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It was a pleasure to host Merlin Hyman OBE from Regen on Transmission - here's what I learnt: 🏹 What are some of the key steps that the government could take to accelerate the deployment of clean power? In particular, what allocation rounds and the Hunger Games have in common. 🦺 Hearing from many parties involved in the planning process - how could we speed this up? 🏎️ Where Regen stands on zonal vs. national, what his experience was during EMR, and why, if we're racing towards 2030, we shouldn't take an long pitstop. On that last point, I think we've still got a few more laps to run. Zonal vs. national feels like one of the most critical questions for the new government — get it right, and we can see accelerated deployment, clean power, and the lowest costs for consumers. Perhaps the thing we can all agree on is that the decision can't be made in 2030.

From a business resilience perspective I wanted to share this story. In Bramely Surrey, UK a petrol/gas station has been leaking fuel into the local water system and telecoms structure for months now. The leak has been dealt with but the remaining residual fuel in the ground continues to egress into the telecoms ducts. It just isn't safe enough to repair the fibre and copper issues so businesses are having to cope with limited or no data comms. This has been going on for months now, so never assume some IT issues can be fixed in a matter of days. This is a low probability but high impact risk if you are situated close to a fuel source. That might seem an obvious assesment given the risk of explosion close to fuel storage but nobody expected an underground leak to impact business for months on end. https://lnkd.in/eNYEPGCK

From a business resilience perspective I wanted to share this story. In Bramely Surrey, UK a petrol/gas station has been leaking fuel into the local water system and telecoms structure for months now. The leak has been dealt with but the remaining residual fuel in the ground continues to egress into the telecoms ducts. It just isn't safe enough to repair the fibre and copper issues so businesses are having to cope with limited or no data comms. This has been going on for months now, so never assume some IT issues can be fixed in a matter of days. This is a low probability but high impact risk if you are situated close to a fuel source. That might seem an obvious assesment given the risk of explosion close to fuel storage but nobody expected an underground leak to impact business for months on end. https://lnkd.in/eNYEPGCK

49 years ago, the UK Government cancelled the Channel Tunnel - they didn't want to underwrite the costs following an increase in estimates. Sound familiar? Watch this fascinating (ok, I nerd out on this kind of thing) segment from the BBC Archives of sentiment at the time following the news. This reinforces another point, where there is a clear need for an #infrastructure project - the question is not if it will be built, but when. All these years later, and now with the National Infrastructure Commission in place, is the strategic case given a fair shout in debates in the UK? Or does the financial case still drive decision making? One of the other things I love is how many civil and infrastructure engineers were involved in the eventual build of the Chunnel, and the expertise that they have then been able to share on similar projects around the world.

We celebrate the successes of 2023 and continued growth in the 1st quarter of 2024. #greenfinance is important to the debt stack for new construction and adaptive retrofit projects in #Wisconsin.

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I have mixed feelings about this article: from one side, I can understand that infrastructure is a major obstacle to developing the H2 industry (that is why there are plenty of studies on the feasibility to transport H2 within existing gas pipelines), on the other end I cannot really see the small infrastructure approach making a dent in the overall scheme of things as the industry that will need H2 to abate the emissions, will need it in large quantities. Sort of a chicken and egg situation, but, maybe, I am looking at it from a wrong angle... #hydrogeninfrastructure #hydrogeneconomy #emissionreduction #hydrogenindustry #hydrogenuse

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Water damage can happen at any time, but March seems to be especially prone for leaky faucets. Check your water bill for any unexplained jumps in usage. See a spike? Time to find the leak. https://lnkd.in/gmJPsij

Radio Communications | Overcoming Hills with Radio Signals. One thing that two-way radio systems don't like his Hills. The reason for this is because the frequencies above 30 megahertz it's mainly Line of Sight, although there are a few conditions where occasionally there is an exception. If you've got a big hill signals are going to blocked. It's it's an issue so what can we do about it? Putting a Repeater on the top of the hill is a solution. A repeater is a device system which receives a weak signal, and retransmits it at a as a stronger signal. This increases communications range. #radiocommunication #business #communications #twowayradio #twowayradios #terrestrialcommunications https://shorturl.at/bhjER