It's more that this is regressive. Does it feel fair?

The new £9,000 BUS grant for oil and LPG homes looks regressive, and the data says it is.

54% of oil-heated property sales sit in the top 30% of UK house prices. Only 9% sit in the bottom 30%.

Gas heats Britain. Oil heats the top of Britain.

"Hydrogen heating", please let me introduce you to "reality".

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@chrisbaraniuk.com

The North Sea Link connects GB to Norway's 85TWh+ hydro system via a 720km subsea cable.

GB curtailed 10TWh wind in 2025. My modelling suggests that grows fourfold by 2035.

That 'wasted wind' should be seen as a potential export to Norway.

Rising energy prices are pushing up inflation, especially in economies dependent on imported fossil fuels.

The durable solution is structural: improve efficiency, accelerate electrification and scale up renewables.

Energy policy is economic policy.

I watched #dirtybusiness last night and as if by magic, Thames Water has cancelled my athletics training.

The athletics club gets children active, it gets people from different backgrounds together. It's my community.

I'm livid.

Hedge laying is an artform. Maybe the birds will enjoy this hedge more than me.

Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.

What is the point of gas leak data?

Keeping a congregation warm with a heat pump carries more social proof than any editorial can ever muster.

China is now the leading clean energy powerhouse with the West falling behind.

The transition is inevitable; the key question is where and how fast it happens.

I look forward to discussing this in Davos next week at the World Economic Forum, facilitating a live-streamed session on electrostates.

My fav part of London's New Year's Eve 2026 celebration was the scene with The Lionesses 👏

Followed by: This Is England
"Caribbean barbers with the sharpest trims
Christian neighbours saying happy Hannukah mate
And Muslim mums saying merry Christmas love"
"England is about loving each other"

Merry Christmas. Secret Santa really delivered this year. 👍

Pretty much!

I've found that gas engineers are always friendly and happy to chat.

The leak is coming from a 10 inch cast iron main. His words: "It stinks!"

SGN have apparently visited this road many times (pointing to the various new bits of tarmac all over the shared path).

Hawaii Gas is the sole gas utility in Hawaii and reports its own safety data. There's no independent monitoring body doing spot checks on their leak rates.

Same situation. No independent oversight.

This is one of the reasons hydrogen won’t be piped simply through existing gas lines, despite what fossil gas companies claim. Hydrogen behaves very differently — it can leak through solid metal

Thank you so much for sharing 🙏!

If the gas networks still can't contain methane after more than a century of practice, why should we trust them with hydrogen?

Do you have access to a digital device? Good start.

Next step is to use something called a search engine. Google will work.

Type in: "does hydrogen cause warming?"

You had me at "evil ideological cause" babes

Thank you for sharing!

I'll tell you one thing hydrogen has been found to be. Expensive.

Do you like it when expensive things leak?

If the gas networks still can't contain methane after more than a century of practice, why should we trust them with hydrogen?

Are gas companies marking their own homework?

Yes, yes they are.

Spot the issue? Apart from climbing bills...

A graph showing how internal temperature rises inside a church building during the course of a day, once an air-to-air heat pump is switched on. The heat pump provides heat between roughly 3pm and 6pm, raising the temperature from 12C to a peak of 19C.

... then you might enjoy this chart, kindly shared by @twallinjames.bsky.social. It shows how an air-to-air heat pump can heat up a nearly 300 year-old church that is only used occasionally.

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Roughly £10.

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