Our climate is changing and we need research like this to ensure that we can still grow food productively in regions where weather is causing crops to fail.

those contracts take years to tender and likely have huge clawback clauses. I doubt that Labour got into power and immediately signed contracts for things like this. More likely it was more expensive to stop it.

Actually Ovo energy is trying to do that - they estimate a reduction in your energy bills based on installing an energy efficient system like solar, heat pump, loft insulation, etc. Then they carry out the work and you pay it off gradually through your energy bills.

The challenge I think is then if you want to leave them then you have to either repay that debt or the next energy company has to assume it. There’s a few ways it could be abused and of course the savings take years or even decades to pay off, so there’s a few kinks to work out.

I hope they manage to get it working though, it will be big for UK customers.

I feel like capitalists are waiting on some magic solution like some chemical we spray into the air or a miracle new fuel source.

The established suggestions from scientists (“fly less, stop buying SUVs/Trucks, eat less meat, consider a heat pump and solar panels” etc) doesn’t support the narrative that we can continue unabated infinite growth with no consequences.

imagine the resources needed to pull something like this

quite aside from the question of how you hack thousands of pagers to make them explode, what are we carrying around in our daily lives that are one internet command away from blowing up?

I think it’s going to be a spectacular year for employment lawyers.

Hey when you have dual citizenship then it’s legal for one country to revoke that citizenship.

Until next time.png

Russia needs to cede that territory in the interests of peace.

https://violentdelights.co.uk/

Lilijunex and Starryfawn are confused when reading this

a Dalek.

“drink a verification can to continue”

*to

a pretty grafana dashboard? peak web traffic looks a lot nicer than i thought!

illegal where? do you think a website hosted in Russia or Pakistan is going to care about an american family whose details get listed there?

i thought he was doing a poo

yes but then the US doesn’t expect to sell huge quantities of its cars in China and upset the market. Nor would China permit that.

Except it’s not capitalism when China does it, it’s socialism. The EV manufacturers like BYD have had massive subsidies from the state to bring those products to market, and that level of state support and intervention is not palatable to Americans.

Political, Climate change and National Security concerns aside, the subsidies are how the US government are about to justify the tariffs.

yes so you’re agreeing with me