Yup - past 25c air temp, natural ventilation becomes ineffective. The problem wasn’t so much CO2 emission as getting hung up on “efficiency” as the only way to reduce CO2 emissions. So the culture of… (View Post)

I’ve been talking about this issue for a while. It’s not a ban as such, by the way. It insists on natural ventilation and not using air conditioning unless the natural ventilation cannot be provided.… (View Post)

And people get upset about my description of the Process State - where ever bigger piles of regulation is better. When the next Grenfell happens, it will probably be because of a fire in a room stori… (View Post)

I went to school with a family that *made their money* in the 29 crash. The ancestor in question made a lot of money on executing sell orders. He’d bailed on the market itself near the peak. (View Post)

We are paying large numbers of people to be economically inactive. And penalising them when they try to become (more) active. Then we are upset when we find that we have large numbers of economically… (View Post)