Jonathan Hand @JonnyHand

Coffee. Bike. Camera. Football. @ConnorsE. 500px.com/JHand/photos Near a Cup of Coffee Joined April 2009

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Manxpie @manxpie86

6 days ago

Handball no Handball

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Frank @Amadeus_IOM

4 weeks ago

A few of the rally cars in Port Erin tonight

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Nottingham Forest @NFFC

a month ago

GEORDIE MARADONA!!! ❤️

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BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking

2 months ago

The four astronauts on Artemis II are now further from Earth than anyone has ever been before Follow live bbc.in/4maQGYK

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Jonathan Hand @JonnyHand

2 months ago

@pilotngb As stunning as this is, why was it flagged as graphic content 😂

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Your fridge runs 24 hours a day. Solar panels only work while the sun’s out. That mismatch is the entire reason this plant exists, and the fix is just hot salt. The Dunhuang plant in China’s Gobi Desert uses 12,000 mirrors aimed at a single tower about as tall as an 80-story building. All that focused sunlight heats a mix of salts (the same stuff in fertilizer) to 565°C, hot enough to glow red. That liquid salt gets pumped into giant insulated tanks. The tanks are so well insulated they only lose about 1°C per day. When the city needs electricity at 2am, the hot salt boils water into steam, the steam spins a turbine, and you get power. Same basic process as a coal plant. Just no coal. Here’s what makes this different from regular solar: the storage lasts 11 hours. Sun goes down, plant keeps running all night. The big batteries that cities plug into their power grids right now? Those typically hold about 4 hours of electricity. Building batteries that last 11 hours is possible, but the cost balloons fast. A German energy storage study found that storing energy in hot salt costs roughly 33x less than storing it in the lithium-ion batteries we use today. China has built 27 of these plants so far, enough to power roughly a million homes. They doubled that number in 2025 alone. Another 3,000 megawatts (enough for about 2 million more homes) are under construction right now, with 4,000 more in the planning stage. Beijing wants 15,000 megawatts by 2030. The US tried this same technology once. Ivanpah, out in the Mojave Desert. Cost $2.2 billion. But they skipped the storage part entirely, so it could only make power while the sun was shining. It needed natural gas every morning just to start up. It’s now slated to shut down in 2026, thirteen years early, because regular solar panels got so cheap they made the whole project obsolete. China took the same idea, added the one part America left out, and is now building dozens of them. One more thing worth knowing. The salt is made from basic industrial chemicals. No lithium mining. No cobalt. No rare earth metals. And it lasts 30 years of daily use before the tanks need work.

Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1

2 months ago

China’s solar power plant in Dunhuang uses around 12,000 mirrors to focus sunlight onto a central tower, heating molten salt to extreme temperatures. That heat is stored and used to generate electricity on demand, including after sunset.

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John Reese @John_E_Reese

3 months ago

Don't let a last second penalty detract from the fact that Hall completely outplayed Yamal tonight.

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Emirates FA Cup @EmiratesFACup

3 months ago

Ben Waine, a boyhood @NUFC fan, hit the Alan Shearer celebration after scoring against Sunderland 🙋‍♂️ #EmiratesFACup

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Manchester United @ManUtd

12 years ago

Congratulations to 11-year-old William Osula from Denmark, winner of today's MU Soccer Schools World Skills Final.

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Connor. @CHPopadom

3 months ago

Sweet as a fucking nut, unbelievable limbs

Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt

3 months ago

WHAT A GOAL FROM WILLIAM OSULA! 😳 @tntsports & @discoveryplusUK

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OptaJoe @OptaJoe

3 months ago

90 - William Osula is the only substitute in Premier League history to score a 90th-minute winner against Manchester United. Super.

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Sally Coward @coward_sally

3 months ago

Laxey Beach 🇮🇲 #brewwithaview

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CPFC HQ @CPFCHQ

4 months ago

Fucking hell hahaha

CPFC HQ @CPFCHQ

4 months ago

That Marco Bizot red card reminded me why I loved football. The way he appeared in shot to take him out had me laughing so hard hahahaha

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Olly Mann 🎙️ @OllyMann

4 months ago

This is Robbie. He spent six hours trapped in the rubble after a devastating earthquake. Unable to feel his legs, unsure he would emerge alive. 🧵

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Petesy @2NarMe

4 months ago

Look at the fans’ admiration for Eddie Howe at the end. Love it.

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Swin @Swin9

4 months ago

Christ, I’m old! Shame they went down the road they did, this and the next were superb albums

Domino Recording Co @Dominorecordco

4 months ago

Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Released 20 years ago today

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Taylor Payne @TaylorandPayne

5 months ago

This tells you everything you need to know. #NUFC

OptaJoe @OptaJoe

5 months ago

0 - Newcastle United's pass completion rate in the first half against Wolves (94%) was the highest by any team in a half of football in the Premier League without recording a shot on target (on record since 2003-04). Sideways.

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Paddy Power @paddypower

5 months ago

Newcastle had to start Karius in a cup final because Dubravka was cup tied, but Man City get to play Semenyo, despite him playing for Bournemouth in the Carabao this season. Seems totally fair.

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Joe Brown @JoeBrownLondon

8 months ago

200 years later… courtesy of @RailwayMagazine

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The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC

a year ago

"Some people were suggesting I’d be a 'stop-gap'. The club will be looking for £60-80 million players, and it’s absolutely right that they do that, but I’ll back myself against anyone. "Whoever the club brings in, I’ll always feel I’m good enough to be ahead of them. I want to prove I can be here and stay along for as much of the ride as possible." An excerpt of @ChrisDHWaugh's 2022 interview with Newcastle United hero Dan Burn. 🔗 nytimes.com/athletic/33223…