Hywel Lloyd

mostly Optimist, albeit the Anthropocene; its the system... working to Facilitate the Future | Decentralised power | smart energy systems | RT4info

[Hywel Lloyd @Hywel_Catalyst]

Indeed it could, what a world that would be ... @ActiveBuildingC will help explore what’s possible - some thinking on what’s required here https://t.co/jWxHsDq4Yb

[Everything Electric @Everyth1ngElec]

Goodness me, you mean installing renewables on buildings actually makes money for the owners! Who would ever have guessed!!

[Hywel Lloyd @Hywel_Catalyst]

@TomMcTague @jessicaelgot And things are always being changed, external and internal forces in play - so more a question of choosing to lead change or be changed ….

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Turkey v USA is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries’ biggest city is divided by a saltwater strait.

Istanbul straddles the Bosporus. New York is split by the East River which, despite the name, is a tidal strait, not a river.

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

[Hywel Lloyd @Hywel_Catalyst]

@JamieHeagerty Looks great, the real Matrix…. Yet also reminds us of the challenge of retaining talent and growth in and of UK

[Hywel Lloyd @Hywel_Catalyst]

@lewis_goodall Agree with your last sentence; not so much blaming the planning system as we really don’t do planning for water having essentially outsourced it to the water Co.s (similarly an issue in energy, telecoms…)

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Take note, politicians, economists and science policy advisors of the twenty-first century; a prerequisite for the creation of the intellectual edifice upon which your spreadsheets, air-conditioned offices and mobile phones rest was the curiosity-driven quest to understand the motions of the planets and the Earth’s place amongst the stars.”

— Prof. Brian Cox

[Hywel Lloyd @Hywel_Catalyst]

@rcolvile @Psythor Sounds like a good way to build and deploy capability for decades - a pipeline that would give decent jobs, returns and quality /cost gains too 👍🏻

[Michael Savage @michaelsavage]

The story of social media’s problem with news, in two posts

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

The probable next PM’s comms style is gonna be quite different from what we’re used to…

[Jack Blackburn 🇺🇦 @HackBlackburn]

Sorry to be a pedant, but we will not have had 7 PMs in 10 years. The earliest a new PM can arrive is 16th July. Cameron left on 13th July 2016.

We will stick at no higher than six in a decade, which keeps us away from the all time record.

[Tony Diver @Tony_Diver]

EXC

Sir Keir Starmer is considering a plan to sell sanctioned oil seized from a Russian shadow tanker to fund the war in Ukraine.

The Telegraph understands ministers could hold an auction to sell off the 100,000 tons of Russian crude oil on board Smyrtos, which was stopped by the Royal Marines in the Channel on June 14.

The ship, which was part of Vladimir Putin’s shadow fleet, was operating in breach of UK sanctions law by trading illicit oil.

Since the seizure, the ship has been anchored off the coast of Weymouth under the control of the Ministry of Defence. Ajay Pant, the captain, who is an Indian national, has been charged with sanctions evasion.

Officials believe the 98,000 tons of Ural crude oil on the ship now legally belongs to the UK, and can be used or traded by the British government.

Ministers are considering proposals to sell the oil, which has a market value of around £35m, and use the money raised to fund Ukraine’s war effort.

The plan, which is at an early stage, could see the money transferred directly to Ukraine or used to fund equipment sent to the front lines.

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

oh look, the climate apocalypse coalition is fracturing.

you love to see it!

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Oak trees have evolved a smart way to overwhelm the animals that eat acorns.

Every few years, across hundreds of miles, they drop a massive number of acorns all at once. The year before, almost nothing. The year after, almost nothing again.

It's called masting, and the strategy is brilliant. Squirrels, deer, blue jays, turkeys, and bears all eat acorns. If oaks produced a steady crop every year, the animals would maintain populations sized exactly to eat most of it. By producing almost nothing for several years and then flooding the forest floor all at once, the trees overwhelm the predators.

There are simply too many acorns for the animals to eat, and the surplus germinates into the next generation of oak trees. The ones that hoard and forget, squirrels especially, become inadvertent planters.

What's harder to explain is the synchrony. How do oaks across 700 kilometers coordinate the same decision in the same year?

The leading explanations involve shared weather cues, a specific temperature pattern in spring that acts as a trigger across the whole region, and possibly pollen coupling, where trees that need pollen from other trees synchronize flowering and, by extension, fruiting. Chemical signaling through the air or soil is a third hypothesis still being investigated.

None of these fully accounts for the scale. The trees aren't talking in any way we can intercept and understand. They're responding to the same world and arriving at the same answer, simultaneously, across a landscape larger than most countries.

[Hywel Lloyd @Hywel_Catalyst]

@AdamBlazowski @markuse_fcb From memory none of these cover respective decommissioning costs do they? (Legacy coal, Nuke, and gas to come)

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

"Solar is moving fast. Really fast. Batteries are moving faster."

Solar is creating the fastest global shift in electricity generation in history!

Battery deployment is often firming solar or wind, thereby boosting the grid shares of solar and wind.
https://t.co/WhHgp4X9Nj

[Hywel Lloyd @Hywel_Catalyst]

@SomersetWasBlue @TomChivers Surely not by a classic Lysander …. Assume you’ve flown it too

[Hywel Lloyd @Hywel_Catalyst]

@TomChivers @SomersetWasBlue Indeed, it’s batteries, from home scale to ‘farm’ scale that we need to flatten the curve; flexibility will be key

[Hywel Lloyd @Hywel_Catalyst]

@Layo_FH Given we have built things, what’s changed in 3.politics? 1.&2. suggest there’s a lot of effort going into firefighting for too many people in too many places, hence quick fixes, bungs and top up £ etc

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

While we are doing our autopsies of Keir Starmer’s unimpressive premiership, I’d like to suggest he is a prime example of a certain personality type that causes us problems.

He has been a high achiever his whole life. From the 11+ onwards he passed tests and ascended every hierarchy he found himself in. This, I believe, shaped his worldview in a way that made him absolutely unsuited for the office.

For Starmer, you accept the rules of the system, you play the game, and when you win you get rewards. Number 10 was just the last objective that he earned by mechanically playing society like a video game - it was his by right for ticking all the boxes correctly.

His visible confusion and inability to grasp the job of actual leadership is, I think, a result of never having had to deal with the world beyond whichever social game he was playing at the time. Law is such a bounded game where a rigid, goal oriented thinker like Starmer can and did thrive.

A better leader would be someone who has some experience doing something which contacts base reality, where outcomes are not socially determined. Business, STEM, the military etc all fall into this category. Those people who spend their careers in the purely social feedback loops of law and politics do I think make poor leaders even if they excel at the process that gets them to the leadership.

[Iain Dale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 ⚒️ @IainDale]

Contrary to what you are led to believe, this country is not ungovernable. Six times in our political history there have been 6 or more prime ministers within 10 years.

1754-64 - 6
1801-11 - 6
1827-37 - 8
1858-68 - 6
1885-95 - 7
1922-32 - 6

But none since then.

[Hywel Lloyd @Hywel_Catalyst]

@SophiaSleigh Will surely be whether to dress up for the chamber ….?