Energy Efficient Bricks Made From Human Waste To Help Build London Homes
The title of this post is the same as that of this article in The Standard.
This is the first two paragraphs.
New homes and factories will be built from bricks made out of the human waste of four million Londoners.
Dried sewage from millions of homes will be transformed into two million heavy-duty breeze blocks a year.
It’s all happening at Beckton.
Britain Hoes A Record Five Days Without Burning Coal
The title of this post came from an article in Tuesday’s Times!
It says it all!
Good isn’t it!
Although it’s probably not true, as there must be a few blacksmiths, who used coke to shoe a few horses.
Government Has ‘Double Standards’ For Allowing Drilling In Devon
The title of this post is the same as that of this article in The Telegraph.
This is the first paragraph.
The Government has been accused of “blatant double standards” for allowing drilling in Cornwall that is able to cause stronger tremors than fracking.
This is at the United Downs Geothermal Project in Devon.
It certainly looks like one rule for geothermal energy and another for fracking.
But then in a lecture in London, I heard a Professor of Engineering from Glasgow University, say that fracking was used in the Highlands of Scotland to obtain clean water.
Mojitos On Display By The Tills In Dalston Marks And Spencer
As this picture shows, the well-publicised Mojitos are handy in Dalston Marks and Spencer, which is perhaps thirty metres from the London Overground at Dalston Kingsland station.
They are the two light-blue cans on the left of the shelf.
I had just relieved the shop of two bottles of my favourite 0.5% Southwold Ale.
Incidentally, I have never drunk any alcoholic drink out of a can, without using a glass as an intermediary.
These days, I don’t even drink soft drinks directly out of a can.
If Transport for London allowed sponsorship of rail lines, perhaps the North London Line would be sponsored by Marks and Spencer, as they have stores very close to the following stations.
- Richmond
- West Hampstead
- Hapmstead Heath
- Dalston Kingsland
- Hackney Central
- Stratford
I think there will be more.
A Residential Development Convenient For Rugby And Train Travel
I went through Twickenham station yesterday and took these pictures.
Surely many more stations could sustain a substantial development of much-needed housing on the top.
Development North Of Kew Bridge Station
This Google Map shows the large site to the North of Kew Bridge station.
Note.
- Kew Bridge station in the South-East corner of the map.
- The M4 passing around the North of the site.
- The triangle of railway lines going to Hounslow in the West, South Acton in the North and Barnes and Waterloo in the East.
Some of the plans for the site have been disclosed.
Brentford’s New Stadium
I took these pictures from a train, as I passed through yesterday.
Brentford Community Stadium is planned to open in Summer 2020.
Step-Free Access At Kew Bridge Station
Currently, Kew Bridge station is not step-free.
Searching the Internet, I found this document on the Hounslow Borough Council web site, which is dated April the 15th 2019 and entitled Step-Free Access To Many Of Hounslow’s Stations Proceeding At Pace!
This is an extract.
Kew Bridge is also set to benefit from accessibility improvements when the new Brentford stadium opens. The London-bound platform is to be made step free and the council is working with SWR and NR to explore how step-free access from the country-bound platform to the street can also be delivered. A feasibility study is due to progress later this year.
This map from carto.metro.free.fr shows the lines at Kew Bridge station.
The two lines, through the disused platforms at Kew Bridge station could be used as a terminus, by the proposed West London Orbital Railway.
I’m sure Brentford FC wouldn’t object to more trains serving their new ground.
Preparations For The West London Orbital
This picture was taken as I looked through the short tunnel, that connects the current Platform 1 to the disused platform shown on the map of the lines.
It appears that the rubbish and shrubbery of many decades is being cleared.
Could it be in connection with making the London-bound platform step-free?
It would also allow surveyors to assess how much work is needed to get the platform back into use for the West London Orbital Railway.
Development To The South Of The Station
This picture shows a large site behind the station building and the country-bound platform
The location of the site can be seen behind the Express Tavern on this Google Map.
The map also shows how the flats developed on the South side of the tracks have limited the ability to put a second footbridge over the tracks to whisk passengers from London to the stadium.
I wonder, if a route could be built, through the developments, to deliver step-free access to the country-bound platform.
But it would be the wrong side for the stadium!
A step-free bridge is needed at Kew Bridge station.
The Cafe At Kew Bridge Station
Whilst at the station, I had a welcoming coffee.
It’s certainly better than your average chain coffee shop.
I could also wait watching a Departures display.
Monumentous
A BBC Breakfast reporter used this word and started a lot of discussion this morning.
So I typed it in to Google.
I found this page with a title of Fritinancy.
This was given as an example of use of the word.
Mr. Obama has shown, in one appearance after another, a capacity to make people feel good about their country again. His supporters want desperately to turn the page on the bitter politics and serial disasters of the past 20 years. That they have gravitated to a black candidate to carry out this task is — to use a term I heard for the first time this week — monumentous.
So it has been used before.
Development Of The Southall Gas Works Site
I took these pictures as my train went past the former Southall Gas Works to the West of Ealing station.
This was where there used to be a gasholder with a helpful sign, showing the way to Heathrow..
You can just see the L of LHR and the arrow.
This Google Map shows the site.
It is going to be a big development.
There are some older pictures from 2016 in What A Waste Of Valuable Land.
How Flower Power Is Being Used To Fight Terrorists
The title of this post, is the same as that of an article on pages 38-39 of yesterday’s copy of The Times.
It describes how Marshalls and the wonderfully-names subsidiary; The Great British Bollard Company are using giant planters to stop terrorist attacks using trucks.
The pictures with the article show some gigantic planters stopping a large vehicle.
Lessons From Extinction Rebellion
I only came across Extinction Rebellion once and I took these pictures.
Oxford Circus was totally blocked.
So what have we learned?
A Relatively Small Largely Peaceful Group Can Bring A British City To A Halt
By not using any violence or threats of violence, the good nature of the Metropolitan Police meant that the protest was able to continue, despite the large number of arrests.
It also seemed that many after arrest, went back to the protest.
The Great British Public Didn’t Seem To Be Too Annoyed
Although, one or two celebrities, white van and black cab black drivers seemed to be annoyed, when they were interviewed, the Great British Public seemed to take it on the chin.
Crime Didn’t Seem To Rise In Areas Unaffected By The Protests
I’m not sure of this, but do-called newspapers like the Express, Mail and Sun didn’t seem to have any screaming headlines on the subject.
At The Right Time These Protests Can Be Cleared Without Heavy Police Force
In the end, the Oxford Street and Waterloo Bridge protests, were cleared by strength of numbers and no use of pepper spray, baton rounds or water cannon.
The Future Of Protest
I think we will see more protests of this type against or for such issues as Brexit, Remain and onald Trump.
Would the Met be able to cope with simultaneous protests for the first two groups?
Thinking About Climate Change
Will the Extinction Rebellion protests make us think more about climate change?
Investing In Renewable Energy
One trend I have noted over the past few years, is companies like Aviva, are investing large amounts of our pension funds in large renewable energy projects.
I wrote about one project in World’s Largest Wind Farm Attracts Huge Backing From Insurance Giant.
The Extinction Rebellion protests, must make it easier for Aviva and their like, to justify their investment decisions.
I feel that if the Government sets the right guidelines and tax rules, that companies like Ariva with their billions of pounds of funds, have more power than the Government to change the future.
Politicians
politicians in the UK are like a load of peasants on bicycles trying to put on a synchronised cycling display in a heavy thunderstorm.
They are morons led by mules!
I regularly use this phrase.
Engineering is the science of the possible, whereas politics is dreams of the impossible.
You can substitute lots of other professions for engineering.
But what we need is politician, who think in scientifically-correct pathways.
After all, you can’t disobey the laws of maths, physics, chemistry, biology and human nature.
But politicians believe you can otherwise racism, Marxism and Fascism wouldn’t exist.
Mondeo Man And Woman Living In A Comfortable House
Are these the real problem, as they drive around in their diesel car, live in very eco-unfriendly houses and fly to their holidays in America and the Far East?
How many of the vast majority of the UK population, even accept that climate change exists?
If they do, they always point to places like China and the United States, who carry on as normal!
Conclusion
There will be more and bigger protests, until politicians manage the art of synchronised bicycle riding!
The Anonymous Widower 