One of those captcha things. This one says ‘select all images with bicycles. Click verify once there are none left’. There are 9 squares - 4 contain photos of bicycle seats, with the remaining 5 showing the beautiful head and face of a grey greyhound with a white stripe going from the top of their head to the tip of their nose.

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

Some heat pumps are designed differently. If darker colours suit your house then the Samsung unit is an option samsung-climatesolutions.com/gb/b2c/our-s...

The Vaillant Arotherm plus is not bad either

GB Renewables Map Live map showing realtime renewable energy generation in Great Britain

Well done on another impactful visualisation. Love renewables-map.robinhawkes.com too

UK’s wasted wind power laid bare by new Octopus tracking tool Britain wasted £649m already this year powering down wind farms as there is not enough grid capacity to send renewable energy where it is needed, utility finds

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www.rechargenews.com/markets-and-...

Comic. SALESMAN [pointing at dehumidifier on sale]: This dehumidifier model features built-in WiFi for remote updates. PERSON 2: Great! That will be really useful if they discover a new kind of water.

Dehumidifier

xkcd.com/3109/

Plato's Cave allegory, illustrated. the shadows on the cave wall are captioned "increasingly insane and extreme positions", the prisoners labeled "internet users", the figures holding the shadow's shapes labeled "algorithms", the fire labeled "random internet users expressing their idiosyncratic beliefs". the space above the cave is labeled "literally just outside" and the philosopher freed from the chains of the physical world labeled "guy who logs off"

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

FACTCHECK: Why expensive gas – not net-zero – is keeping UK electricity prices so high

Many seem determined to obfuscate the very obvious reason why UK power is still so pricey. Molly Lempriere and I set out the facts + options to cut bills.

www.carbonbrief.org/...
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American cars are generally too large and expensive to run, but finally they produced the Tesla 3/Y, which is modestly sized, efficient. People were buying it, then recently they stopped buying it. It wasn’t the EU’s fault, it was Elon revealing his true colours. Such as self-own

Great Britain’s First Grid Forming Battery Connects in Scotland | National Energy System Operatorlogo--facebook NESO confirms the first projects involved in its Stability Phase 2 Pathfinder have now gone live in Scotland, including the connection of Great Britain’s first Grid Forming Battery site.

It might not be necessary. The latest “grid forming” batteries can provide synthetic inertia. For example www.neso.energy/news/great-b...

This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉

Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.

You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

It doesn’t really cover training though

What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT? Very small compared to most of the other stuff you do.

This might be relevant to you open.substack.com/pub/hannahri...

It is after all the 40th anniversary of the Atari ST! Does not get enough love :)

The psychological appeal of Yarvin is the same as Ayn Rand's:
1) Simplified worldview where you know all the answers, but you don't have to do any actual reading
2) Believers think they have special knowledge that makes them elite
3) You can discard burdensome emotions like empathy

Warming stripes for deep ocean to upper stratosphere

The Warming Stripes have now been extended downwards into the ocean and upwards into the stratosphere!

Collaborative paper which tells the story of how the stripes were developed, and discusses their extension across the Earth system, is now available in BAMS: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

Well said!

Here's a quick illustration of why the huge wave of new CCS-enabled gas power stations & blue hydrogen plants that the UK Gov plans to subsidise with our money will be roughly 𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝗹 for the climate.

I CANT GETT THIS VIDEO OUT OF MY HEAD WHY IS THE IMPRESSION SO GOOD

The James Webb telescope can spot exoplanets so faint that it’s the equivalent of detecting a firefly next to a large lighthouse from 50 miles away.

MAGA world will yell "fake news," but the NSC spokesman confirmed it:

So let’s have a little look at the Right wing media feeding off its own ecosystem.

Here’s
@TiceRichard
claiming NET ZERO caused the Heathrow shut down, while sharing a Telegraph article that appears to back up his claim

Must be true then, right??

🧐you know the drill…

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Each octopus arm is so packed with neurons it can make decisions independently from the central brain, and sometimes steal food from other arms.

When the printing press was invented, capital letters were stored in an ‘upper case’ and the other letters, used more often, were kept in a ‘lower case’ next to the press.

Video IGGY HOBO translation v1 YouTube video by yep it's,me

youtu.be/q32Zz2dBkos

If you want to know how Europeans feel listen to Claude Malhuret, He is the leader of the independents in France. This is how they see the US now.

That's the full translation.
Worth a listen

No

JD Vance calls UK 'some random country that hasn't fought war in 30 years' US Vice President JD Vance said the only way to secure lasting peace in Ukraine is to grant the US an economic upside - and slammed the UK as 'some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 years'

The UK lost 457 lives, experienced a further 616 casualties, and spent £32.8bn in Afghanistan after the US triggered NATO Article 5 following 9/11.

Not to mention Iraq.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

It's Back...It's Electric! ZAPHEAP Challenge Needs YOU! YouTube video by Fully Charged Show

It's back . . . and it's electric

Two teams, two batteries, and a junkyard: what could possibly go wrong?

youtu.be/thifCyml94Y

Pessimists sound clever.

Optimists change the world.

I love this depiction of the energy transition by RMI.

A line graph depicting the average number of days it took to install a gigawatt of solar energy capacity worldwide from 2001 to 2023. The vertical axis represents the number of days on a logarithmic scale, spanning from 1 to 1000 days. The horizontal axis indicates the years from 2001 to 2023. In 2004, the average time was about 1 year, which is marked on the graph. A downward trend shows significant decreases in installation time over the years. By 2010, it took under 30 days, and by 2015, just over 7 days. The most notable point is in 2023, where it dropped to about 1 day on average for installation. The data source is attributed to IRENA (2024), with calculation by Our World in Data, and the chart is identified as CC BY, indicating it is licensed for sharing and adaptation with appropriate credit.

In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day

Electric cars are far more efficient than petrol or diesel cars.

They use a third of the input energy and 6 times less fossil fuels in the UK.

Source
@ember-energy.org