A. Christian

@dpd_uk @DPDCare @DPD_UK_Support just had a very unhelpful call with your customer service. If we have bought a DPD service and have a DPD tracking number, then it would be great if you could let us know if the parcel has been delivered...

If energy wasn't so expensive, thanks to renewables, we wouldn't need the WHD.

In the middle of a cost of living crisis driven by years of high energy bills, it’s extraordinary how journalists and MPs still talk about energy and power generation without starting from first principles. Energy and power systems are governed by the laws of physics. It would be like commenting on medicine without understanding human biology. This week, CEOs from the Big Six energy retailers warned Parliament of an impending energy crisis casued by Labour's Clean Power 2030. They calmly explained how the renewables-driven model is permanently embedding high structural costs into our electricity system - because low-density, intermittent sources are inherently less efficient than dense and reliable ones like gas or nuclear. You could give gas away for free in 2030 and electricity bills will still be as high as they are today. Yet the casual claim from Swarbrick that “we can just store electricity to meet demand” betrays a deep ignorance of how energy systems actually work. Yes, you can store electricity. But not at SCALE, not for LONG DURATIONS, and not without ENORMOUS COST and LOSS. Super batteries last hours, not days such as during a dunkelflaute. Seasonal storage would require thousands of times more capacity than exists. And the second law of thermodynamics teaches us that every conversion step bleeds energy through inefficiency. A recent peer-reviewed study found that if Britain electrified home heating using heat pumps on a 100% renewable grid, it would need 175 TWh of storage capacity. This is equivalent to half of the UK’s annual electricity consumption. @NetZeroWatch has estimated to do this with batteries (a complete non-starter) would cost £50 trillion. 😂 Energy policy must be rooted in physics - not techno-optimism or marketing claims from green energy companies. To be clear, this is deadly serious. Literally. When energy systems fail, as in Spain a few months ago, people die. When shortages deepen, as happened in Sri Lanka in 2022, politics and society becomes unstable.

They can't bring themselves to say Renewables Subsidies or Hidden Costs of Renewables in the form of backup, grid balancing and expansion. Then there's the Warm Home Discount to try and compensate for expensive renewables. Come on, spit it out.

@Humberbeat did you really arrest someone for calling someone else a 'muppet'?

@neso_energy How much of the imports were coal-based generation? #behonest

Yesterday #wind produced 42.0% of GB electricity followed by gas 16.9%, nuclear 13.7%, solar 12.2%, imports 10.6%, biomass 4.5%, *excl. non-renewable distributed generation

@dibb_simkin What about the accusations that Octopus is just a ponzi scheme of new customers? (Even if kraken makes money)

I worked at British Gas. I'm now Octopus' CMO (from early days). BG want us banned from taking new customers, yet we meet Ofgem financial rules, saved taxpayers £bns rescuing Bulb & built huge value. Grateful for our customers. BG should look after theirs, not throw rocks at us

@g__j Are they just better at lobbying than you were for zonal pricing? Sour grapes much?

And: -96% of hydrogen is filthy, made from unabated carbon -Green hydrogen uses 5x more electricity than a heat pump for the same amount of heating -Hydrogen is 1/3 the energy density of gas, so requires 3x the volume - It's the leakiest molecule in the universe

@ClemCowton Are you gwumpy that you didn't get zonal pricing?

An apparently necessary reminder that the Tory government rightly cancelled a bunch of hydrogen heating trials, mostly because the local residents reacted unfavourably to the prospect of this happening in their kitchens.

🤦‍♂️And now he's coming for Tandoor Ovens. Ed Miliband only seems hungry to curry favour with the members of his eco-cult. Red Ed is the Balti Bandit, the Korma Killer, presiding over a Chicken Tikka Massala Meltdown of the great British curry house. 👇 thesun.co.uk/news/34903720/…

I speak at women’s events often, and I have a side thing of training in intergenerational mentors in the church. Here’s what I’ve observed over the last 8 years or so that I wasn’t expecting. The generation who needs to hear the gospel the most is the baby boomer generation. When I speak at an event, and share the gospel not just for salvation, but God’s grace for each and every day—grace as lavishly as I know how to give, it’s the baby boomer women who are crying. And I was always wondering: why can’t I get this generation to pick up the mantel of discipling younger women? Why do they roll their eyes when yet another push for mentoring starts? They are exhausted. And they’re afraid. They came of age in the midst of the sexual revolution when the church responded to the feminist movement with the anti-feminist movement. E.G: you’re not a real Christian woman unless you… “Mentoring ministries” during this time were the equivalent to intense law sessions. Instead of Titus 3 saying it’s grace that trains us, they were trained in law. All the Bible studies in the 70s-80s were heavy on being as feminine as possible for Jesus. “Are women allowed to…” was the constant conversation. All law. No gospel. And we know from scriptures when all law and no gospel is given, there are 2 options: despair or pride—both leading to death. Most of them that I talk to are terrified of doing the same to others. A 20 something woman was recently in my kitchen and asking me “how do we get the baby boomer women to do this?” “We don’t.” I replied. “They’ve had their years of law. They need a respite of the gospel. We need to train in the next generation. Skip over the BB’s. Not because we’re giving up on them, but the gospel is where the power is, and they’ve been given no gospel. Give them the most abundant of grace. And when the Holy Spirit has done his healing work, we won’t have to ask. In the meantime, you see the need, and I see the need. That’s why I have you over here. That’s why you volunteer in the jr high group. It’s not our job to “get them to” do anything. I’ve never seen a generation so choked by law. Give them Jesus every chance you get.”

C.S. Lewis, the dangers of the internet (before it existed)

@BristOliver What about the Isle of Man?

@Heidi_Labour As a rule, the substation should be grounded. Not the flights...

I’m receiving updates on the fast-moving situation at Heathrow Airport. I'm grateful to emergency services responding to the fire, and National Grid for working to restore power to the airport and homes. I’d urge passengers not to travel to the airport, and contact their airline.

A society’s mission should be to assist the most vulnerable people how to live and not how to die.

I voted against the assisted dying bill, not out of a lack of compassion but because I fear that the law will widen in scope. If that happens, the right to die may become the obligation to die.

Should I take communion if I am continually falling into the same sin over and over again? Here's Martin Luther's answer: “If you feel that you are unfit, weak, and lacking in faith, where will you obtain strength but here? Do you mean to wait until you have grown pure and strong, then indeed you will never come and you will never obtain any benefit from the Holy Communion. This is the right use of the Lord’s Supper, serving not to torture, but to comfort and gladden the conscience. For by instituting it for us, God did not intend it to be poison and torture to frighten us...The Lord’s Supper welcomes those who perceive their frailties and feel that they are not pious, yet would like to be.”

@DeliverooHelp @OleandSteenUK I've submitted the form. This has been wholly disappointing.

@FakeFletch @OleandSteenUK This is a live chat with the customer care team, please either submit the webform or email us to support@deliveroo.co.uk so our global escalations team can investigate this for you - CCB

My wife and I are in child A&E with our son. But @DeliverooHelp and @OleandSteenUK - apparently it's alright to send the wrong food items and not provide compensation or send the right thing as a replacement?

@DeliverooHelp @OleandSteenUK This was with the escalation team...

@FakeFletch @OleandSteenUK I checked our system and I can't see any communications with our escalations team, I would highly advise reaching out to them via the email i sent you or the webform so they can investigate further. This will be a different team to the team on the DM's you have been contacting...

@DeliverooHelp @OleandSteenUK They do the same stonewall, sorry-not-sorry that you did.

@FakeFletch @OleandSteenUK Alternatively you could email us to support@deliveroo.co.uk our escalations team can look into this further for you - CCB