Mini cargo bike!

Well, the Mandelson appointment did have a sick logic to it - sending a morally bankrupt greased up sycophant to placate Trump, when the empty vessel Kier would have been treated with utter contempt, was their last trump card. Given how that ended, it's safe to say that there's nothing left.

Having not spent any time thinking about what they could do with incredible amounts of power, they proceeded by stepping on rake after rake without having anyone left (especially on the Left) to blame.

The brief was that a centrist, disciplined, political project would provide at least a resemblance of order. This disintegrated when they secured a landslide where they were expected to rise to the occasion. I reckon they would have preferred a small majority as not to do anything.

There was a time where sense makers were saying that inflation or some such global event meant that any incumbent government would inevitably fall, that we had become ungovernable, when really, there was a long list of obviously farcical conditions for decades that had reached a tipping point.

Remember when 16-21yo were surveyed about what they thought about democracy, and some 50% weren't pleased? The talking heads interpreted it as some foreign extreme Tatian tick-tock influence at play. Not that the kids could clearly see what they refused to see, namely, that there isn't a democracy.

One thing we have to do in the UK is say that you're completely reliant on heat pumps for the cold chain and AC in the car. AC for the home is considered an extravagant luxury.

In the US you can just say it's just AC with a few extra components.

A2W might be a bit of a learning curve though.

Fundamentally the price is pegged to gas because it heavily incentivises grid stability. Better planning of solar, wind and grid connections can only get you so far. Ultimately what gas provides is storage. Heat networks with STES, and innovations in LDES are the only way out.

One step away from sending the poors to build roads to nowhere, enclosing land with dry stone walls, all to discipline the undeserving.

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I think the bigger problem is the economies of scale. The cost per watt plummets at scale, from the 1500V DC, inverters, transformers, wholesale imports, labour saving mechanisation etc compared to a small rooftop solar installation is vast.

I'm sure there are white papers by exasperated civil servants. Given we've had two energy crises in 4 years this is historically where the malaise is shrugged off in the name of energy security etc. I'll check out CP30 though.

They should be advertised as EC motors. You can usually tell them apart by the fact they have more than 3 settings (usually 10 speeds with a remote). Any efficient rating will reflect this. They are 50-100 percent more expensive. Send me a message if you need to check.

What bothers me is that there is no clear industrial policy to plan how solar, wind, hydro and the grid work together. If they're not orchestrated at a national level we're going to be stuck importing gas. The market cannot do this without state capacity.

I'm just supplementing the good advice you've posted. Sorry if it came across otherwise.

By the looks of things, it's a pretty good time to be dependable, modestly woke, guy. Smarter partners who earn more than you. What's not to like?

The same applies for ceiling and wall mounted fans. Invest in the EC version. It pays for itself quite quickly.

Don't eat 3 hours before bed since digestion increases core temps. Drink 500ml about 2hrs sleeping to help hydration.

I can deal with heat during the day. Having good cardio helps. Cold showers etc. But it's the night that gets me.

Electronically commutated fans are quieter, cheaper to run and allow a wide range of speeds.

Some floor standing fans allow gentle pulses to feel like a breeze rather than have it rotate which is best at night.

Larger blades like ceiling fans move more air per watt.

Drax claimed record £999m in subsidies for burning trees in 2025, thinktank says Company has received about £8.7bn in renewable energy subsidies since 2012, despite claims wood pellets are not sourced sustainably

#Drax claimed record £999m in subsidies for burning trees in 2025, thinktank says

- UK company has received about £8.7bn in renewable energy subsidies since 2012, despite claims wood pellets are not sourced sustainably

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It's both the distribution losses (I² hurts) and Silicon Carbide semiconductors. SiC in the inverter are more efficient thermally and dialectically durable, but keeping the caps cooler makes a huge difference.

I get it for lighting and bathroom accessories, but, if anything, residential would be going towards virtual power plants/grid forming inverters, matching V2G, power wall and PV on high voltage ~600V DC coupled architecture.

I think it's a projection of capital's fear that we're slowing down. That rates of return are not going to continue compounding. They're ok with violating all IP because it's too hard to do something new. Hyper scaling to monopoly market share and extract rent is the name of the game.

Lol. It's a very dubious use of a graph for many reasons, however, I'd like to know what was going through this guy's (got to be a guy) head, was it marketing hyperbole or sincere belief?

Palantir uses medical records to target people for ICE in the US – will the UK be next? | Good Law Project Deadly ICE raids in the US rely on Palantir tools that mine health records to produce real-time data on people’s location – a chilling prospect for the NHS

Palantir’s infiltration into the British government is chilling. A world where our health records are used to power state-sponsored surveillance isn’t so far away

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If it's so good, then surely it can highlight security flaws to be patched and preemptively stress test new software?

I suspect it has more to do with pumping stock and securing government contracts before the creditors get wind of what's likely.

Blair is so disliked that, at this point, having him as a critic is helpful.

Plug Plot Riots involved pulling plugs from steam boilers in the 1842 general strike.

Pulling the plug on AI data centres in a Butlerian Jihad doesn't sound so bad.

To be fair to Lauren, she grew up in a pretty poor household, so as far as representation goes, it could be worse, like any of the billionaire barons.

It's about 3x the cost to put PV on a small rooftop.

There is something disproportionate about the care for land use considering how we currently use our land.

The tune will change when farm equipment becomes electric and the batteries pair very well with medium scale on site PV.

There's no way it'll be bitcoin. Surely this is a psyop for the maga base whilst jabbing at the dollar. If anything it's mBridge.