Wet Country Wireless; How British Weather Killed a Billion Pound Tech Company

Re:Wet Country Wireless; How British Weather Killed a Billio... by pjc50 on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:23AM (#26669623)

I worked there for a while too! Zeus technology, the subsequent tenant. Very expensive. The ionica sign was still lying in the bushes behind the generator outbuilding.

An additional problem with opening the window was the smell from the nearby sewage farm on some days.

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Re:Wet Country Wireless; How British Weather Killed a Billio... by hvs on Friday April 02, 2021 @11:08AM (#26672020)

I shudder to think what a "sewage farm" is, but I imagine it is something mundane that just happens to have a name that makes Americans think, "why on Earth would you farm sewage?"

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Re:Wet Country Wireless; How British Weather Killed a Billio... by michaelt on Friday April 02, 2021 @11:35AM (#26672289)

Gotta have a lot of euphemisms for your sewage treatment plant. Apparently they now call it a "water recycling centre"

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ionica/@52.2330937,0.15565...

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Re:Wet Country Wireless; How British Weather Killed a Billio... by toast0 on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:08PM (#26672692)

My guess is a sewage treatment plant? Many of those have parts exposed to the air and don't smell nice.

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