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14 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Lazy web ... recommendations (and not) for a thermal camera you've used, as an add-on to an android phone, for determining insulation heat loss in a home.
FLIR One Pro - £240

But, need a new Phone with USB TOGO ... (ulefone power amor 14) - £170

£410 for thermal imaging.

My current electricity bill (heating, cooking, lighting plus everything) is about minus £500 with the feed in tariff. But I know I'm still leaking heat.
Choices, choices ... £410 is a lot of money but on the upside I get a new phone, on the downside I don't need one and that's a waste of energy.

Ah, whatsapp ... maybe I'll strike lucky in my village of engineers and someone has a thermal camera that I can borrow.
Anyway, lots of changes to the house over the next few years ... planning an extension of my solar array (which includes an extension of the back of the house) to a roof conversion. I reckon I'm about five years away from being finally happy with the home.

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14 Jan
X : What did you think about Boris' apology?
Me : Don't blame the sweet and tender hooligan,
hooligan,
because he'll never, never, never, never, never, never do it again
not until the next time.
X : You don't believe him?
Me : Which bit of Dominic Grieve's warning (former chair of the intelligence and security committee) did you not listen to before voting in this party which lacks any integrity whatsoever?
X : They could replace him!
Me : Unless the two leadership candidates presented to the members are @theresa_may and @TomTugendhat then I'm not sure how things get better.
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10 Jan
Open cheque book for developers with risks and costs transferred to consumers with future promises on savings ... makes PFI look like a great deal. As Sir Ian Byatt said on Thames Tunnel "paid out every penny in excessive dividends and left Londoners to pick up the bill" ->
So,

1) yes, we need more nuclear.
2) yes, we could do with rebuilding some monopoly funded by consumers (aka tax payers) to do this. Let's call it the CEGB.
3) no, we don't need some half cocked financial instrument pushed through at a time where people are worried about bills.
I particularly dislike the whole "With global gas prices at record highs, we need to " ... what's the first thing they teach you on basic security training about scams? They seek to create pressure, an urgent need, for you to follow their path.

From a minister? Poor behaviour.
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6 Jan
Well, that's encouraging ->
The whole "let omicron rip through the population" style argument starts to make a bit more sense if the play is a delta and other variant replacement by a more contagious but milder omicron which conveys wider immunity.
Except ,,, Deadly Omicron should not be called mild, warns WHO - bbc.co.uk/news/world-599… ... maybe not such a good idea after all.

What exactly was wrong with going for zero covid? I never understood why we didn't adopt that approach rather than pursue a path to endemic.
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6 Jan
Maybe it's just me but I love the honesty in Matt Damon's advert on the future of Cryptoland and how misfortune favours those without privilege - "Earth will become a third world planet, everyone is hustling in some way to just get by" -
Obviously, it's very visionary because it's discussiing version 3.0 or crytpo3 because as we all know version 2.0 is an island - - wth version 1.0 being a somewhat lame online experience.
Personally, I would have pushed it further and talked about Cryptoland 4.0 or Crypto4 where all future descendants of silicon valley VCs live on starships whilst the rest of the earth has undergone genocide but that was the plot of a truly vile film known as Wall-E
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5 Jan
X : What do you think about outlawing wood burners?
Me : Domestic?
X : Yep.
Me : Burning wood kills some people. Burning fossil kills the planet. Come talk again when you've outlawed coal, gas and oil first.
X : Did you see the EC is talking about natural gas being green?
Me : The EC was always a shill for corporate lobbying. I'm surprised they're not arguing green coal as well - ipe.com/news/ec-drafts… ... on the upside nuclear is at least green in comparison to fossil fuels.
X : You don't like the EU?
Me : I like the EP (and representation by MEPs) but I've never liked the EC. Unfortunately the power to initiate law resides with the EC ... that was always wrong. It's why you have groups like DiEM25 trying to make the EU more democratic.
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5 Jan
X : The car you drive is a deathtrap?Me : No. The car I used to drive had problems. I tend to use things, repair them and keep them going long beyond where they should. I'm not very good with cars, so I don't do that anymore. My car is 7 years old, so it's almost brand new.
X : Do you do that with everything?
Me : Three major decision points for me in buying any good are 1) environmental cost 2) how easy to repair 3) size and history of market in aftersales components.
X : What about extended warranty?
Me : I tend to look at the aftersales market.
X : What if it's something new?
Me : I look at the history of the company in providing aftersales components for repair.
X : If the company is new?
Me : Then I tend to assume it will break, I might not be able to repair it easily and the company will disappear.
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