I kept looking. I thought I was going mad

Back when I lived in Bristol we had a headline one day in the local rag "£20k spent on feasibility study for trams we won't even get". Feels like money well spent to avoid pissing money away on trams. The sad thing is they didn't spend the money saved on buses and cycle infrastructure.

This is true for a given heating system.

But if you retrofit a bunch of houses designing for the same peak flow temp then you'll get better SCOPs in the less well insulated ones because they'll do more heating in milder weather.

Not even a pay-per-mile tax for all vehicles. Specifically targeting the ones that don't pollute?!

For domestic installations space normally is the limiting factor. There are many costs of the installation (electrical components, scaffold etc.) that don't scale with capacity, so the incremental % cost of maxing out panel area is fairly small and panel efficiency is v important

It's quite a messy article, but my reading of it is
- scrap ECO as is
- divert funding from BUS to pay for heat pumps for those previously eligible for ECO

So functionally it's fund ECO from general taxation and cancel BUS but reduce electricity prices a little in the process.

Hey @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social , one for you here

Ah yes, the bleeding edge of automotive technology in 2025 is *checks notes* err, a big diesel tank.

Yes. I'll respond over there

Great. Thanks. It will be realky good to catch up

I don't think I ever got the email Peter. Can you talk next week at some point? I'll come down your way to meet up.

Yeah. My heat pump has started heating the house. Not much, but a bit. Solar generation is still more than more than usage, but that won't last long.

Another option could be a "yellow card" where it's really just a warning before a more drastic sanction

Yeah, I hadn't really considered the whole range of possible implications. I suppose if you win the bid and pull out there do need to be consequences

Can you reveal any more? Who are you going to see?

This feels a bit weird to me. So you mess up the pricing and then the wind farm can never be built despite it being very technically viable?

Yeah, we should probably catch up more generally, it's been ages since we last spoke.

We're so close to each other in the country we should just do it in person I think.

Email me with some dates.
jez.climas@cityplumbing.co.uk

@petereastern.bsky.social how is your clever hot water device going these days?

It's weird because good UX used to be a real strength for myenergi.

I have an Ohme charger and find the app UX to be ok. I have found it a little frustrating in the past, but it's good enough

It's just a fat pipe

When so much of performance relies on on-site configuration any year standard is going to be a little challenging to understand anyway.

No, it's definitely not a defined standard. But it's a heat pump firmware principle that is important for efficiency at part load.

Nice Glyn!

The whole thing is insane.

Maybe I'm out of touch/in a bubble, but I feel like nobody actually likes the half arsed fake farm cottage looks of so many new homes.

Mostly agree, but AC demand and solar generation must track pretty well with one another shouldn't they? If, for some people, cooling is the Trojan horse that sneaks in efficient electrified heating and the summer peaks can be met by solar that feels like part of the solution.

What's good is that when it's scorching hot we can use it for TV in the evening and sleeping in it.

Yeah, also funny that in the 70s they didn't think it was worth testing past an internal temp over 27⁰C.

I've put AC in one room, it's the one that gets hottest it's usually my office, but doubles as a spare living room and as a guest bedroom.

Check this out! Even without covers the reported quality of sleep is getting bad at 27⁰C room temp.

I think I part of it is the design of homes too. In the UK there's almost never shading build in to our homes.

Sleep in hot rooms is a real challenge, borne out by research.

I think demand for cooling is going to grow a lot, in the south of England especially, over the next decade.

I'd almost forgotten about the hydrogen for heating thing.

I think it's very dead. The Tories kicked it into the long grass and Labour don't seem to be showing any interest in retrieving it as far as I can tell.