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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 02/01/2025

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'destroyed many solar panels & some of the transformers...Replacing transformers & swapping out destroyed panels allowed the farms, 400 MW worth, to be back up in seven days...attack on a thermal generating station, which experienced a similar amount of damage, took three to four months to rebuild'

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Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I think I heard Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today programme accidentally refer to AI as “alternative intelligence”. I think we should use that instead of “artificial”.

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Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

100% what i think we need to do with all material production- reverse the carbon arrow ⬇️ not ⬆️ (and its engineers not scientists doing this…)

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 18/12/2024

going to keep posting about this piece because I really think that everyone online should read it: www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

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Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I’m a bit the same with reading too - if ChatgPt summarises research I’ll miss those subtle signals in the turns of phrase and asides that v often provoke new lines of thought.

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Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Yeah i know i made the same case last week or so. I just think that the first real step that is directly HP relevant is rad upgrades. Either way all for making eg green additional borrowing more widely available for longer 0% terms on wider changes supporting lower energy use

Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

But it cant be meaningfully 2 steps. It can be a tiny ridge (eg. New rads) then a big ol’ step (outdoor & indoor units). Anything else makes no sense. And even that doesnt make total sense for a lot of homes

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Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Nice thread - the question is: how? It’s not just a matter of stripping back all the governance & saying “go on then!” I’ve got some ideas… will post next week…

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Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Agree with @gemmamilne.bsky.social also it appears you’re still (rightly) “shouting at engineers”. Keen to help in that chorus. Otherwise i now find it difficult *not* to see tech enterprises like AI or DAC or AVs as anything but a political enterprise that concentrates power in engineering culture

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Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Did anyone else know it was £100 for a covid jab…? Cant get my head around that…

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100% especially if the switch involves: - Gaining internal useful space - Cheaper heating/hot water - Redecorating - Zero up front outlay (capital investment in part built into energy tariff)

Something like that. I think I’d be inclined to set up a ministore manufacturing site (govt majority owned public corp) to mass supply these. Probably cd also do something with electric- coupled showers & taps here too to balance space/power/DHW demands…

I def think that a better BUS-use is free rad upgrades & i’d also add a more centralised record of heat loss calcs. Poss subsidised so you pay say £50 and its valid for 1-2 years or something…

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Yes I’ve seen the ministore & its def an innovation that will unlock a few more homes but one challenge is its not part of any major manufacturers delivery or installation programme… & its not clear what the incentive Is for anyone to make it so… as such it is *more* expensive than current options

…of heat pump installs in UK. Nothing really to do directly with the spark gap. Of course it will help a bit to reduce it much like the RHI helped. But as we see with 0 effect of boosting the BUS by 50% the issues are more complex than cost and regs.

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…gained. I think there must be many in my position given our terrace is the second most common house type after semis) and the speed of fitting new boilers means the demand for HPs is likely going to remain suppressed. Only savvy old non-combi boiler hhs are going to pursue this hence the slow rise…

…maybe £40 less per month with savings concentrated on shoulder months (heating on, high COPs). So overall I will have taken on a lot of extra finance, brought in a lot of work into the house with a new uncertain system (aira guarantee helps but demands space with indoor units), lost space and not…

…the banks green additional borrowing which allows me to spread this cost (& new double glazed sashes) over 16 yrs with first 5 years 0%. V favourable finance. At best, using the cosy tariff with Octopus (12p off peak waves thru day, 24p most of rest of time) heating costs probably a bit less…

…costs could be reduced a bit by selling (?) our newish boiler (fitted 2 years ago before we moved in) so could bring the net cost to say £5500. But this still doesnt necessarily solve our cold kitchen which needs remodelling & prob underfloor heating… so that aside, this could be funded with…

…their boiler-sized compact indoor unit… which would go where the boiler is. Ok except one bonus of a new system is that it could free up space in our 100m2 house… our boiler is boxed up in the box room making it a box room rather than the bedroom it should be… so ok… no real gains, some losses…

…visually. Indoor: we’d need space for the cylinder & indoor unit. They recommended 250l for 4 of us, but our spare loft space is too short to fit anything more than a 200l. Which is ok if we also fit a flow limiting showerhead & use the cosy tariff to top up if needed. Then we’d need space for…

So we got a quote from Octopus (online), Ovo (online) - both £7500 post BUS. aira came & quoted £7000 inc £1700 replacing all rads (only half prob need it). So a good deal probably. But we’d need to have the outdoor unit in the side return (blocks side return space) or wall mounted (not great

Glyn Hudson @glynhudson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

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Try running the numbers using a heat pump electric tariff like OVO Plus which is 15p/kWh, it's possible to deliver heat at 3p/kWh which is less than half the price of gas, take a look at the system oin HPM heatpumpmonitor.org?mode=costs&t...

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Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Hot take: getting an air-to-water heat pump when you have a ~7 year old or younger combi boiler in a 120m2 (or smaller) UK property is both an act of self-harm & an act of communal healing. I could thread this but I’m pretty tired rn

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About 1.3m if we dont inslate the rafters - a 200l probably fits. Figure we can probably live ok with it if: 7l/min flow limiter on shower Maybe higher storage temp to mix down to greater vol (do they do that normally w/ a mixer shower?) Using cosy we can recharge during day if AM showers & PM baths

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Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Thanks Glyn - That’s what I thought. I’ll see if I can persuade them not to install - it will presumably save costs & space, disruption. Next challenge is the hot water cylinder… we dont have vertical space for a 250l so will see if they offer something shorter or horizontal…

Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Another #heatpump question - am exploring an AIRA system which seems to come with a min 40l buffer - this seems unnecessary if we have a 200l cylinder so do we *really* need it? Doesnt seem essential… will ask them but wanted independent expert views @glynhudson.bsky.social ?

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Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

We have “AI” (supposebly) but my sharepoint filesystem still orders files/folders with numbers in the name by putting “Week 10” above “Week 1”…

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Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Anyone recently get a heat pump moving from a standard ~5p gas tarriff & ~20-24p elec tariff to Octopus cosy… and with a SCOP of 3.5… does your new elec bill compare to your old gas & elec? Do you make a decent monthly saving (eg £50/month)?

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/11/2024

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“Given the high stakes of climate change, it is foolhardy to rely on DAC to be the hero that comes to our rescue.” Despite this, we are seeing direct air capture carbon removal credits bought up by companies making extreme promises - eg, Microsoft promising to remove *all* its historical emissions

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Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I think all those guys in that picture are AI-generated. It’s making 8000 of them a year.

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Nathan Gambling @betatalk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

HEAT PUMPS WERE HEATING UK BUILDINGS BEFORE NATURAL GAS BOILERS EXISTED. Here is the world's first ship which was capable of transporting Methane. It docked at Canvey Island, England in 1959. The first heat pump system installed in the UK was 1928

A black and white photo of the Methane Pioneer. This was the first ship in the world to transport natural gas, Methane. It is docked at Canvey Island, England

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Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Great! thanks - really appreciate the tips!

Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

@oliver-kathryn.bsky.social do you know of any papers looking at the efficacy of legislating for evidence use in government? Running a debate with my MPA cohort & struggling to find any papers on it. Cheers!

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Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Falling is just uncontrolled walking.

Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I have a PhD in brain sciences and yet I cannot figure out how I am supposed to programme this central heating thermostat so that it doesnt drop the set point to 10deg during the day… What this shows is how engineers basically make a policy to say “dont mess with your heating & dont turn it off”

Dr Adam Cooper @draccoops.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

First proper post on bluesky. What Xwitter account do you wish was ober here but isnt (yet)? I’ll start: @andrewrousso Going full dark Academia with the quarter-zip clique