Stuart Hedges

You did great. I do training at work from time to time and get anxious about it for several days beforehand but it always turns out ok! You're not alone.

Community solar scheme helps residents cut energy costs Preston Park residents have spoken of their happiness at “taking control of their energy bills” after having solar panels installed under a new…

Brighton is powering up its community energy future ⚡🌞

Nine Preston Park households have joined the Preston Park Community Energy Programme, generating their own renewable electricity from rooftop solar.

The scheme, led by BHESCo and People Owned Power, is transforming local energy resilience.

Presentation at the rail engineering institute session on this

Picture from the 1880s of the railway just after it was extended

TIL that the UK’s first electric railway - Volk’s Electric Railway in Brighton - was both *approved* by Brighton and Hove Council *and built* by Magnus Volk in just SEVEN WEEKS

I feel like this was aimed specifically at me. Not returning to the unkempt curtains, thanks.

Your reaction is entirely reasonable but I am enjoying all the people taking the mickey out of it!

I know you're joking but the house next door to me is currently being rebuilt following a careless cigarette...

The problem is lack of knowledge. These people don't even realise a heat pump is a viable option, they may never have even heard of them.

Reader: the new Bill Bailey one turned out to be terrible.

To every poltician pushing back on electrification and decarbonisation we should say: Why do you want to make Europe dependent on others? Why do you want Europeans to pay higher bills?

This is completely incorrect. Last time this conversation did the rounds I did a quick Google and found a figure of £5k and got replies saying that was out of date and it was likely to be less now.

A rare example of the headline being right and the article being wrong. We need to invest in renewables and storage: fossil fuels are yesterday's technology.

I'm pleased to bits with ours. We only pay the higher rate between about November and mid March, electricity is either free or night-rate the rest of the year. If you're getting solar installed anyway a battery maximises your use of it. (5kW solar array, 9kWh battery, heat pump, EV, Intelligent Go).

I still miss FidoNet.

We quite enjoy them as brain-off, end of the evening telly but it's got to be a celeb we like. Sue Perkins has some great ones, and we're looking forward to the new Bill Bailey one.

Yep, all of those things. It's complex. It was obviously really important to both of them to complete it so I'm glad they did.

I'd missed this detail and it explains a LOT.

Have you read Rob Wilkins' biography? I found the description of the writing process of the last few books heartbreaking.

Hi @support.bsky.team this is definitely not a spam account.

That's a good idea. We went for an independent electric towel rail, still pretty efficient but not as efficient as that!

I follow Zoe Gardner and Daniel Sohege who are very knowledgeable in this field (no tags as I suspect that's very annoying if you're a big account but you'll find them easily enough).

Only to use the Post Office, which we'll presumably lose entirely if our branch goes.

Screenshot of the MyEnergi app showing that my solar panels are exporting electricity to the grid at 1.3kW, having charged the house battery and heated up the hot water tank.

Yessss! Exporting electricity for the first time this year. Lovely and sunny outside.

And the seats line up with them!

It's a peppery spice mix, again an ingredient rather than a seasoning.

I'm going to try this for my entirely random anxiety.

I've stopped going to Eastbourne because I can't find any food culture there but I didn't realise it was this bad.

There's a decent Greek place near the seafront and I've heard good things about the Thai behind the station...

No.

Then you agree with me. The sort of mould that causes health problems or even inspires a skeet will be down to a fault with the building.

If you try really hard with laundry, cooking, showers in a decent building you might get the odd fleck of mould that's easily cleaned off, no more than that.

Ah no. Really sad to hear this. Red Dwarf is one of those things I've returned to again and again.

I mean how dare tenants cook.