alannotsteve.bsky.social
Family, F1, Renewables, EVs, Science, Scouts.
Born at 338.99 ppm CO2 vs. 421.55 now. (find yours at https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/carbon-footprint-calculator/carbon-by-birth-year/)
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Very good! Not terrible, but a bit patchy for me just over the border.
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No, indeed, but you could upgrade yours if you wanted to.
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Didn’t understand, check 😂
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So I reckon you’re a bot, you didn’t read my post, or you didn’t understand my post. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Logical fallacy alert. That’s a false dichotomy. It doesn’t follow that because something isn’t perfect, it has no value at all. Scrutiny by reputable reviewers is much better than no review at all.
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Tesla have about 20% market share for EVs in the UK(?), so those would seem about right. New sales might be more telling as so many people seem to lease now, so their could be a lag in them appearing for sale.
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Interested to see how Tesla respond. Would be a shame for them to be sidelined because of politics/personality.
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Might be in the UK, but the current largest one I could find is in California at 3,000MWh. BYD are apparently planning one that will be 12,500 MWh!
electrek.co/2023/08/03/w...
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Wow, very good. We started strong but a lot of it dropped away. Much better here yesterday.
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Things might be different if gas/oil/coal heating also had to cover externalised costs like impacts to healthcare and climate.
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UK gas distribution are actively planning for a transition to hydrogen and trialling on existing infrastructure. Maybe nobody has told them it’s probably a waste of time (and money). I guess it’s hard to accept the alternative that their business is coming to an end.
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I’m sure all your hard work will pay off! (and if not, blame it on them?! 😂)
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A different approach to stewarding over the last few years might have avoided this too. If fans think teams or drivers are being allowed to get away with too much, they become the villains. If they’re reprimanded, that goes away?
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Someone needs to ask Severn Trent why their price rises (claimed as needed for improvements) over the next 6yr seem to generate an additional ~£14BN, but they’re only giving examples of projects to the value of £243M, i.e., less than 2% of the total.
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Ahh, ok, I’d been trying to use the “Add info” option.
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The success (or otherwise) of robotaxi feels like it will have a bearing on things too.
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Thanks for the original link though.
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Yeah, it’s the light grey area. It’s ok though. I’ve seen your website. I understand your agenda. The articles I looked at set out to prove a predetermined view, which isn’t very scientific.
We can wind this conversation up too, because it won’t be very productive if you’re closed minded about it.
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That doesn’t seem to be correct. There are some lumps and bumps along the way, but the drop in coal use doesn’t seem to correspond with an increase in gas overall?
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Wind displaced a large chunk of our coal power, heavily contributing to its demise, so I’d say that’s a pretty meaningful reduction in the associated negative effects.
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I’m not sure I follow
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Not watched the Wild Robot yet then?
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Do you weigh that up against the current sources of power that it would be replacing, and their negative effects?
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Do you propose an alternative?
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Out of interest, are you anti-renewables, or just anti-wind? What would your preferred alternative be?
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That’s great, thanks. Not the site I’ve seen before, but seems to have the same stats.
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We’ve had this sort of thing for the last few years, and we use it more than we expected too. It makes sense to have distractions when charging, which I presume is why these things exist, but for us it’s handy if we have a short wait from getting to school early or something.
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Fair enough.
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I think most people who export from a battery would have a good idea what they roughly expect to be credited for, and would quickly see if that was significantly different. I’ve not tried to verify it in any depth, but it used to be “about right” and now it’s “miles off”.
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Have you received an email from them summarising your reward afterwards?
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…then octopus will find very few people taking part until they fix it. If it’s just me, no big impact, if it turns out they are right, then not worth me participating anyway. I’ve not seen evidence of it being a problem for the masses.
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Yeah, I can see it on my octopus account. I did consider following up with them, but I don’t think it’s worth the effort for the limited gains.
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At that time of day I wouldn’t normally be exporting (and plenty of days in winter I’m using grid power again by then), so if I export at 3+ kW for the whole hour, I should be different to my average by 3-4 kWh, but they worked it out as something like 0.85kWh.
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Even if they cost the same to own and run, does the environmental impact not form part of the equation for them?!
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Last couple of times they’ve underestimated my saving session export vs usual use by a lot, making it even less worth the bother 🤷♂️
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Ours has a selection, but I figure the lower power ones are if you just want to top up a bit to cover your trip to the shops.
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Unfortunately that’s just normal now.
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This is great and such a no brainer. For the same cost as a couple of regular home batteries, you get massive home battery capacity, plus a huge range boost on the car. Two for the price of one! (And not scary money)
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It’s like a taller, simplified Lambo to my eyes. In a good way.
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I mean, maybe, but it’s been like that for years and I don’t think we can link that with his current position or intentions.