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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Looking forward to the whole thread!

Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My Italian rowing coach used to make something almost identical (with buffalo mozzarell instead of brie) every summer. It’s delicious.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
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autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s changed a lot in the past few years. Most of Historic England’s heat pump case studies are air conditioners. historicengland.org.uk/images-books...

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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If England win tonight they'll face Mexico next. The two countries in this world cup where I've had the best Mexican food.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

What does it say about me that one of those is being sold by the dad of one of my school friend?

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Thread. I'm listening with horror to this BBC interview, which is ostensibly about climate change. Liam Young is an Australian architect who saw Blade Runner and decided "that's the vision of the future we need." Wait, what?🧵

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BBC Radio 4 - This Cultural Life, Liam Young

Artist, filmmaker and speculative architect Liam Young reveals his cultural influences.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Completely agree. We should be using the fact that aircon is a high-status item to drive heat pump adoption. There’s a grant for air-to-air, but no-one is accessing it (yet), as the installer qualifications are much too onerous for the kind of companies that fit domestically. A classic fail.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

So that is going to be at least £1.95/day for a panel heater vs £1.65/day for a heat pump (that always keeps your room at an ideal temperature). In practice modern heat pumps optimisers (Havenwise, Adia Thermal, Homely, Passiv) save much more than 20%! Heat pumps are better!

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

You might say that you only put the Panel heaters on when you are in the living room. This is less comfortable, but doable. The heat output for this period will need to be 25% higher. So assume a heat load of 1.25kW for 6 hours. Which is 7.5kWh. But this is likely to be at Standard or peak rate.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

So so for a living room: Daily panel heater cost in Passivhaus - £0.96/day Heat pump cost in Passivhaus - £0.27/day Panel heater in Victorian Semi - £4.80/day Heat Pump cost in Victoria Semi - £1.60/day

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

But to answer your specific questions, here are some assumption: Av.Living room size in UK ~20m2 Heat loss at -3C if Passivhaus - <200W. So Energy use is <4.8kW Heat loss if Victorian Semi ~ 1kW. So Energy use is ~24kW Assume blended cost of electricity using Octopus Cosy of 20p/kWh

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Neither of those factors make a panel heater (COP of 1) a more effective heat source than a heat pump (COP of 3.5+) either way the heat pump will be 72% cheaper to run. Sure in a Passivhaus flat you might argue that the upfront cost of a heat pump isn’t worth it. But for most normal houses it is.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

lol! Panel heaters are a ruinously expensive way to heat. Even an appallingly installed heat pump would be cheaper to run than those! Moreover my heat pump had excellent controls and perfect room-by-room control is possible with Adia or similar

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The tech is almost certainly there for your house. I’ve got a heat pump work to very well in a 200m2 C14th listed house. It’s much cheaper than Gas. The issue is that it’s hard to find installers that are competent enough to manage the perceived risk.

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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

It seems to have become commonplace to blame net zero for Britain’s high energy bills and/or weak job market… … and I guess I’ll have to explain again why there is very little evidence of this. Britain has plenty of economic problems; net zero is not high on that list (though climate change is) 🧵

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Ed Miliband would be ‘noose around neck’ of job creation as chancellor, union boss warns

Comments by Sharon Graham come as Burnham team explores key government appointments

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It’s a great set up for developing T-shaped knowledge. In your college you really get to know people working on pure maths and ancient norse but you still get to study in a decent-sized cohort for your subject with diverse research in each university department.

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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I reckon 2030s is going to be a great decade. EVs and solar will drive all kinds of transport prices way down. Oil demand will be crushed by massive electrification of industry and transport. 2026-2030 though. It’s not looking great people.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

These are all air-to-water. Which don’t typically do cooling well as radiators aren‘t great at it. You’ll need to replace radiators with fancoils to get cooling. But air to-air or aircon is really hard to get wrong. Especially if you only need a few internal units in your house.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Finding a good heat pump installer is easier than it used to be. Heat Geek, Octopus and EDF have good quality control processes. If you want to use a good local installer go to heatpumpmonitor.org. You can see who has installed well-performing heat pumps near you.

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HeatpumpMonitor.org - Heat Pump Performance Data

An open-source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data. Join our community of heat pump owners sharing real-world performance data.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Heat pump water heaters are expensive in the US! There are at least three brands in the Uk that cost less than £1000 and installation is <£1000. Obviously your technicians have to pay SF rent, but that’s a big cost difference

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Conor Matchett @conormatchett.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

It's the ongoing mass delusion of 'everything is fine we just need to do what we're already doing differently with a different manager' politics - while changes to demographics, climate change and inherent global challenges fundamentally alter the absolute basics of what we actually *can* do

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The Green Party joining the other main political parties of England with policies that are directly opposite to that which their name suggests.

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Sean W @insan3gl0ss.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

That abomination of a trial is the major basis for his report that gets so much attention. They were installed in 2020-2021 when all lot of manufacturers schematics included buffers which they don’t now as well. community.openenergymonitor.org/t/electrific...

community.openenergymonitor.org

Electrification of Heat trial data

The final reports for the Electrification of Heat trial were published last Thursday. The results indicated an average SPF H4 of only 2.81 across 428 heat pumps. Full reports and data available he...

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

2.8 was what happened when a national trial used publicly -procured installers who incorrectly set up heat pump controls in a way that caused cycling. The average SPF of heat pump installs on heat pump monitor is 3.9. There loads that are much higher than than. Take a look. heatpumpmonitor.org

heatpumpmonitor.org

HeatpumpMonitor.org - Heat Pump Performance Data

An open-source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data. Join our community of heat pump owners sharing real-world performance data.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Heat Pumps are great things. They cut home emissions by at least 80%. Disconnecting a gas meter and selecting an off-peak electricity tariff are pretty straightforward. And devices like @adiathermal.bsky.social minimise radiator changes and save money by maximising the use of off-peak electricity.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This is going to be a great policy for driving automation and incentivising productivity gains. Not sure that’s the Green Party’s intention. But might be positive nonetheless.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The problem with ultra processed food is not the chemicals or toxins produced by the processing but the problem that they are formulated to be so delicious that we eat too much of them. Medieval Kings got fat too in the same way because they had cooks who made lots and lots of delicious food.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Completely immoral. By subsidising fossil fuel use in a country that can afford to pay and transition, it will make more essential energy supplies in the global south unaffordable. Focus on making just renewable electricity more affordable. And electrify our economy. @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Sometimes it‘s helpful to put a number to the things that actually matter to human experience A great read n

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Yes, I’m thinking about buying an electric people carrier and I’m renting one from the dealership for a week.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

If you can often rent from a dealership directly. Especially if you are doing it with a purchase in mind.

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Solar farms don't increase flooding risks, usually support wildflowers and biodiversity net gain, reduce pesticides/fertilizer use and runoff to rivers, reduce overall national water usage, prevent other buildings on the space, can still graze sheep etc.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I’m sure there are many great ways to procure solar power. We need to use all the avenues. But blocking urgently needed projects because you don’t like who they are or where they are from is wrong. It’s a delay we can’t afford. Environmentally or Finacially.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Insisting that renewable energy projects (which are urgently needed) are only acceptable if they aren’t delivered by the organisations that best placed to do this work seems to be a very silly position to take.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I think that low carbon, low cost renewable energy projects are good, people funding them are doing good work and preventing their adoption is bad. In order for people to take a risk (like building stuff), they need to see a reasonable return to make it worthwhile.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Because the words ‘extractive’ and ‘industrial’ are much more properly applied to the gas-fired infrastructure that this solar farm will replace and are the root cause of the ‘ridiculous energy prices’ that the Green Party is complaining about.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Just to clarify, it your position that significant investment in the lowest carbon, lowest cost form of energy that will supply people in your region is ‘bad‘, because the organisation that is prepared to fund it, is a global infrastructure specialist and not headquartered in the UK?

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

We need to judge a political party by what they do with their power. The Green Party aren’t serious about tackling climate change. Large Solar Farms are the lowest carbon, lowest cost energy we can get. They are also more biodiverse than the farmland they will replace.

bbc.co.uk

'Industrial scale' solar farms attacked by Norfolk's Green

The county council's Green leader says solar panels should be locally owned and put on roofs.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Big news in my neighbourhood DFL dads putting in the hard yards.

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Jaga ones are great (but are pricy). Cheaper ones can be noisier. In general they can be a good way to get more heat from a wall unit than a radiator. If they are attached to a heat pump you’ll be able to get them to do cooling (but will need some sort of condensate drain)

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Panasonic (and others) already make and sell these units in the UK. They cost between £1000-£2000 are a decent solution for a 1-2 bedroom apartment where there’s no space for an outdoor unit. Seeing these being promoted as a new thing is like when Lyft ‘invented‘ the bus.

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RAC Solo · R290 / R32

The compact air conditioner without outdoor unitA high-efficiency RAC Solo with a hyper-compact design that minimises ae...

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The Warm Homes Plan is explicit that there will be schemes for free solar for those unable to pay and there are already companies doing heat pumps for no Upfront cost using the BUS Grant. So there is a plan for this. Heat Pumps are the only viable zero carbon heating technology

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Ed Miliband, "The price of gas is set on the international market, whether it comes from the north sea, or is imported" "We're price taker and not a price maker" "We need homegrown clean power that we can control" "We cannot keep being on this fossil fuel roller coaster"

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Henry Pelly @henrypelly.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Adia Thermal have a solution for installing a heat pump where you’ve got crappy pipework . If you email them, they’ll find you a local installer. www.adiathermal.co.uk

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Comfort in every room. Savings on every bill

Smart heat pump control that works with your existing radiators. Auto-balances heating, tracks flexible tariffs, and saves money on every bill.

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