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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 19h

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

She’s too pretty for you

European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 4d

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

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 7d

MASSIVE SOLAR SPILL, UK Spring 2025!!!

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 8d

The government in Ukraine is still functioning too.

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 8d

Black line is total demand over 24 hours.

European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 8d

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 · 9d

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 · 9d

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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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 9d

As an aside, the NOx sensor in my diesel Mercedes Vito “failed”, it’s quite common for the sensors to die before the item that they are measuring, but luckily only £1000 later I was up and running again 😢

European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 9d

Being an electronics geek when you made the video about air con, VCRs etc etc I’d convinced myself that I probably could have researched that myself if I’d thought to do it. But when you stray way out of my comfort zone and start taking apart combustion engines, I can see the depth of your genius ❤️❤️

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European Bob @muppetkeeper.bsky.social · 10d

Every single hydrogen trial should start by answering the question “How are you going to make hydrogen cheaper than electricity considering that it takes 1.2kWh of electricity to make 1kWh of hydrogen?”

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