Yeah, plenty of us like to joke about stuff regardless of how rich the victim was.

Bricks are also fireproof and yet we still have house fires in the UK. Even if your walls don’t burn, things like furniture, garden plants, trees, wood fences all burn.

Wouldn’t cold water get warm very quickly? I have thought of ice though. If you wrapped it up enough so that it takes up heat fairly slowly.

Yeah, maybe. But I kinda just want to do full roof solar panels too.

But if these plug in panels could also work for off grid locations then that helps justify it for me. Could get them now for home and then when I get my roof done move them to power my allotment shed.

Yeah to fully charge for longer drives you kinda need the roof of your house. I know a few people who drive EVs fully charge on solar like that.

I don’t have a car so no need myself and ebike restrictions are so extreme in the UK that I don’t see the point for myself. 250w and 15.5mph limit, I can cycle pretty much that fast anyway. 13mph is the AVERAGE speed I go to work and that includes stopping for cars and lights. So potentially a road legal ebike would just be a dead weight motor to pedal against most of the time.

A spare wheel with a motor on it that I can swap between to convert it into an ebike for long distance rides could be cool. But ebike throttles are also not road legal. Must be pedal assistance only, and that seems like it might be quite a lot to convert it each time I switch. Maybe I need to talk my partner into getting an ebike that we could both use…

Other than the extra weight, larger battery doesn’t matter.

If you had a 500MWh battery and it takes half a year to charge it doesn’t matter for the solar panel if you only actually use 5kWh a day.

Just looked it up, sounds like Americans drive way more. In the UK I cycle around as much as the average lazy fuck person drives.

Stats for typical driving distances are comically low. Quite a lot of people would drive distances below 1km.

Who is emptying an entire battery every day though? For low distance usage it might not be too bad.

Wouldn’t it depend how much you drive though? I am kinda curious what sort of distance/day it could get. Also lighter cars might help.

Solar tuktuk?

So unless fertiliser results in more than 30x yield, the cow is worse than eating the food directly.

Only thing is if its grass fed then its food humans can’t eat. But grain or soy fed cattle? We could eat that! And I can’t imagine many people are using fertiliser to grow grass. Well, except people into lawns.

Are energy costs soaring? They just dropped VAT on electricity, my bill is dropping quite a bit.

I’ll take solar panels though. Want to see what kind of pricing they come in at. Could even stick some on top of my heat pump.

That is kinda like earth tubes isn’t it? Which you could retrofit. More powerful cooling can be achieved by using the tubes as part of a geothermal heat pump. Bonus there is that its also even more efficient than a regular heat pump in winter too.

You can ventilate periodically, air doesn’t hold that much thermal energy. You can also use heat recovery ventilation, should work in reverse to keep the heat out too.

Given the amount of food that is lost in making meat, could this be more a case of just having to change what people eat rather than the apocalypse that some seem to make it sound like?

The amount of land and water required to feed someone on beef, compared to the amount required to feed them oats?

Now I am curious how that looks with fertiliser too. Kcal yield of growing oats without fertiliser compared to kcal yield of beef even if you use fertiliser to grow their food.

What degree of brutal? I feel like I have been told that before and then very little happens.

Food and energy prices could both double and it would still be fairly minor in comparison to the damage to my monthly finances caused by Liz Truss…

But maybe some of that is that I already live far more sustainably than most? I cycle instead of drive. Don’t eat much meat, grow what I can focusing on the higher priced things although its a very small garden so not getting a huge amount there. Guerilla gardening and foraging is the most “profitable” though.

Ahh if its just box art that makes more sense I guess.

The cheapest loaf in Aldi. I wonder if its better or worse for you than the more expensive ones. Cheapest ingredients but also less stuff added to it to change the texture of it.

I have mostly stopped eating supermarket bread though. It probably isn’t very good for you and its cheaper to eat oats.

So now my lunches are oats I grind up at home to a coarse flour, dried fruit/nuts and just add some water. Although lately at work I use the free milk in the fridge because its cold.

How’s that economy going for you, propped up at the expense of the US tax payer.

Could have spent that on building $5B worth of homes and probably stimulated the economy more because a larger % of the money goes to regular people.

Was 2018 a low year? That might be about the time I remember bread going up from 35p to 45p a loaf in a fairly short timeframe but it dropped a bit after a while. Its 55p now but some of that might just be general inflation and I don’t buy bread as much anymore.