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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Less cars makes public transport better, buses can run faster and to a more reliable schedule. It was cars clogging up roads that resulted in the decline of most tram systems.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There's no legal requirement, just as there's also no legal requirement for drivers not to park in cycle lanes (unless there's also double yellow lines), which renders most non-segregated cycle lanes more dangerous to use than not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, 'decline' would be a better choice of word there

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a project to build a database of things that can be used to determine your location in the absence of GPS. E.g. if you know the locations of some wireless access points that your laptop can see, you can make an educated guess as to where you are. BeaconDB is a user contributed database of this information, to rival the closed services offered by commercial companies (like Google and Apple).

BeaconDB attempts to do all of this in a privacy preserving way.

 

Work is under way to create a mine water heating system which will supply hundreds of homes.

Water from disused mines will eventually be used to heat houses in a new community near Seaham in County Durham.

Half the 1,500 homes on the Seaham Garden Village development, which will be built over the next 10 years, will be heated through an ultra-low carbon district heat network.

Councillor Mark Wilkes, Durham County Council cabinet member for neighbourhoods and climate change, said the project will have "significant environmental benefits".

Water is extracted from former coal workings to protect the groundwater aquifer which provides drinking water to households.

This water is extracted and treated to remove heavy metals before being discharged out to sea.

The heat in the water currently dissipates into the atmosphere but, under the new project, it will instead feed into the heat network.

Miners' legacy Durham County Council, the MRA and Karbon Homes are working together on the scheme to heat 750 affordable homes at Seaham Garden Village, with Vital Energi designing, building and operating the heat network.

The mine water project has received £4.3m from the government's Heat Networks Investment Project, including £3.23m towards construction.

Wilkes said the mine water will be "there for the long-term, for decades".

"If you think about oil and gas, these are finite resources that are coming from overseas," he said.

"This is right here in County Durham. It's that legacy from all of those people who worked in the mines."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

The antenna that comes with the heltec v3 isn't very good, you can get much better range even with a cheap antenna. I got an ilabs one for £5 and can reach nodes a about 5km away (I am part way up a hill though)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

If you're using X, then the GTK equivalent environment variable is GDK_SCALE. (I don't think the Wayland backend does this though)

E.g. GDK_SCALE=2 gedit

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

This is why we need to promote more drastic action in terms of carbon offsetting. You can offset the impact of all the flights you've taken over your lifetime, plus those of your friends and family, by killing just one billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also, don't assume my position on industrialised society.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This is replacing agricultural fields. Solar panels allow for a drastic increase in biodiversity over crop monocultures. It's an improvement on the metrics you care about as well as in energy production.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (6 children)

This time to feed its infinte hunger for energy.

UK electricity demand is down 20% since 2012, and continuing on a downward trend.

Changes away from more polluting energy sources to meet this reduced demand is a good thing.

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