JohnSmith

@JohnSmith@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heat pumps to be sold ‘smart-ready’ in plans to save households money⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Could have been me. I’ve been working on this as a hobby for over five years yers since we got solar panels, EV and a dedicated battery for storage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heat pumps to be sold ‘smart-ready’ in plans to save households money⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Smarter devices support demand side response, which is welcome to make the grid more efficient. A good local energy-efficient solution includes in my experience three key ingredients.

  First you need local energy storage to allow for extra flexibility to handle life’s ebbs and flows. This could be an EV or dedicated storage battery, which can be charged when electricity is abundant, and discharged when supply is tight and something energy hungry needs doing.

  Second the grid side will not know when I’m planning to do something energy hungry, or when I want the EV battery full instead of the usual 80% charge. Therefore some way of providing input is needed. It might be possible to learn reasonable local demand forecast models reflecting local behaviour patterns, but I’m not yet convinced about this and tend to trust human guidance more.

  Third you need intelligent control to respond to grid signals (e.g. price changes) and combine those with local inputs and any local consumption and production (e.g. from solar panels or micro wind turbines) forecasts.

  Energy companies will of course want to have the intelligent control in their hands as it creates them price arbitrage. For majority of consumers that will be the best solution. Some of us will not necessarily want to give them that control and prefer a local solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thames Water picks US private equity firm KKR as preferred buyer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Executive and board compensation as a result of any deal of this nature should be public information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK: Rooftop solar could reduce energy bill for the country's poorest families by almost a quarter, study says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Solar + local battery is the way. We should push hard to make that affordable for as many people as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too many young people find doing a day's work 'stressful', says Liz Kendall⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s with the agism? Old geezers like me find a day’s work incredibly stressful!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK would need forest ‘twice size of London’ to offset new airport expansion.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The depth of climate crisis denial is depressing. We should be cutting drastically down on flying. We should be cutting drastically down on miles driven in cars. Nope, none of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is a great idea! Perhaps he could move his whole company, its beers and himself in the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nigel Farage Helps to Launch U.S. Climate Denial Group in UK⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in no way suggesting anything, nor encouraging or endorsing any particular course of action, but I do note that when things are securely tied to or wrapped in a heavy object with negative buoyancy, they do sink rather fast to the bottom of the sea and stay there. Examples of such things include battleship chains and concrete boots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nigel Farage Helps to Launch U.S. Climate Denial Group in UK⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not have this particular one in my “Nigel does or says stupid shit” bingo card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who stole all the pies? Michelin-starred chef 'gutted' at theft of 2,500 pies.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Should this be classified as a crime agains humanity?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sign the petition calling on PM Keir Starmer to be bold when dealing with Donald Trump⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of electrons have been inconvenienced just by this thread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former British colonies owe ‘debt of gratitude’, says Robert Jenrick⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This guy is on fire today: www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dmq88j6rro

  Sort of deploying the Royal Navy to sink every small boat they can find in the channel, I’m struggling to see how he would stop the boats ™ in weeks.