To reach fossil-free UK energy use (no oil or gas for energy) by the 2050 net-zero target: • Replace remaining fossil electricity generation with nuclear and/or renewables. • Replace oil and gas boilers primarily with heat pumps (plus some heat networks). • Replace ICE road vehicles with electric alternatives Further electrify trains. For ships, use electric options on short routes and alternative low-carbon fuels for larger vessels. Electrify most industrial gas and oil heat uses , with synthetic or other low-carbon options for remaining high-temperature processes. • Add sufficient new electricity generation for these loads: demand is projected to rise from ~280–300 TWh today to roughly 570–700 TWh by 2050 (about 2–2.5×), plus major transmission and distribution grid upgrades. • Build long-duration storage for dunkelflaute periods (multi-day to multi-week low wind/solar events). Batteries cover hours; long-duration needs are tens of TWh, supplemented by demand flexibility, interconnectors and firm low-carbon generation. This is a whole nation £5 Trillion project. We are way behind on most aspects of this plan targeting 2050. Jackdaw is a drop in the bucket in comparison. In the crisis the chancellor is facing it brings a few £billion into the treasury instead of giving it to Norway or Qatar. So it’s handy, but won’t change much.

I’d love to have been a fly on the wall when Miliband found out about this.

Today I have been mostly reporting stupid maths tweets for spam and muting their accounts. 2+2=crap gumming up my timeline.

I want to block these vile industrial cremation adverts from my TV.

What’s the betting Andy green lights Jackdaw and blocks Rosebank as a compromise position. Trying to please everyone, but actually pleasing no-one.

It's past time that Andy Burnham ordered the restoration of the Wagon Wheel to its 1970s size.

So I strayed off thinking socialists were just dim. After all if they were bright, they’d figure out that socialism has never worked and never will. Then I was told by @s8mb that they aren’t stupid, they are just mistaken. Ok, seems fairer, and you do meet some lefties who are genuinely intelligent people. Then I found the work of Kahan and Boyer and read that they are subconsciously eliminating stories they don’t like, called Identity Protective Cognition. A psychological explanation, that everyone can be susceptible to. To sum up my current thinking on socialism. It’s a mental illness.

Is Cadwalladr suggesting that The Joos secretly run the BBC? That what the left usually means when they say “does anyone see the problem”

It’s jolly interesting now that X posts tweets onto my timeline from all over the world, with instant AI translation. Great to see different things happening in different countries, and the same things. Great to connect with non English-speaking foreigners.

“I want to Unify the country.” “I want to re-open the Brexit wounds” Same person.

D’you think?

Yellow lines infantilise. People will park whoever there is no yellow line. No matter how stupid a place it is to park. Blocking the way or risking danger, if there’s no line, it must be ok.

Look how unsympathetic re-roofing and uPVC windows have spoiled this delightful Georgian terrace. How is this allowed?

Why do old people (like me) go to a garden centre for coffee and cake, or lunch? Easy to park. Free to park. No one working on a laptop. No one in a zoom call. No one playing tik toks on speaker. No one shouting into their phone. The guy on the counter isn’t having a phone conversation while he serves you. Tables are clean. Toilets are clean. Coffee is the same as most coffee shops, cakes are better.

I found these sheep population stats surprising.