Andrew Downes

@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/…

@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.

@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.

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.

@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?

@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.

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)

@robhawkes I would like to see more of your posts on bsky please! I rarely visit here now...

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.

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 🤷‍♂️

@metoffice Why is this page slow to update please? I'm interested to know when Éowyn gets named, but at present Darragh hasn't even impacted apparently... metoffice.gov.uk/weather/warnin…

@Andrewislington @agile_phil I'm in region H (South East) so this may be different where you live.

@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.

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.

@Andrewislington @agile_phil No wind. High gas prices. Half the UK's nuclear capacity is offline for maintenance. Could easily be higher tomorrow...

@agile_phil Any key reason for this peak? Or just high demand

@ConversationUK Spare a thought for those of us who grieve over every misplaced apostrophe?

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@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.

Going to start posting some stuff over in the other place too. I’m “drkevinfong” over there.

@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.

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.

@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.

Just testing this out... #F1 #F1Tech

@News4Tri @cathcam @rmappleby I am also actively moving to bsky - followed you there :-)

@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.

@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!

@g__j Full writeup at ando2040.blogspot.com/2024/10/smart-…

@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.

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.

@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?

Tomorrow's Prices: 26th October Overnight low ~ 18p Morning peak ~ 26p Afternoon low ~16p Evening peak ~ 42p

@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?