The Spanish report into their Grid failure is out: https://www.euractiv.com/section/eet/news/spanish-government-blames-power-plant-and-grid-operators-for-catastrophic-blackout/ No big surprises. Basi… (View Post)

With another disease tracing might have worked if implemented hard & early. We didn’t know at that point just how infectious Covid was - way off the scale of known existing diseases IIRC (except … (View Post)

FPT: You can’t get central government subsidy for a heat pump if it can cool as well as heat (unless this changed under the most recent update to the rules?). You also can’t use aircon to compensate … (View Post)

Yeah, utopians are always like that. “Oh no, the system isn’t working 100% perfectly, what we should do is break everything & then magically the thing that will rise in it’s place will be the 100… (View Post)

I have a lot of respect for Cummings’ diagnoses of the problems the UK faces. Rather less respect (understatement of the year?) for his ability to actually implement solutions. (View Post)