Apparently yesterday (Friday, 21st April 2017) was the first whole day Britain used electricity not generated by coal.  And that on a 'working' day.

According to Gridwatch.co.uk, around half of British energy generated on Friday came from natural gas, with about a quarter coming from nuclear plants.  Wind, biomass and imported energy were also ( Read more... )

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A chap in Singapore, Don Sah, took photos of a storm last night.  He then stitched together the shots with lightning ( Read more... )

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*Yaaaaaawwwwn!*  er, beg pardon, s'cuse me!  Now I know I've been doing the 'go to bed at a sensible time, get up an hour or so later & read for a while, then go back to bed' thing recently but  I didn't sleep last night.  Not at all.  That's even with getting up once, then going back to bed, then giving up & getting up again & reading ( Read more... )