"...even if things pick up, 2026 is likely to be one of the five worst harvests on record – four of which have occurred this decade, following extreme weather made more severe by climate change." www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

So, Mr Heath, why haven't we stopped climate change? Could it be anything to do with the repeated denial perpetrated by the right wing press?

4. The Sigenergy app open on my desktop. It shows the current state of the system and the flow of power from the solar panels to charge the battery and power the house. Also any export to the grid. Historical data for production and use, plus CO2 emissions prevented. A lot to discover!

3. All powered up. The control panel icons give an overview of what’s happening but see the next image for the App which is the real control panel.

2. It was feeding a 27kWh Sigenergy Sigenstor inside the of garage and from there it feeds the house.

Thread. 1. A 5kW solar array went on my garage roof today.

A new Sigenergy stack consisting of 27kWh of batteries, car charger and with the inverter at the top was installed in my garage today. Tomorrow a 5kW solar array will go in the roof. All part of my project to take this house, to which I moved at the end of May, off mains gas. 1/2

Canadian wildfire smoke in Milwaukee. "The record-breaking Air Quality Index in parts of the city measured over 600 on Thursday afternoon, ranking it among the worst air quality in [the] world and more than double the baseline of what is considered hazardous for all." www.msn.com/en-us/weathe...

The mains gas arterial that feeds the SW UK goes right past my new house. It’s currently being repaired. That pipe is around 300mm diameter. A worker told me, “we’ll never run out of gas”. My electrician just applied to the Grid on my behalf to connect solar panels, batteries and a heat pump :-)

Interestingly I see quite a few Peacocks here in Devon, but so far never a Swallowtail.

RW libertarian, Claire Fox, was on LBC last night. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_... She said (I paraphrase), "why don't we invest in the cheapest energy—fossil fuels?" FACT. Not only are renewables cheaper (graph below), we spend 5x more subsidising oil and gas: www.iisd.org/articles/pre...

The White House's Idiot-in-Chief does not understand that when scientists produced 4 projections 20+ years ago, based on four differing emissions scenarios, they knew the future had to show that at least 3 of them were bound to be unrepresentative of the unfolding reality. That was the point!

Transcript of part of a letter written by my father, Cyril Russell, age 22, back to his family in May 1942. He was a Royal Engineers sapper, part of 'Paiforce', prior to the invasion of Italy. [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persia_... ] A different time, a different world.

2/2 The ash tree on the left (thriving) and the one on the right (dead) have been growing alongside one another for about 20 yrs. 5 yrs ago they were the same size. Since the right ash died due to dieback, the left ash has continued growing and shows no sign of the disease. So far?

From X. A post by Ehsan Taghadosi. @demokracy An Iranian PhD candidate in International Relations / Middle East analyst. Based in Tehran...

I wasn't. Neither were you.

I'll believe a Mail on Sunday commentator on this one. Trump is a child. Worse; a dishonest child.

I struggled to work out the Artemis II image of Earth at night (left pic) until I realised it was 180 degrees rotated from the 'normal' way we would orient it (right pic), with the Sahara and Spain visible at top right. Of course, there's no 'up' in space :-)

This is what EVs should be: compact, cheap and very efficient. The new Renault Twingo is below £20,000 for the base model. 150 miles range from a 27.5 kWh battery (5.4 miles per kWh) is excellent.

Heavy smoke pall hanging over the northern side of Dartmoor this morning. That's Yes Tor on the right. Seen from Corn Ridge. Swaling? @dartmoorac.bsky.social

I first filmed a fusion project—the Joint European Torus at Culham, nr Oxford—in 1984. I interviewed the lead scientist who told us fusion was probably 30 years away. 42 years later is it any nearer? Maybe the Chinese know something the West doesn't? www.aveva.com/en/our-indus...

"I never said HPs don’t work effectively below 40F." Hmm?

It's quite understandable that I, and several others who replied to your post (shown below) thought you meant heat pumps struggle below 40F. It's a frequent claim. Sorry. We should have known you had another reason for augmenting your HP by also burning gas below 40F. Never heard of that before :-)

Graph of my 135sq m home's energy use (thanks to @octopus.energy) for a typical March day, both heating and power. 24hr clock at bottom. Spikes are my ground source heat pump kicking in. The gap in the middle is my solar panels generating. The constant drain is my MVHR and heating circ. pumps. 1/2

My father, a British sapper (Royal Engineers), was in Palestine for a short time during WW2 and I was researching where he was. I came across this map. So how big is Palestine in 2026?

When so many UK MP's were defecting to Reform, a UK GOV petition demanding by-elections was signed by 127,602. The Government's response (below) is based on an untruth. As much as politicians want to believe differently, most people aren't voting for the candidate, they're voting for the party.

Impacted? Oh, yes... (Pic of fracking in the USA).

UK 2025 Mean Temp Anomaly. We're more than 1.5℃ above the late 20th Century mean, never mind pre-industrial mean temperature levels.

Sick post from #Trump as he sinks to a new low. Rob Reiner and his wife died as a result of homicide.