@bonaldi90 @dmmsell Yeah that’s the problem with this. It looks good on paper - free energy, but you can’t see so 🤷
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Bat
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@_oksure
director of software engineering for elsevier’s web and marketing automation team. views are obscure and terrible and my own, unfortunately
شامل ہوئے Aralık 2015
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@dmmsell But that's not good for the cars we drive. What about visibility? Do we stick our heads out the window?!
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@simonsarris Yeah they decimate everything except problem weeds - they let those grow and destroy any competition
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Biggest lesson of 2025 was that trying to make a large ornamental garden and have free-range chickens is completely insane, counter productive
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@AndyH_England @JordanEVGuy Good job nobody is proposing we rely purely on wind then isn’t. Ffs
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@JordanEVGuy It does show that you cannot rely on wind. The forecast is for a couple of weeks of windless weather, and if we were just relying on wind, we'd be in trouble.
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Not as pathetic as pushing the fossil agenda for free.
They are becoming back up more and more.
It takes a strange human to want worse for us all.
Latimer Alder@latimeralder
Been a bad day for our world-leading 'wind power' in Britain. Making just 10% of our electricity (2% of our total energy) Pathetic
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@refactorfiend I’m getting old and at this level my area is kind of huge, so if there’s a spot in a code base I/we wanna return to, or an idea for solution/feature/whatever, it’s really helpful to just get it down - markdown, failing test, poc repo; then mentally offload
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@_oksure yes all the way. and also yes i have a "backlog" of all the ideas and re-designs that come to mind 😅
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where do ai coding agents deliver the most value for you?
→ code features faster
→ deploy more frequently
→ deploy with fewer bugs
→ find bugs faster
→ do less rework
→ some/all of the above
drop your answer below
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@refactorfiend Also designing features/applications - people bash spec driven stuff lately but I think getting ideas locked in and reviewing them and being able to forget about them is good. We also have context limits so I like not having to hold it all up here and get it down there instead
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@_oksure def helps with testing especially when you clarify intent
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so far i find it's easier to find bugs. and coding features faster
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@jeffmoth @DeanH2963 @colinwalker79 You first need to figure out what it is you’re trying to communicate. If you’re trying to communicate that the sun isn’t on 24 hours a day, then we know that already. The wind blows more or less throughout the day - totally onboard with that. So what is it you’re getting at?
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@_oksure @DeanH2963 @colinwalker79 It’s impossible to communicate with green zealots. Just walk away Deano.
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People who ‘follow the data’ would probably use a sample period that’s a little longer than 12 hours
How about, say, the last 12 months?
In which time renewables have generated 42% of the UK’s electricity
Gas, meanwhile, is at 28%
Latimer Alder@latimeralder
'We can rely on wind power' say the Green Grifters and Politicos 'Oh no we can't!' says Latimer 12 hours ago wind was making nearly 15% of Britain's electricity. Now its just 4%. Its gone on strike. And there's nothing we can do about it.
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@DeanH2963 @jeffmoth @colinwalker79 Most pushback against renewables is people saying things like “look haha it’s not windy today I guess I’ll turn off my heating” or “well what happens when it gets dark at night hurhurhur”. Your variability argument is exactly this kind of thinking dressed in a suit
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You’re the only one reframing this as an “all-or-nothing” argument. No one has claimed 100% or 0%.
The point is variability, which you’ve already acknowledged by saying other sources are needed. Fossil fuels are dispatchable, which is why they are used to cover those gaps.
I’ll leave it there. You’re repeating the same claim without support.
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@DeanH2963 @jeffmoth @colinwalker79 But it’s moot. That’s my point. You rail against renewables because you’re thinking in terms of a binary source of energy, when that’s not even the reality with fossil fuels - we supply the grid with what’s appropriate and the consumers don’t know or care
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@_oksure @jeffmoth @colinwalker79 Variability is the exact point Latimer was making, and the point both you ( Bat ) and Colin have tried to pivot away from.
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@DeanH2963 @jeffmoth @colinwalker79 It’s still a moot point - nobody refutes that it doesn’t produce 24/7. Why do you push back on it providing 30/50/75/100% when it can and use other sources when it can’t? You have an all or nothing point of view which I challenge
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@_oksure @jeffmoth @colinwalker79 There is a clear physical distinction:
Variable output fluctuates.
Controllable output can be dispatched when needed.
That difference is exactly why variability matters at the point of demand.
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@DeanH2963 @jeffmoth @colinwalker79 Deano is either a bot or not intelligent enough to write their own rebuttal. They use AI to refute the point which in turn tries to draw a distinction between Deano’s original point about variability and Bat’s point about non-variability when there isn’t one.
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Bat's response replaces a reliability argument with a “100% output” strawman, shifts the metric away from variability, and then dismisses the position rather than addressing how short-term gaps are actually managed. There are at least seven logical issues in Bat’s response.
Variability is not a moot point. It is the exact issue that needs to be addressed with renewables.
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@jeffmoth @DeanH2963 @colinwalker79 But it’s a moot point, because nobody is claiming that wind/sun/hydro is 100% always producing energy. Anti-renewable rhetoric is always framed in this all or nothing sense and that’s not how anything works. Anyone making this kind of argument is just being deliberately obtuse
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@DeanH2963 @colinwalker79 👆This is the exact point that green zealots fail to grasp.
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@Tongkat100 @JonathanWiltsh7 @TiceRichard @reformparty_uk Why would you think that I am happy with poor exploited workers? Are you happy with countries getting blown to pieces and sanctioned for oil? Get a grip man
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@_oksure @JonathanWiltsh7 @TiceRichard @reformparty_uk So your happy with the poor conditions these people/children are working in?
And if those countries won't or don't improve conditions?
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REMEMBER
The Tories gave you Net Zero which meant higher energy bills and higher taxes
Labour then made it worse
Only @reformparty_uk can be trusted to cut your bills by scrapping Net Zero
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@Tongkat100 @JonathanWiltsh7 @TiceRichard @reformparty_uk We really don’t, and if we did, it is not nationalised, goes into the global reserve for sale. Slave labour and so forth are strawman arguments. You can push for better working conditions for the workers of these mines and for renewable energy/energy independence at the same time
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@_oksure @JonathanWiltsh7 @TiceRichard @reformparty_uk We have our own gas and oil availability.
The destruction of the planet to extract and manufacture rare earth for solar/batteries/turbines is more toxic.
The human cost/Slave labour/working conditions of extraction of cobalt and lithium etc is horrific.
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@Tongkat100 @JonathanWiltsh7 @TiceRichard @reformparty_uk Can burnt oil or gas be recycled? Are gas and oil companies not subsidised heavily? What do you suppose happens when supply is blocked due to wars? Are refineries, drills, fracking, etc safe and non-toxic?
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@_oksure @JonathanWiltsh7 @TiceRichard @reformparty_uk Look at what happened in Spain,Black outs.
Farm land destroyed.
Solar panels don't last,They can't be recycled.
Sky high subsidising so its not cheap.
No wind or sun = blackouts.
Dangerous battery farms.
Its a toxic unsustainable con.
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@Tongkat100 @JonathanWiltsh7 @TiceRichard @reformparty_uk Plus China are massively invested in renewable energy - the fact their energy costs are lower is not mysterious - they generate a large proportion of it directly into their grid in their country
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@Tongkat100 @JonathanWiltsh7 @TiceRichard @reformparty_uk How do we not benefit from moving to renewable energy - our energy prices are no longer tethered to global gas or oil prices controlled by foreign countries and huge fossil corporations. The price of goods in countries with lower costs of living are irrelevant to energy security
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@Tongkat100 @JonathanWiltsh7 @TiceRichard @reformparty_uk Have you thought this through at all? Like any research at all on who benefits from keeping us reliant on fossil fuels? Any ideas about what’s behind most wars? Do you see much “market fluctuation” in the cost of the sun, or the wind, or the tides?
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@JonathanWiltsh7 @TiceRichard @reformparty_uk Netzero and global warming are a massive con.
Its designed to extract billions from people to line the pockets of the elites.
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