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Joke aside. If I don't forget I can time it precisely to the cheapest electricity.
I only have a dishwasher i can start remotely. Very convenient. I can forget to start it from the comfort of my bed.
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Photo of the lit up multimedia screen of a car, playing BBC CWR.
Apparently the only radio we have is the car radio. Which is why I'm listening to Coventry seal promotion in the car. #PUSB
Staff at the University of Warwick pay £3.50 per day (capped at £10.50 per week, with a small rebate for BEV). And this is good. Parking is never free, somebody is always paying for it. It costs around £500/year to provide one parking space, and I'd rather not have the employer subsidise drivers.
Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented.
They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed.
That energy is all around us.
And it does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
Vote Green in Coventry on 7 May. I am one of the three candidates for Bablake ward, but we're standing a full slate of candidates in every ward, so you can vote Green with all your three votes, wherever in Coventry you may live.
coventry.greenparty.org.uk/bablake-cand...
One point for Coventry, two points lost by Millwall - Magic number now 1.
Slightly longer biography:
Green Party candidate for Bablake ward, Coventry.
Born, lives.
Cares about active transport, including cycling, sustainability. Associate Professor in Materials Modelling at the University of Warwick.
Pronouns: he/him.
Imprint in bio: bsky.app/profile/pbro...
Side note: The AI label has become so ubiquitous that it's not always clear what kind of AI is powering a certain feature. Trying to find out whether the Word grammar checker is running locally or in the cloud, I resorted to switching off my internet. Still works.
But would we expect our colleagues to acknowledge that use of AI? Or is it specifically Generative AI use that needs labelling? This is the threshold beyond which I would expect acknowledgement and might refuse to engage. My personal line in the sand, so to speak.
Where do we draw the line? The "Editor" in Microsoft Office products is proclaimed to be "AI-powered". I personally don't use Word for scientific writing (and I otherwise happily ignore the dashed blue lines if I like my words better, but I'm grateful if it highlights a singular-plural mismatch).
I agree with you that this poses new challenges for infrastructure designers: How can we improve facilities to help cyclists of any age?
(Vehicle speed reduction I take as a given - 30 km/h should be the default for built-up areas, with options to go lower where needed)
In my personal opinion that is an unfortunate consequence of an overall positive development (and difficult to judge without a baseline - has the number of seniors on a bike increased in a similar way?): People cycle for longer, enabled by infrastructure and electric assistance.
I was about to ask whether that included single-vehicle incidents. If I can trust the automatic translation from Dutch, 36 % of those over 70 died without the involvement of another vehicle, a slightly elevated share compared to 31 % overall.
Shouldn't have called it an accident, because that wasn't one.
I know the location and I was profoundly shocked by the deaths, but then lost track of the case. Driving at 150 km/h in a city, the drivers accepted fatal accidents as an outcome and a conviction for murder and attempted murder is a just outcome.
Holy f***.
They didn't, but Millwall's loss and Middlesbrough's draw keep the Sky Blues 12 points clear with only 15 available. Magic number now 4.
It probably is. The language test for citizenship and ILR is solely oral. There are some tests that require reading and writing, but only in some visa categories.
Currently cheering on Birmingham City in the Championship. If they hold on to their lead against Ipswich, it would reduce Coventry City's magic number for direct promotion to 6 points. #PUSB
I first thought they'd also spilled a bucket of buttons on the floor. But luckily, that's just the carpet.
Joke’s on them. They already gave me admission, permanent residency[,] and citizenship without testing me on that. Probably in Shabana Mahmood’s new rule set.
Screenshot For the following application routes, you will need to take a test that assesses your speaking and listening abilities: citizenship International Sportsperson parent partner Representative of an Overseas Business settlement (also known as indefinite leave to remain)
Not sure how they assess the use of an Oxford comma in a speaking and listening test. Are they waiting for a dramatic pause, a subtle inhale[,] or something completely different?
After running it for 20 minutes to make the kitchen noticeably warmer, I earned the whopping sum of 6p. Gas would have cost me roughly the same. Next, I'll use the convection oven for bacon.
Use this referral link to sign up to Octopus Energy share.octopus.energy/dusk-deer-396 and we'll split £100 between us.
The Easter roast will also go into the convection oven, not the gas oven later. Saving me money and reducing carbon emissions.
Screenshot from octopus app showing electricity unit rates for half-hourly intervals between 13:30 and 15:30, varying between -10.73p and -10.27p. Current price -6.03p/kWh
Using my convection oven as a space heater and earning money thanks to @octopus.energy
As a new owner of a BEV, it's really fascinating to see that while my previous ICE car was most fuel efficient on A roads and UK motorways (the remaining range actually went up when we set off on a long trip) this is no longer the case. Higher speeds = shorter range.