David Sheldon

@agile_phil @energystatsuk Can we have a worked example of plugging in at 6pm, and getting 8 hours of charge, 6pm-2am. Is the last two hours (12:00am-2am) at peak price? How will that show on bills?

To help answer the questions on Intelligent Octopus Go changes coming in January we’ve written a blog and FAQ here octopus.energy/blog/intellige…. Should answer most questions but ping me if you’ve still got questions.

My belief is that programmer time is precious. We should spend time... Fixing bugs. Adding new features. Improving the performance. Patching code to silence false positives from disabled-by-default static analyzers is wasteful. I do not mind if others do it, but I avoid such work.

@j4 They just need to connect with the adjacent battery. Once you check which ends need to be connected you can often just bodge it with bits of silver foil they're not as springy but can be squashed

What do you call the little metal plates on the ends? Can you replace them? They look like they will slide out, & hence could slide new ones back in?

What are the chances of being able to repair this battery compartment? I'm guessing somewhere between zero and, well, zero? :-/ It's my old Radio Shack 100-in-one Electronic Project Lab and it would be lovely to get it working again...

@ProfPalindrome @raimonick @eocharging @OctopusEnergy @myenergiuk you're not going to pull this on us are you?

Hi @raimonick I Just got email from @eocharging to say that my EO Mini Pro installed by @OctopusEnergy a few years back to take advantage of GO tariff will not be smart after next month as EO’s software licence has run out! Have u seen that with other chargers? Seems a bit poor

@krakentech keeping lights on💡during Christmas 🎄 👉🏼 Today, the power line ⚡️connecting UK 🇬🇧 & France 🇫🇷 tripped 👉🏼 Within a sec, UK lost 1GW (1m homes 🏡 worth) Kraken 🐙 in <1 generated 400MW ⚡️from batteries 🔋 on the platform, keeping the lights on 💡 @OctopusEnergy

Support the great work arts emergency are doing mentoring young people x.com/ArtsEmergency/…

In case anyone doesn't know about the great work that arts emergency do, supporting those who don't have an old boys network into the arts, support them. Particularly if you complain that everyone on the telly went to Cambridge

@fivemack There might be a minor reduction in aero efficiency, but not noticeable in practice

Are the wheel cover things purely decorative, or do I need to act urgently now that one of the four has fallen off?

@johnjdc @j4 Decathlon?

Where's good for short notice bike repairs in Oxford these days (say, tomorrow, new rear tyre). Starting point a bit down Botley Road. I'll start with Warlands who do my regular servicing but often have a bit of a waiting list. Who else, Bike Zone on St Michael's Street?

This is a brilliant idea, Liz. Maybe a.. shit I dunno... union of some sort

@AndrewHolding Are they "large"?

An amazing analogy: what a great thread!

Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice - stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband: facebook.com/DavidCameronOf…

15kw consoles? What sort of GPU do they have? There's too many of these wrong articles at the moment. inyourarea.co.uk/news/worst-ene… A typical game console consumes a significant 15kWh per hour when it is on standby. “Simply making sure it is totally off can save £5.10 per day,”

@wjjjjt @guardian I got annoyed when I had a subscription in the app, but all the links I clicked were amp so didn't open in the app, and hard banners telling me to subscribe.

@eddedmondson If you don't want to 3d print, decathlon appear too sell this: decathlon.co.uk/p/universal-bi… to mount whatever watch you want

@eddedmondson thingiverse.com/thing:4402014/… Does this count?

@andrewgodwin @simonw I assume there's no longer a helium shortage for medical and science use. Sounds cool though.

@simonw Strong business idea for the US if we can just find an old, abandoned hangar...

I cannot believe no one had told me about this place in France where they strap you to a big envelope full of helium and let you float around inside a hundred year old airship hangar!