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Greeting #Kpop pickers!
Scottish Breakdown 🏴 all devices 📊
#OrkneyIslands hodling at🥇178.6 devices per 💯k population, ZERO change from last quarter! 🤔
#Stirling still🥈@ 126.5, +3%
#EastLothian 🥉@ 118.6, +4%! 🦈
#NahEileananSiar still 4th @ 100.7, also unchanged!
Scottish Breakdown 🏴 all devices 📊
#OrkneyIslands hodling at🥇178.6 devices per 💯k population, ZERO change from last quarter! 🤔
#Stirling still🥈@ 126.5, +3%
#EastLothian 🥉@ 118.6, +4%! 🦈
#NahEileananSiar still 4th @ 100.7, also unchanged!
#Orkney, #Stirling, #EastLothian #WesternIsles #ArgyllandBute all remain* in the 🏴 "💯 Club"** with #Highland soon to join (+3%, 98.1)?
* total number of devices can go DOWN as well as up, remeber?
** Local Authority areas with ≥ 💯 devices (of all kinds) per 💯 k population.
* total number of devices can go DOWN as well as up, remeber?
** Local Authority areas with ≥ 💯 devices (of all kinds) per 💯 k population.
2020 was the 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧 on record for Britain's electricity system - but we need to keep going
This is our 10 Point Plan to put the UK at the forefront of the global green industrial revolution
Cutting emissions. Creating jobs. Building new industries.
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This is our 10 Point Plan to put the UK at the forefront of the global green industrial revolution
Cutting emissions. Creating jobs. Building new industries.
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⚡️ Produce enough offshore wind to power every home, quadrupling how much we produce to 40GW by 2030
👩🏾🏭 Supporting up to 60,000 jobs
Read the full plan 👉🏾 gov.uk/government/pub…
👩🏾🏭 Supporting up to 60,000 jobs
Read the full plan 👉🏾 gov.uk/government/pub…
💧 Develop 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030
🏘️ First town powered entirely by hydrogen by 2030
Read the full plan 👉🏾 gov.uk/government/pub…
🏘️ First town powered entirely by hydrogen by 2030
Read the full plan 👉🏾 gov.uk/government/pub…
Today is #MobileLibrariesDay which is an annual celebration of Mobile Library services across Scotland. We thought this was a good day to take a quick look back at the Mobile Library in #Orkney which has been in operation since 1963. #BookWeekScotland #MobileLibrariesDay2020
The Mobile Library service was a success right from the start. On the very first trip around the mainland of Orkney the Mobile Library visited over six hundred homes plus seven village stops over a period of seven weeks. In the first two years it issued almost 124,000 books.
Over the last six decades we've had a number of Mobile Library vehicles. At first the service could only reach readers on the mainland of #Orkney, but after the introduction of roll on/roll off ferries in 1990, the service was gradually extended to the islands.
For International #WorldHeritageDay, a thread about the threat of climate change to these incredible places. Starting off at the Heart of Neolithic #Orkney World Heritage site in #Scotland at one of the world's oldest stone circles, #StonesOfStenness.
Skara Brae at the edge of Skaill Bay on Mainland, Orkney is, one of the best preserved Stone Age villages in Europe but is increasingly under threat from coastal erosion and worsening storms, & the Ring of Brodgar is vulnerable to extreme rainfall.
You can read the Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI) assessment recently carried out for the #Orkney sites by @UCSUSA, @jcu, @UHIArchaeology, @HistEnvScot, @ICOMOS & @OrkneyCouncil, & @ICOMOS here: historicenvironment.scot/archives-and-r… #CVIheritage
We read that it was possible to use a 3D Printer to make a lithophane from a photograph. A lithophane is an etched image that appears 3D when back lit and traditionally they were made by etching a design onto very thin porcelain. We wanted to make one using PLA plastic filament.
So we used this photo of St Magnus Cathedral in #Orkney and ran it through some software to create a .stl file that could be sent to the 3D Printer.
It came out looking like this. Not bad but a bit rough looking. It looked as though it had missed a lot of the detail. Of course it was only a first attempt but we were a little bit disappointed...
OFGEM - the UK Government's energy regulator - are the biggest obstacle to making full use of #Scotland's #renewable #energy resources.
Energy policy is reserved to the UK Government, so there's absolutely nothing the Scottish Government can do about #Ofgem.
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Energy policy is reserved to the UK Government, so there's absolutely nothing the Scottish Government can do about #Ofgem.
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Here's a BBC article where Ofgem have supposedly given the "green light" for the first ever grid connection to Shetland.
(Believe it or not, we're in 2019 and the UK has never bothered to connect #Shetland to the National Grid.)
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(Believe it or not, we're in 2019 and the UK has never bothered to connect #Shetland to the National Grid.)
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Unfortunately, approval for the grid connection to Shetland is conditional on the UK Government funding a wind farm project there, which will in turn be conditional on being able to transmit power to the National Grid.
Catch-22.
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Catch-22.
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In the early part of the first millennium CE, the #IndoEuropean language known as Proto-#Germanic diverged into an East branch (which included #Gothic) and a Northwest branch.
Northwest then split into West and North branches when Proto-#Norse developed in #Scandinavia.
Northwest then split into West and North branches when Proto-#Norse developed in #Scandinavia.
Until the 8th century, #Germanic #languages, including Proto-#Norse, were written in Elder Futhark, the earliest #runic #alphabet.
The name #Futhark comes from the initial phonemes in the names of the first six #runes:
ᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚨ ᚱ ᚲ
F U Þ A R K
The name #Futhark comes from the initial phonemes in the names of the first six #runes:
ᚠ ᚢ ᚦ ᚨ ᚱ ᚲ
F U Þ A R K
By the beginning of the #Viking Age around 800 CE, Proto-#Norse had evolved into Old Norse, and #Scandinavia's writing system transitioned from the 24 #runes of Elder #Futhark to Younger Futhark's 16 runes.
The #Swedish #Sparlösa #Runestone from ~800 CE features both #alphabets.
The #Swedish #Sparlösa #Runestone from ~800 CE features both #alphabets.
In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing.
A thread.
A thread.
On the shelf there is a number of sturdy boxes and in one of the boxes there are a number of folders.
The folders are tied closed with cotton archival tape and inside one of the folders is an envelope containing a disposition written on a piece of vellum.
