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@jxson_95 @PME_Politics @SamMarkWill @Sanny_Rudra @northernassist Then why doesn’t their system charge a minimum of £12? If he’s entered the railcard the system should charge the appropriate amount. It’s the TOC’s fault, they haven’t applied their T&Cs correctly, I don’t see any option for him to pay the £12.

@PME_Politics @SamMarkWill @Sanny_Rudra @northernassist This is on the homepage of the 16-25 railcard site. It couldn’t be any clearer really? When you buy the railcard you sign up and agree to these terms. Agree it shouldn’t result in criminal record but that is typically last resort after excess fare offered/ignored or pfn issued

So, this afternoon I got home to find a lovely letter from @northernassist telling me about how they wanted to prosecute me for using the below ticket to travel on the specified route at a peak time. I paid £1.90 less than the fare they say I should have paid. A thread 🧵

@mromani75 @JomauxJulien I think (hope) we’ll start seeing S&W developers co locate with long duration energy storage: linkedin.com/pulse/contract…

Negative prices, or extremely low prices (below 5€/MWh) will continue to rise in the coming years. We are on our way to greatly increase the supply of wind and solar. The new supply comes at times when we already have a good supply of wind and solar. 1/5

Check out my latest article: Contracts for Difference - what are the pros and cons for renewables developers? (And can long duration energy storage help?) linkedin.com/pulse/contract… via @LinkedIn

@duncancampbell Even better, more sun and wind and longer duration cheap storage #synchrostor

Let's say I hypothetically take a small industrial facility off the grid. On an average day it will be 75% solar and storage powered. The rest natural gas. Do you feel this is good or bad? Why?

@MikeFay44 @rec777777 @colinwalker79 @Telegraph @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @GbNew No electricity in rural France? The horrors…

@rec777777 @colinwalker79 @Telegraph @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @GbNew I infrequently tour through rural France, and can easily drive 50km without sight of a petrol station never mind a bank of chargers, and I’d hate the thought of my partner running out of electrickery having spend 90 minutes on the M62 at night trying to get back from Yorkshire!

Pretty dreadful opinion piece by Mike Graham in the @Telegraph today about the fabled 'war on motorists' And despite the headline and the fact that EV drivers are motorists too, the piece is mainly a series of baseless attacks on EVs Here's what he got wrong: 🧵

@elonmusk I'll tell you what is going on. You've succeeded in turning X into rabble rousing version of Truth Social. I'm out. So long and thanks for all the fish.

What the hell is going on?

Driver handed suspended sentence for cutting across and killing cyclist claimed he was “blinded by the sun” before fatal crash – despite motorist behind spotting victim The judge said cyclist “should have been visible” and “had no chance at all” road.cc/309725 #cycling

@elonmusk This is desperate stuff. Give it a rest Elon. and please get off my feed, I have no interest in your disinformation campaign.

True or let her deny it

@greenmattbfd I looked at this a few years ago - wondering if cycling was more hazardous because of less width on roads. Cars have been getting fatter (wider) for a while. If you extrapolate then eventually all roads will need to be made one way because cars will fill up both carriage ways!

@Richard_Dixon @DaveToke Interesting, they could certainly blow a lot of money on nuclear… they should be investing in the new technologies for decarbonising heat and long duration energy storage #synchrostor (ok I’m biased!)

Labour's big manifesto (nuclear) deception about GB Energy, by @DaveToke open.substack.com/pub/davidtoke/…

@RGurumurthy Thanks will have a look. Hopefully the plan includes investing in the emerging technologies in Long Duration Energy Storage which will be key to achieving net zero!

5) Greater certainty for supply chain, leading to more investment and domestic capacity. 6) More efficient and resilient deployment of network infrastructure and system assets, reducing total cost. 7) Acceleration of innovation and commercialisation of new technologies. 17/17

NEW REPORT on GB Energy, and the role of the state by @nesta_uk and @Baringa. This work underpins some of what is being announced today. 🧵 nesta.org.uk/report/the-rol… 1/17

@elonmusk Jeez X has become truth social, I’m forced to get the owner’s partisan right wing political views rammed down my throat on my feed - and as important as the US is, I’m not a US citizen or voter and I don’t live there! Other countries are available!

About 3 weeks ago, the media told you that Biden was “sharp as a tack” 🙄 2 days ago, the poor guy was basically forced at gunpoint to resign as Dem nominee. His staff weren’t even informed. Now they say Kamala is the best thing ever 🤦‍♂️

@UKSVacher @TheSolarShed I’m the same!

@TheSolarShed Brilliant, I’m glad you challenged/educated the developer. It drives me mad when I see new houses with a single or a couple of panels… That’s helping no one.

We completed 3 lovely in-roof systems last week on a new development. The requirement to tick a box was for 4 panels. We explained why it is irresponsibe to do the minimum when the occupiers will be the ones left frustrated. The developers opted for high end microinverters and an in-roof system with 10 panels. Three properties in total. We like. Do you? thesolarshed.co.uk

@guythomasholder @heatherpmuir @labourlewis @JustStop_Oil @ChrisGPackham @damiengayle @paulpowlesland @libertyhq @MPWatchNetwork @AmnestyUK @DaleVince “I think discussion around severity of sentence can be had”. Obviously not if you can’t be arsed!

@Edinburgreen @heatherpmuir @labourlewis @JustStop_Oil @ChrisGPackham @damiengayle @paulpowlesland @libertyhq @MPWatchNetwork @AmnestyUK @DaleVince I think a jail sentence is warranted. Beyond that, whether it's too long, I can't be arsed getting into that with someone who continues to pretend with language like "zoom call about a protest", too dull, I'm out

It is said dissent is the foundation of liberty. And yet the travesty of justice that took place today at Southwark Crown Court speaks to a democracy that is in danger of forgetting that at its peril. We must not be numb to how extreme the sentences handed out today to peaceful protesters are, and how this marks an acceleration in Britain’s democratic decline. These are the longest ever sentences handed out for participation in peaceful, non-violent action. These sentences have been made using the Tories’ new and draconian Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022. So extreme is this law and its impact on environmental defenders, that earlier this year UN Special Rapporteur @ForstMichel "seriously question[ed] the necessity and proportionality of such conditions for persons engaging in peaceful protest" and was "distressed to see how environmental defenders are derided by some of the mainstream UK media and in the political sphere". Following the sentencing today, @Global_Witness has said the UK is "becoming one of the most dangerous countries in the western world to speak up in defence of our planet." The ability to peacefully protest is integral to a healthy and robust democracy. Its criminalisation speaks to a deeper malaise. One that calls into question the health of some fundamental democratic cornerstones. The last Conservative government was one of the most authoritarian we have ever seen in this country. It changed the law to deny defendants the right to use as a defence their concern about the climate crisis and in so doing to speak truth to power. That power is oil corporations and the big business interests that benefit from its continued extraction. Extraction that will cost us all dearly. It is why I spoke in solidarity with the five climate protestors. And it is why I back their calls for a meeting between campaigners, scientists and the Attorney General to discuss their case and the laws which saw them imprisoned. These laws in question should be repealed and the five wrongly imprisoned, pardoned. Our current government must not only undo the damage the last one did to our democracy, but it must also strengthen and protection our democracy with new laws and institutions that protect it in the knowledge that authoritarian governments may follow them the years to come.

@guythomasholder @heatherpmuir @labourlewis @JustStop_Oil @ChrisGPackham @damiengayle @paulpowlesland @libertyhq @MPWatchNetwork @AmnestyUK @DaleVince Well, either participating in conspiracy or a zoom call about the protest - you still aren’t saying whether you think the conviction is disproportionate - which was my point, and that of the UN Special Rapporteur, given he didn’t actually do anything else.

@Edinburgreen @heatherpmuir @labourlewis @JustStop_Oil @ChrisGPackham @damiengayle @paulpowlesland @libertyhq @MPWatchNetwork @AmnestyUK @DaleVince You are repeating the same thing but the conviction was for conspiracy. I think discussion around severity of sentence can be had but it's hard when those arguing against sentence are trivialising the crime committed. Conspiring to block a motorway is really frickin dangerous

@guythomasholder @heatherpmuir @labourlewis @JustStop_Oil @ChrisGPackham @damiengayle @paulpowlesland @libertyhq @MPWatchNetwork @AmnestyUK @DaleVince His sentence was for participating in a private “zoom call about the protest” as I said. If you think that deserves 4 years in prison, following 113 days also in prison - fine, I disagree. I think it puts us on a par with the some of the most unsavoury regimes in the world.

@Edinburgreen @heatherpmuir @labourlewis @JustStop_Oil @ChrisGPackham @damiengayle @paulpowlesland @libertyhq @MPWatchNetwork @AmnestyUK @DaleVince "Conspiracy". Not catching up with an old friend on zoom call. Conspiracy v serious legal charge, in this case to cause public nuisance, which led to list of harm in the BBC article. And could have been worse. 5 years is arguably tough but stop saying "just zoom call", silly

@guythomasholder @heatherpmuir @labourlewis @JustStop_Oil @ChrisGPackham @damiengayle @paulpowlesland @libertyhq @MPWatchNetwork @AmnestyUK @DaleVince “Mr. Shaw has been charged with ‘conspiracy to cause a public nuisance’ under the Police,Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 for his participation in a Zoom call that discussed with the other attendees of the call the climate crisis & a proposed peaceful environmental protest”

@guythomasholder @heatherpmuir @labourlewis @JustStop_Oil @ChrisGPackham @damiengayle @paulpowlesland @libertyhq @MPWatchNetwork @AmnestyUK @DaleVince You’ve got it - it would be silly if it wasn’t true: unece.org/sites/default/…

Good people of Clacton , those of you expecting your normal Friday surgery: He can’t be arsed…