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Sebastian de Ferranti
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Pioneering electrical engineer; still living in Deptford.
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"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"

-T. S. Eliot
a couple of transmission towers with a tiny bit of a bridge showing. taken in east bay california
August 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Nine of the largest energy companies in the UK have been told their investments in renewables under AR7 (Allocation Round 7) are “politically and commercially unsafe” by Reform UK, the political party led by Nigel Farage

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Reform warns energy companies they should end investments in renewables | New Civil Engineer
In a letter written by Reform deputy leader Richard Tice, energy companies Octopus, Centrica, RWE, SSE Renewables, Orsted, Scottish Power, Equinor and
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July 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Jan 1973 RAC guide "Know your Motorways" - info & advice on motorway driving, signs & safety inc. the new "warning signals". A map showing the extent of the then network. @showmeasign.online @maps.sabre-roads.org.uk @roads.org.uk #roads #infrastructure

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RAC : Know your motorways : guide to motorways and motorway driving : The Royal Automobile Club : London : January 1973 : cover. From a time when Britain's motorway network was relatively new and when the network of such roads was still being significantly expanded. Many such guides were produced by mapping agencies, oil and petrol companies and, as here, motorisng organisations. This RAC guide gives details as to motorway driving and safety, including the recently introduced warning sign systems, as well as opening to a map of the nation's motorway system as of autumn 1972. This I've scanned in two sections. The whole then folds out to form a more detailed motorway area guide showing in greater detail the junctions and intersections. This was another edition of the RAC guide as one exists for June 1972 and others probably were produced. This cover shows the M6 running through the Lune Valley alongside the West Coast Main LIne and the adjacent A685. RAC : Know your motorways : guide to motorways and motorway driving : The Royal Automobile Club : London : January 1973 : Britain's motorway picture : Scotland and Northern England : From a time when Britain's motorway network was relatively new and when the network of such roads was still being significantly expanded. Many such guides were produced by mapping agencies, oil and petrol companies and, as here, motorisng organisations. This RAC guide gives details as to motorway driving and safety, including the recently introduced warning sign systems, as well as opening to a map of the nation's motorway system as of autumn 1972. This I've scanned in two sections. The whole then folds out to form a more detailed motorway area guide showing in greater detail the junctions and intersections. This was another edition of the RAC guide as one exists for June 1972 and others probably were produced. This scan shows motorways across the central belt of Scotland and as far south as the M62 from Liverpool to Hull via Manchester & Leeds. RAC : Know your motorways : guide to motorways and motorway driving : The Royal Automobile Club : London : January 1973 : motorway signs and signals. From a time when Britain's motorway network was relatively new and when the network of such roads was still being significantly expanded. Many such guides were produced by mapping agencies, oil and petrol companies and, as here, motorisng organisations. This RAC guide gives details as to motorway driving and safety, including the recently introduced warning sign systems, as well as opening to a map of the nation's motorway system as of autumn 1972. This I've scanned in two sections. The whole then folds out to form a more detailed motorway area guide showing in greater detail the junctions and intersections. This was another edition of the RAC guide as one exists for June 1972 and others probably were produced. The top of the sheet shows the warning signals that helped give advance information as to road conditions, lower speed limits and lane closures. Below are examples of standard motorway signs and a list of RAC emergency control centres, with phone numbers, that motorists could use to summonse assistance. RAC : Know your motorways : guide to motorways and motorway driving : The Royal Automobile Club : London : January 1973 : Britain's motorway picture : Northern England, Wales, the Midlands and the South. From a time when Britain's motorway network was relatively new and when the network of such roads was still being significantly expanded. Many such guides were produced by mapping agencies, oil and petrol companies and, as here, motorisng organisations. This RAC guide gives details as to motorway driving and safety, including the recently introduced warning sign systems, as well as opening to a map of the nation's motorway system as of autumn 1972. This I've scanned in two sections. The whole then folds out to form a more detailed motorway area guide showing in greater detail the junctions and intersections. This was another edition of the RAC guide as one exists for June 1972 and others probably were produced. This shows the north of England and the Midlands, dominated by the M1, A1M, M5 and M6, Wales and the south of England with motorways radiating out from London, Conspicuous by their absence are the M11 and M25 as well as the M42.
June 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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amtrak’s marketing team gets it
June 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Network Rail and British Steel have signed a landmark £500M contract for the supply of 337,000t of steel to the rail infrastructure manager over the next five years

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British Steel to provide 80% of Network Rail’s track needs over next five years in £500M contract
The deal follows the government’s urgent April intervention that saved British Steel’s blast furnace...
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June 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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'there is a special place in hell for politicians who object to solar farms & other renewable projects. But perhaps the hottest part is reserved for those who seek to slow pylons and other forms of electricity transmission, they keep us on course for a burning world. bright-green.org/2023/11/07/g...
Greens need to fall on the right side of the coming pylon wars
The energy transition will need major infrastructure. It's vital Greens don't oppose it.
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May 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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There's a thread on Twitter that purports to show that AI can save money by producing visual effects better than Hollywood. And it's just identical shots that wouldn't exist without straight plagiarism of the source material.

It might be the dumbest thread I've ever seen.
Min Choi on Twitter: $100K blockbuster VFX shots now cost coffee money with AI in minutes. 6 wild effects + how-to try: 1. Mystique morph (Marvel X-Men)
May 14, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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😆😆😆😆😆😆

Journalists 🤦🏻‍♂️
March 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Never forget that water was privatised by the Thatcher government based on nothing more than vibes...
Case for Privatisation The balance of considerations to be weighed up in reaching a decision on the privatisation of the water authorities was summarised as follows in the report by officials: The benefits of privatisation are of a general character freeing the water authorities from state control, motivating management and employees with a spirit of enterprise, increasing share ownership, and reducing the size of the public sector. But it must be noted that given the monopoly character of the water authorities in providing basic services, the scope for genuine competition does not exist except at the fringe nor is there great scope for further efficiency improvement in most water authority operations, except where this is the result of cost saving investment.
February 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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A cold sun setting…
The mirrored glass of Milton Keynes railway station reflecting the sunset
February 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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London down below - the panoramic views across London from the top of the Post Office Tower (BT Tower) in the souvenir handbook issued in 1966. It is fair to say the skyline has changed a bit in nearly 60 years.
London down below - the views across London from the top of the Post Office Tower (BT Tower) in the souvenir handbook issued in 1966. It is fair to say the skyline has changed a bit in nearky 60 years. This aerial view looks across to the west, the north east and east across the city and suburbs highlighting major locations and with few high rise buildings. London down below - the views across London from the top of the Post Office Tower (BT Tower) in the souvenir handbook issued in 1966. It is fair to say the skyline has changed a bit in nearky 60 years. This aerial view looks across to the north, north east (Hertforshire and Essex) and south and south west (Kent and Surrey)across the city and suburbs highlighting major locations and with few high rise buildings. The central text of the double fold central pages that opens out to show the four panoramic views from the top of the Post Office Tower, 1966
January 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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A 400kV supergrid route on the South Coast of England, 1964.

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January 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-dying-of...

Another excellent article from @londonermag.bsky.social
The dying of the light
For most of its history, London was dark — now it's illuminated 24/7. What happens to a city's atmosphere in an age of LEDs, asks Hannah Williams.
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December 30, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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Merry Christmas everyone.
December 25, 2024 at 8:10 AM
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Snagged a ticket to one of the steam days at Crossness pumping station in East London, and oh boy was it worth the early start. A stunning cathedral of ornate Victorian ironwork, designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, and constructed between 1859 and 1865 purely for the purpose of erm, pumping sewage.
An atrium at the Crossness pumping station, formed of a large octagonal space rising over three levels, all decorated with ornate ironwork and painted in red, green and gold. A view of a steam engine at the Crossness pumping station, housed in a large space decorated with ornate ironwork and painted in red, green and gold. A large iron beam decorated in green and red, rising through the floor at the Crossness pumping station. Beyond are the interior walls of a light coloured brick building. Looking upwards into the atrium at the Crossness pumping station, formed of a large octagonal space rising over three levels, all decorated with ornate ironwork and painted in red, green and gold.
December 15, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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Just to be clear: however bad you think the Trump second term will be, I assure you it’ll be worse.

Bookmark this if you don’t believe me.
December 14, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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We desperately need housing supply. But we also desperately need interesting, innovative, well built developments and new towns. We need not only to talk about how much we're building, but what and how. When we only talk about the former we just get shoddily built, identikit houses which won't last.
December 12, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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A new study has found that almost half of children in Gaza wish to die, as a result of the trauma they have been forced to endure.

Every single supplier of arms to Israel has blood on its hands — and the world will never forgive them.
December 12, 2024 at 11:50 AM
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Somewhere you don’t want to be dropping a spanner. Top plate removed to allow access to LV links for SFRA testing on this 66/11kV Transformer, installed 71 years ago and still going, albeit with a few problems.
December 10, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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Working my way through what I consider to be the bible when it comes to cables. The PDF version of course, because I can’t bring myself to drop north of £150 on a book.
December 9, 2024 at 4:58 PM