David Nicholson
@rivergecko.bsky.social
Electric cars, renewables, clean energy, clean transport & Democracy. www.myurbancar.com provides information on zero emission transport. 🇺🇦Time4 #ClimateAction
November 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
👍we will need active cooling including AC, air to air heatpumps & ceiling fans to manage future UK heatwaves
But we also need UK newbuilds & existing buildings to limit solar gain passively
That means education for architects&developers+ planning changes to encourage shutters,batteries solar & AC
But we also need UK newbuilds & existing buildings to limit solar gain passively
That means education for architects&developers+ planning changes to encourage shutters,batteries solar & AC
August 18, 2025 at 9:26 AM
👍we will need active cooling including AC, air to air heatpumps & ceiling fans to manage future UK heatwaves
But we also need UK newbuilds & existing buildings to limit solar gain passively
That means education for architects&developers+ planning changes to encourage shutters,batteries solar & AC
But we also need UK newbuilds & existing buildings to limit solar gain passively
That means education for architects&developers+ planning changes to encourage shutters,batteries solar & AC
Slightly sub optimal attempt to get a boat out of the river using a trailer in Putney today
August 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Slightly sub optimal attempt to get a boat out of the river using a trailer in Putney today
This article goes further into the history of the use of calorie counted starvation by the Nazi’s and nearly a century earlier by the British Empire and the United States. Israel has controlled Gaza’a calories per day since 2007 but since march levels are designed to kill
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August 3, 2025 at 6:58 AM
This article goes further into the history of the use of calorie counted starvation by the Nazi’s and nearly a century earlier by the British Empire and the United States. Israel has controlled Gaza’a calories per day since 2007 but since march levels are designed to kill
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History repeating?
310 calories per day in Gaza is calculated to cause mass starvation
The Nazis used the same calculations in the Warsaw ghetto & rations in the horrific Belsen concentration camp averaged 800-1,200 calories for prisoners in early’44 falling to under 500 in 1945
310 calories per day in Gaza is calculated to cause mass starvation
The Nazis used the same calculations in the Warsaw ghetto & rations in the horrific Belsen concentration camp averaged 800-1,200 calories for prisoners in early’44 falling to under 500 in 1945
August 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
History repeating?
310 calories per day in Gaza is calculated to cause mass starvation
The Nazis used the same calculations in the Warsaw ghetto & rations in the horrific Belsen concentration camp averaged 800-1,200 calories for prisoners in early’44 falling to under 500 in 1945
310 calories per day in Gaza is calculated to cause mass starvation
The Nazis used the same calculations in the Warsaw ghetto & rations in the horrific Belsen concentration camp averaged 800-1,200 calories for prisoners in early’44 falling to under 500 in 1945
But Israel has restricted food imports this year as per this Guardian chart using Israeli data
In the entire period from March to July Israeli’s allowed an average of just 19,200 tons per month or just 310 calories per person per day. What else did they do?
In the entire period from March to July Israeli’s allowed an average of just 19,200 tons per month or just 310 calories per person per day. What else did they do?
August 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
But Israel has restricted food imports this year as per this Guardian chart using Israeli data
In the entire period from March to July Israeli’s allowed an average of just 19,200 tons per month or just 310 calories per person per day. What else did they do?
In the entire period from March to July Israeli’s allowed an average of just 19,200 tons per month or just 310 calories per person per day. What else did they do?
Who would have thought!
Grandpa @realDonaldTrump ‘s fear and loathing of #windmills and #windturbines began in Scotland in 2006 and he still hasn’t got over it🤣
Grandpa @realDonaldTrump ‘s fear and loathing of #windmills and #windturbines began in Scotland in 2006 and he still hasn’t got over it🤣
July 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Who would have thought!
Grandpa @realDonaldTrump ‘s fear and loathing of #windmills and #windturbines began in Scotland in 2006 and he still hasn’t got over it🤣
Grandpa @realDonaldTrump ‘s fear and loathing of #windmills and #windturbines began in Scotland in 2006 and he still hasn’t got over it🤣
🇬🇧9 yrs later
2016
96.77% of new UK cars were either petrol or diesel.
Just 3.3% were electric/hybrid/plugin
2025
In H1 petrol/diesel were 54% combined with diesel💨 almost extinct
In June petrol fell to just 46% & pure combustion dominance is down to 51..6 v 48.4% either EV or Hybrid
36% have plugs
2016
96.77% of new UK cars were either petrol or diesel.
Just 3.3% were electric/hybrid/plugin
2025
In H1 petrol/diesel were 54% combined with diesel💨 almost extinct
In June petrol fell to just 46% & pure combustion dominance is down to 51..6 v 48.4% either EV or Hybrid
36% have plugs
July 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
🇬🇧9 yrs later
2016
96.77% of new UK cars were either petrol or diesel.
Just 3.3% were electric/hybrid/plugin
2025
In H1 petrol/diesel were 54% combined with diesel💨 almost extinct
In June petrol fell to just 46% & pure combustion dominance is down to 51..6 v 48.4% either EV or Hybrid
36% have plugs
2016
96.77% of new UK cars were either petrol or diesel.
Just 3.3% were electric/hybrid/plugin
2025
In H1 petrol/diesel were 54% combined with diesel💨 almost extinct
In June petrol fell to just 46% & pure combustion dominance is down to 51..6 v 48.4% either EV or Hybrid
36% have plugs
You don’t need to have a big car to have a good time, oh no..
Pop green Renault 5 meets an Audi Kuwait Chelsea tractor in grey..
Pop green Renault 5 meets an Audi Kuwait Chelsea tractor in grey..
June 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
You don’t need to have a big car to have a good time, oh no..
Pop green Renault 5 meets an Audi Kuwait Chelsea tractor in grey..
Pop green Renault 5 meets an Audi Kuwait Chelsea tractor in grey..
Those external Velux shutters look like this
June 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Those external Velux shutters look like this
Managing heat. To give an indication of the climate impact on UK houses of the new #ExtremeClimateAge
Official London 30C
2.30pm
Temperature under awning outside Kitchen 36.6C
Inside Kitchen in morning sun but heat reduction measures 25.2C -
So 11.4C cooler with no Air Con
How?
Official London 30C
2.30pm
Temperature under awning outside Kitchen 36.6C
Inside Kitchen in morning sun but heat reduction measures 25.2C -
So 11.4C cooler with no Air Con
How?
June 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Managing heat. To give an indication of the climate impact on UK houses of the new #ExtremeClimateAge
Official London 30C
2.30pm
Temperature under awning outside Kitchen 36.6C
Inside Kitchen in morning sun but heat reduction measures 25.2C -
So 11.4C cooler with no Air Con
How?
Official London 30C
2.30pm
Temperature under awning outside Kitchen 36.6C
Inside Kitchen in morning sun but heat reduction measures 25.2C -
So 11.4C cooler with no Air Con
How?
The news is made doubly strange by the fact that a 400v converter will apparently be fitted to CLA electric models in Norway
Offering a new EV without being able to use 400v chargers is like saying you don’t know much about driving EVs. Astonishing
Offering a new EV without being able to use 400v chargers is like saying you don’t know much about driving EVs. Astonishing
May 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The news is made doubly strange by the fact that a 400v converter will apparently be fitted to CLA electric models in Norway
Offering a new EV without being able to use 400v chargers is like saying you don’t know much about driving EVs. Astonishing
Offering a new EV without being able to use 400v chargers is like saying you don’t know much about driving EVs. Astonishing
The situation is even more acute in Scotland where charging becomes impossible except on the East Coast north of Glasgow.
Literally just Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness and John O Groats!
@MercedesBenzUK please think again
Literally just Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness and John O Groats!
@MercedesBenzUK please think again
May 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The situation is even more acute in Scotland where charging becomes impossible except on the East Coast north of Glasgow.
Literally just Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness and John O Groats!
@MercedesBenzUK please think again
Literally just Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness and John O Groats!
@MercedesBenzUK please think again
These 2 maps from @WattsUp are filtered for all chargers and for 800v chargers the Mercedes CLA will be able to use.
Specifically it means
You may be much further from the closest charger
Charging will cost you more because mostly only 2 expensive networks (Instavolt & Gridserve)will be available
Specifically it means
You may be much further from the closest charger
Charging will cost you more because mostly only 2 expensive networks (Instavolt & Gridserve)will be available
May 8, 2025 at 8:17 AM
These 2 maps from @WattsUp are filtered for all chargers and for 800v chargers the Mercedes CLA will be able to use.
Specifically it means
You may be much further from the closest charger
Charging will cost you more because mostly only 2 expensive networks (Instavolt & Gridserve)will be available
Specifically it means
You may be much further from the closest charger
Charging will cost you more because mostly only 2 expensive networks (Instavolt & Gridserve)will be available
Rats cast a shadow over delayed over budget UK Nuclear plant at Hinkley
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
May 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Rats cast a shadow over delayed over budget UK Nuclear plant at Hinkley
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Agreed although frankly that makes it almost more bizarre
April 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Agreed although frankly that makes it almost more bizarre
Wiki entry for the man who praised Trump’s tariffs today… despite having died in 2019.
April 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Wiki entry for the man who praised Trump’s tariffs today… despite having died in 2019.
Trump gets strong backing for today’s tariffs from car industry legend Lee Iacocca.
According to Trump Iacocca today said “I never thought I’d see the day when someone would do what needed to be done, this is transforming our nation”
Lee Iacocca died on in Los Angeles on July 2, 2019 aged 94
According to Trump Iacocca today said “I never thought I’d see the day when someone would do what needed to be done, this is transforming our nation”
Lee Iacocca died on in Los Angeles on July 2, 2019 aged 94
April 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Trump gets strong backing for today’s tariffs from car industry legend Lee Iacocca.
According to Trump Iacocca today said “I never thought I’d see the day when someone would do what needed to be done, this is transforming our nation”
Lee Iacocca died on in Los Angeles on July 2, 2019 aged 94
According to Trump Iacocca today said “I never thought I’d see the day when someone would do what needed to be done, this is transforming our nation”
Lee Iacocca died on in Los Angeles on July 2, 2019 aged 94
European tariffs from Orange Emperor
Switzerland 31%
EU 20%
UK 10% which is his global minimum
In addition all imports of complete cars will be hit with a 25% tariff
He’s still waffling on
#TrumpTariffs
Switzerland 31%
EU 20%
UK 10% which is his global minimum
In addition all imports of complete cars will be hit with a 25% tariff
He’s still waffling on
#TrumpTariffs
April 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
European tariffs from Orange Emperor
Switzerland 31%
EU 20%
UK 10% which is his global minimum
In addition all imports of complete cars will be hit with a 25% tariff
He’s still waffling on
#TrumpTariffs
Switzerland 31%
EU 20%
UK 10% which is his global minimum
In addition all imports of complete cars will be hit with a 25% tariff
He’s still waffling on
#TrumpTariffs
I know
Unbelievable
🤣
Unbelievable
🤣
April 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I know
Unbelievable
🤣
Unbelievable
🤣
4 eyes.. the new secret intelligence sharing network🤔
Has a ring to it
Apologies to New Zealand for reinforcing sheep stereotyping.
I’m not proud of myself🙄
Has a ring to it
Apologies to New Zealand for reinforcing sheep stereotyping.
I’m not proud of myself🙄
March 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
4 eyes.. the new secret intelligence sharing network🤔
Has a ring to it
Apologies to New Zealand for reinforcing sheep stereotyping.
I’m not proud of myself🙄
Has a ring to it
Apologies to New Zealand for reinforcing sheep stereotyping.
I’m not proud of myself🙄
I had been told the Gripen engines were built in the US. Seems like you are both partially right but it’s definitely not currently an “America free” option and the US already blocked exports to Columbia.
March 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I had been told the Gripen engines were built in the US. Seems like you are both partially right but it’s definitely not currently an “America free” option and the US already blocked exports to Columbia.
Worth remembering that Trump hasn’t just screwed America’s ally in Ukraine in the last
24 hours but Canada as well.
Seems clear Trump
has refused to even have a call with
Trudeau to discuss tariffs not least because Trump’s grounds for tariffs.. fentanyl smuggling.. is an entirely bogus pretext
24 hours but Canada as well.
Seems clear Trump
has refused to even have a call with
Trudeau to discuss tariffs not least because Trump’s grounds for tariffs.. fentanyl smuggling.. is an entirely bogus pretext
March 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Worth remembering that Trump hasn’t just screwed America’s ally in Ukraine in the last
24 hours but Canada as well.
Seems clear Trump
has refused to even have a call with
Trudeau to discuss tariffs not least because Trump’s grounds for tariffs.. fentanyl smuggling.. is an entirely bogus pretext
24 hours but Canada as well.
Seems clear Trump
has refused to even have a call with
Trudeau to discuss tariffs not least because Trump’s grounds for tariffs.. fentanyl smuggling.. is an entirely bogus pretext
For anyone who hasn’t figured it out yet this US administration will remain a completely undependable ally and trading partner.
The EU needs to offer UK entrance to customs
Union & UK and Europe need to develop completely independent European military, weapons supply, coms and intelligence capacity
The EU needs to offer UK entrance to customs
Union & UK and Europe need to develop completely independent European military, weapons supply, coms and intelligence capacity
March 4, 2025 at 5:28 AM
For anyone who hasn’t figured it out yet this US administration will remain a completely undependable ally and trading partner.
The EU needs to offer UK entrance to customs
Union & UK and Europe need to develop completely independent European military, weapons supply, coms and intelligence capacity
The EU needs to offer UK entrance to customs
Union & UK and Europe need to develop completely independent European military, weapons supply, coms and intelligence capacity
@royalsociety.org is going through the very difficult process of deciding whether Elon Musk should remain a
Fellow.
They need to decide this in accordance with their own rules including blackballing
It did strike Wernher von Braun might be a useful precedent…but he was never elected an FRA
Fellow.
They need to decide this in accordance with their own rules including blackballing
It did strike Wernher von Braun might be a useful precedent…but he was never elected an FRA
March 4, 2025 at 4:51 AM
@royalsociety.org is going through the very difficult process of deciding whether Elon Musk should remain a
Fellow.
They need to decide this in accordance with their own rules including blackballing
It did strike Wernher von Braun might be a useful precedent…but he was never elected an FRA
Fellow.
They need to decide this in accordance with their own rules including blackballing
It did strike Wernher von Braun might be a useful precedent…but he was never elected an FRA