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4 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Balancing power generation (solar) vs storage (powerwall) vs consumption (heating, lighting and cooking) vs insulation (triple glazing etc) vs airflow (ppm CO2 etc) vs time (seasons) ... not found the right balance yet. More to do.
i.e. balancing out insulation with air flow means I will probably have to explore mechanical heat recovery units (e.g. thermal wheel) if I want to drive efficiency further.
X : Are you going to blog about this.
Me : When I've finished.
X : When will that be?
Me : I guess in about five years. Long way to go yet.
X : How old is your house?
Me : 1980. It was 5 bed, now 4, soon 3 when I extend into the roof. The layout has completely changed. All electric (no gas), moderate solar array etc.

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6 Oct
X : Boris blaming business.
Me : And?
X : What do you think?
Me : Smart but surprising from a conservative PM. Forcing companies to pay more reasonable wages i.e. Tesco bumper profits - stockmarketwire.com/article/721798… and Tesco staff reject "pay cut" offer - sharecast.com/news/news-and-…
X : Won't it lead to inflation, stock price drops?
Me : Sure, some execs will try to pass costs on to consumers and keep the share price up with bumper divs and share buybacks. It's in their own self interest but that'll play into Boris' narrative of greedy bosses ...
... somebody seems to have told Boris that the fastest way to grow the economy is to convert it from an extractive nature (benefits to shareholders, accumulation) to a more generative / growth model (putting more wealth into the hands of people who will actually spend it).
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4 Oct
X : Any thoughts on the great resignation?
Me : I suspect it depends upon where you work. Back in May, I talked about the great division between the haves and have nots of the corporate world - swardley.medium.com/the-great-divi… ... I don't think of these changes as uniform.
X : And?
Me : Well, some companies will suffer (and are already suffering) from losses but that's mostly down to executive action and an inability to adapt. Some will benefit i.e. I do like this tweet -
X : Why do you think companies were caught out by this?
Me : No idea. It's not like people haven't been talking about it for the last 12-18 months. It shouldn't come as a surprise -
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4 Oct
All electricity to be green by 2035, forcing supply chains to take responsibility for poor wages and training, threatening nationalisation, tax increases ... is Boris trying to pretend he is more left wing than Corbyn? I'm not grumbling. I'm just surprised.
X : Do you think it will happen?
Me : Oh no. There's a world of difference between what Boris says and what happens, between fiction and reality. But it open up narrative in a certain direction, that is what is encouraging.
X : What will happen?
Me : Cuts to welfare for the poorest, tax hikes for the poorest, cost of living increases for the poorest, generous contracts for those associated with the party ... but all dressed up in this image of caring, more socialist conservative.
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27 Sep
X : Brexit has messed up supply chains.
Me : Weakness within and poor understanding of supply chains existed long before brexit. If anything brexit has done us a favour.
X : How?
Me : By exposing this. You think we could cope with climate change if we had just continued?
X : Say that to ...
Me : ... people finding it difficult to get basic resources or suffering at this time? I think we're mostly delusional on the impact of climate change. This is an opportunity to reflect, try not to waste it in the way we did the referendum result.
X : How did we waste the referendum?
Me : It was a pressure release valve but rather than look into causes (which we had been blindly ignoring for so long), too many decided just to blame people with narratives that made them feel comfortable. Today is just the same.
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24 Sep
X : Any thoughts on COP26?
Me : Nope
X : I thought you were going?
Me : Nope
X : Just nope then?
Me : What do you want to know?
X : Could mapping be used to help to look at climate change.
Me : Of course. It's based upon competition, the act of "seeking together".
X : Eh?
Me : Competition is the act of seeking together i.e. one or more seeking something. You can do this through conflict (fighting together), co-operation (working together), collaboration (labouring together), cocreation (creating together) etc etc.
X : Connection to maps?
Me : The form of maps I use are based upon competition i.e. conflict, collaboration, co-operaton, co-creation etc. So, anything which fits in that space can be mapped.
X : Like climate change?
Me : Yep.
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24 Sep
Well, my 2014 prediction was wrong - blog.gardeviance.org/2013/11/a-spoi… - I expected "through a combination of the great firewall, official UUIDs, sanctions and official exchanges it will become difficult to use bitcoins internally to trade through non official routes" ...
... I was not expecting an outright ban - bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
There are several ways of thinking about this - enablement for the digital Yuan and/or more concerningly that China took a view that the horror of bitcoin - blog.gardeviance.org/2013/05/the-pu… - was not manageable even with the great firewall, sanctions, official UUIDs etc.
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