robcheesewright.bsky.social
Working to restore our planet. Chief Impact Officer at Pinwheel. Climate change, biodiversity, sustainability, football and metal š¤Thoughts my own.
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And now sheās having to die on tv. Poor woman
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Well, thats a turn-up for the books!
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FFS. "Shadow". The media needs a collective head wobble on all things Net Zero.
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You're right, of course. I wonder if the "boats crisis" is the exception/key to this. My (tentative insofar as I simultaneously bet I'm wrong) theory is that you can have very high migration if you had the appearance of control of borders - and low migration would still be an issue if you don't.
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The worst, most cowardly decision of their wretched tenure.
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How do I square my liberal instincts and my strong desire to volunteer to be a drone operator in the anti-fly tipping army?
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Thatās a lot of solar! Iām on 38kwh, which is pretty close to our peak.
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The one big exception to this is around narrative and storytelling. Net Zero is essential and an expression of physics. But it is jargon and we need storytelling. Our opponents do this far better than us, admittedly to an extremely receptive press. We need to up our game.
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If c70% of them work and those are disproportionately the ones with high. flexible load, e.g. Solar, EV, heat pumps, then you can run a smart and flexible grid. So they do work, in terms of delivering the core benefits and purpose of the rollout. They're not/shouldn't have been a consumer product.
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In the end, the whole framing of the rollout as a consumer upgrade was wrong. The initial consumer benefits were small, in a low interest category. The rollout is an essential grid upgrade. And if thats the context/framing, you don't deliver it the way we have.
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That's right, but if you promise a better experience and c10% of millions of meters don't deliver the billed benefits, your rollout is fatally flawed and will stall. The rollout design and the lack of radical honesty about how hard it is to do telecoms for all homes in GB were mistakes.
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The rollout has been hard and a mess. Doing telecoms at scale 30m premises in the country with the oldest and most diverse housing stock in the World is hugely challenging. That was understated - a huge error. But there is and was no future in sticking with analogue metering.
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No, they didn't. We just didn't know how much they didn't work as they were analogue. You can't run a modern, flexible energy system on analogue meters. Loads of them were inaccurate. Economy 7/10 were rubbish versions of what you can do with smart.
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That's part of the problem, for sure. Smart is a better product/service than RTS. It needn't have been this way.
Fundamentally, the rollout was badly designed. The 'rollout everywhere and nowhere at once' design means you can't properly target and force delivery to the people who need it most.
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They're storytelling and able to deploy punchy attacks for a highly receptive press. We're defending the painful progress towards a word that means nothing to people (or embodies the pain). We're starting to lose.
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As a term, it's in real danger, isn't it? The populists are attacking it and its not particularly helpful for its defenders - precisely because it is a scientific term. It's jargon. And jargon that has become (largely wrongly) associated with increased costs to households.
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I think they sort of know that, but donāt know what else there is?
What are the alternatives? I look at the kind of radical incrementalism thinking that people like Torsten Bell are doing and I simultaneously think āthat feels like the right approachā and āitās too late for that to work/be enoughā
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Ta. I follow Adam, so not sure why I didnāt see that š¤¦š»āāļø
At least I guessed right (some hours after he did!).
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It is, but they really don't have an allergy to building and growth, its transport links are good and its usefully in between London, Oxford and Cambridge (ish, allowing me some licence on what I mean by "in between").
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My one to add would be Milton Keynes. Growth is goodā¦needs more density
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It turns out I was about the 5th person to make the gag in replies. And probably the 500th to think it with the rest going āthatās too obvious to post, letās not botherā.
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Would you say it means nothing to you?
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You, Musk and Bezos alike.