There was a study about 5 years ago that showed hybrids also had the most expensive lifetime cost of ownership.

This only applies to US brands

Pleased don’t! Hedge fund owned healthcare are lower quality and higher costs

Privacy is also nonexistent on all other car brands. The best thing to do is probably to disable the car modem. They might still collect information, but will be unable to transmit it.

There are also the effects of long COVID. Something that is hard to fully define and measure, but that has an effect on a sizeable chunk of the population

The F15 has a range of 3400miles, according to Wikipedia. It can refuel in mid air, taking it range past the 5000 or do needed to make it back for another refuel. The can stay in the air for up to 15, hours, and travel cruise at .9 Mach.

Will the US pay for the bases when Iran destroys them?

Don’t forget the statement that using the UK bases to bombard Iran is in self defense! And that is also why there is no parliament discussion or vote

All those 4 EV as SUV. SUV are full of problems for society and I would rather avoid them.

Take the water companies back into public ownership.

They will take the increase in bills and pass a chunk of it to their investors instead of using it for its intended purpose

Despite this U-turn the plan is still there, neither the scheme nor the giant price tag (1.8 billions pounds!) have gone away entirely. The government wants to introduce Digital IDs, and while they might not be mandatory at first, they could create a digital surveillance infrastructure that could fundamentally change how we live.

Once this system is in place, ‘mission creep’ is inevitable. We will be forced to use digital ID more and more in our daily lives. It will be used for profiling and surveillance, tracking our interactions with the State and more.

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/say-no-to-digital-id/

As the Germans say " the police is blind on the right eye"

Not to mention that road degradation grows exponentially with the weight.

For instance, the damage caused by a 1 tom car is the equivalent of 160,000 cycle trips! And a 2 ton car will damage the road 16 times more than a 1 ton car.

Ah! Nice one… But no, it will be Oracle. They have paid Tony Blair about £250 in the last few to spew their nonsense, and Larry Ellison has spoken loudly about well behaved everyone will be once they can monitor everything we do.

Sounds like a police state paradise.

The one they dropped years ago?

The problem with my nuclear when mixed with renewables is that they take too long to turn on and off (think 12-24h), so they are not great complement solar and wind.

They are also very expensive, and take years to build, and decades to recoup the investment. Renewables are a lot cheaper, and can be built straight away, making their investments a lot less risky. They are also evolving faster than nuclear, snd becoming cheaper.

They are, S of today the cheaper power source in most of planet. It is expected that in a couple of years they won’t just be the cheapest, but they will be so cheap it will make economic sense to dismantle other powers plants and build solar/wind+ battery than to keep gas running.

Get a larger battery.

By far the lion share if the savings come from internal usage. Export payments are 20% of so of electricity costs, so you want to be using what you generated.

I have a 5.4kW array, and a 8.8kWh battery. 15% of the battery has to be reserved, so actual capacity is lower.

We basically live off grid for 6-7 months, but winter production is so low (aprox 20% of summer ) that it’s hard to even fill up the battery.

But a larger battery would help for those spring and autumn months when some days are good, some are bad.

For reference, comercial installation have a 4:1 ratio of battery capacity to production. In my case that would be 20kWh! Or 5 days of average consumption.

One final thing to say is that our battery system is capped to 3kW. So even when full, if we ask more electricity than that at any point we would be importing.

What this means is that going gas free is harder, as some appliances (hob, kettle) consume a lot.

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. Funny enough, the article mentions 54 billion of investment on the national grid is needed over the next 10 years, and hinkley point currently costs 31!

Also consider how much renewables that investment could buy; its not just 31billon of today money that will start to see some benefit 20 years after it was started.

I’m afraid I don’t have a reliable source of information other than what I can see on the street. Anecdotally it is hard to find pescatarian or vegetarian dishes in many restaurants. If nearly 20% of the population was vegetarian, this wouldn’t be the case.