Preach Brother, Preach. Also- taps. Why have we allowed a world where the active part is one of a thousand non-compatible cartridges, so that when they start to drip and dribble, the most practicable… (View Post)

We're still using the Ercol suite my parents got as a wedding present, getting on for sixty years ago. Which does feed back into the energy conversation. Something in the British psyche is really bad… (View Post)

That's pretty much what domestic batteries, smart meters and funky power companies do. Whilst batteries are more expensive than storage heaters, the energy is much more useful stored as battery charg… (View Post)

More than you might think, which is why they work in Scandinavia. The relevant way to think about the temperature isn't -5C, it's 268 K. (View Post)

Partly it's a question of when people formed their ideas on all this climate stuff. Until... 2000 or so? it was just about possible to squint at the data and say "variations, cycles, uncertainty… (View Post)