Tourguide welcomes you to Scotland in January youtube.com/shorts/vbtmA...

Isn't this a telling aspiration? To want robots to look after your kids, so you can do stuff, rather than robots to do stuff, so you can spend time with your kids? The darkness inside these shrivelled men must be like a gaping unfillable void.

How much #AirPollution is created when you burn wood? 👉 Defra approved/#Ecodesign stove = 400 times more polluting than a gas boiler. 👉 Open fire = 4000 times more polluting than a gas boiler. Please think twice about burning if you don't need to. #WoodBurning

Another proud day for America.

🌾 Some spaces still left for Wednesday's lunchtime CPD about EcoCocon straw wall system, aimed at construction professionals. Free to attend but registration required 👇

Just seen greenlands eurovision entry youtu.be/hS0wFiWpU4U

Just for the record, and it’s insane that the mad king made me look this up, there is documentation of the US giving up all claim to Greenland to Denmark when we bought the Virgin Islands from them in 1916. history.state.gov/historicaldo...

Updated for 2026

It took us too long to realise when Musk called that cave rescuer a "pedo guy" he meant it as a compliment.

This is the short edit. Find the full stress test on our YouTube 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=asiY...

On your question on required flow temperatures. That's an interesting one. It seems that there are a very large number of properties in the UK with sufficient existing radiators to run at flow temperatures of between 45-50C without radiator upgrades. This is what enables HeatGeek's ZeroDisrupt model

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Can anyone here sell me the battery bit? MCS work refed showed £600/a saving for PV and £180 for battery - is that worth maybe £5K to install? Is there a UK merit in batteries in houses vs on grid or at solar farms? And wont my next EV be grid linkable anyway?

Newbuild ventilation loveliness! Ensuite and bathroom extract were teed to same external terminal - flexi duct broke already and both now vent into the loftspace

NEW RESEARCH: UK heat pumps can perform far better than many think. Our analysis of HeatPumpMonitor.org data shows well-designed systems achieve ~40% higher efficiency than past trials (SCoP 3.86 vs 2.81), cutting bills (~£224/yr) and emissions. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

Just came across this presentation by @glynhudson.bsky.social of heat pump performance monitoring comparing self monitored installs with those on electricification of heat trial - great insight into what makes heat pumps perform well, and how to fix systems that don't www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiHt...

I would have saved myself a lot of grief had I just said this

Do you have a heat pump on HeatPumpMonitor.org? If so, we need your help to compile real-world maximum output test data. Watch the video below for how to contribute. There should be some cold temperatures tonight and tomorrow. Thanks! ❄️ 🤞

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

A reminder that some of the money you spend at Amazon this Christmas will be used to build a tacky ballroom for billionaires.

Recently, we switched out the old wood stove in our house for an electric one. ✅️ Heats room quickly ✅️ Not killing my neighbours ✅️ Still hygge ✅️ No ashes to clean Win, win, win, win 🏆

Some places still available for passivhaus open day at Old Holloway on 8th November Book 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/old-hollow...

Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

Still plenty of time to book places for the winter version of Passivhaus open days in November 👇

In Wales, Cornwall, Edinburgh, London and so many places when most 30mph roads were changed to 20mph, people injured or killed by motor vehicles reduced by 20%+. With minimal change to journey times and £2bn saving in insurance costs it's a huge win. bit.ly/4gIBPlJ

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows. The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets. 🧵⤵️

Don't threaten us with a good time, Daily Express.

Migrants, and the children of migrants, have been caring for my 92-year-old Mum after a nasty fracture and helping her back to independence, this past 6 weeks. Where we would be as a family without them, God only knows. We thank each and every one of them from the bottom of our hearts ❤️

ummm.. holy shit? tool use in bovids confirmed? holy holy shit?

Via The Independent: Donald Trump’s false claim that London ‘wants to go to Sharia law’ has been described as ‘appalling and bigoted’ by Mayor Sadiq Khan. The Muslim Council of Britain responded: “We pray for Mr Trump's health and wellbeing as his hallucinations seem to be getting worse by the day”

A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

Nazis ban comedians shock.. NYT, 4 Feb 1939

It's not summer any more

Timeline cleanse

waka wake

EXCLUSIVE - ASK NIGEL is back! This week an anonymous Prime Minister asks, 'How can I stop fixating so much on foreigners?' open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

You could make it up, but people would think you were having them on. LOCAL FLAG TWAT FORMER PEOPLE SMUGGLER SHOCKER. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

As Farage pledges to open up Britain for fracking, hilariously the Reform-led council in Lancashire says “oh, there’ll be no fracking HERE” Self-serving shambolic hypocrisy, borne out of knowing that fracking is deeply unpopular in Lancashire - and everywhere www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

🤔How does Passivhaus design help keep buildings cool? Read our summary of Passivhaus summer comfort strategies & sign up for our upcoming webinar: www.passivhaustrust....

As someone living in Germany, I can attest that external shutters & inward opening windows, which also tilt, are amazing for keeping heat out in summer & warmth in in winter. Better for sleeping too, as rooms remain dark and external noise ⬇️. Cleaning outside of windows easy too. No brainer really👍

I’ve documented protests for decades. The asylum hotel protests I’ve photographed have all been very small. When I first turned up at the Newcastle protest, and asked the police where the protesters were, they pointed to one man and said he’s over there.

Cheap ebay carbon seatposts aren't what they were

It’s hot 🥵 in Slovakia, 37C in the shade. So glad my parents’ place is highly insulated and has external shading installed. It’s 48-68C surface temperature on the outside and comfy 22C inside, with no air conditioning

My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books #holiday #vacation #reading

This is such an incredible poster.