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youngtaff
5mo ago
This Estonian companies does that https://roofit.solar/
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5mo ago
There’re commonly used on new build houses in the UK — new roofs in the UK have a waterproof but breathable membrane under the tiles Also see https://roofit.solar/ used in a few houses… mainly self build a or architect desi
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youngtaff
5mo ago
What 40k cars were available on Motability?
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5mo ago
Article in the Guardian suggested the medic had been in a tandem jump before bu the doctor hadn't (or it might be the other way around)
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youngtaff
5mo ago
There’s not actually that much high level waste… thing the UK has a couple swimming pools worth after 50 years of operating reactors
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youngtaff
5mo ago
Currently reading it and I’d agree!
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5mo ago
> The other major issue with "free money" is that it is purely inflationary, Free money as in quantitative easing that overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy?
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5mo ago
There are / were no £40k+ cars available on Motability Can't find it now but there's a breakdown of the cars supplied somewhere and even when small BMWs etc were available very few people chose them - most people chose smalle
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5mo ago
Yes and to get a 'luxury car' aka small Audi, BMW or Mercedes someone had to put down a deposit of £3,000 of their own money
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5mo ago
This has a breakdown of the numbers by fuel type, brand etc. https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/
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5mo ago
Motability is not 'a Government scheme that buys people cars' People use the mobility part of their PIP payments to lease a car from Motability which is an independent company, they could use the mobility payment to pay for taxi i
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5mo ago
Diesel is down YoY https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/
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5mo ago
How long does it take to get from a helipad to the terminals at JFK?
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5mo ago
Even at 15 Euros I bet its way cheaper than a helicopter or electric VTOL aircraft
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6mo ago
iOS Safari definitely used BoringSSL last time I checked it with Frida
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6mo ago
> The UK does not have a good, cheap solution plentiful cheap electric in the next decade or two, so any major increase in demand will mean even higher costs. Of course it does… the UK has tariffs that change by electricity demand and su
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6mo ago
Nope… People who receive PIP can choose to use to lease a car from Motability which is an independent scheme Those people could equally choose to have an ICE car
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6mo ago
Yes… but (from memory) someone recreated it but can remember who
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6mo ago
Just introduce a charge per mile for EVs as the current government have already done ICE cars are already hugely subsidised by ignoring the health issues they cause e.g. air pollution What we really need in the UK is better mass transit sys
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6mo ago
iOS (and MacOS) now use Google’s BoringSSL instead and have for many years
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6mo ago
The Spruce Mine story was a classic case of this hysteria as there were other sources of pure silica e.g. Norway
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6mo ago
And of course it's now flagged…
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6mo ago
What evidence is there than industrial customers want general purpose humanoid robots over specialist ones?
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6mo ago
???
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6mo ago
So cleaner air, more efficient buildings etc is against the interests and benefits on the voters>
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6mo ago
ESI = Edge Side Includes think Server Side Includes on a CDN technology as supported by Akamai and used by sites like Ikea to deliver a fast maintainable experience VCL = Varnish Configuration Language i.e. how you configure your Fastly ser
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7mo ago
Thanks… I’ll have a read through though I’m highly skeptical of anyone who’s a member of Toby Young’s Free Speech Union… it says a lot about their political leanings
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Where’s his methodology? How does he separate the CfD price from the market price that’s being set by renewables? Where’s his evidence that using gas would be cheaper than renewables?
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7mo ago
That was for a weekly peak in the data… Britain has never had a price of 1.90 / litre for any sustained length of time Your original comment remains misleading
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7mo ago
Grangemouth has been precarious for years and has received tens of millions in public subsidies High electricity prices aren’t really a thing for oil refineries as they’re capable of generating their own as Valero Pembroke does
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