bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 17/09/2026Would be interesting to see this without films that have since been issued. Girl/Boy has been out on Indicator for 4.5 years now. Adieu Philippine finally appeared via Radiance's recent Rozier boxset. I'm sure there are others... so I wonder what are the current top missing films. 004
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 06/09/2026You still have to decide exactly which millisecond the ball left the passer's boot. Personally I'm happy to trust the semi-automated system since at least it will be unbiased, i.e. you should get the same outcome if the teams were reversed. 100
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 06/09/2026per The Book, Scandal was also previewed on 18/2/89 (billed as "A Scandalous Sneaky Preview of a Brand New British Movie") 100
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 01/09/2026I saw YHWH Nailgun live last year... appropriately enough at Scala 010
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 17/08/2026Really should be watched immediately following Sátántangó so you're in the correct headspace. 001
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 15/08/2026There's only so far the "beatbox and a dozen obvious samples" formula could go. Still there's something about "Pump Up The Volume", "Theme From S-Express", or "Beat Dis" that just sends me straight back in time. 010
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 15/08/2026In my long-ago DJ days it rarely left my crate. A guilty pleasure, but just to much fun to mix with. 110
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 12/08/2026Man, that's a shame. I can't claim to have followed all of his output, but I remember bumping the Meets Kouhei album in the day. More recently there was the Still Ill record on Veyl which I liked a lot. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf04...youtube.comSupreme Low - Raw Shit feat. Sensational (official video)YouTube video by Veyl 010
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/07/2026101 years ago in 1936? Man, how long was that nap I just took? 011
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026Other places need to keep expanding trans-national grids for the same reason. 090
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026If you want to know why China is going to big on long-distance HVDC this is it. At a national scale they have lots of both available and are building a grid capable of using them. 190
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026One catch (there is always one, isn't there) is that not everybody has both. If you imagine the perfet location for a solar farm it would be in loads of flat, worthless desert. 110
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026Yep, it's an under-appreciated fact about hydro. If you have enough solar panels combined with hydro your net-zero grid can take shape quite simply. 110
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026Essentially it becomes a spreadsheet project balancing depreciation and financing costs against benefit to the grid. But at least in theory it could be a part of a future grid strategy. Not a new idea, either. Aluminium smelters know all about it. 000
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026This isn't trivial in practice, either. Not every industrial process can scale up and down easily. Even if it can, it means you paid for expensive machines that aren't being used to their full capacity. 100
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026What is less sexy but probably more hopeful is if processes like electrolysis, desalination can form part of demand-side management. i.e. crank up production when electricity is abundant since you can store what you produce. 100
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026I'm unexcited. First, we're a long way from those conditionals being true. Second, it has the same problem as iron-air: poor electricity-to-electricity cycle efficiency. So it's only cheap in some imagined future and it may still be uncompetitive. 100
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026Now the storage story is this: *IF* we already were producing massive amounts of green hydrogen and *IF* we were so good at it that it was super-cheap *THEN* we could also use it for electrical storage. 100
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026So massively expanding hydrogen production is an important goal for that reason alone: it's a critical industrial input. You can get it the dirty way (dig up a hydrocarbon, carbon atoms end up in CO₂ molecules) or the clean way (take it from H₂O) 110
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026The simple fact is that if you want to decarbonise the production of some important products like steel and ammonia you're going to need a lot of electrolysis to get there. That's just chemistry: if you are making NH₃ you need to get those hydrogen atoms from somewhere. 110
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026Yes. A lot of the online discussion about hydrogen focussed on very surface-level analysis ("hydrogen cars failed, duh" or "it's a storage medium not a fuel, in case you didn't notice). But that's not the real hydrogen story. 100
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026A decade ago, chemical batteries were expensive enough that the alternative options (redox options, compressed gas, etc) seemed like reasonable bets. But if Na-ion hits the price points it's looking likely to then I doubt the "cheap but inefficient" options still have a lane. 100
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026So the iron-air (or whatever) battery story is this: you can reduce the "X" number because the battery will be so cheap, but you also reduce the "Y" number because it's so inefficient. The question is: does this math ever work out? 110
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026So to be more precise you're saying "I'm going to spend £X on generation *and* storage infrastructure, and provide the grid with Y GWh, some fraction of which will pass through my storage medium" 110
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026....and in a high-renewable world (where you are producing enough carbon-free electricity to cover >100% of load at peak production) then some of that "Y GWh" will reach the final grid user with an intermediate stopover in storage somewhere. 110
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026Look at it this way: when installing solar/wind/whatever you're saying "I'm going to spend £X on infrastructure and it's going to provide the grid with Y GWh of energy". 110
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026That's not the way to think about the costs, especially at a "whole-grid" view. Treating the excess energy as an free externality warps the cost-benefit analysis. 110
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026There are still cases where other tech like redox-flow or iron-air have theoretical advantages, but I think that the emergence of Na-Ion eats too much of their niche. If that keeps them from scaling then their "floor price" will never be reality. 110
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026My personal (admittedly amateur) gut check is that Na-Ion and pumped hydro (where possible) are the two technology winners, plus on-site thermal storage for industrial uses. 210
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026...Plus Iron-air is significantly less cycle efficient (nearly 2x compared to Li-ion or Na-ion) so even if they can be made cheaper, you'll be spending it on operating cost (i.e. putting in more energy per amount you get out later) 210
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026I'm still sceptical about the "future floor" since so much comes to manufacturing scale. It looks like Na-ion will get over that hump... 120
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 27/06/2026All true but how much do the advantages hold up vs Sodium-ion? To me that seems to have the brightest future for fixed batteries. 120
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 24/06/2026...although IIRC the Unix PC's custom MMU was very limited too. In particular addressed just 4 MiB - both on the physical and virtual side. 000
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 22/06/2026Somehow feels I'm being taunted after surviving Sátántangó the other night... 000
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 14/06/2026The person you responded to just said "the tech" is getting cheaper. Which is certainly true. Electricity in the UK is relatively expensive but operating an EV is still well cheaper for most people than petrol or diesel per-km. 000
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 14/06/2026Batteries certainly are. ourworldindata.org/battery-pric...ourworldindata.orgBattery costs have declined by 99% in the last three decades, making electrified transport a realityBatteries have become much cheaper, making energy storage far more affordable. 020
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 09/06/2026Now the 45th time you've posted this story, but at least this time you forgot to include a link. bsky.app/search?q=%22...bsky.app 000
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 30/05/2026They're an interesting group www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3gS...youtube.comPints, Pier Pressure, and Passion | Eastbourne Town's Non-League UltrasYouTube video by COPA90 000
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 29/05/2026Actually the 44th time they've posted this story, but who's counting? (Other than me) bsky.app/search?q=%22...bsky.app 010
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 14/05/2026Not in the slightest. www.the-londoner.co.uk/story-of-cla...the-londoner.co.ukSeizing the means of promotionHow to mount a coup at a non-league, east London football club 110
bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk · 11/05/2026Yes, look at "Council Now" numbers. Not every seat there was up for election this round. 020
