I looked at his link - has for sale the add-on kit of pir, flashes and batteries to link to a dslr camera

Creating a humanoid robot that can catch you no matter how fast you can run does not actually give the comfort the manufacturer intended.

Maybe just me, but I ride a heavy electric cargo bike to the supermarket - nearly 30kg and rather long, it won't be going in those bike umbrellas

Burning wood for power worse for climate than gas equivalent, report finds Research casts doubt on plans by UK government to offer subsidies for carbon capture attached to the power source

Buring stuff is bad - who knew?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I imagine that you could clean it and keep it running, but likely that both heat recovery and motor efficiency aren't so good, so a modern replacement to use the existing ductwork could make sense

Yes & no - we have green district councillor saying they were choosing cooking oil fuelled (palm oil??) diesel engine refuse trucks over EVs - apparently because the electricity tariff isn't 100% renewable

Maybe, but also why I'm now going to a different optician - ie because my expensive glasses didnt do the job very well and I wanted ones that work better for driving at night

'Industrial scale' solar farms attacked by Norfolk's Green The county council's Green leader says solar panels should be locally owned and put on roofs.

We need to judge a political party by what they do with their power. The Green Party aren’t serious about tackling climate change. Large Solar Farms are the lowest carbon, lowest cost energy we can get. They are also more biodiverse than the farmland they will replace.

Germany just activated its largest ever solar installation — one farm, 1.5 million homes, zero carbon. The #CottbusSolarPark covers 3,500 hectares and produces 2.1 tw-hours annually, replacing two coal plants that operated on this same land until 2022. #SolarPower #ActOnClimate #Renewables

'Industrial scale' solar farms attacked by Norfolk's Green The county council's Green leader says solar panels should be locally owned and put on roofs.

@catherinerowett.bsky.social

Hey Catherine, how are you? Good I hope. 😊

So, many of us have now seen the BBC article where you oppose large scale solar farms.

While I understand your concerns re your local community, you do know this is impractical don't you? (1)
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Why would they not match prescription to measured value? Especially after the latter has been fine tuned through subjective testing - not just an optical measurement

We have a solar farm and a chicken farm nearby - one is absolutely no trouble, the other smells horrible, to extent that planners won't permit housing development near it

Still running? If so then you'd get ventilation at least

A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market

New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader

Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here

And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol

How ‘out of touch’ Tony Blair became a serious threat to climate action Even before his call for a net zero ‘reset’, there had been criticism of ex-PM’s lucrative links with fossil fuel nations

re-upping this following yet more fossil-fuel-friendly comments from the Tony Blair Institute

- How ‘out of touch’ Tony Blair became a serious threat to climate action

- ex-PM’s lucrative links with fossil fuel nations criticised

#cllimatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So..now I know why these glasses aren't quite right, but did they just order (or get sent) the wrong dioptre lenses (both out by 0.25), or is there a vagueness about varifocals which means they may not quite measure up to specification?

I went to a new opticians today, old glasses never been 100%
After eyetest the optician put my glasses in his lensmeter which fed detailed optical spec into his computer. Noted my new prescription was 0.25 diopter higher, maybe worth new glasses.

At home I looked at old precsription: same as todays

Currently on 51% to rejoin

Not Jesus, obviously, just some bloke selling loaves and fishes

"The image clearly depicts me as a simple vendor of seafood sandwiches"

Swallow, yes?

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Nothing that was ever real has been lost, and slightly more of a grasp on reality has been gained 👍👍👍

Iran War Live Updates: Trump Calls to Wipe Out a ‘Whole Civilization’ as Iranians Reject Threats

One is reminded of the story of King Croesus, who, before attacking Persia, consulted the oracle. The oracle told him that if he proceeded, he would destroy a great nation. What Croesus didn't realize was that the nation would be his own.

I realise that - I was thinking more of a guerilla electrification: undermine the trial by showing the individual householders what the actual route off natural gas is - and how they might be tempted to not turn their house into a bomb

Is this a chance for someone like @octopus.energy to pop up with a competitive deal to offer to install heat pumps in these houses (ie coming up with a negative net cost to householders) - reading the article it's all voluntary, just comes with a £ bung to get people to accept being used like this

Don't subsidise energy prices during a supply crisis: give cash transfers to low-income and vulnerable households instead.

How much!?

All easier with an EV - charging at lunchtime today was at around 2 p/kWh on Agile tariff, so at 4 miles/kWh that's 0.5 p/mile

Nightmare Fuel On scarcity, subsidies, and who really pays the price.

🚨NEW BLOGPOST 🚨

The Hormuz crisis has a real chance of causing energy shortages in the UK. The government is insisting it's business as usual, and opposition parties are arguing for fiscal measures that will stoke shortages.

Neither is serious.

open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...

Yes, we can use propane heat pumps in the UK

"Boldly going where no man has gone before..."

11% - basically thanks to throwing everything at stopping the world using fossil fuels