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Thanks to Liam Gulliver from Euro News for the Headline

What happens to wind turbine blades when they die after their 20 years of life?

Well they are pretty hard to destroy and up to now have been causing the “Wind Energy believers” much trauma as the only option to destroy the hard wearing materials was to send them to landfill. However no more.

Enter “flash joule heating”. By subjecting the hard to recycle wind turbine blades to a ” brief burst of intense heat”. The heat can transform blades from silica containing fibre glass and carbon-rich polymer resin- into silicon carbide and graphéne, two valuable manufacturing materials.

The research that was completed in China found that the resulting materials from the “flash joule heating” can be incorporated into basically an upcycled and better performing wind turbine blade.

What is there not to like, except for the energy required to heat something to 2000°C in seconds has to come from somewhere, probably not wind power and what happens to this better , stronger material when it comes to the end of it’s life. Can the same process happen again?

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Thanks to Dan Hunt and BBC News Online for the Headline

I don’t know how many Countries in the World still have landlines, but we still have them around here. The advice from British Telecom is just to use your internet connection for phone calls . I suppose everyone has a mobile, don’t they?

The theft of 1km of cable occurred in a small village in Leicestershire , England.

The theft disrupted the service for the most vulnerable of people who either aren’t Internet Savvy or who aren’t adept at using a mobile phone.

Around where I live the cable is buried in the ground and impossible to steal. I suppose the thefts will keep continuing to all the cables are underground and that the Communication Companies agree to work together and share the network and switch to fibre optic cables and not copper. Surely protecting small rural communities from this sort of occurrence should be a priority.

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Thanks to James Fitzgerald and Kayla Epstein and BBC Online News for the Headline.

Alaska should think itself lucky that the didn’t have Count Binface on the election ballot or indeed a candidate from the Official Monster Raving Loony Party like we have in the UK.

Instead they had a respectable retired teacher who lives in a remote fishing village called Dan J Sullivan who happens to have a name very similar to the incumbent Republican Senator Dan S Sullivan.

The Alaskan Republican Governor has ordered a probe into whether Dan J Sullivan was encouraged by the Democrats to stand in a deliberate attempt to dilute the Republican vote.

However, there is no Law against this even in they did, anyone can stand persuaded or not.

The result is close and hasn’t been announced yet as far as I know. Though I read the Democrats wanted details on rejected absentee votes which they have been refused as the details are confidential.

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Thanks to Phil Knox of Run Republic for the Headline

Apparently the Dublin Marathon has realised that swapping numbers has been a little too prevalent and have introduced a fixed window where the entry can be transferred to another person if you are unable to compete for whatever reason, fitness, sickness or reluctance.

What you must not do if you are a man is swap a number with a woman, otherwise you are likely to receive a lifetime ban. I’m not sure if they take it quite so seriously if you are a woman swapping a number with a man.

The main concern is messing with finishing times, so that a perfectly fit woman runner will fall lower down the results as the men who have swapped with valid registered women’s numbers possibly( but not definitely) have skewed the results by running faster times.

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