Peter

Cyclist. Environmentalist. Economist.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Ah yes, the Mediterranean. Famous this decade for its idyllic wildfires, water rationing and 45°C summers. Sign me up.

Quite possibly the stupidest argument ever committed to newsprint.

What's next: Britain can't stop global crime. Scrap the police and embrace the Wild West.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

This is mental. Climate change doesn’t mean we’ll have Summers like the Med.

It means every year will be among the coolest for the rest of your life.

If the planet is 4 degrees warmer from baseline a century from now (it’s now 1.5) there will be no ‘GDP’, & maybe no Campari!

[London & Southeast 🔆 @TheSnowDreamer]

Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London.

For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.

[Helena Horton @horton_official]

Breaking news: half of England is now officially in drought. This is after one of the wettest starts to the year in history.

[Peter @PetrosGhali]

@GreenPawAmelia @AirFairy04 Completely agree.

[Peter @PetrosGhali]

@DuncanCastles How do you know that the midfielder would not have had an impact on the eventual finish?

[Peter @PetrosGhali]

@Chr_Bachke @Ionlyuseth7izy @alfiehaaland Have you got feeds to those 50 cameras you mention, so we can take a look for ourselves?

[Peter @PetrosGhali]

@EllyotG @lewis_goodall Which groups and projects would they be?

[Peter @PetrosGhali]

@BobFromAccounts Please note that they're not anti-cyclist. Some of their best friends are cyclists.

[Glyn Hudson @glynhudson]

It's bonkers the carbon saving which electrification can achieve: transitioning to an EV, ASHP and PV + BATT results in a 9x reducing in carbon emissions without any reduction in quality of life ⚡🤯

[Chris Smith @renewablesmiffy]

So after a section of UK media spent the last few years telling us the grid cannot cope with heat pumps and EV’s the same commentators are advocating the mass installation of air conditioning

It’s almost of through their historical narratives were completely wrong.

[Peter @PetrosGhali]

@stephenlondoner @Moveslikemilan @PolitlcsUK Now do the same but for public transport funding per head

[Greg Jackson @g__j]

Solar panels lose 15-20% of output when it’s hot

AS DO GAS POWER STATIONS.

Wonder why that’s not mentioned?

(Btw it’s much quicker and cheaper to build some extra solar to plug the gap than gas stations)

(And 4.5GW of French nuclear offline because they struggle in hot weather too)

[Peter @PetrosGhali]

@chrisdbbradley @McKinsey_MGI An interesting read, thanks.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"[in] 2003 this heatwave would happen once every 10,000 years, but in our current climate.. this will happen once every 100 years.. & depending on our trajectory.. [it] could happen as often as every other year"

@Lauratobin1 on a study that spells it out

[Peter @PetrosGhali]

@doobry @OctopusEnergy Though I guess your precise needs (power hungry lab setup etc) mean such evening out would t still not happen. Hope you can sort it either way!

[Peter @PetrosGhali]

@doobry @OctopusEnergy Hmmm. Have you compared your likely energy cost if you switched to Cosy and only charged during the off peak times? Doubtless you have, just think it'd be interesting to see if the overall £/kwh evened out to less overall

[Peter @PetrosGhali]

@doobry @OctopusEnergy I thought Intelligent Go enabled you to charge at £0.07 /kwh at other times too?

[Peter @PetrosGhali]

@EdConwaySky Because if you're not struggling through the heat while insisting you're absolutely fine, you're not British 😉

[Peter @PetrosGhali]

@WayneSmyth6 @philippac72 @g__j I understand the benefits of free trade, specialisation, hedging against risk etc. S'all good, with AI you can too - hit up chatgpt for more. Adieu.