eco Nick
@econick.bsky.social
Home energy efficiency retrofit consultant at www.owensinsight.com. AECB member. Fan of PHPP. Trying to decarbonise Sussex in small bites. Slow hill walker.
Not including batteries in the Future Homes Standard would be suicidal for the government, I hope they realise that.
“Housing developers in this country have a track record of pushing back against requirements that enhance energy performance of homes. We have seen this with insulation, heat pumps and other technologies. Ultimately, it will be to the detriment of the homebuyer.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ministers may cut green tech mandate from new homes regulations in England
Critics say removing battery installation requirement will reduce amount homebuyers save on energy bills
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Not including batteries in the Future Homes Standard would be suicidal for the government, I hope they realise that.
🌳Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever.
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for DEFRA to fund the restoration of our publicly owned ancient woodlands?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for DEFRA to fund the restoration of our publicly owned ancient woodlands?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations
Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Over 100,000 acres of our public forests used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger than the Isle of W...
you.38degrees.org.uk
December 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
🌳Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever.
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for DEFRA to fund the restoration of our publicly owned ancient woodlands?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for DEFRA to fund the restoration of our publicly owned ancient woodlands?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Quadruple it.
Amidst the rollback in climate reporting, removal of EV mandates, and other environmental policy reversals its good to see the workhorse of the EU's climate policy doing its job.
EU carbon price heading back towards €100 per tonne CO2.
EU carbon price heading back towards €100 per tonne CO2.
December 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Quadruple it.
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🚨 Announcement from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency 🚨
The Ministry has published ‘We can’, a comic comparing humanity greatest leaps with the comparatively simple step of a fossil fuel ad ban. 🧵
Full comic 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
A message from @kevinclimate.bsky.social 👇 1/3
The Ministry has published ‘We can’, a comic comparing humanity greatest leaps with the comparatively simple step of a fossil fuel ad ban. 🧵
Full comic 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
A message from @kevinclimate.bsky.social 👇 1/3
December 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🚨 Announcement from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency 🚨
The Ministry has published ‘We can’, a comic comparing humanity greatest leaps with the comparatively simple step of a fossil fuel ad ban. 🧵
Full comic 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
A message from @kevinclimate.bsky.social 👇 1/3
The Ministry has published ‘We can’, a comic comparing humanity greatest leaps with the comparatively simple step of a fossil fuel ad ban. 🧵
Full comic 👉 www.badverts.org/campaign-upd...
A message from @kevinclimate.bsky.social 👇 1/3
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"We can not expect people who are poorer, already struggling to heat their homes & use their cars, we can't expect those people to be cutting their energy use. We have to expect that from the wealthy of us." @kevinclimate.bsky.social speaking at @nebriefing.bsky.social
Kevin Anderson - Professor of energy and climate change - National Emergency Briefing 2025
YouTube video by We Don't Have Time
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 6:42 AM
"We can not expect people who are poorer, already struggling to heat their homes & use their cars, we can't expect those people to be cutting their energy use. We have to expect that from the wealthy of us." @kevinclimate.bsky.social speaking at @nebriefing.bsky.social
Is there a decent heat pump engineer who can solve a problem? My heat demand is 3.016kW, the Samsung heat pump is nominal 8kW, yet even at a flow temp of 30-35C for heat I get an annual SCOP of around 2.5. Why so low? The HW demand is 29% of the total heating demand and is set at 47.5C. No legions.
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Is there a decent heat pump engineer who can solve a problem? My heat demand is 3.016kW, the Samsung heat pump is nominal 8kW, yet even at a flow temp of 30-35C for heat I get an annual SCOP of around 2.5. Why so low? The HW demand is 29% of the total heating demand and is set at 47.5C. No legions.
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New polling from European Movement UK shows that three quarters of people who see the economic damage of Brexit now back joining the Single Market and Customs Union to cut taxes and rebuild public services. The public knows the route to recovery, even if the Government refuses to face it.
New poll shows 75% favour joining single market to lower taxes
Of British adults who feel Brexit has been harmful to the UK, over 75% favour the UK joining the Single Market and Customs Union as a way to lower the tax burden and boost money for public services.
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New polling from European Movement UK shows that three quarters of people who see the economic damage of Brexit now back joining the Single Market and Customs Union to cut taxes and rebuild public services. The public knows the route to recovery, even if the Government refuses to face it.
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Since 2011 fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury a whopping £133bn and added to yet more climate emissions. Freezing it yet again is reckless & irresponsible #budget2025
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Since 2011 fuel duty freeze has cost the Treasury a whopping £133bn and added to yet more climate emissions. Freezing it yet again is reckless & irresponsible #budget2025
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
We need this type of energy sharing in Uk too. @MyMP - please make it happen!
🌱 Spain’s community energy revolution is spreading!
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are providing cheap, clean electricity to homes, including low-income families, while promoting local ownership and fighting fuel poverty.
We love to see a community-led energy transition 🤩
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are providing cheap, clean electricity to homes, including low-income families, while promoting local ownership and fighting fuel poverty.
We love to see a community-led energy transition 🤩
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
We need this type of energy sharing in Uk too. @MyMP - please make it happen!
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe newspapers have got away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences.
They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe newspapers have got away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
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'Designing procurement to include architecture competitions is an opportunity to ensure new housing that will inspire and last; will respond to and serve increasingly diversifying needs; and, perhaps most importantly, reinvigorate public engagement with and trust in public processes'
yes yes yes
yes yes yes
October 31, 2025 at 8:17 PM
'Designing procurement to include architecture competitions is an opportunity to ensure new housing that will inspire and last; will respond to and serve increasingly diversifying needs; and, perhaps most importantly, reinvigorate public engagement with and trust in public processes'
yes yes yes
yes yes yes
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I wrote a bit about the UK Government's Climate and Growth Plan coming out on Weds, which is to show how the UK will meet it's legally binding target of emissions reductions around 2035
TL;DR - there's a lot to do
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/how-to-...
TL;DR - there's a lot to do
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/how-to-...
How to not mess up the UK’s next climate plan - Greenpeace UK
The UK’s climate plan is due—and this time it has to deliver. From fixing electricity prices to making clean tech easy, here’s what needs to happen to cut emissions and improve everyday life.
www.greenpeace.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I wrote a bit about the UK Government's Climate and Growth Plan coming out on Weds, which is to show how the UK will meet it's legally binding target of emissions reductions around 2035
TL;DR - there's a lot to do
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/how-to-...
TL;DR - there's a lot to do
www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/how-to-...
The quoted statistic - only 5,900 of 60,000 responded - means the National Audit Office conclusion of 98% “failures” is completely flawed - shame on you NAO. (And my external insulation works brilliantly well).
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
No reason to abandon external wall insulation | Letter
Letter: Jason Palmer says it is vital to meet climate targets and we need trained installers
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The quoted statistic - only 5,900 of 60,000 responded - means the National Audit Office conclusion of 98% “failures” is completely flawed - shame on you NAO. (And my external insulation works brilliantly well).
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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£80 Billion p.a. lost forever. Was it incompetence from Farage and Johnson or something worse ?
"The economic disaster that is Brexit"
(A lot worse than I had thought)
Will Hutton in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
(A lot worse than I had thought)
Will Hutton in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
£80 Billion p.a. lost forever. Was it incompetence from Farage and Johnson or something worse ?
Can anyone tell me how much global warming is baked in to the climate datasets that are in the PHPP version 10.6 software?
I’m assuming 0 deg C. But if I add an extra 1.75 degrees, I get some really horrendous overheating predicted . . .
I’m assuming 0 deg C. But if I add an extra 1.75 degrees, I get some really horrendous overheating predicted . . .
October 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Can anyone tell me how much global warming is baked in to the climate datasets that are in the PHPP version 10.6 software?
I’m assuming 0 deg C. But if I add an extra 1.75 degrees, I get some really horrendous overheating predicted . . .
I’m assuming 0 deg C. But if I add an extra 1.75 degrees, I get some really horrendous overheating predicted . . .
Have any of you Passivhaus types tried using PHPP to model variants that:- have a woodburner; - phase out a gas boiler by substituting a heat pump?
I seem to be at its limits of logic, and it’s stoking up the wood usage quite unreasonably. Inbuilt Luddite?
I seem to be at its limits of logic, and it’s stoking up the wood usage quite unreasonably. Inbuilt Luddite?
a black stove with a glass door has a few logs inside
ALT: a black stove with a glass door has a few logs inside
media.tenor.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Have any of you Passivhaus types tried using PHPP to model variants that:- have a woodburner; - phase out a gas boiler by substituting a heat pump?
I seem to be at its limits of logic, and it’s stoking up the wood usage quite unreasonably. Inbuilt Luddite?
I seem to be at its limits of logic, and it’s stoking up the wood usage quite unreasonably. Inbuilt Luddite?
Commercial interest rates are higher than the cost of government borrowing. So for infrastructure projects private finance is stupidity!
😡This is madness!
The government is shelling out millions to Deloitte to advise on bringing PFI back into the NHS.
PFI deals signed under Blair are still damaging our NHS today, yet Wes Streeting wants to set another ticking time bomb under our NHS.
We have to stop this.
The government is shelling out millions to Deloitte to advise on bringing PFI back into the NHS.
PFI deals signed under Blair are still damaging our NHS today, yet Wes Streeting wants to set another ticking time bomb under our NHS.
We have to stop this.
September 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Commercial interest rates are higher than the cost of government borrowing. So for infrastructure projects private finance is stupidity!
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I wonder who funds the CPS? Cui bono?
Ah, yes. That’a secret, isn’t it?
Ah, yes. That’a secret, isn’t it?
September 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I wonder who funds the CPS? Cui bono?
Ah, yes. That’a secret, isn’t it?
Ah, yes. That’a secret, isn’t it?
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My analysis here not only explains why the CPS numbers are wrong - but estimates that if they'd got their own arithmetic right, they would have concluded that migrants are a large long-term fiscal *benefit*. (3/3)
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
The long-run fiscal impact of recent migrants
docs.google.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
My analysis here not only explains why the CPS numbers are wrong - but estimates that if they'd got their own arithmetic right, they would have concluded that migrants are a large long-term fiscal *benefit*. (3/3)
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Great Britain wastes £180,000 every hour switching off wind turbines and overpaying gas generators to switch on. That's £963,425,704 so far this year! wastedwind.energy. So crazy - switch the grid to regional pricing & put the AI data centres in the places where power is lost from switch offs.
Wasted Wind
Britain wastes millions a day switching off wind turbines. See how much has been wasted today, and in 2025.
wastedwind.energy
September 21, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Great Britain wastes £180,000 every hour switching off wind turbines and overpaying gas generators to switch on. That's £963,425,704 so far this year! wastedwind.energy. So crazy - switch the grid to regional pricing & put the AI data centres in the places where power is lost from switch offs.
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It doesn’t matter if you’re working class or a billionaire: climate change will hurt your grandchildren.
That’s why I cannot understand oil executives who sacrifice the planet’s health for their short-term profits
We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels NOW.
That’s why I cannot understand oil executives who sacrifice the planet’s health for their short-term profits
We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels NOW.
September 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
It doesn’t matter if you’re working class or a billionaire: climate change will hurt your grandchildren.
That’s why I cannot understand oil executives who sacrifice the planet’s health for their short-term profits
We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels NOW.
That’s why I cannot understand oil executives who sacrifice the planet’s health for their short-term profits
We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels NOW.
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Stupidity in the council resolution is breath-taking
Reform UK want a new nuclear reactor at Dungeness, on Kent coast. A site already needing continual maintenance to stop it being undermined by sea level rise
A new reactor there, with waste fuel stored for a century, would be a complete liability
Reform UK want a new nuclear reactor at Dungeness, on Kent coast. A site already needing continual maintenance to stop it being undermined by sea level rise
A new reactor there, with waste fuel stored for a century, would be a complete liability
September 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Stupidity in the council resolution is breath-taking
Reform UK want a new nuclear reactor at Dungeness, on Kent coast. A site already needing continual maintenance to stop it being undermined by sea level rise
A new reactor there, with waste fuel stored for a century, would be a complete liability
Reform UK want a new nuclear reactor at Dungeness, on Kent coast. A site already needing continual maintenance to stop it being undermined by sea level rise
A new reactor there, with waste fuel stored for a century, would be a complete liability
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5/4
AND....
A much larger poll than Times one published today by More in Common shows "strong support" for clean energy, and that concern over climate change has become "a unifier in time of polarisation"
Clearly some newspapers don't want a united Britain
www.businessgreen.com/news/4518762...
AND....
A much larger poll than Times one published today by More in Common shows "strong support" for clean energy, and that concern over climate change has become "a unifier in time of polarisation"
Clearly some newspapers don't want a united Britain
www.businessgreen.com/news/4518762...
'Quiet sense of pride': Large majority of Brits back ambitious climate action
Poll of over 7,000 people reveals strong support for clean energy, nature restoration, and climate action - but a deep disillusionment with politics and the cost of living remains
www.businessgreen.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
5/4
AND....
A much larger poll than Times one published today by More in Common shows "strong support" for clean energy, and that concern over climate change has become "a unifier in time of polarisation"
Clearly some newspapers don't want a united Britain
www.businessgreen.com/news/4518762...
AND....
A much larger poll than Times one published today by More in Common shows "strong support" for clean energy, and that concern over climate change has become "a unifier in time of polarisation"
Clearly some newspapers don't want a united Britain
www.businessgreen.com/news/4518762...
UK Government needs to adopt proportional representation both for Labour to survive in office and to solve this short termism problem
@catherinemitchell.bsky.social at #Tyndall25UEA makes the v.important observation that, in the UK, the ‘first past the post’ political system reinforces short-termism. Without changes in this it’s difficult to see how the scale of change to deliver on our climate commitments can be achieved.
September 9, 2025 at 7:06 AM
UK Government needs to adopt proportional representation both for Labour to survive in office and to solve this short termism problem