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Dave in Essex 🇺🇦 🇨🇦

@hennystdave.bsky.social

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Organic gardener, bird watcher including surveying for BTO, butterfly surveying for Butterfly Conservation. Professionally in resilience where I still sit on British and International committees (Organisational, Energy and Infrastructure Resilience)

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 11h

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 21h

1. To opinions! Solar is the cheapest source of bulk electricity in many countries, and the quickest to deploy, and now you couldn't stop it being built if you wanted to. The limits to PV build in most places are grid access, permitting, and sometimes installation labour.

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 11h

Established in 1871 and spanning 220 km across 13 lines, Turin boasts one of the oldest and longest tram networks in Italy. Having backdropped more than a century of change, from the grandeur of the Savoy monarchy to the rise and fall of the Fiat empire, today it’s experiencing a quiet renaissance.🧵

Photos of blue and grey trams traveling through the historic centre of Turin, along streets that are lined with ornate buildings, decorative lighting, and tall shade trees.

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 12h

Another big milestone for industrial decarbonisation:

Rondo Energy has just powered up what it calls the world’s largest industrial heat battery — a 100 MWh system delivering continuous high-temperature steam from renewable power.

www.rondo.com/news-press/r...

Rondo Powers Up World’s Largest Industrial Heat Battery - Rondo Energy

100 MWh Rondo Heat Battery, world’s most efficient energy storage of any kind, now delivering 24-hour steam from off-grid solar power — proving a new path for factories to cut carbon and costs

www.rondo.com

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Dave in Essex 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @hennystdave.bsky.social · 11h

I have also made Courgette Cake and a glorious Beetroot Chocolate Cake. But Tomato Cake is a new one, are they replacing the sugar in a sort of fruit & nut cake?

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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 15h

A huge day for the @pragmacharge.bsky.social Spain team: our first Daimler eActros 600s electric HGVs are on the road and delivering loads in #Valencia. Cheaper than diesel with no subsidies. Hey, fossil trucks, we're coming for you!
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PragmaCharge, Mercedes-Benz Trucks & Logística Carosan-Transnugon Celebrate Handover of eActros 600 in Valencia, Accelerating Heavy-Duty Truck Electrification in Spain

Valencia, 16th October 2025 – Under the Electric Trucking-as-a-Service Master Agreement with Transnugon, PragmaCharge has begun the delivery of the first heavy-duty electric trucks. A handover ceremon...

www.pragmacharge.com

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Dave in Essex 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @hennystdave.bsky.social · 14h

An excellent book which became a pretty good film

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 20h

An automation side effect - concentrating wear from braking and acceleration in a narrower range of track.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The main cause of the noise is something that will, sooner or later, hit every part of the network: “rail corrugation”.

You aren’t imagining it: London's Tube is getting louder.

No, you aren’t imagining it: the Tube is getting louder

I SAID, THE TUBE *IS* GETTING LOUDER.

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Garden Organic @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social · 19h

Just 1 MONTH to go until our #HeritageSeedLibrary Seed List 2026🥳We're thrilled to be bringing u the #HSLSeedList2026 earlier this year. Members can select 6 packets from 166 varieties, with special #seeds to celebrate our 50th anniversary. Join at gardenorganic.org.uk/join.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 20h

Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.

Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.

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Dave in Essex 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @hennystdave.bsky.social · 18h

Managed a short walk around the block before the rain. Not much about but Geese are back on the fields and a single Redwing appeared out of some bushes, first of autumn. #essexbirding

Dave in Essex 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @hennystdave.bsky.social · 1d

£38bn at 2024 prices, well over £54bn projected in total. Hinckley was to open in 2017. Still waiting.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

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Dave in Essex 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @hennystdave.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like it, a splendid tree imho

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve a piece in the Observer: reform corporation tax - radical simplification that will incentivise investment.

observer.co.uk/news/capital...

To encourage growth, the whole system of tax relief for R...

Let’s reform the corporation tax base and give relief for all investment

observer.co.uk

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Dave in Essex 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @hennystdave.bsky.social · 1d

Fastigiate Hornbeam, I think

Dave in Essex 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @hennystdave.bsky.social · 1d

It was something over 50 years between my visits!!

Dave in Essex 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @hennystdave.bsky.social · 1d

We visited Sheffield Park in Sussex yesterday for the autumn colour. There were a lot of people doing the same! It is glorious and worth visiting. Nyssa Sheffield Park came from here. 🌱🇬🇧

A variety of colours. The upright pillars are Swamp Cypress

A view up a lake with reflection of the trees too

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Dave in Essex 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @hennystdave.bsky.social · 1d

Well that’s a result!!

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Richard Nicholls @richardnicholls.net · 1d

Day 292 of #365DaysOfSmiles
This barber is not going to be able to finish this kid's haircut

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Dave in Essex 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @hennystdave.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like an interesting book and it’s an interesting, even amusing, review!

Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday book review - Endemic by @bsbicountries.bsky.social
Publisher: @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @chiffchat.bsky.social
Review: markavery.info/2025/10/19/s...

'Great book!'

@bsbibotany.bsky.social #buglife #Lundy #coleoptera #stonefly #fungi @ianparsons.bsky.social #cambridge #york #ragwort

Dave in Essex 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @hennystdave.bsky.social · 1d

Forecast terrible, weather glorious. Blue skies and sunshine.

Dave in Essex 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @hennystdave.bsky.social · 1d

Good stuff

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 1d

OneCoin's executives are all in prison or on the run.

Yet while the fraud was operating, Carter-Ruck was working to “silence the critics and ultimately the police.”

(Carter-Ruck never received the evidence they asked for here. But continued acting).

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 1d

OneCoin claimed to be a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin.

It wasn’t. There was no blockchain - just a fake database and made-up prices.

It was a massive Ponzi fraud - and stole $4 billion from millions of victims in 125 countries.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Britain’s top libel firm, Carter-Ruck, acted for OneCoin - a $4bn crypto-fraud.

The firm threatened whistleblowers, journalists, regulators, and even the police.

Carter-Ruck's work helped the fraud continue as long as it did.

Was that a crime?

handwritten note from Carter-Ruck's file saying "They will bring in blockchain -> if no blockchain -> scam -> fraud -> criminal"

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