I especially love this diagram.

This is new - time for bed and I want to open up the windows for night cooling - but it's still warmer outside! Yesterday was 22 C at this time, today 27 (and 25 C inside)

You all don't get the joke. Let the #AI explain:

Ladies and gentlemen, for your entertainment I present to you what might well be the most carefully compiled word search ever.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

From 7am - great job on night ventilation for cooling in living room, but it smells kind of damp in here! I suspect 97% RH is a bit inaccurate but pretty sure >90%

Mechanism and updated prediction for the epic fail of Lincoln Memorial Bioreactor's polyurea coating! First chemistry, then physics It was sprayed in big sections. In addition to pool edges, failure will concentrate at the OVERLAP SEAMS between sections because they likely barely bonded at all. 1/x

Does the country have enough PV and battery storage? Clearly not:

An aspiring Telegraph columnist is “thrilled” that her four-year-old daughter is autistic, due to all the hand-wringing articles she can get out of it about her horror at not getting exactly the child she wanted, throughout the daughter’s teens and even well into her adult life.

NEW PODCAST: Bill Butcher and Chris Herring, founders of 21 Degrees, give us the lowdown on their own group self build project. www.houseplanninghelp.com/400 #Passivhaus #PassiveHouse #SelfBuild

A few thoughts from me on this populist sillyness about air con (not) being banned in new builds and why it's perfectly reasonable and sensible to focus on fabric measures first to reduce overheating. Air conditioning alone will never keep Britain cool www.lbc.co.uk/article/air-...

About time I did this - retrofit external blind for velux roofwindow

passivehouseaccelerator.com/events/live-... Looking forward to this with Jon Broome this afternoon (5pm BST)

Ahh, I can see we’re entering “weird European Puritanism about air conditioning while people die of heatstroke” season

We're especially worried about climate change in archives because there's going to reach a point where it's too hot for corduroy. A lot of archivists will have to fundamentally change their fashion choices. The rest of us will die with our honour.

Yes, I agree. Only billionaires should be allowed on this mission. As many of them as possible. We wouldn't want any of them to feel left out! What an exciting opportunity for all of us.

Building new homes to passivhaus standard, would reduce the cooling demand. Insulation protects against heat in summer as well as cold in winter. Dense bio insulation such as straw, woodfibre or hemp have a long temperature buffering period up to 18 hours, protecting against heat spikes for longer.

I have no patience with the persisting disdain for cooling in UK buildings. We don't see heating as a design failure. We see unaffordable heating and/or discomfort as the failure. So it should also be with cooling, surely?

Atmospheric CO₂ of 340 ppm

Zack Polanski is discovering you don’t need hypnotherapy to make a massive boob.

🌱 We will be running two 1-day in-person training days on designing and building with EcoCocon straw wall system, a mix of theory and practice: 5th August Carlisle 19th August NSBRC Swindon If you're an architect, homeowner or a builder seriously interested in joining, please let me know.

I used to think thw German Greens transitioning Germany away from nuclear and renewables and back toward coal was the most anti-green Green Party policy I'd see in Europe, but subsidising fossil fuel usage during the best transition opportunity of our lifetimes gives it a run for its money

Yay for healthy Passivhaus! "The ... Passivhaus Low Energy Building Standard was central to improving residents’ health and wellbeing by reducing energy bills, enhancing ventilation, and maintaining stable indoor temperatures." Good for hearts and lungs, and safer winters for vulnerable residents.

Putin’s aims for Ukraine are textbook genocidal. He says Ukraine doesn’t get to exist, that Ukrainian language & culture doesn’t exist. His actions - civilian massacres, occupation, executing people who have Ukrainian symbols, the child abductions - all genocidal

Creating a humanoid robot that can catch you no matter how fast you can run does not actually give the comfort the manufacturer intended.

Buring stuff is bad - who knew? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We need to judge a political party by what they do with their power. The Green Party aren’t serious about tackling climate change. Large Solar Farms are the lowest carbon, lowest cost energy we can get. They are also more biodiverse than the farmland they will replace.

@catherinerowett.bsky.social Hey Catherine, how are you? Good I hope. 😊 So, many of us have now seen the BBC article where you oppose large scale solar farms. While I understand your concerns re your local community, you do know this is impractical don't you? (1) www.bbc.com/news/article...

A HUGE, narrative-breaking moment for the UK car market New EVs are now cheaper than petrol cars on average, says Autotrader Last yr CCC said price parity was due by 2028 – and it's already here And EVs are already MUCH cheaper to run than petrol

re-upping this following yet more fossil-fuel-friendly comments from the Tony Blair Institute - How ‘out of touch’ Tony Blair became a serious threat to climate action - ex-PM’s lucrative links with fossil fuel nations criticised #cllimatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I went to a new opticians today, old glasses never been 100% After eyetest the optician put my glasses in his lensmeter which fed detailed optical spec into his computer. Noted my new prescription was 0.25 diopter higher, maybe worth new glasses. At home I looked at old precsription: same as todays

Currently on 51% to rejoin

"The image clearly depicts me as a simple vendor of seafood sandwiches"

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 Nothing that was ever real has been lost, and slightly more of a grasp on reality has been gained 👍👍👍

One is reminded of the story of King Croesus, who, before attacking Persia, consulted the oracle. The oracle told him that if he proceeded, he would destroy a great nation. What Croesus didn't realize was that the nation would be his own.

Don't subsidise energy prices during a supply crisis: give cash transfers to low-income and vulnerable households instead.

🚨NEW BLOGPOST 🚨 The Hormuz crisis has a real chance of causing energy shortages in the UK. The government is insisting it's business as usual, and opposition parties are arguing for fiscal measures that will stoke shortages. Neither is serious. open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...

"Boldly going where no man has gone before..."

That woman is a legend. No fucking about arguing, just straight under there. Also "Can you please go away, this is a national emergency." = derisive laughter from me.

💥 BREAKING NEWS: the UK has officially entered its Straw Era 🌾

Really enjoyed this by @evanhd.bsky.social - especially the line about this being the first time since the Stone Age we’ve moved away from burning stuff to keep ourselves warm. And he’s right about the central problem in Britain: electricity is just too expensive relative to gas (unlike in France)

It's happening #R4Today

; BREAKING! 🚨 Farage wants to cancel Christmas and ban Easter! no Christmas lights in Trafalgar square, blessing of the crib ceremony cancelled, carol singing forbidden, Christmas tree can fuck off back to Norway, Good Friday crucifixon re-enactment cancelled. ReFoRm HaS gOnE WoKe!!!

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

Heat pumps are the most efficient heating technology ever invented. They harvest and compress pre existing heat in the air, ground or water and transport it where it is needed. That energy is all around us. It does not have to pass through the Strait of Hormuz or any other geopolitical chokepoint.