Rachael P 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 🇬🇧 🇦🇺

snap! except retired.

A friend has 30kWh (and 9kW max panels), but lives in a large modernist glass house with 2 big heat pumps. He uses around 5 kW to keep warm in mid winter.

I have suggested buying a used EV simply to park in the drive and use the battery. It would pay off in a couple of years.

Yeah, I got it.
I may be old, but I still know how to search 😀

As a trustee of both in the past, I've seen Cambridge University and my College both tempted down this route, on various fronts.

I blame the lawyers, plus the Charity Commission and its regulations. The advice is 100% predictable, and the personal cost of ignoring it potentially very high.

... to square the circle.

It's just a waste of effort for those tasked with doing it. Better to walk away, and make it clear that you are on to the impossible task you have been set, and won't take the blame for failing.

Then use your time on something with a return. 3/3

... for one telescope. The order came from above: allocate the time strictly according to scientific merit, and make sure the three countries each get the share they paid for

I see politicians do this all the time. Specify both the outcome and the means, and leave someone else .../3

I'd start by identifying an objective which was at least potentially achievable. Trans-exclusive guiding for trans girls isn't. Beating SM in the courts is.

I used to chair the "Panel for the Allocation of Telescope Time". We had a problem allocating time between international partners ... /2

IMO, what "Guiding" wants is the equivalent of the perpetual motion machine. We know it does not and cannot exist

Rather than looking for that, the leadership should be doing something which might work, which is to meet the legal threat. But if they are serious about it, why not work with GLP?

Sorry Sarah, I'm yelling at you, when I know you are doing what you can. Apologies.

But even Guiders can't find a way to make it ok for trans girls excluded even from part of Guiding. You can do this but not that?

Running a separate activity for trans girls cannot cut it.

And anyway, would get the same legal challenge from the GCs, probably for being cis-male exclusive.

But it's what's happening at the top is the problem. They have declined a risk-free offer.

There is literally NOTHING you can do if trans girls cannot participate like any others, and without being out to others. They won't feel better for being othered.

The group is a performative waste of time.

I made it up!
But that's what they mean.
The Baden-Powell book from about 1910(?), which I once had a copy of, was called "Scouting for Boys"

Not knowing your role, but...

@goodlawproject.org offered to cover any legal costs, which covers the only credible threats. If Guiding actually wanted to be inclusive, they'd accept that offer, rather than getting 516 people working on a "Guiding for Boys" affiliate.

Yes! 💯

KeirS WERE?

"How could he stop it?"

Umm, by stopping it? Calling the dogs off? Telling them to get their a*s out of there?

It's *possible* (I guess) that she believes her colleagues' hype tha this will somehow speed up justice, and is simply using her own experience to illustrate why that matters.

(disclosure: I have always thought she was a Good Thing, so am looking for reasons to be charitable)

I didn't scroll to the end, but the comments I did get to were 100% supportive of trans girls... (and very politely so)

I suppose the leadership might read something into that.

Yes, I do time-shift my static demand: 13.5kWh keeps the house going all day (with 20% reserve), WITHOUT heatpump. WIth even a modest 2kW HP load, it keeps the house going about 4h. Fine except in winter

A 70kWh EV battery can do it.

Grid scale batteries DO help. Home ones are mostly not enough.

Do we know what happened in the pub?
I mean, i really doubt she just walked in and the server saw her and said "oi, I know you're a transphobe. Out!"

Presumably she stirred something up?

Thanks, now spotted a post with a bit from the consultation, and understand.

And rejoice! What got into them? There must be some reason for them to back off despite SM, Sullivan, Streeting.....

I continue to wonder how much money Rowling and similarly-minded people give them? -- and how much of it goes under the radar in some way (separate donations in separate constituencies, perhaps)?

Missing the context. Clue?

What are you assuming about the efficiency of a gas boiler?

Or are you assuming that a proportion of the electricity used by the heatpump is renewable?

I have a heat pump, and don't disagree they are good for the environment. But without a *big* battery (say an EV), it can't save me money.

Yes. I have a battery and use variable tariffs, but can't have solar (😞), and those do change the economics. But that is not the argument the OP was making.

Without them, the economics don't incentivise change,even if it would indeed be good for the environment. The UK electricity market is broken.

I'm not sure that people like me should be allowed to join BlueSky without first demonstrating a grasp of gaming.

CK3? I spend so much time looking up terms to make sure a post doesn't mean exactly the opposite of what I think it might mean.

Maybe BS could automatically add mouseovers?

I think I'm keeping up with it, more or less. But I still have my doubts, vicar.

The mechanical/maintenance demands are huge; antifouling will be polluting at scale; tidal in particular is ecologically damaging (even the tidal current turbines).

But I May Be Proved Wrong, of course.

These kids are being primed for agitprop careers by their parents....

Doesn't matter if they succeed - there are other causes. It's building their brands that matters to them.

I thought the *critique* read as if it were AI anyway....
(defending itself: I guess they can learn to do that?)

1) 80% is way over-optimistic: you need to fold in generation and transmission efficiencies, plus realistic CoP <<5

2) it is cost rather than environmental considerations that drive choices. ATM, heat pumps offer almost no cost savings vs a gas boiler.

Ppl won't invest for infinite payback time.