James Ross Heron

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James Ross Heron

@jamesrossheron

tweeting 50% work, 50% play and 100% nonsense.

United Kingdom Katılım Aralık 2009

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James Ross Heron@jamesrossheron·12 May

@ch477er @daveatherton @TheGreenParty Some serious guessing occurring here. Have you banged on about the ‘no guessing needed’ personal gift of £5m that’s been given to a certain politician lately? Is any guessing allowed on that since there’s a valid argument for it being dodgy as foook? Or is he the wrong shade?

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Justice4all@ch477er·11 May

@daveatherton @TheGreenParty Clearly no money laundering going on or drug dealing, lets see how he gets his money, and his boys

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David Atherton@daveatherton·11 May

This is Mohammad Baghdadi "Baggy" Khan reporting to duty as a newly elected Councillor in the Halliwell ward, Bolton. He looks composed in his Lamborghini Huracán Spyder, worth £100,000-£200,000, it does 19-23 mpg. He is a member of @TheGreenParty.

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James Ross Heron@jamesrossheron·12 May

@daveatherton @TheGreenParty Here’s the thing. If he’d bought it with an undisclosed (later discovered) personal ‘gift’ of £5million which made him decide to run for office and it came from an overseas donor who ‘expected nothing in return’, I wonder how many of you would be banging on about it?🤔🤷‍♂️

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James Ross Heron@jamesrossheron·19 Mar

@BrianMartinDavi @lewis_goodall Do we really have to do this again? 🤦‍♂️

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Brian Martin Davison@BrianMartinDavi·19 Mar

@lewis_goodall If only there was oil & gas in the North Sea

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Lewis Goodall@lewis_goodall·19 Mar

That was this morning. Imagine it now.

Lewis Goodall@lewis_goodall

International Energy Agency: “The war in the Middle East is creating the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.”

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James Ross Heron@jamesrossheron·11 Mar

@BenGrahamStocks I’d stay away from the decommissioning timescales/cost or you’ll have a heart-hiccup. It’s bonkers.

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Ben Graham@BenGrahamUK·11 Mar

Nuclear plants run 24/7 for 60–80 years. No weather dependency. No massive storage systems. No land sprawl. Per unit of reliable power, nuclear is arguably the cheapest energy source on Earth.

BladeoftheSun@BladeoftheS

The World's largest Wind Turbine 26MW. In its lifetime it will produce the same energy as burning 750,000 tons of coal. That's 44,118 truck loads. And that's just 1 Wind Turbine.

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James Ross Heron@jamesrossheron·11 Mar

@JaneTay50359443 @LBC Stop adding to the belief that people who instantly shout ‘electric vehicle fire!’ without reading up on it are thicker than a submarine hatch. To put it in context, if you read the article, the man didn’t pour batteries on himself as they’re quite hard to light 🤷‍♂️

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Jane Taylor@JaneTay50359443·11 Mar

@LBC Electric bus? Go on tell us.

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LBC@LBC·11 Mar

Police say several people are dead and several others injured after a bus caught fire in a town west of the Swiss capital. lbc.co.uk/article/six-de…

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James Ross Heron@jamesrossheron·8 Mar

@tracyegrady @nicksortor I’d hazard a guess this got more to do with a common language than the actual opinions.

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Tracy Grady@tracyegrady·8 Mar

@nicksortor This is the best! I consistently find the British to be most hateful towards Americans and President Trump.

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Nick Sortor@nicksortor·8 Mar

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump absolutely BRUTALIZES UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer for JUST NOW deciding that he’s going to deploy two aircraft carriers to the Middle East “That's OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don't need them any longer — But we will remember. We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won!”

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James Ross Heron@jamesrossheron·6 Mar

@DeanH2963 @JordanEVGuy I can only assume you’re typing this on your YorkshireMac Pro.

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Deano@DeanH2963·6 Mar

@JordanEVGuy people stuck in forced labour camps china to help make solar panels

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Jordan - The EV Guy@JordanEVGuy·6 Mar

Energy independence will decide our future.

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James Ross Heron@jamesrossheron·5 Mar

@BunniesBum @NetZeroWatch 🙄

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Robb@BunniesBum·5 Mar

@NetZeroWatch If you look at the Solar panels in the UK and Europe, the one thing Ed Miliband forgot the Panels actually reflect sunlight exactly the same as the Polar Ice caps. It has to be changing the climate, world wide, but he is not going to admit it.

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Net Zero Watch@NetZeroWatch·4 Mar

Britain sits on plenty of oil and gas. But Labour refuses to exploit it. Instead we get tweets about “monitoring the situation”. This kind of inaction in a time of crisis and strategic naivety from Miliband is reckless. Our enemies are watching us closely.

Ed Miliband@Ed_Miliband

1/The government continues to monitor the situation in oil and gas markets and work with our international partners. In recent days I have been in contact with a number of international colleagues including the Qatari and Saudi Energy Ministers, the IEA, and key industry figures.

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James Ross Heron@jamesrossheron·5 Mar

@RebelHQ @EVCurveFuturist How fabulously 2018 of you Mr. Rubble!

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Cockney Rebel@RebelHQ·3 Mar

@EVCurveFuturist Codswallop. When wind doesn't blow we get zero wind energy. You could multiply the number of turbines by 1,000 and you know how much wind would rise on a still day? Zilch, nothing, nada! 0 x 1000 = 0 So what happens at night when there is no wind or sun?

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Chris Meder@EVCurveFuturist·3 Mar

UK grid didn’t collapse. Early March. Solar pushing ~3GW — double gas. Wind doing the heavy lift. This is a country that once leaned heavily on fossil fuels. Now 0% coal. 70%+ renewables isn’t theory. It’s transition in motion. Wait till summer + storage scale. #Bettrification

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James Ross Heron@jamesrossheron·2 Mar

@DiscePuer @HugmikeL @aDissentient A real world use case there. FWIW, if anyone asks, I say ASHP CAN be good but you need decent installer and gas bills to really know. Unlike solar/battery, I’d pitch ASHP as an equivalent way of heating, not a cash cow. And right now, as a standalone, it deffo could cost more.

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Andrew Montford@aDissentient·1 Mar

Under the new energy price cap, electricity remains nearly five times the price of gas, so heat pumps are completely unviable.

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James Ross Heron@jamesrossheron·2 Mar

@DiscePuer @HugmikeL @aDissentient But all my numbers = anecdotal. The report you shared is across multiple properties. Me having a decent result shows you CAN have efficient house (even accidentally) but the UK report is more telling. Having had Victorian houses I can see where there would be challenges.

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James Ross Heron@jamesrossheron·2 Mar

@DiscePuer @HugmikeL @aDissentient Apols. My post makes no sense. Should have been 20.5 deg. morning and evening. 18 degrees daytime/overnight. Perhaps the fact that even when it’s minus figures outside, the heating doesn’t need to come on to maintain 18 deg. suggests we have a well-built 1960 British semi.

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James Ross Heron@jamesrossheron·2 Mar

@DiscePuer @HugmikeL @aDissentient If a house is a draughty sh1t-box, it’ll be a draughty sh1t-box with any heat source. 😋

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James Ross Heron@jamesrossheron·2 Mar

@HugmikeL @DiscePuer @aDissentient Understood. And thank you for engaging in conversation not written with crayons. I learnt stuff and nobody fell out. A good start to the week 🤣

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LFC Mike.@HugmikeL·2 Mar

@DiscePuer @jamesrossheron @aDissentient Apologies if I appear negative, I'm not. I'm a fan of heat pumps and have operated industrial ones to capture waste heat from chemical plants. With a positive CoP it's cheap energy but sadly with a 5to1 domestic price offset it's problematic.

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James Ross Heron@jamesrossheron·2 Mar

@DiscePuer @HugmikeL @aDissentient BTW, the reason I’m not feeling the pain on the bill despite having one is that we already had battery storage which buffers us from real world cost. Without the full energy ecosystem and in isolation, a lot of individual components don’t make sense.

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James Ross Heron@jamesrossheron·2 Mar

@DiscePuer @HugmikeL @aDissentient Understood. I also found via CGPT ‘typically around 2.8 – 3.5 in UK climates’ which surprised me. We had no mods or extra radiators etc but yours/my research suggests we’re lucky. That said, it’s still about elec. prices, not viability IMHO.

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James Ross Heron@jamesrossheron·2 Mar

@KWrudate @AdamLowisz @elonmusk I think 2026 will be the year we get a much truer picture. In Europe, BYD’s growth is rapid and you may be right if trajectory continues. But competing outside china is more challenging so we need another year of BYD growth/Tesla tail off to see the true picture IMHO.

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Kentsuh Wrudate@KWrudate·2 Mar

@jamesrossheron @AdamLowisz @elonmusk Still didn't top the list in China. Also the US wouldn't dare allow BYD to sell their cars there because Tesla would be clapped out

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Elon Musk@elonmusk·1 Mar

And it’s accelerating rapidly

Jesse Peltan@JessePeltan

I just want to highlight that while fuel use is down in China due to rapid EV adoption, coal generation is *also DOWN.* *That’s* how much solar they’re building. (everybody should do this)

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