Tag: Scotland

Tasmania Is Now 100% Powered By Renewable Electricity

Tasmania consists of the 26th-largest island in the world and its surrounding 334 islands — an island state of Australia with a population around 540,000 people, according to Wikipedia. Friday the Tasmanian government “declared that it has become the first Australian state, and one of just a handful of jurisdictions worldwide, to be powered entirely by renewable electricity,” according to one…

Soccer Telecast Ruined When AI-Controlled Camera Mistakes Ref’s Bald Head For Ball

Futurism reports:
Fans of the soccer team Caledonian Thistle FC from Inverness, Scotland, experienced something hilarious this week when the robot camera operator — automatically trained to keep the lens trained on the soccer ball using AI — kept mistaking the linesman’s bald head for the ball, as IFL Science reports. The result: angry (or amused) soccer fans kept losing track of…

Support Grows For Universal Basic Income Trials in UK

On the U.K. political scene, support may be growing for new tests of a Univerisal Basic Income. The Guardian reports:
A cross-party group of MPs has called on the government to allow councils to run universal basic income trials in response to mass unemployment triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. A letter to the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, signed by more than 500 MPs,…

AC/DC once tried to find the Loch Ness Monster

The rock band’s members once attempted an impromptu Nessie hunt on the banks of Scotland’s famous loch. Many people have attempted to track down the L… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/340438/acdc-once-tried-to-find-the-loch-ness-monster…

Britain Is Getting Ready for Its Space Race

Spurred by Brexit, London is backing companies that will build satellites and haul them into orbit. From a report: Cornwall, in England’s far southwest, is known for antique fishing villages and snug, cliff-lined beaches. Soon it may be the scene of something very different: a small but growing space industry. One day in a year or two, a modified Boeing 747…

Hydrogen-Powered Passenger Plane Completes Maiden Flight In ‘World First’

ZeroAvia’s hydrogen fuel-cell plane that’s capable of carrying six passengers completed its maiden flight this week. The aircraft has been retrofitted with a device that combines hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity. CNBC reports: ZeroAvia has said the trip, described as a “hydrogen fuel cell powered flight of a commercial-grade aircraft,” is a “world first.” Other examples of hydrogen-fuel cell planes…

The Entire World’s Carbon Emissions Will Finally Be Trackable In Real Time

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Vox: There’s an old truism in the business world: what gets measured gets managed. One of the challenges in managing the greenhouse gas emissions warming the atmosphere is that they aren’t measured very well. The ultimate solution to this problem– the killer app, as it were — would be real-time tracking of all global…

Sustainable Engineers At Kenoteq Are Reinventing the Brick

Engineers from Kenoteq are working to reinvent the humble clay-fired brick, which has remained largely the same for thousands of years and causes significant environmental problems. Not only are the majority of brick kilns required to produce bricks heated by fossil fuels, but the bricks that are made must be transported to construction sites, generating more carbon emissions. CNN reports: [Gabriela…

Giant Flywheel Project In Scotland Could Prevent UK Blackouts

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A giant flywheel in north-east Scotland could soon help to prevent blackouts across Britain by mimicking the effect of a power station but without using fossil fuels. The trailblazing project near Keith in Moray, thought to cost about 25 million British pounds, will not generate electricity or produce carbon emissions — but…