as the UK receives Andy Burnham into No. 10 Downing Street (the country’s 4th Prime Minister in the last four years), one of the standout aspects of the PM’s strategy to revitalize Britannia’s economy, is the intended decentralization of power from Whitehall to the rest of Britain, which, will be a shot in the arm, if the PM’s bold re-industrialization roadmap can be stiched into a coherent set of policies.

when coupled with the country’s intention to restart drilling and exploration of North Sea fossil oil and gas resources as the quickest way to bring down energy prices and widespread inflation, one of the biggest potential winner will be in next generation CO2 capture, sequestration and storage technologies.

some 20 odd years ago, the University of Manchester introduced to the world, graphene, developed by Prof Konstantin Novoselov and Prof Andre Geim (born in the former Soviet Union, in case anyone is curious), both of whom then went on to win the Nobel Prize for this innovation.

since then, graphene’s industrial applicability has grown from simple fuel cell and battery anodes, to graphene’s high selectivity to capture CO2 (this is due to its electrical conductivity, very interesting read below…), to recent game-changing discovery of graphene’s ability to hold different states of superconductivity (which makes quantum processors operate at higher temperatures which is a very awesome thing).

PM Burnham’s re-industrialization policy, seems to be defense-themed, a direct nod towards making the UK a reliable friend and partner to Europe’s long term plan for expanding its trade links, capability resilience and supra-national defense innovation & manufacturing base.

Will the House of Lords opine in the direction of Great Britain, for there is little time to concur bills and laws urgently needed in perilous times such as now?

Will the House of Commons be unified with common purpose behind Burnham’s bold vision?

Can the UK stick to the plan?

How the UK gave the world graphene >
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgng2d5nn4o

Graphene’s amazing ability to seek out CO2 >
https://pubs.rsc.org/tc/article-abstract/doi/10.1039/d6tc01260d/1278702/Graphene-nanomaterials-next-generation-tools-for

Game-changing multiple states of superconductivity for this boring black material > https://news.mit.edu/2026/graphene-can-hold-multiple-states-of-superconductivity-0629
PM Burnham’s reindustrialization policy > https://www.centreforcities.org/blog/briefing-burnham-reindustrialisation-and-industrial-policy/

distraction of the United States, will inevitably lead to several complications elsewhere in the world tomorrow. > https://www.isdp.eu/publication/the-dprks-war-dividend-in-ukraine-capabilities-gained-trajectory-shifted-and-the-long-term-strategic-impact/

has America lost its way and the war in Iran?

looking at the historical factors that led to the defeat of the United States in Vietnam, the astonishing key factors summarised, who was steering the direction of strategy in the first place?

therefore, Iran is now the United States forever war. for now, it has clearly lost the battle, and this was without boots on the ground yet.

https://youtu.be/NjMKY3aEgY0

cool as a cucumber, professional to the 9th degree. RESPECT.

https://youtu.be/AEbsCyou_I0

very cool. one end use? capture of incredible car chase scenes, sporting events???

> https://youtu.be/CIN0BXm9SXM

can CO2 capture and storage step up to the game as a balancing act towards increased fossil exploration in the North Sea to bring down costs of living?

so far, no carbon sequestration project has been able to scale up at an acceptable cost.

https://youtu.be/7_k8KUF_hNw

why is CO2 capture so ineffective? some numbers to illustrate the scale of the capability gap

> https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/why-carbon-capture-is-no-easy-solution-climate-change-2023-11-22/

very good question when it comes to excessive MEP numbers that might create multiple objectives that are all with good intent, to make a better Europe and a better world.

the structural issue is, how would the EU collectively gather coherent direction while balancing the sovereign rights of its individual member states? Not exactly a walk in the park to juggle such opposing end points.

can there be some type of compromise? such as in specific areas of EU-wide defence beyond NATO, bloc-wide international economic co-operation?

https://youtu.be/WKeIhR59XuA

Astronomers and doomsayers always like to use a bit of fancy sensational headlines to scare the poop out of regular folks. like the following headline that has the clever insertion of the word alien. Spicy headline...

> https://blog.sciandnature.com/2026/07/breaking-astronomers-just-detected.html

except that back in 2024, NASA recorded actual sounds that came from 250 million light years away from Earth that sounded fancy spicy scary.

however, when you look at it from a purely science-based logical perspective, the remarkable fact that sound can travel these distances within their domains where a lot of cosmic gas resides.

> https://blog.sciandnature.com/2024/01/nasa-just-recorded-actual-sound-in.html

another group of thought would be the dark forest theory, where it is postulated that so called aliens are too scared to make first contact.

> https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/the-dark-forest-theory-a-terrifying-explanation-of-why-we-havent-heard-from-aliens-yet/

further elaboration of the above, based on Fermi's paradox, goes further to rationalize that so called "alien" life-forms out in the "dark" parts of the massive universe (it is estimated that there are 100-200 billion planets out there), are risk adverse and therefore keep their silience as strategic risk mitagation.

which, if you objectively look at it from the perspective of an advanced lifeform that can observe how and what earth's "monkeys" and dip-shits are doing to their own kind, and their own environment, ask YOURSELF this, from a risk perspective > "... if these "monkeys" and dip-shits are capable of doing this to THEIR own kind, imagine the sort of mischef they can do if they ever gain interstellar capabilities to discover and explore the OUTER parts of the galaxy... "OUR" (reference to said so called advanced lifeform).

NOW therefore, if YOU are in the position of these so called "advanced lifeform", what would you do?

A - sit and stay silent, and hope that the day will never come? (oh please).

B - send UFOs or whatever and observe, ready to wipe out all "monkeys" and dip-shits just when they are able to gain some extraordinary interstellar capability.

BV's rules for ship classification when it comes to those that run on either methanol or ethanol.

https://marine-offshore.bureauveritas.com/nr670-methanol-and-ethanol-fuelled-ships

HFO (heavy fuel oil) continues to be the dominant fuel source for the bulk of commercial shipping worldwide, with over 300 million metric tons a year consumed.

Can methanol and ethanol ramp up at sufficient scale and speed to pivot away from HFO? this has to be deliberated from the perspective of the very established and large HFO fuel storage, bunkering infrastructure that has been in place at just about every major port of call for commerce, for a very very long time.

will the current supply chokehold in the Middle East (now expanding beyond the Straits of Hormuz to that of the Red Sea) be the significant factor to drive the above? The answer: Unlikely. WHY? routes are already moving out from the region, and upstream exploration for fossil crude oil and gas production are being ramped up as a direct reflex response.

economics, is a very powerful indicator of political will. In most cases that is.

looking at all the happenings around the world where inflation pressures from the well known oil shock is already percolating into all strata of modern AND not so modern economies, it seems that the following statement might not ring with significant accuracy...

https://www.energylivenews.com/2026/02/02/carbon-capture-isnt-central-to-net-zero/

the core issue, really, is can CO2 capture and storage prove otherwise from its lackluster track record of its last couple of decades?

will spin matter for cutting edge electrolysis that can produce hydrogen from water, when geological hydrogen strikes gold?

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.202503556

ever wondered if having a stack of IUs each running 1 instance of the following LLM will make any good?

https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.2