James Ross Heron

tweeting 50% work, 50% play and 100% nonsense.

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@ch477er @daveatherton @TheGreenParty Some serious guessing occurring here. Have you banged on about the ‘no guessing needed’ personal gift of £5m that’s been given to a certain politician lately? Is any guessing allowed on that since there’s a valid argument for it being dodgy as foook? Or is he the wrong shade?

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@daveatherton @TheGreenParty Here’s the thing. If he’d bought it with an undisclosed (later discovered) personal ‘gift’ of £5million which made him decide to run for office and it came from an overseas donor who ‘expected nothing in return’, I wonder how many of you would be banging on about it?🤔🤷‍♂️

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@BrianMartinDavi @lewis_goodall Do we really have to do this again? 🤦‍♂️

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@BenGrahamStocks I’d stay away from the decommissioning timescales/cost or you’ll have a heart-hiccup. It’s bonkers.

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@JaneTay50359443 @LBC Stop adding to the belief that people who instantly shout ‘electric vehicle fire!’ without reading up on it are thicker than a submarine hatch.

To put it in context, if you read the article, the man didn’t pour batteries on himself as they’re quite hard to light 🤷‍♂️

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@tracyegrady @nicksortor I’d hazard a guess this got more to do with a common language than the actual opinions.

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@DeanH2963 @JordanEVGuy I can only assume you’re typing this on your YorkshireMac Pro.

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@BunniesBum @NetZeroWatch 🙄

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@RebelHQ @EVCurveFuturist How fabulously 2018 of you Mr. Rubble!

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@DiscePuer @HugmikeL @aDissentient A real world use case there. FWIW, if anyone asks, I say ASHP CAN be good but you need decent installer and gas bills to really know. Unlike solar/battery, I’d pitch ASHP as an equivalent way of heating, not a cash cow. And right now, as a standalone, it deffo could cost more.

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@DiscePuer @HugmikeL @aDissentient But all my numbers = anecdotal. The report you shared is across multiple properties. Me having a decent result shows you CAN have efficient house (even accidentally) but the UK report is more telling. Having had Victorian houses I can see where there would be challenges.

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@DiscePuer @HugmikeL @aDissentient Apols. My post makes no sense. Should have been 20.5 deg. morning and evening. 18 degrees daytime/overnight. Perhaps the fact that even when it’s minus figures outside, the heating doesn’t need to come on to maintain 18 deg. suggests we have a well-built 1960 British semi.

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@DiscePuer @HugmikeL @aDissentient If a house is a draughty sh1t-box, it’ll be a draughty sh1t-box with any heat source. 😋

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@HugmikeL @DiscePuer @aDissentient Understood. And thank you for engaging in conversation not written with crayons. I learnt stuff and nobody fell out. A good start to the week 🤣

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@DiscePuer @HugmikeL @aDissentient BTW, the reason I’m not feeling the pain on the bill despite having one is that we already had battery storage which buffers us from real world cost. Without the full energy ecosystem and in isolation, a lot of individual components don’t make sense.

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@DiscePuer @HugmikeL @aDissentient Understood. I also found via CGPT ‘typically around 2.8 – 3.5 in UK climates’ which surprised me. We had no mods or extra radiators etc but yours/my research suggests we’re lucky. That said, it’s still about elec. prices, not viability IMHO.

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@KWrudate @AdamLowisz @elonmusk I think 2026 will be the year we get a much truer picture. In Europe, BYD’s growth is rapid and you may be right if trajectory continues. But competing outside china is more challenging so we need another year of BYD growth/Tesla tail off to see the true picture IMHO.