It is fascinating tbh. Moreover, it's currently (as of writing) at 42%. Considering 13:30 is hardly "off-peak", I'd say that's pretty damn impressive.
samc
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So yeah, going 100% air-source heat pump if you're area regularly spends time around -30°C (-22F) might not be the best idea. Though even the last report you cited said it might be 1.5-2x as efficient as resistive heating. And that Site 1 with bad COPs was because they manually lowered the fan speed...
Games.
Other than basic things like Tetris (Quadrapassel) and minesweeper, I've not yet found an open source game I've enjoyed nearly as much as the countless proprietary games I own and play.
On the one hand, as a cyclist/train commuter I'm very much in favour of this, but I appreciate that's because there's no cost to me supporting this.
On the other hand, I worry about ending up with a situation like Bristol. People are livid with the council there over the ULEZ. My parents visited recently and got over £200 in fines they never knew existed.
I think the main point is that the implementation needs to be correct. Any charges should be reasonable, predictable, and easily avoidable through a healthy supply of alternative transport links. Cities like Cambridge could provide a template for reducing congestion in similarly sized towns across the country, so it's important that they get this right.
This seems like a false dichotomy. Maxwell's equations don't say anything about where the charge comes from, only how the electromagnetic field behaves if charge (be it electric or magnetic) is present.
And if you're talking about the standard model, well we've known that that's incomplete since its inception, but I'm not aware of any argument that says anything beyond the standard model must have either monopole or a fundamentally different conception of magnetic dipoles.
Huh, TIL that XEmacs is still going. Sorry to be that guy, but what would the sales pitch be for XEmacs to a GNU Emacs user?
I wouldn't say Germany were the best this year, but I'd have taken theirs over Sweden any day. (Also their cover of Cha Cha Cha is amazing.)
I love the concept of organic maps, and do even use it occasionally, but for now I'm mostly sticking to OSMand.
The main feature missing for me is the ability to customise the map styles. I like using map apps for hiking and organic maps default (/only) style is ugly at best and unusable at worst for this.