It's got to be pure marketing - the British media certainly loves a buzzword, but I suspect that's more to do with their clickbait strategy. ("What is blishing? Have I fallen for it?"). Perhaps it helps some people compartmentalise, but I couldn't find any research that looks into any increased cognitive load.
Our workplace cybersecurity training introduces at least 1 new word each year. This year's was "vishing" which apparently is just social engineering/credential extraction that takes place over the phone. Of course, it's presented to non-technical users as a well-adopted term that is very important to know (for the checkbox quiz in 3 slides time).
I can't find any good information post-privatisation, but at least before 2013 the postcodes themselves were copyrighted by Royal Mail (likely Crown Copyright as with government data). There were attempts to enforce this in 2009[0]. I suspect the copyright is now owned by Royal Mail Group Ltd.
That aside, a practical issue is that Royal Mail still retains the rights to _allocate_ new postcodes for any new properties. Yet another failure of this particular privatisation.
For context, Thameslink operates a route through central London, and transitions from overhead power in the north to third-rail in the south. This happens when stopped at stations and is fairly quick - the pantograph/shoes are raised/lowered around the same time as the doors open - the dwell times seem the same as usual.
As for charging, Jago Hazzard has a video on a fast-charge trial[1] for a battery-only route. As it's using a modified tube train, I'd assume it's lighter and thus requires smaller batteries, but recharging from third-rail takes roughly 4 minutes.
I always liked Reddit's intended approach: downvote comments that don't add to the conversation.
Sadly, votes are too easily mapped to agree/disagree or truth/falsehood - see the "1,800 karma" comment below as a key example, where it furthers the conversation but is downvoted "because they are incorrect".
Our workplace cybersecurity training introduces at least 1 new word each year. This year's was "vishing" which apparently is just social engineering/credential extraction that takes place over the phone. Of course, it's presented to non-technical users as a well-adopted term that is very important to know (for the checkbox quiz in 3 slides time).