Not on the JG page, but several times before the idea even got off the ground. Sobell House even mentioned it in the text (edited out now though). ‘The Committee’ would disqualify it on the grounds of ‘Not really shorter than Northern Lights’ 
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Sir Loin, surely.
I’ll pop something on the page.
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Ruddyard.
Norris McWhirter
Farage.
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Sobell and I agreed nothing offensive.
Aurora Oxtralis
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Oxy Moron
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If only there were a whole bunch of megawatt capacity giant cooling towers and related infrastructure available at strategic locations all over the UK which could have been repurposed with a bit of foresight…
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Perhaps a bit over-spec’d, to be fair.
I went to an Open Day there once and they said when it was working full-out the place took 45 million gallons a day out of the Thames and put 36 million gallons (warmer) back. Latent heat of vaporisation is much bigger than simple latent heat so the large majority of the cooling was done by the 9 million gallons that were vaporised. Rough numbers:
9 million gallons = 40 million kg
Heat of vaporisation of water = 2.26 MJ/kg
Number of seconds in a day = 86,400
Cooling power = 40 million x 2.26 million ÷ 86,400 = 1GW near as dammit
Plus a bit to heat the water up to vaporisation point. So maybe 1.2GW ? That feels about right for a 2GW power station. Good ones are around 50% efficient - half the fossil fuel energy comes out as electricity and the other half makes water vapour and warms the Thames.
One of the biggest data centres might take 100MW out of the grid, most of which ends up as heat. Didcot A’s cooling towers could have handled a dozen of those.
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If you factor in the inevitable growth (?exponential) of such data processing capacity, overspec soon becomes “Can we build more?”.
I guess the real argument-against is most of the estate is ~60 years old.
Wonder how they dealt with limescale from Thames’ hard water?
Alternatvely, cities like Reykjavik heat and provide (pungent!) running domestic hot water from centralised geothermal water systems - if data centres want to utilise potable water supplies for cooling, they should be obliged to plumb-in infrastructure to get the hot water into people’s homes…
…as-if their £billions of offshored profits would ever be allowed to be threatened by such socialist madness!
Was watching something the other day about how the associated electrical infrastructure at that E Midlands power station was being re-purposed to allow some or other solar farms up there to make use of it for distribution onto the grid rather than all of that being scrapped as well.
But as all new build homes should be obliged to have solar panels, all of these data centres ought to be obliged to pump the warmed water somewhere useful before having it back in.
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Nice idea. There are ~8,000 new houses either already built or going up in the next couple of years within 2-3 miles of the Didcot A site. Unfortunately all of the houses are one side of the Great Western Railway mainline and all of the hot 1’s and 0’s are the other side. Given the moaning and bitching that went on over who would pay to pipe the estates’ sewage under the trains (Thames Water vs Persimmon et al) I wouldn’t hold out much hope for moving hot water in the other direction.
EDIT: Then there’s the question of what to do in the summer when people don’t really want their homes heated.
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Heat their wheelie bins?
And as anyone in the vicinity of Oxford knows, pipework under railway lines can cause some faff.
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Sid vicious and Nancy spurgeon both lived at the Chelsea cloisters apartments at the same time as syd barrett. Seems McLaren tried to get Barrett to produce the pistols.Also the damned asked him to produce for them.
Seems strange as he looked pretty ill around the mid 70s
“I’m sorry” and “I apologise” mean basically the same thing.
Except at a funeral.
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The Yankee Vampire Panic
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-great-new-england-vampire-panic-36482878/
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We’re all gonna die…
Only if we eat raw chicken.
Or raw cats.
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