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reasonsforhope · 10 months

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[In February, 2023], a small warehouse in the English city of Nottingham received the crucial final components for a project that leverages the power of used EV batteries to create a new kind of circular economy.

Inside, city authorities have installed 40 two-way electric vehicle chargers that are connected to solar panels and a pioneering battery energy storage system, which will together power a number of on-site facilities and a fleet of 200 municipal vehicles while simultaneously helping to decarbonize the UK’s electrical grid.

Each day Nottingham will send a combination of solar-generated energy — and whatever is left in the vehicles after the day’s use — from its storage devices into the national grid. The so-called “vehicle to grid” chargers deliver this energy just when it’s needed most, during peak evening demand, when people are home cooking, using hot water or watching TV. Later, the same chargers pull energy from the grid to recharge the vehicles in the wee hours of the night, when folks are sleeping and electricity is cheaper and plentiful.

“We are trying to create a virtual power station,” says Steve Cornes, Nottingham City Council’s Technical Lead. “The solar power and battery storage will help us operate independently and outside of peak times, making our system more resilient and reducing stress on the national grid. We could even make a profit.” ...

After around a decade, an EV battery no longer provides sufficient performance for car journeys. However, they still can retain up to 80 percent of their original capacity, and with this great remaining power comes great reusability.

“As the batteries degrade, they lose their usefulness for vehicles,” says Matthew Lumsden, chairman of Connected Energy. “But batteries can be used for so many other things, and to not do so results in waste and more mining of natural resources.”

The E-STOR hubs come in the form of 20-foot modular containers, each one packed with 24 repurposed EV batteries from Renault cars. Each hub can provide up to 300kW of power, enough to provide energy to dozens of homes. One study by Lancaster University, commissioned by Connected Energy, calculated that a second life battery system saved 450 tons of CO2 per MWh over its lifetime...

Battery repurposing and recycling is set to play a massive role over the coming years as the automobile industry attempts to decarbonize and the world more broadly attempts to fight waste. The production of EVs, which use lithium-ion batteries, is accelerating. Tesla, for example, is aiming to sell 20 million EVs per year by 2030 — more than 13 times the current level. In turn, 12 million tons of EV batteries could become available for reuse by 2030, according to one estimate.

“Over the next decade we are going to see this gigantic wave,” says Jessica Dunn, a senior analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists. “Companies are recognizing this is a necessary industry. They need to ramp up infrastructure for recycling and reuse.”

-via Reasons to Be Cheerful, March 13, 2023

#ev #ev charger #electric vehicle #electric cars #batteries #battery recycling #lithium ion battery #auto industry #sustainability #circular economy #recycling #reuse #uk #nottingham #england #good news #hope

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satans-knitwear · 2 years

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Seamed tights my beloved

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#Im not having an awesome time rn. Being ill sucks. Somebody come scrape my useless corpse up off the floor and put me in the recycling #But at least i have some tights left without holes in 🥰#A miracle.#Tights #Seamed tights #satans knitwear #Alt pinup #bi girl #uk girl #cheeky #Legs for days #Leggie time #🍑 is served.#🍑 take a bite.#any tips and donations would be deeply appreciated right now 🥺❤️

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kate-royal-style-world · 8 months

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A Royal Recycling (part 310)

Eponine London

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lord-squiggletits · 2 months

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Idk if my previous posts were unclear but I don't remotely hate any Optimus version that isn't IDW or think they suck. Every Optimus is good and there's a fan (or multiple fans!) of every version of OP no matter how obscure or underrated (as well as all the other characters).

What's more questionable (or at least annoying) is when fandom ignores canon character personalities in favor of writing specific archetypes that are either out of character or repetitive/stereotyped to the point of annoyance. As an example of this, it would be a female character being called the Team Mom just because she's a woman existing in a group of (primarily male) characters even if she's not remotely motherly or nurturing. Or, as a more topical example, how often I've seen Transformers ships where even though both characters are canonically masculine (or gender neutral), fanartists love to turn one of the characters small and weak (or even outright feminine) to turn the ship into Strong Dominant Seme and Sweet Cute Uke to fit a specific kink or romantic fantasy, even if it's a disservice/OOC to portray those characters like that.

In other words, a fandom's popularity of certain characters, ships, headcanons, etc is often more informed by tropes and forcing canon to adhere to one's personal tastes, as opposed to approaching canon and trying to understand it on its own terms. I'm not talking about the quality of the source material, but rather the way that the fandom interprets the source materials in ways that don't make any sense, approach it in bad faith, or just generally don't care about canon at all. So I'm not saying one OP is better than another, my problem is when fandom consistently focuses on certain stereotypes or flanderizations of a character, and then any character that doesn't fit the popular (often stereotyped) mold is ignored or virulently rejected. In other words, I think popular fandom often does a DISSERVICE to characters whether they love them or hate them, it just takes different forms.

So, just as an example, I think one fandom caricature of Optimus that I see a lot (and heavily dislike) is making Optimus some sort of shrinking wallflower type who's innocent, sweet, and virginal, in contrast to an opposite caricature of Megatron that's big, strong, dominant, and rugged, and making ship art that forces the characters into some kind of seme/uke or borderline heteronormative romance. Despite the fact that canon Optimus (in, say, TFP for example) is tall, broadly built, deep voiced, dignified, assertive, and strong (physically and morally), completely incorrect interpretations of him as a shy feminized uke type are still pretty common to find. And it makes you ask yourself why it is so many people make MOP ship art of them of The Small One and The Large One or The Small, Cute One and The Big, Violent One when it's completely different from canon. It feels as if such fanart is made by people who just want to see seme/uke style slash ships, and if canon doesn't give them what they want, they'll simply trash it and replace it with their own version, even if it's completely OOC.

So when I said in my other post that people don't like IDW Optimus because he can't be fit into caricatures like happy dad or shy twink, I'm not saying it to say "other OPs who resemble that suck," I'm saying it to express "Fandom tends to simplify characters into easily palatable and comfortable tropes, and when they encounter a character they can't do that with, they respond by ignoring or even hating on that character."

Other versions of Optimus have the problem where fandom turns them into a stereotype instead of the actual character they are, e.g. portraying TFA OP as some poor abused damsel with no self confidence and crippling anxiety being abused by his superiors, and then they talk more about this fake uwu smoll bean cinnamon roll version of TFA OP than they do about actual canon TFA OP. And honestly I can't think of any prominent content/meta about G1 OP that isn't just "he plays basketball and does funny one liners and is Team Dad/Grandpa." (Hell, you even get that with non-Optimus characters that get simplified to just sexy twink, old grandpa, comedy relief, evil ex, Diversity Win-- She's A Lesbian, third wheel to the favored ship, etc even though there's way more depth to them than just their surface level stereotype.)

IDW OP's problem is that he can't be stereotyped like that so instead the fandom ignores him. He's not small, so they can't stereotype him as a skinny twink getting topped by a burly uke. He's not jovial or happy go lucky or extroverted, so they can't stereotype him as Team Dad or Comedy Relief. He's assertive, blunt, and has a temper, so they can't stereotype him as a shy wallflower in need of protecting. He makes catastrophic mistakes and is responsible for bad things happening, so they can't stereotype him into a sweet cinnamon roll who has never done anything wrong in his whole life or The Infinitely Wise and Kind Paragon. There's no Big Bad Authority Figure who was mean to IDW OP and traumatized him, so they can't excuse the bad things he did as "he's traumatized so he couldn't help it" and wave away his flaws as "it's his abuser's fault, they made him this way." IDW OP has the kind of depression where he's grumpy, shut off, and angry-- as opposed to the shy, sad kind of depression that just stares forlornly out of the window in a beautifully tragic way-- so they can't make him into a sad woobie kicked around unfairly by life.

Or I guess they just stereotype IDW OP as "evil bastard with no redeeming qualities that's mean to everyone for no reason, plus the writers forced everyone to like him just because he's Optimus Prime" even though that isn't accurate either.

Put bluntly, IDW OP forces fandom to contend with the idea that someone can be a good person with good intentions but still fuck up on a massive scale and maybe end up hurting more than they helped. IDW OP is messy, ugly, flawed, mean, stoic, closed off. When IDW OP has mental breakdowns or has his feelings hurt, he's loud and angry and harsh, and the consequences of what he did while he was unwell continue to haunt him long after. In other words, he actually experiences negative emotions the way a real person would, and sometimes when he's under the influence of negative emotions, he lashes out or does stupid things (like a real person might) instead of inoffensively crying in a corner somewhere. He isn't sanitized enough for a fandom that only wants Perfect Pure Good Optimus Who Never Hurts Anyone Even By Accident, so instead of IDW OP's mistakes and dark moments being treated as the logical end point of a person put in constant no-win situations until he breaks, he gets treated as if his mistakes and flaws make him an irredeemable bastard with no good qualities who should've fucked up less often to make fans actually like him.

And this is all in a fandom where 90% of the characters are war criminals and a good half of them have massacred organic planets. But god forbid IDW Optimus ever make a bad decision in a stressful situation. Or be mean to someone. Or have a character arc about how blindly idolizing people as paragons ends badly for everyone involved because no one can be that perfect. He is simply The Worst Optimus Ever and there's absolutely nothing about him worth discussing.

And just to be clear, the problem isn't the fact that some people don't like IDW OP, or he's just not their thing and they don't care.

The problem is the fact that he's consistently and actively hated by the fanbase who makes a concentrated effort to say he sucks and make sure none of their fan works ever include him. It's literally at a level where I stopped looking in the Optimus tag on this website because I was tired of people randomly going "and btw IDW OP sucks and I want to drown him in a ditch" in posts that weren't even about IDW, and I stopped looking for MegOP fic on AO3 because most of it is IDW Megatron/clearly TFP or G1 inspired continuity soup Optimus. Places that are Optimus friendly for Optimus fans, where I could reasonably expect to find positive conversations, but instead get sucker punched by hate about the character The Space Is About. And I can't even have conversations asking about why they do, bc the way 90% of them talk, I can tell they literally just didn't read the comics or deliberately misinterpreted the story.

I find it bizarre and frankly, tragic, that the hate train for IDW OP is so pervasive that people actively erase and replace him from fan works IN THE IDW UNIVERSE in a way that no other character is targeted in. I have tried so hard to understand why IDW OP gets this sort of hate and erasure when other characters who were as bad or worse than him have perfectly normal takes about them that go "yeah he kinda sucks but he's cool and I like him" or "who cares if he's problematic IRL, it's a story." The only conclusion I can come to is that because Optimus Prime (TM) has a specific brand image and is locked into being a cultural icon, he's held to a standard of The Ideal Perfect Hero instead of the way better standard of "Is he an interesting, well written character?"

#squiggposting #discourse #i tried my best to phrase this in a way that didnt invalidate different tastes #but like honestly. some ppls tastes suck. or are actually problematic and not in a fake way #like as an example from the main text avoe #i hate it so much when gay ships are made seme/uke - dominant/submissive - fem/masc #when that not only isnt in character or accurate to canon. but is also really boring at best or homophobic at worst #i cant control ppl's opinions but i can still think theyre boring stupid or even downright offensive #i have SEEN pretty much every popular TF character or pairing get flanderized somehow #so it's not just my attachment to OP in larticular #and i find it very frustrating when it seems as if ppl arent fans of the very media they consume #and they turn an interesting story into cookie cutter stereotypes #and then when the story isnt a cookie cutter stereotype easily divisible into black and white #they hate the characters and story and call it trash #might delete later bc i feel cring #but this is oretty much the culmination of all the thoughts and discussions ive had #with multiple people #anyways ive seen enough fandom discourse posts about The State of Fandom #and The Same 5 Tropes Recycled just copy pasted into different fandoms #what i speak of isnt just about my fave. rather my fave is a victim of this fandom tencency #and it is a FACT that fandom will force characters into offensive stereotypes that dont even make sense #tldr sometimes fanon.....is way worse than canon #also i revised and edited this like a billion times to make sure i wasnt hasty or vague or mean #so if i still made a mistake. whatever i guess this post took hours #it's not about wanting absolutely everyone to love my favorite #it's about the fact that ppl actively hate him even in spaces that are about him/ships he's in #to the point i have to not interact with strangers bc i never know if my fsve will randomly get shit on #and on top that the hate is mostly based on surface level assumptions and misinformation #so not only is my fav hated in a way no other character is. they dont even hate him for canon facts #sucks to see the fandom so thoroughly full of hate by ppl who arent informed bc they never gave canon a chance

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get-back-homeward · 1 year

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randomly caught this headline and surprise surprise, it’s a copy and paste job from an old interview. but now i’m curious.

has anyone run into the original 1994 Reverb interview?

According to Reverb, during a 1994 interview with guitar writer Tony Bacon, Paul shared which Elvis song made him burst into tears as an adult.

Reflecting back on The King’s 1950s Sun Studio records, Macca said: “Yeah. I heard them this summer – haven’t heard them for years – and I was blown away. I suddenly realised the last time I listened to this thoroughly was before The Beatles, before all that happened to me, and it just stripped it all away. It was like I was a kid playing snooker again and listening. It actually got me crying, pow. Really did it to me.”

The Elvis song that reduced Paul to tears was I Want You, I Need You, I Love You. The Beatles star said he could remember all the words, singing the lyrics: “Hold me close, hold me tight…”

The now 80-year-old shared: “And my kids were like, Dad, you know all the words to this stuff? You better believe it. And I thought, ‘Well, I once was a kid like this, before all The Beatles thing, and now you live with the whole legacy of The Beatles, and it’s great. You could do a lot worse.’ But you know what I mean? i Just the idea of that was fantastic—I was 17 again. Not a bad feeling when you’re 52. Anyway, what do you want to talk about? I’m nattering on here.”

ETA: I found it! 1994 Reverb Interview

#paul mccartney #elvis #media recycling old news for clickbait #but im making a list of influences with their big holding theme and this fits right in #1994 #1990s #paul interview #the timing is interesting this is when pauls going through the archives for anthology #and we know he doesnt admit to crying often #bug influences #he cites being 17 which would be 1958-1959 #this song is on the first elvis LP to hit the uk #which he’s listening to jan-june 1957 thanks to ian james #(released oct 1956 in the uk well after several elvis singles)#but this song is also released as the third elvis single july 1956 #i donthave any sources saying paul had this single #doesnt mean they dont exist #holding theme #1956 #mine #(reading research about how are brains are hardwired to be most emotional about songs from age 12 to 25 #and thought about this post again)#your brain on music

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style-of-princess-beatrice · 2 months

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A Royal Recycling (part 150)

Maje

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love-her-fashion-style · 20 days

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A Royal Recycling (part 138)

Zara

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hedgehology · 1 year

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“Recycle the rich” sticker slap. This is one of the first stickers I ever made!

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hopefulsapphic · 17 days

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begging on my hands and knees for the garbage truck to pick up my fucking trash please it's been literal months i am gonna start crying

#not to overshare but like #i'm literally going insane they pick up EVERYONE ELSE'S trash but mine like actually what the fuck #i put my bins out on the right day. i taped a giant sign on it saying RUBBISH BIN just in case they thought it was recycle or smth #i literally don't know what i'm doing wrong here #and i'm about to fucking lose it bc i've got like 3 full trash bags just sitting in my kitchen that i can't do anything abt #bc my outside bins ARENT BEING EMPTIED #do they do trash collection differently in the uk or something like am i doing something stupid american wrong #or do they just actually hate me specifically for some reason #anyways. i'm literally too embarrassed to ask any about this irl so i'm venting to strangers on the internet hello #lmao #thoughts from my brain #ignore me i'm a mess

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londonedge · 2 years

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Red on red, Walthamstow

Recycling from Down Town

#red #chinese #halal #pizza #re-cycling #recycling #waste #rubbish #urban #urban photography #documentary photography #Walthamstow #London #England #UK

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nostalgia-tblr · 1 year

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BY THE WAY i did start watching The Avengers but it was the wrong Avengers and long story short I am now in love with Emma Peel.

#this is recycled content but that's good for the environment so shush #also it's true #(british cult tv fan and i've never seen the avengers yes i hang my head in shame but hey. never seen the prisoner either.)#this is why that film was called 'avengers assemble' in the uk - which it isn't on D+. which has something else called that. confusing.

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kate-royal-style-world · 5 months

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A Royal Recycling (part 319)

Catherine Walker

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mariabenetto · 1 year

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In London

#london #citystreets #cityphotography #city pictures #england #uk #photoblog #photography #picture #ecofriendly #environment #recycle #recycling #londoncity

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ginger-thunder · 1 year

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What are ways you try to save the earth by reducing use of plastics...? I like using shampoo bars instead of buying them in plastic bottles. ✨✨✨✨

This is a wild ask out of nowhere and I thank you for it! I actually have things I do to reduce plastic waste.

I get my milk and yogurt from Modern Milkman, a UK-based company that delivers milk, yogurts, juices, and more all in glass bottles. They deliver to your doorstep before 7:30am and you leave out your empties for pickup. They also sell Miniml cleaning products, and again you leave your empties for them to collect. The bottles are then washed and reused tens of times. The app also tells you how many bottles you've saved. We started using MM in October and as of now (23 November) we've saved 57 plastic bottles from being used.

We shop at local zero-waste shops. If you're in the Reading area, there is a place called ArborFill that does closed-loop refills and sells cleaning, hygiene, and gift products that are all eco. We use their 5-litre jugs of laundry detergent and hand soap and will be expanding to more of their products after using what we already have on hand.

FourState just opened a shop in our area. It offers refill stations too, and also has sustainable ceramics, kitchenware, and textiles. I need to run in soon to refill our fabric conditioner and ours also has a dogployee who is compensated with pats.

I need to look into using shampoo bars! If they work well I will continue to use them, but I might have to compromise to bulk bottles of my usual shampoo/conditioner (which to be fair take me at least 18-months to use so it isn't frequent plastic waste production at least). I do like Body Shop's refill stations but the product I use most frequently (lemon body wash and shampoo) isn't offered, so it does kinda deter me from buying more because that's more plastic at a higher rate than I'd like. I've also tried to reduce plastic cling film waste by buying Joie silicon seals but I have not yet successfully used them - they don't seem very functional. I might not be stretching them enough, but am also gonna save up for some beeswax wrap.

I hope my links may be of help, and thanks for the unexpected ask!

#eco lifestyle #eco friendly products #plastic waste #reduce reuse recycle #modern milkman #fourstate #arborfill #sustainability #sustainable living #miniml #eco uk #joie

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style-of-princess-beatrice · 3 months

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A Royal Recycling (part 147)

Zara

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love-her-fashion-style · 20 days

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A Royal Recycling (part 137)

Reiss

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