I Was Down At The Boat Club Today. David Jenkins And I Did A 500m Swim In Around 16 Minutes Without Wetsuit.
I was down at the Boat Club today. David Jenkins and I did a 500m swim in around 16 minutes without wetsuit. Water temperature 9 degC. Highish tide going out. After our swim I needed to get more steps. These birds were sitting on The Esplanade railing across from the Old West Kirk. (at Greenock Esplanade)
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Thoughts on Prague
We just came back from a break in Prague. We had a good time by walking around a lot, eating & drinking and being with each other. Given my interest in dome cities what would I take away from the visit to guide me about my dome city design. This is a list of things go liked about Prague and I would hope that these things would be available (if required) in a dome city. 1 - Great walk ability 2 - green space easily accessible from the city centre 3 - affordability 4 - friendly and honest people 5 - good public transport 6 - a lively centre in the evenings with plenty of entertainment, bars and places to eat I will discuss these things more in future blogs.
Boxing Day Swim 🏊 - High tide, Force 7 High Winds Near Gale - David, Ernie and I didn't go far. We went up The Esplanade for around 100m the went towards the MOD slip and then back. We were in for around 12 minutes. The squalls and spray when you in the water are exciting. Water temperature 8.2degC (at The Royal West of Scotland Boat Club)
We went to the Blue Lagoon today. I do love hot springs.
WHAT more could one want? It is cheap and simple to extract, ship and burn. It is abundant: proven reserves amount to 109 years of current consumption, reckons BP, a...
This article from The Economist magazine dated April 19th to 25th April suggests that Coal is going to play a large role in providing electrical power for he foreseeable future. This will be especially true in poorer countries. What we need is to make nuclear cheaper than coal.
There were dolphins or porpoises off The Esplanade in Greenock last night - or maybe Nessie on holiday 😊
Helen and I walked from Vikinggar in Largs to the pencil. It was a lovely day. This is a photo taken while we were at the pencil looking across the Clyde to Cumbrae and Arran. (at Largs Pencil Monument)
On the 16th of June seven international clean energy organizations launched a major new campaign aimed at keeping nuclear power out–as in completely out–of all negotiations at the upcoming COP 21 climate talks in Paris in December. To me this is a really bad idea. Existing Nuclear technologies are the best way to decarbonise electricity production. Newer technologies, Small Modular Reactors especially, have the ability to decarbonise electricity production as well as other sectors. Two sectors that come to mind immediately are process heat and marine transport.
This is where I've done most of my Open Water Swimming this week. This is a lagoon in Costa Teguise which provides a sheltered place for a swim. At high tide it us over 200m long. Water temperature a balmy 19.5 degC. #lanzarote #openwaterswimming #costateguise (at Costa Teguise Lanzarote)
This is a blog where I can write those things that interest me, including but not limited to, Nuclear Power, Climate Change, Engineering, Open Water Swimming and Economics.
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