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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 4h

Damn your facts and logic!

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 7h

I see the current commercial price for electricity is £125.61/MWh with nearly 2/3rds coming from gas.

But over the year with under 1/3rd from gas the price averaged £82.80.

Yet still the likes of the fossil-fuel-funded Refukkers lie to use that net zero will make us poorer.

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Charli Charging @charlicharging.bsky.social · 5h

Your car isn’t just a way to get from point A to B, but it’s also a power source.

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology is transforming parked EVs into energy assets that can power homes, businesses, and even entire communities.

#EVCharging #V2G #CleanEnergy

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 5h

Isn't farmland already an industrial use? It's not natural, after all.

Also if a farmer can diversify income streams with solar, doesn't that help them survive through more extreme weather from climate change.

And isn't it better to do solar (that lets the land recover) than biofuels crops.

Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 6h

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 6h

Good news

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 8h

Gas is the primary reason for high electricity prices and the whole reason for high gas bills

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 8h

Liberal Democrat Ed Davey says the Conservatives and Reform have a message on energy bills that is "simple, beguiling and terribly, terribly wrong"

Calls for the sector to take on their "lies" and says "the Farage/Badenoch plan would fail".

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 15h

I was just holding the Rubles for a friend 😉

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 15h

These are not the Rubles you are looking for

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 15h

Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife

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Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister's wife – HOPE not hate

IN BREACH OF PARLIAMENTARY RULES: REFORM UK’S RICHARD TICE Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register lavish hospitality...

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 15h

Meanwhile NIMBYs are blocking the solutions

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 15h

'UK Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk
Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable.'
#climate
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Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 15h

Even brand new houses are built to poor standards, and so don't meet energy efficiency requirements in reality, or even fail completely as housing.

The building industry is the wild west, it's so bad the HMRC has the CIS to help prevent VAT fraud.

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 1d

If you bolted a server exhaust to the intake of your heat pump you could get 5-6x efficiency

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 1d

Saw a YouTube video today where Reform now say they won't reduce public spending, and almost every comment was about immigration.

Could be Reform bots or Reform voters, hard to tell the difference TBH. Point is they can do any nonsense so long as the bogeyman is kept alive and well.

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 1d

I live within a few miles of this and I think the route is probably the best it could be. At least near me very few people live in the vicinity so it has the least impact possible.

The alternative is much worse.

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Jon.B @jonbright.bsky.social · 2d

Burning food for land-hungry biofuels is fuelling the climate crisis.Europe is growing crops to be burned as fuel uses up 32m ha of land this is set to grow by 60% to 52m ha by 2030,this would make biofuels the 6th largest country in terms of arable land. www.transportenvironment.org/share/crop30...

Campaigning for cleaner transport in Europe

Europe’s leading advocates for clean transport & energy

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 2d

Sodium-ion is a great solution for stationary storage

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of tax increases if Kent CC is anything to go by.

As fresh as a week old egg mayonnaise sandwich.

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 3d

There is no £150 heat pump subsidy and one isn't needed.

Just move the social levies from electric to gas, and it will do the trick.

Dual fuel customers pay no more.

Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 3d

It's never Nigel's fault. It's not his fault that Brexit ruined the economy and increased small boat crossings. Nor that when he was slagging off the UK in the US and was asked about journalists beeung banned from his conference, he didn't know and it wasn't his fault either.

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 3d

I seem to remember him saying "any Brexit is better", was he also wrong about that?

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Half Man Half Bizkit @scalextrix.bsky.social · 3d

Even if he was shocked, then he is clearly incompetent because these kinds of things keep happening in his party/limited company.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 4d

Record 87 hours of 100% clean electricity in Great Britain this year – up 50× since 2021.

The race to a fully fossil-free grid by 2030 is on.

Dr Simon Evans reports

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far

Clean-energy sources have powered Great Britain entirely for a record 87 hours this year — a milestone toward 2030 targets

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