henk-muller.bsky.social
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The Independent is just a click bait site these days. Not sure there’s any journalists left.
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I was thinking terminator 2 myself
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Lovely piece thanks. The whole “White British people will be a minority in 40 years, report claims” is apart from the obvious racism a non starter in so many ways.
Define British. Passport? Parents passports? Is the king British? White British ancestors walked across the channel 10,000 years ago.
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Also great to see that super PACs have wasted their cash. Sad to see that it probably all went into Facebook, X, and Google
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It’s an excuse to keep extracting oil.
In about two weeks we will have CCS ready, in the meantime just buy some more oil please.
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Do these numbers include the (necessary) electrification of heating and transport?
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The nice thing about ground source is that all your kit is inside and it makes less noise than a gas boiler. Also slightly more efficient
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Get a brand where support is available nationwide (mine is 200 miles away; Swedish import, great kit, but poor local support)
One main issue: the big input caps needed replacing: £400 or so. Doing it again I would probably go air source this time as it’s cheaper to install. 1/2
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“… article referred to Dr Aidan Kelly and Dr Heather Wood … as ‘doctors who doled out puberty blockers to a generation of vulnerable children’. … , they did not prescribe any medication and we … apologise for any contrary impression.
“Apologise for any contrary impression” Wut? Impression? Really?
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It is difficult to estimate pay back time: it was pretty expensive at the time (14 years ago) and I don’t know how expensive oil or gas deliveries are. It may have been “never”.
When electricity prices are decoupled from gas it’s going to be much better.
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The heatpump provides 5 kW of heading to the house, using 1.5 kW of electricity (3.5 kW extracted from the ground).
It can on a good January day, but not on a cloudy one!
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It’s a 5 kW heatpump that needs 1.5 when it gets cold. It is a bit close to what it can do! I’ll need a bit more insulation to get the room temperature up from 18 in the winter
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Yeah. I live in north England. The heatpump when on takes 1-1.5 kW and it can be on at full blast. The house has some hood insulation, but could do with passive hause style fraught proofing.
I currently have 4.5 kW with some roof space free. Last year peak performance was 40 kWh in Jul, 10 in Jan
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Dividing by the number of households in Birmingham this is 13 kW / 37 kWh per household. That is 3x more than I’m allowed at home under present rules, and 2x my roof space
On a good winter day that would produce 26 kWh, enough for heating. On a sunny summer day the grid would need to take 100 kWh.
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Can we crowd find uk t shirts?
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Relevant cartoon from @privateeyenews.bsky.social
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Yes, I’m a cat who sleeps like so
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There’s nothing reputable about the Daily Telegraph.
That train left years ago
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The word is “will”
“Could” assumes that humanity acts, there’s no sign of that.
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Thanks for reminding me to vote in the AGM
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Shallow Grave without a shadow of doubt
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Right.
And the complete opposite of the non-dom perks that are currently enshrined in law.
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“You can do principal component analysis of a plate of spaghetti; all you’ll get is orthogonalized spaghetti, but you can do it.”
More of this please!
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And another article that finds it necessary to question net zero in the name of impartiality. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The opposite is true: don’t go green and electricity bills will definitely keep rising.
But yes, more heads doing then adding renewables.
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McArdle must be too far away from the horrors of WWII to recognise two Nazi salutes for what they are.
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Relevant cartoon from the private eye
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A “shit show”. I see what you did there
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Related? bsky.app/profile/quib...
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An even better mandate would be a heatpump in all new builds. Saves 4x-10x on carbon depending on where in the UK you build, and growing by the day.
And stop fixing and expanding the gas grid. It’s dead technology.
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Handbags at dawn
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E should not forget he is Elon “Two Nazi Salutes“ Musk
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@goodlawproject.org you have probably seen this.
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Thank you for reminding us about the Nazi salutes. The mask off moment should not be forgotten.
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lol. Definitely a Roman salute. Not something that the Nazis appropriated at all!
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You cannot argue with a double Nazi salute.
Journalists and investors seem to ignore this and think that all will be fine once he steps back from politics.
No. He made a Nazi salute. Twice.
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If you decouple the electricity prices from the gas price, everybody will be paid less; but has may only make up 2% of the mix.
Does that mean that all eg solar farm operators are overpaid at present?
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There’s clear evidence that the high electricity prices in the uk are a consequence of the high gas prices.
I’d like to know where the money goes.
Is this causing electricity to subsidise gas? Is it causing massive profits at non-gas electricity generators? What happens if one broke the link?
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Here’s some decent information for you: www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...