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Peter Mount
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Peter Mount

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Peter Mount

peter@area51.social

Geek, Developer (Java, Go, C, 6502, Z80, 68K & many others), Retro-Computing (Acorn BBC, Amiga, C64, Sinclair Spectrum), Open Source, 3D Printing, Electronics, Weather, Space.

Works in the online games industry during the day time...

I do need to restart my YouTube channel

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10 months ago • •

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10 months ago • •


As the UK shut down it's final Coal burning power station yesterday, I see that XKCD celebrated it with a calculation.

So we burned about 3 inches in depth of the UK's surface between 1853 and 2024 😲

xkcd.com/2992/

#xkcd #coal #environment

A cartoon showing an equation at the top:

UK TOTAL COAL. PRODUCTION (1853-2024)

25 Billion Tonnes divided by 1.3kg/L * 240000 km2 = approximately 3 inches

At the bottom:

The UK shut down their last coal power plant today, which means that over the course of the industrial revolution, they dug up and burned an average of 3 inches of their country
#environment #xkcd #coal
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