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Came across a video I did last year in an attempt at being humorous.
Neighbour's Noisy Heat Pump
https://youtube.com/shorts/0kNCdwZK2ck?feature=share
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@editor Never mind about the noise from that heat pump, do those birds not need planning permission? Very Antisocial of them!!!
Toodles, heats his home with cold draughts and cooks food with magnets.
@toodles they're a rowdy bunch!
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Retrofitted 11.2kw Mitsubishi Ecodan to new radiators commissioned November 2021.
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2 ESS Smile G3 10.1 batteries.
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Ah - how true @morgan
The path to Net Zero needs to be planned.
It's not enough to merely issue policy statements promoting on-shore wind-farms to be spread across the countryside...
... it's the execution which matters.
Save energy... recycle electrons!
@transparent That’s the current concern.
Toodles, heats his home with cold draughts and cooks food with magnets.
From my perspective @toodles - this is the currant problem:
The spring sunshine is ripening the fruit early...
... but it's less than half the size it should be.
The berries have failed to swell due to lack of rain.
Save energy... recycle electrons!
@transparent Not a swell season then ☹️
Toodles, heats his home with cold draughts and cooks food with magnets.
Apocalypse Then
So, yesterday evening I was watching BBC1 "Walking with Dinosaurs".
The 'experts' reckon their senses of smell and sight were well advanced.
Personally, I think they were deaf.
Their hearing had yet to evolve.
The production team flew the camera drone right above their heads, and no one of them looked up!
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@editor Better still, set yourself up next to a data centre, (Listen to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Rare Earth’ broadcast at 12:04 [Data Centres and the Impact on the World] you could even heat that open-air swimming pool you have longed for! Toodles.
Toodles, heats his home with cold draughts and cooks food with magnets.
Posted by: @toodles@editor Better still, set yourself up next to a data centre, (Listen to BBC Radio 4’s ‘Rare Earth’ broadcast at 12:04 [Data Centres and the Impact on the World] you could even heat that open-air swimming pool you have longed for! Toodles.
…or next to Westminster and just recycle all the hot air generated.
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