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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 7h

Social housing managers need to ensure heat pumps are designed and installed properly. Almost all the heat pump disaster stories come from the social housing sector. I feel for the residents who rent these homes.

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 7h

Sadly installing a heat pump needs a level of design, skill and experience that most councils refuse to pay for. I’ve had my heat pump 5 years today, but almost every post I see where heat pumps are causing issues are from social housing renters where the heat pump has been slung in badly.

European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 10h

😂😂😂😂 All “those Americans” that tell me I live in a Muslim State because of immigration to Europe, most of our foreign immigrants work in services and healthcare here, USA has them building an Airbase literally full of armed personnel with fighter jets 😂😂😂

European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 1d

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 2d

Most people know how to do it, it’s a choice a board level to provide shit customer service.

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 2d

I used to manage the IT in one of the UKs biggest call centres. We knew how many calls were going to come in each day, we knew at what time, we even knew what the calls would be about. We also liked our customers so we put the right people in the right place at the right time.

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 2d

She’s too pretty for you

European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 2d

Most oil and gas production burns their own product to create electricity on site, that electricity isn’t even measured.

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 3d

China has a much larger population than the USA. The use per head in the USA is criminal, due to decades of purposeful ignorance of energy efficiency and indirect subsidies.

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 3d

The next question should be why does Texas, half the population of the UK have peak electricity demand twice that of the UK…

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 3d

BBQ tough meat

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 4d

Every single electric truck is a win, a big win.

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 4d

America didn’t win WWII you disgusting dick

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 5d

AI barely works either, almost no implementations have actually met company objectives

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 5d

They have realised that only struggling nations will use fossil fuels in future, as it dooms them to poverty. 🇺🇸

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 6d

My friend was a Tory Councillor upt North around 15 years ago. Politics often comes up when I meet him. He’s a proper right winger, but without prompting he once said “I can’t see how any councils are reducing costs, I thought we were bare boning it 15 years ago, and it’s been cuts every year since”

European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 6d

Now…. This is lateral thinking

www.theregister.com/2025/10/03/t...

Struggling to heat your home? Try 500 Raspberry Pi units

: UK Power Networks trials Thermify's HeatHub boilers, swapping gas flames for clustered compute

www.theregister.com

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 8d

MASSIVE SOLAR SPILL, UK Spring 2025!!!

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 8d

It’s a good hill, you explained yourself clearly and simply, anyone arguing is just for some reason in some sort of LED cult 😂

European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 9d

The government in Ukraine is still functioning too.

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 9d

Black line is total demand over 24 hours.

European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 9d

Here in the UK this is a typical Autumn demand curve for 24 hours. In winter the peak is 46-48 GW but the low still hovers around 20GW.
Can you see the space where we are all encouraged to charge our EVs? EVs actually make the grid more efficient and cheaper per kWh

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 10d

Electric trucks are far more important than electric cars. In Europe Mercedes eActros 400 & 600 along with Volvo and Scania offerings do absolutely everything that is needed from a truck for our European driving rules. They are amazing.

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 10d

This must be one of your easier journeys, great range car, fast charging and many more chargers than when you did these trips years ago. I’ll watch the vid to see

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