mudsticks
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And he says he's a 'fan' of Musk 🤔
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And he says he's a 'fan' of Musk 🤔
cookiemonster
Veteran
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Yup, I did spot that.,
icowden
Squire
Well, I'm not sure that's necessarily a bad thing. Yes, Musk is a bit weird*, but quite often, behind his companies is a desire to make things better rather than just make profit.
For example, if he gets Tesla to level 5 autonomous driving, this would be a game changer but also reduce car ownership. He has a company which ultimately make less money if it succeeds. The rationale for this is that if we have autonomous cars that can be summoned day or night (probably more in urban and suburban areas than the countryside), people won't need to own a car. With no taxi driver to pay, cost of travel is relatively cheap. There is also the possibility that if you do own a level 5 car, you could reserve it for when you are likely to need it and let it go out and earn you some money rather than having it sit on the driveway.
*ok very weird, but arguably less weird than Bezos and Zuckerman
theclaud
Reading around the chip
Creepy billionaire benchmarking alert!
mudsticks
Squire
If it stopped at weird it wouldn't be a problem..
Musk is doing egotistical greenwash capitalism.
As are the rest.
The idea that we can buy and consume, our way out of this..
And carry on business as usual.
Its the same mindset, and type of person that got us into this mess.
Well I'm glad I stuck with my instincts of wayyyy too pleased with himself guy, who is just playing to the crowd ..
Ian H
Legendary Member
The idea is that the greenwash works as long as we proles recycle our plastic and drive e-cars.
Or ride bikes...
It was hot work today.
mudsticks
Squire
Yup, buy a bamboo toothbrush, rather than question what the oil corps, military industrial complex, and the rest of the extractive capitalist ilk are up to.
That should sort it.. 👍🏼
It is still very hot still, despite the clouds.
I'm out training under load 🙄
I'll spare you the overheated pics .
fozy tornip
At the controls of my private jet.
Private Eye's 'Celeb' has let himself go a bit....
Ian H
Legendary Member
Pah! Anyway, he's clean & fragrant again now.
mudsticks
Squire
Further cheery reading..
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...tdown-inevitable-heatwaves-global-catastrophe
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...tdown-inevitable-heatwaves-global-catastrophe
newfhouse
pleb
The headline is obviously misleading - it’s not a £70 billion contract - but can anyone explain how this can have been tendered correctly and won in a fair and honest way? The stench is overpowering.
My guess, FWIW, is that the government can now say they have complied with the court judgement.
A company based in Cornwall has been awarded a contract worth £70 billion to oversee the country's transition to Net Zero - the target of completely negating the amount of greenhouse gases by reducing emissions. The Place Group - which is based at The Regent, Chapel Street, Penzance - has won the huge contract to "control, manage and deliver" the public sector transition to Net Zero.
It will oversee the framework for services, products, solutions and support for Everything Net Zero. The small company is a "specialist consulting, project management and research company with 18 years’ experience in the field of education".
Its website states: "We have a strong track record of developing winning free school applications and have successfully opened over 100 new schools for clients and trusts across the country. Trusts and schools will be developing their environment strategies ready to meet decarbonisation targets and reach net zero carbon across their estates by 2030 and longer term 2050 under the Climate Change Act.
"Place Group provides an end-to-end solution to enable trusts and schools to meet their net zero vision objectives efficiently and effectively through a phased programme approach. This approach, or ‘journey’, is underpinned by our technical and programme management expertise in the educational built environment space, and by our estates supply chain vehicle."
The company has net assets of £344,417 under the directorship of Claire Delaney and Simon James.
The East of England Broadband Network (E2BN), the contracting authority, is putting in place a framework agreement for use by UK public sector bodies, including schools, colleges and universities, NHS organisations, local authorities, fire and police services, and more.
The Place Group won the four-year contract to facilitate the framework for such areas as reducing all emissions especially carbon, increasing the use of sustainable resources, improving recycling, exploiting greener technologies and innovation, greener use of water, electricity, gas, oils, and other fuels including hydrogen, battery and nuclear, and greener transportation. It will also access financing, grants and awards to deliver a "comprehensive greener strategy to meet the needs of education, central and local government and other public sector and associated organisations".
The successful bidder was "expected to demonstrate they can impartially control, manage and deliver against the full range of required areas and to maintain and integrate such competing sub-contractors as necessary to ensure choice and flexibility in each category, best value and seamless interoperability. At all times choice, service and cost are of vital importance".
The Government’s long-awaited strategy for reaching net zero emissions was revealed last October, with ministers saying it would create up to 440,000 jobs and “unlock” £90bn in investment in the next decade, most of it from private sector companies.
The plan involves an expansion of electric vehicles, including increasing the network of charging points, and further growth of offshore wind, as well as investments in new technologies such as hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel and £120m towards at least one new nuclear power station. Households will benefit from grants to install low-carbon heat pumps as part of a £3.9bn plan for decarbonising heat and buildings, including a £450m three-year boiler upgrade scheme.
However, last week, the high court ordered the Government to outline exactly how its net zero policies will achieve emissions targets, after a legal challenge from environmental groups. Friends of the Earth, Client Earth and the Good Law Project had all taken legal action over the Government’s flagship climate change strategy, arguing it had illegally failed to include the policies it needed to deliver the promised emissions cuts.
Mr Justice Holgate said the strategy lacked any explanation or quantification of how the government’s plans would achieve the emissions target, and as such had failed to meet its obligations under Climate Change Act (CCA) 2008.
CornwallLive has contacted The Place Group for a response to being awarded the massive contract.
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/small-company-cornwall-awarded-giant-7407664
My guess, FWIW, is that the government can now say they have complied with the court judgement.
A company based in Cornwall has been awarded a contract worth £70 billion to oversee the country's transition to Net Zero - the target of completely negating the amount of greenhouse gases by reducing emissions. The Place Group - which is based at The Regent, Chapel Street, Penzance - has won the huge contract to "control, manage and deliver" the public sector transition to Net Zero.
It will oversee the framework for services, products, solutions and support for Everything Net Zero. The small company is a "specialist consulting, project management and research company with 18 years’ experience in the field of education".
Its website states: "We have a strong track record of developing winning free school applications and have successfully opened over 100 new schools for clients and trusts across the country. Trusts and schools will be developing their environment strategies ready to meet decarbonisation targets and reach net zero carbon across their estates by 2030 and longer term 2050 under the Climate Change Act.
"Place Group provides an end-to-end solution to enable trusts and schools to meet their net zero vision objectives efficiently and effectively through a phased programme approach. This approach, or ‘journey’, is underpinned by our technical and programme management expertise in the educational built environment space, and by our estates supply chain vehicle."
The company has net assets of £344,417 under the directorship of Claire Delaney and Simon James.
The East of England Broadband Network (E2BN), the contracting authority, is putting in place a framework agreement for use by UK public sector bodies, including schools, colleges and universities, NHS organisations, local authorities, fire and police services, and more.
The Place Group won the four-year contract to facilitate the framework for such areas as reducing all emissions especially carbon, increasing the use of sustainable resources, improving recycling, exploiting greener technologies and innovation, greener use of water, electricity, gas, oils, and other fuels including hydrogen, battery and nuclear, and greener transportation. It will also access financing, grants and awards to deliver a "comprehensive greener strategy to meet the needs of education, central and local government and other public sector and associated organisations".
The successful bidder was "expected to demonstrate they can impartially control, manage and deliver against the full range of required areas and to maintain and integrate such competing sub-contractors as necessary to ensure choice and flexibility in each category, best value and seamless interoperability. At all times choice, service and cost are of vital importance".
The Government’s long-awaited strategy for reaching net zero emissions was revealed last October, with ministers saying it would create up to 440,000 jobs and “unlock” £90bn in investment in the next decade, most of it from private sector companies.
The plan involves an expansion of electric vehicles, including increasing the network of charging points, and further growth of offshore wind, as well as investments in new technologies such as hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel and £120m towards at least one new nuclear power station. Households will benefit from grants to install low-carbon heat pumps as part of a £3.9bn plan for decarbonising heat and buildings, including a £450m three-year boiler upgrade scheme.
However, last week, the high court ordered the Government to outline exactly how its net zero policies will achieve emissions targets, after a legal challenge from environmental groups. Friends of the Earth, Client Earth and the Good Law Project had all taken legal action over the Government’s flagship climate change strategy, arguing it had illegally failed to include the policies it needed to deliver the promised emissions cuts.
Mr Justice Holgate said the strategy lacked any explanation or quantification of how the government’s plans would achieve the emissions target, and as such had failed to meet its obligations under Climate Change Act (CCA) 2008.
CornwallLive has contacted The Place Group for a response to being awarded the massive contract.
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/small-company-cornwall-awarded-giant-7407664
Cirrus
Active Member
Fab Foodie
Legendary Member
The climate bullet few want to bite....
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-reduce-meat-dairy-intake-says-henry-dimbleby
Dimbleby seems a good egg with his finger on the pulse. His food strategy seemed largely on the money, but Johnson found it a politically hard swallow. People want their cake and eat-it rather than face reality, the refuseniks will eventually eat humble pie I'm afraid....
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...-reduce-meat-dairy-intake-says-henry-dimbleby
Dimbleby seems a good egg with his finger on the pulse. His food strategy seemed largely on the money, but Johnson found it a politically hard swallow. People want their cake and eat-it rather than face reality, the refuseniks will eventually eat humble pie I'm afraid....
icowden
Squire
So there is a master stroke in Liz Truss's deal with New Zealand then...
Soon we won't have any meat and dairy farmers left - mission accomplished!
Although it does rather miss the point that some land is only suitable for animal farming. Try growing crops here:
