Dan Grey
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Energy and transitioning from fossil fuels. Complex issues I try to shine a light on. Ex-UKAEA and Met Office. Occasionally politics
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Extraordinary set of charts in the FT today. Twelve years of Tory misrule has left us sicker and poorer than our peers. Utterly disastrous.
(Charts via
@JolyonMaugham
and
@GeorgePeretzKC
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Some Tory on
#r4today
: "no other developed economy has a top tax rate as high as 45%"
🇮🇹 43%
🇩🇪 45%
🇫🇷 45%
🇪🇸 45%
🇳🇱 49.5%
🇸🇪 52.9%
🇩🇰 55.9%
He wasn't lying. He just didn't know, and his natural arrogance led him to say whatever he thought was right when really he had no clue.
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Black & white. The Tories are going for no deal in order to try for a trade deal with the US, which would include privatising the NHS to US healthcare companies.
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@benrileysmith
@Telegraph
Have they forgotten losing a majority of over 20,000 in Tiverton and Honiton? Johnson is viscerally hated outside the Westminster bubble
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@MattChorley
They nominated a clown. I don't really understand what these MPs are complaining about -- they got exactly who they nominated and campaigned for
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With the wind power record excitement I almost missed that Viking Link was tested at full power yesterday and today.
The 765 km, 525,000 V, 1.4 GW power link from England to Denmark is the longest such link in the world
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.
@TimesRadio
what the hell was that? You get
@dgurdasani1
on and then every time she begins talking,
@MattChorley
interrupts and talks over her.
What exactly do you think your listeners gained from that?
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If you think you can't afford an electric car I'm willing to suggest that most who read this can
(Then as a bonus an EV is ten times cheaper per mile on a good smart tariff)
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@BNHWalker
Lineker didn't compare the policy to that of the Nazis. He said some of the language around it was reminiscent of the period – and is correct
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Typical British fossil car achieves around 40mpg; at these 👇 prices that's 17p per mile
A typical EV ⚡ achieves around 3.8 mi/kWh, charging on a smart tariff that's 2p per mile.
An EV is is >8x cheaper to drive
A bike 🚲 is even cheaper @ 0p/mile 🙂
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@alexwickham
@Peston
I'm not FPBE but I can understand written French. You, apparently, cannot.
This isn't difficult, Alex.
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@OctopusEnergy
is recruiting heating engineers and plumbers to train them to fit heat pumps.
This has all the makings of a recognisable, nationwide brand (the KwikFit of heat pumps) that I think is needed to produce a rapid transition to electric heating
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@ElectionMapsUK
I'm a Green Party member, and signed up to volunteer for the Lib Dems today.
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@woodgnomology
@j_syz
@Shitlawns
@JustPlaneNews
@XRLondon
@mikehakata
@CatherineWest1
My god why would anyone do that?
@McDonaldsUK
what is your explanation?
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@AndyMcDonaldMP
@DehennaDavison
Seems to be heading towards becoming a police matter – if only the police and crime commissioner wasn't so preoccupied with becoming a Tory local councillor
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I noticed this;
@bbcnickrobinson
referring to the ULEZ as a "green tax" when it isn't anything of the sort, it's a measure to remove the dirtiest vehicles from London's roads to stop children dying from asthma
Oh what a surprise that
@BBCr4today
is channeling & amplifying narrative of ‘cut the green crap’ almost in the same sentence as ‘we keep breaking weather records’, all on basis of 45% turnout and a few hundred majority in a traditionally safe Tory seat. Get a grip
#BBC
!
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@kateferguson4
Oh for goodness sake, you're being criticised because you repeated baseless gossip which was without a shred of evidence. Maybe... Don't do that?
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I believe Great Britain set a record low grid carbon intensity value earlier today – an average of just 19 g of CO₂ per kWh generated.
The previous record was 21 g/kWh set just ten days ago!
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I wish people would put aside preconceptions and watch
#HolbyCity
. It's so much more than you imagine. It's really, really good.
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At 5am Great Britain was exporting electricity on every interconnector into Europe (and pumping water up mountains). Don't see that very often
At that time wind was generating as much power as the gas turbines
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@PippaCrerar
I really hope some journalist somewhere points out that people do want clean air
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@TobiasTaylor19
@KateWilton1
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
HoC was working perfectly well with efficient remote working technology.
Yesterday was pathetic.
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The House of Commons library has produced a surprisingly thorough but still very readable explanation of how electricity prices are formed, and what reforms might be in the works
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The last section of cable of Viking Link has been laid and joined, forming a 765 km power line between UK and Denmark.
When commissioned in December it will give GB access to 1.4 GW of cheap Danish wind power.
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Wow. Contract specifically states that AstraZeneca will not be in breach of EU's contract if it needs to fulfill other orders first.
Cut and dried 🤷♂️.
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@DHSCgovuk
@richardhorton1
@CMO_England
@uksciencechief
Publish your evidence base and your reasoning. Until then it's your word and his, and I'm disinclined to believe you.
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@AgiloGmbh
@universalhub
No-one's going to buy at $2 a mask. Take your price gouging elsewhere.
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@DarrenEuronews
@markrutte
Dutch and UK scientists lead the world in epidemiology. It's not surprising they're adopting the same approach.
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@jessicaelgot
It's a dog-whistle to the 1-2% who believe in conspiracy theories.
For some extraordinary reason the advisors in No 10 think such appeals are a "route to victory". God alone knows how they're coming to such warped conclusions
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Not a single writer from the Guardian or the New Statesman (let alone Byline Times or the New European) in the top 13 non-politicians who has appeared on Question Time over the last ten years.
All but two are Telegraph/Spectator/Daily Mail/Times/Economist.
"BBC Question Time: analysis of guests over nine years suggests an overuse of right-wing voices" finds
@Matt_Walsh
via
@ConversationUK
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From April Worcester Bosch are likely to offer £2,500 cash back to home owners and landlords on new heat pump installs. Combined with the £7,500 BUS grant it could be entirely possible to get a heat pump for free(!)
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Apparently the Express ran a "solar panels being switched off in the heat" story yesterday. Here's the current generation mix in the Southwest, as temperatures exceed 30°C.
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@BobbyFriedman
@cgwOMT
I still can't believe that the press criticised Brown for hand-writing a letter to the family of each and every service man and woman who died defending our country. Brown was a very very decent man.
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Kate Morely's is reporting that over the last 12 months Great Britain obtained more of its electricity from zero-carbon renewables (wind, solar, hydro) than from fossil fuels
I think this might be a first ✌️🎉🥳
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@horton_official
She's not wrong. What I don't understand is how Tory strategists are arriving at the conclusion that going big on being pro-pollution is going to help them at the ballot box. It's just not popular.
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@BritainElects
Wonderful 🙂. Kim thoroughly, thoroughly deserves this victory over hate, over division.
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@BenWBriscoe
@GBNEWS
not actually true though is it
I've checked the figures and this is not accurate.
BBC News was generally higher than GB News all morning, evening and afternoon.
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@naomi_desouza
@JaneRockHouse
Tbf it's not not "managing its catastrophic finances", it's that BCC's statutory service requirements cost more than the funding central government is giving them.
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@CliveWismayer
@martinwaller10
@catherinemginn
The video where Johnson said "there's no press here" into the lens of a TV camera crew. Tbf it was so stupid I don't think the media needed to say much. But Kuenssberg tweeting "this is him, here" about the father of the ill child Johnson was arguing with was v disrespectful.
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@bobbidog
@Helen121
That's a really good point. The statement was made in a pre-recorded "voxpop" piece; a
@BBCr4today
presenter should have said afterwards "other OECD countries have rates of 45% or more..."
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Ok ok 😂
My Garmin watch tells me I average ~35 kcal/mi. I'm mostly powered by bread/wheat in other forms but going by bread, it's £1.55 for 2,400 kcal.
So cycling is:
155/2400 x 35 = 2.2p/mi, about the same as an EV!
ngl that result surprises me! 😂
@dan_grey
I'm gonna be a bit picky but cycling isn't 0p/mile. When I cycle any distance I definitely eat a lot more food so that's got to be factored into the fuel cost per mile of cycling 😉
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@ExeterCouncil
@DevonWildlife
why are city council staff cutting down all the wild lflowers in Heavitree At Michael's churchyard? It's horrendous 😡
@DianaFMoore
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We know Boris Johnson is a misogynistic bigot. But that the police tried to deny that they had attended Carrie Symonds' house... That's something else.
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@kallmemeg
@PHE_uk
These have just been published? At 10pm on a Saturday?!
During... Eurovision??
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I'm told the last ever UK coal train to a power station ran on 16 January. From now until final closure, Ratcliffe-on-Soar is burning its on-site stock
Lovely article on Ratcliffe, the UK’s last coal fired power station, which is due to close in September. I visited Ratcliffe about 15 years ago. It’s a real landmark, losing the towers from the skyline is a huge shame.
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@sampritchard87
@SimonCalder
@Qantas
@trussliz
It's on hire and the CO2 footprint was many times that of flying commercial
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@NorthmanTrader
@elonmusk
But it's *lower* than 5%. Musk thought it was higher. Now he's learnt it's *lower*, the deal's "on hold".
Sounds more like trying to find a way out of the deal.
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@JavierBlas
And as usual I point that just a few days ago...
You never mention days when wind is the largest generator of electricity. If it wasn't for wind we'd be burning far more very expensive gas.
What exactly is your point?!
Yesterday
#wind
generated 40.3% of GB electricity, more than gas 21.3%, nuclear 15.8%, imports 12.4%, biomass 8.2%, hydro 1.8%, solar 0.2%, coal 0.0%, coal 0.0% *excl. non-renewable distributed generation
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@Phillip_Thomaz
@BBCFergusWalsh
The funny thing is that this is the result of openness. Moderna had Pfizer have never updated their numbers since the single snapshots from their US FDA trials last year.
Az has reported results from multiple trials all around the world, and updated results as they continue.
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@tomfenn8
@kallmemeg
I'm never sure how much that matters. Lots of people are elderly, lots have "co-morbidities". Many people don't have a choice over whether they have co-morbidities, and no-one choses their age!
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@Egbert_PengWu
@DHSCgovuk
@CMO_England
@PHE_uk
@NHSEngland
@CathCalderwood1
@scotgovhealth
@healthdpt
@CMOWales
@publichealthni
@PublicHealthW
Man you're fast!
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@T_Extinguishers
A Range Rover weighs twice as much as a normal car (e.g. a Golf). So in a crash they deliver twice as much energy.
They're absolutely lethal, and have no place on our roads.
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@jessicaelgot
I'd love to meet "young people" having daily Starbucks and two overseas holidays a year!
I suspect the few who can afford that lifestyle have no issues affording a house
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Next Wednesday National Grid Energy System Operator is (again) lowering the minimal level of grid inertia which should allow an even lower amount of gas generation required to stay online during periods of high wind and solar output 😍
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Or better yet read JBM's thread!
NEW:
Britain’s grim winter of strikes, falling incomes and a worsening NHS crisis is not some unfortunate series of events
It’s the inevitable result of a decade of Tory austerity that steadily weakened the state’s capacity to respond to shocks
Thread:
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Fascinating visualisation from
@robhawkes
showing EVs charging on Intelligent Octopus over a week in June, alongside grid fossil/renewables mix and carbon intensity
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I wonder if this my maximum yield for a day? Pretty much ideal conditions gave 13.8 kWh
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From the party that banned onshore wind 🤦
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@gilbeaq
@HuwPlasymmhowys
Is it wrong that this makes me happy? Let's keep oil where it belongs, in the ground.
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Just had a Labour election leaflet through my door. On the front is a qr code link to a survey. Look at the first question. Look what's missing!
There was no "other" option. That's the complete list 🤦🙄😥
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I've been keeping an eye on gas flows these last few cold days to see how much heating power GB can draw from gas. Peak gas flow rate to local distribution zones is just under 300 million cubic metres/day, which converts to 135 GW of heating power.
🧵
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Extraordinary images as campaigners in Germany try to stop the expansion of a lignite open-cast mine
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The array of import and export tariffs available from
@OctopusEnergy
is bewildering and inexplicable... Throw everything at the wall and see what sticks?!
Bizarrely you can charge a battery for six hours a day paying 7.5p/kWh then export it at 15p/kWh
H/t
@norfolkmustard
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@britainelects
@Survation
Hope someone does a poll tomorrow. After tonight, I suspect Johnson has lost a lot of support.
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@Steven_Swinford
To be clear, Basu wants to boost BAME recruitment into the police. Malthouse and Patel opposed it.
He also had the temerity to suggest that the lack of social mobility and degree of inequality in this county might just fuel crime
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@Petercampbell1
The company furthest behind on the transition to electric backs a delay – what a surprise
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