Andrew Downes

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Andrew Downes

Andrew Downes

@ando2040

Technology sales professional and news follower. Tweets are my own. @[email protected]

Maidenhead, UK Katılım Şubat 2009
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Andrew Downes
Andrew Downes@ando2040·
@BBCNews Last para is not correct - during a three-week period in September there were insufficient seats to get all astronauts off the ISS. Williams and Wilmore were also the most senior and would have undoubtedly stayed behind in a station evacuation. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Andrew Downes@ando2040·
@robhawkes 32A (7.5kW) is such a huge load, a third of the maximum house supply. We added heat pump on the garage board and started tripping out the 40A fuse. Currently limiting the car to 16A in software to prevent waking up to no heating, until we get EVSE rewired.
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Andrew Downes@ando2040·
@robhawkes I put our EV supply equipment on the garage box but it was a mistake. Better to put it on something called a Henley block from the meter tails and run a long dedicated armoured cable. If you later add home battery gateway and/or solar, you will want your EVSE completely separate.
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Robin Hawkes@robhawkes·
Long shot, but what are the chances that I'll be able to get a 7kW EV charger installed in my garage without upgrading the cable to the house? Detached garage is connected to the main fuse box in the house via a chunky power cable and then has its own fuse box.
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Andrew Downes@ando2040·
@AXS_UK I'm at the Birmingham Arena. Staff confirm these are not considered restricted legroom seats (no warning given, front row.) I spent the first half in extreme discomfort and just longing for the break. How do I get a refund?
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Andrew Downes@ando2040·
@g__j November for us was the first Agile month where Intelligent would have been better. Obviously, both are much cheaper than Flexible. December Agile went behind last week but pulled ahead again as prices dropped this week. 4bed semi, heat pump and EV@15k miles/yr, no home batt/PV.
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Greg Jackson@g__j·
Remember the frenzy about soaring Agile prices, from people who love oil, deny climate change and hate cheap, clean energy, during the dunkelflaute? Even in December, customers were quids in - and without changing behaviour. Agile may not be for everyone, but it reflects (1/2)
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Lorenzo Sani@lore_sani_

Wrap-up of one year with @OctopusEnergy Agile Tariff. After last week's #dunkelflaute which brought a few worrying days for consumers on Agile, it's time to take stock of one year with on the half-hourly electricity tariff. The results surprised me! 🧵

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Andrew Downes@ando2040·
@robhawkes I would like to see more of your posts on bsky please! I rarely visit here now...
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Robin Hawkes@robhawkes·
Bluesky is a little better, at least on par with Twitter and yet still has better conversation. I also have very few followers there, for context.
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Robin Hawkes@robhawkes·
Same post. Same period of time. No wonder I'm not motivated to post here any more… I have a fraction of followers on LinkedIn compared to here but the engagement is (always) through the roof, and it's actually interesting comments and conversation 🤷‍♂️
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Andrew Downes@ando2040·
@Andrewislington @agile_phil I'm just graphing publicly-available data. Follow the same handle where the skies are bluer if you like this stuff. Tomorrow will breach 50p by 8am and the peak will be capped everywhere. Wind power returns Fri/Sat and nuclear generation is slowly ramping back but won't do much.
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Philip Steele
Philip Steele@agile_phil·
Agile’s looking spicy tomorrow so avoid that peak (I’m West Mids). Remember we cap at £1 which Scotland reaches. Even so a third of the day is still below our Fixed rate so shifting time of use still works. Last -ve's were only on 23/24/25 Nov (-4.54p lowest) and through Oct/Nov/Dec around two-thirds of the time it’s been below 24p. In year to Oct'24 average customer saving on Agile was £525 vs our Flex rate. All historical data here agile.octopushome.net/historical-data including comparison tool.
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The Conversation@ConversationUK·
The end of Taylor Swift’s Era’s tour will be a loss for many – here’s how to handle it, according to experts and fellow fans bit.ly/4fab4UO
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Andrew Downes@ando2040·
@Kevin_Fong Followed there, unfollowed here - please don't take the latter personally I'm managing my account down to no reason to use it.
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Dr Kevin Fong@Kevin_Fong·
Going to start posting some stuff over in the other place too. I’m “drkevinfong” over there.
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Andrew Downes@ando2040·
@lizbonnin I've followed you on the other place, and when I do, I unfollow here. Eventually will be no one left in my following and no reason for me or you to come here. I know that doesn't explain all the 3k.
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Liz Bonnin 💙@lizbonnin·
What the actual??? I’ve just noticed a legend comes up saying this video is a work of fiction. It’s not. I made it with my phone two weeks ago in Galapagos. I’ve lost over 3K followers since posting my Bluesky handle on my biog and now this. 🤣 X is batshit.
Liz Bonnin 💙@lizbonnin

Some of the animals of the Galápagos: giant tortoises & sea lions; blue footed, red footed & Nazca boobies; waved albatrosses & marine iguanas; the mockingbirds that sparked Darwin’s imagination (before the finches ever did!) and even flamingos. Coming soon with @NatGeo

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Andrew Downes@ando2040·
@ScarbsTech Frustrating that most of F1 isn't progressive (it's a money sport so I guess unsurprising that it remains on the billionaire's platform). Well done for thinking ahead Scarbs.
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Mark Cathcart@News4Tri·
@ando2040 @cathcam @rmappleby thanks Andrew, I had a Garmin Fenix watch circa 2002, and have stuck with newer versions. This is the same Mark, but I've quit from here except a couple of topic specific ID's. You can find me at @cathcam.bsky.social which I finally decided to join in the wee hours of the night.
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Andrew Downes@ando2040·
@Accor It's laudable in theory to limit the use of cooling. In practice, my room was too hot to sleep in November with external temperature 10C. The window hardly opened, and when it was open, the proximity of trains squealing over points also made it impossible to sleep!
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Andrew Downes@ando2040·
@g__j I haven't quite got a year's Agile data yet, but here's my savings vs Flexible. It's a total no-brainer for many and you don't need a home battery - I just have EV but even without you could save with just a little care. The more electrified, the more saving and the lower CO2e.
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Greg Jackson
Greg Jackson@g__j·
Apparently fossil fuel lobbyists were discussing the Agile tariff today. Just checked - *on average it saved people £525 over the last year.* 😁😁 Also, the first tariff to publish its formula (imagine if the oil and gas companies did that!) and provide daily price updates.
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Andrew Downes@ando2040·
@agilepredict The official wind forecast has suddenly fallen from ~12GW to <4GW until the morning of the 26th, I know you do your own - what sort of level are you assuming?
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Octopus Agile Predictor@agilepredict·
Tomorrow's Prices: 26th October Overnight low ~ 18p Morning peak ~ 26p Afternoon low ~16p Evening peak ~ 42p
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Andrew Downes@ando2040·
@SpotifyUK Seriously? I want to give you my money and you're under maintenance and have been for over an hour? Why does a 21st century online trader even design a site that needs maintenance windows?
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