Interestingly, the program was giving a similar message about the rain forest, that I talked about in The Enforcer From The World Bank.
Polish Air Force Memorial – 13th May 2023
I’d heard the Polish Air Force Memorial mentioned many times on traffic reports, but as I had to go to Ealing, I decided to visit.
This is the first paragraph in the Wikipedia entry.
The Polish Air Force Memorial is a war memorial in West London, England in memory of airmen from Poland who served in the Royal Air Force as part of the Polish contribution to World War II. Over 18,000 men and women served in the Polish squadrons of the RAF during the war, and over 2,000 died. The memorial marks the southern extremity of South Ruislip in the London Borough of Hillingdon, near RAF Northolt, where seven Polish-manned fighter squadrons were based at different times in the war.
I took these pictures.
Note.
- As you can see the traffic was bad.
- The small car park only had a couple of cars in it.
- I took an E7 bus from Ruislip Gardens to the memorial and then another E7 after my visit to Ealing Broadway station.
It’s not a difficult place to find by public transport.
It’s certainly a place to be visited. Especially for people like me who grew up in London just after the Second World War. Throughout my schooling, every class had a least one and sometimes as many as three Polish children in it.
Ed Sheeran Wins Thinking Out Loud Copyright Case
The title of this post, is the same as that pf this article on the BBC.
This was the sub-heading
Ed Sheeran did not copy Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On when composing Thinking Out Loud, a US court has ruled.
It certainly looks like justice has been done, after a court case urged on, by unscrupulous lawyers, who would probably have got millions of dollars in fees, if they’d won.
It was an example of the American legal system at its worst.
I was probably about fourteen, when I went to a Scout camp on the Verulam Estate near St. Albans. I can remember we walked from East Barnet to St. Albans with the trek cart.
One evening at the camp around a wood fire, a Scoutmaster from another troop, entertained up on his guitar, playing various songs of the day. He showed us how most songs were created using the same chords and rhythm. He also gave us a few pieces of his own.
It was fascinating. But it seems to me that Sheeran has used a similar line and argument in his defence.
I don’t have much respect for American lawyers.
One of the companies, that I helped create was taken over by an American corporation. I can remember at dinner one night with one of their senior managers, some of the best legal jokes and advice being offered.
On the other hand, I would defend one of my ideas in the US Courts, if I had an idea, that someone had stolen. But in that case, I would make sure, I’d got my case correct.
I suspect, it could be a good way to protect an idea.
I have sold two companies and ideas to Americans and one to the Germans. Only one American deal ended up in the Courts and that was one of these opportunistic cases, dreamed up by sharp lawyers, that was thrown out.
The German deal was for several millions and it was interesting, as the Germans were happy to do all the negotiating in the UK, with the contract being wholly written in English law.
Farewell! Mary Quant!
This is a true story I heard, when I worked for ICI.
Do you remember those horrible drip-dry shirts, that men used to wear in the 1960s?
I suspect I took some to University, as my mother felt I could wash them.
Did you know that Mary Quant was partly responsible for their demise?
Mathematics tell us, that a pair of tights need a lot more nylon, than a pair of stockings.
As Mary Quant got a lot more ladies wearing tights to go with mini-skirts, there was a shortage of nylon.
ICI, who made much of the UK’s nylon, decided unilaterally to divert nylon from men’s shirts to ladies’ hosiery.
Bye bye! Nylon shirts!
RIP Dame Mary
H&M Move Partners With Lanzatech To Launch Capsule Collection Using Captured Carbon Emissions
The title of this post, is the same as that of this press release from H & M.
This is the sub-heading.
This is the stuff of science fiction: LanzaTech diverts carbon emissions heading for the atmosphere, traps them, and turns them into thread. In a leap towards innovating sportswear, H&M Move partners with the breakthrough material science company for a drop arriving at hm.com/move on April 6.
And this is an H & M image of some of the clothes on a young lady.
Not bad considering that the polyester thread was made using carbon emissions from a steelworks.
Lanzatech’s Process
This paragraph from the H & M press release outlines the process.
Using three simple steps, LanzaTech captures carbon emissions from steel mills, traps them in bioreactors and converts them into the same building blocks that conventional polyester is made of. This revolutionary solution helps reduce pollution and limits the use of virgin fossil resources needed to make new products.
So does this mean that lots of products made from polyester can use the polyester made by Lanzatech?
As I worked for ICI Plastics Division, who had a polyester plant, that was used to make Melinex film, I suspect the answer is yes from the knowledge I picked up at the time.
Out of curiosity, I typed “polyester underwear men’s” into Google and there’s quite a lot of it about. Including some from Marks and Spencer that I own. Marks and Spencer also do a similar product for the ladies. Both products have a high proportion of polyester and could best be described as everyday.
I must find mine comfortable, as I have been buying them for some years now!
So it looks like it might be possible to replace a proportion of the fossil fuel-based polyester with one made from captured carbon dioxide.
And this can this be used in the same way as the fossil fuel-based polyester.
The Wikipedia entry for polyester is full of useful information and is very much a must-read.
This table gives world PET (polyethylene terephthalate) production for 2008 in millions tonnes/year
- Textile – 39
- Resin, bottle – 16
- Film – 1.5
- Special – 2.5
Note.
- Bottle includes, the bottles used for soft drinks, washing up liquid etc.
- Film is high quality and was used as recording tape, but now it’s mainly for packaging.
- Special includes engineering plastics.
Wikipedia has this section on recycling, where this is said.
Recycling of polymers has become very important as the production and use of plastic is continuously rising. Global plastic waste may almost triple by 2060 if this continues. Plastics can be recycled by various means like mechanical recycling, chemical recycling, etc. Among the recyclable polymers, polyester PET is one of the most recycled plastic. The ester bond present in polyesters is susceptible to hydrolysis (acidic or basic conditions), methanolysis and glycolysis which makes this class of polymers suitable for chemical recycling. Enzymatic/biological recycling of PET can be carried out using different enzymes like PETase, cutinase, esterase, lipase, etc. PETase has been also reported for enzymatic degradation of other synthetic polyesters (PBT, PHT, Akestra™, etc) which contains similar aromatic ester bond as that of PET.
Note that PET is one of the most recycled plastics.
So it looks like the LanzaTech process can not only use carbon dioxide, it can also create a product that can be recycled.
The Apathy Society At Liverpool University
BBC Radio 5 is talking about unusual clubs.
At Liverpool University in the 1960s, a group of students tried to form the Apathy Society. In the end, it folded as no-one could be bothered to write the constitution!
The problem was if you didn’t have a constitution, you couldn’t get funding.
Rahul Gandhi Disqualified As MP After Conviction In Defamation Case
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on the BBC.
This is the sub-heading.
India’s parliament has disqualified senior opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, a day after he was sentenced to two years in prison in a defamation case.
The next two paragraphs outline the case.
A parliament notice said that Mr Gandhi “stands disqualified from the membership of Lok Sabha”, alluding to the lower house of parliament.
He was convicted by the court for 2019 comments about PM Narendra Modi’s surname at a election rally.
Recently, I made a comment to a doctor with part Indian genes about Modi and I got a very unflattering reply.
The Anonymous Widower 