russ.garrett.co.uk
Energy data nerd at infrageomatics.com & @openinframap.org, festival operations nerd at emfcamp.org, board member at limehouselabs.org.
I'm mostly active on Mastodon: https://chaos.social/@russss
https://russ.garrett.co.uk
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I've seen several people completely refuse to believe that any other country uses marginal pricing.
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My modest proposal is that they should now close the Rotherhithe tunnel and convert it into a cycle tunnel
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Also one of the original design goals was redundancy in case the Blackwall tunnel is closed (which happens hundreds of times per year).
Nobody is mentioning this, but everyone complains when it's closed.
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And I think you have to pay capital gains tax on it, if you go over the threshold, which is now quite low.
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do you want to come and visit Get Stuffed, it's just down the road from me and I've always wanted to go www.thegetstuffed.co.uk
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(My gut feeling is that this wasn't sabotage - and the authorities seem to agree - but it's definitely a wakeup call...)
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And the distribution network in west London is so overloaded (ironically partly due to datacenters) that it's basically impossible to build anything new in that area.
If Heathrow built their own redundant substation and took 100MW off the local distribution grid it would free up a load of capacity.
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There are datacenter campuses in the UK which have enough fully redundant power to supply Heathrow (50-100 MW)
vantage-dc.com/data-center-...
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I know someone who works in policy at DHSC who was quite surprised to learn about it from the news...
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They also say this, so I don't think it's intended to be defined at a protocol level. But the example you quoted might be suggestive of the default which Bluesky will use...
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Wondering if you could do a similar trick with voltage to predict local carbon intensity. Much harder to get the ground truth for that though...
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I think this is a mistake because they don't care to check what their lawyers put out.
Which I'd say is almost as inexcusable for an organisation like Mozilla.
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Why is @mozilla.org asking for a license for content which never even touches their servers?
I hate to consider it but maybe I should switch back to Chrome...
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I have the model where they brought back the escape key, and I don't hate it but it is entirely pointless. Also it appears to have screen burn-in now...
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I haven't driven with a useful rear-view mirror in years because apparently I only drive vans now, but I just spent £200 on a rear-view camera for my campervan which replaces the rear-view mirror and it's so good. Not sure why the cybertruck (and all modern vans) don't have something like that.
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As both a Drumsheds attendee and someone who broke their leg falling off an ebike (albeit my own), London Centric is still delivering extremely relevant content!
The brakes on those Lime (and Forest) bikes are pretty ineffective at stopping a 40kg bike going at 25kph. I'm sure that doesn't help.
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If they added a "press 1 for a call back" feature they'd instantly double the productivity of the accountancy sector.
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I suspect a good proportion of them are for fairly complex tax advice which HMRC still refuses to provide by email. I'd love to know how many of those calls are from tax professionals.
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Also pages 91 and 92 in here have values in kgCO2/vkm (vehicle kilometer).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/647f50...
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Aha it turns out the UK government uses Eurocontrol's Small Emitters Tool for their estimates:
www.eurocontrol.int/tool/small-e...
That is giving me 102 tonnes of CO2 for a B787 and 121 tonnes for an A350. (That probably assumes a direct route and doesn't include radiative forcing.)
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Sticking it into some flight sim fuel calculators I'm seeing 30-50 tonnes of fuel burn with modern aircraft, which is 95-160 tonnes (metric) of CO2.
Then there's "radiative forcing" which ~doubles the impact of CO2 released at altitude. So I'd say 190-320 tCO2e is a decent estimate.
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lads I'm going to be rude here but how are SO MANY of you not spotting that this is obviously (tasteless) satire, and not even bothering to click to check, you'll all go on about how the right/Trump voters are gullible bastards but your houses are sure looking see-through right now
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Almost all lithium batteries have built-in undervoltage lockout to stop you damaging them by discharging them too much, but apparently nobody thinks this is necessary for lead-acid batteries so I've had to buy two in the last two years.
At least they recycle well.
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Apparently it's hardcoded (not preloaded) in Chrome, for some reason...
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There’s two claims in one case and one of them Apple is bang to rights on (“Siri records accidental interactions”) and the other is worth far far more than $95m to disprove (“those recordings are shared with advertisers”)
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Cook Island oil tanker EAGLE S is almost certainly arrested as a prime suspect in todays breakdown of 658 MW connector Estlink2
Finland Coast Guard patrol ship Turva just turned on AIS. The two vessels are stationary on Finnish territory. Turva was also very involved in Yi Peng 3-case a month ago