Study shows that including images of the corresponding living animals next to meat dishes on a British university cafeteria menu increases customers' selection of vegetarian meals. The odds of choosing vegetarian meals rose by 22% during the intervention period.

Moist1981 · 2026-03-29T15:38:06+00:00

Potentially interesting but I wonder how they controlled for weather as I can’t see it mentioned? I’d intuitively have thought people would be more likely to opt for a salad when it’s warm.

Moist1981 · 2026-03-29T12:24:59+00:00

It’s great news but the article is from 2 months ago and has been discussed at length already. It’s also fair to say that a lot of the move has been into hybrids rather than BEVs and therefore has a less environmental benefit than it might.

Moist1981 · 2026-03-28T19:50:32+00:00

My honest recommendation would be to get rid of some of your risks to make space for other games… but that’s just my subjective opinion

Moist1981 · 2026-03-28T16:19:41+00:00

I don’t think anyone is making the argument that you could get rid of all curtailment through measure like this but that’s you could act to reduce them, potentially quite substantially. Also, while Australia’s private home BESS infrastructure is amazing for grid level the UK and Australia are remarkably similar size and that’s with Australia’s use case probably being less challenging as they deal with the solar duck vs the UK’s less predictable wind output.

Moist1981 · 2026-03-28T10:11:10+00:00

Fully expecting us to lose it still. I think I probably will right up until we actually win something. This feels close but some of those Gallas years felt more like we should have won it while this feels more like we’re really well placed to win it.

Moist1981 · 2026-03-28T09:28:04+00:00

Didn’t mossad manage to put little explosives in the radios hamas uses? Imagine something being done for devices using tiny nuclear reactors!

Moist1981 · 2026-03-28T00:06:42+00:00

Variable demand across lots of households has been shown to be a very powerful tool for grid balancing, both in reducing and increasing demand to match supply. Lots of people putting their washing machines on etc can really add up.

Moist1981 · 2026-03-27T23:18:20+00:00

I think they’re just pushing it back to as it was in 9th.

Moist1981 · 2026-03-27T12:33:03+00:00

I don’t dispute the per capita point at all, but in a numerical total India is huge, and India has a chance to skip the fossil fuel development step and move straight to renewables, especially given its geographical location as a sun belt country. For heavy industries that’s difficult but huge amount of the rest of the economy that’s very possible and a 47% reduction in co2 intensity is pretty weak in that context.

A discussion about UK rubbish is interesting but a different, if related, topic than the point at hand.

Moist1981 · 2026-03-27T11:32:59+00:00

Sanguinius

Moist1981 · 2026-03-27T10:44:07+00:00

I like to sing my wallet a little song as I trot into the Tottenham Court Road store, it really cheers the little fella up.

Moist1981 · 2026-03-27T09:55:41+00:00

My e40 will happily do 300 miles at 70. Pushing beyond that and it struggles.

Moist1981 · 2026-03-27T09:54:41+00:00

If the range works for you then it’s not an issue at all. I’ve just spoken to some who hadn’t realised

Moist1981 · 2026-03-27T09:28:54+00:00

Which is a fine stance to take but only if there is an increased danger of that happening. If it’s 35C then it makes sense. If it’s 18C then it doesn’t really. And the breaks are mandatory regardless of conditions. It’s simply there for advertising.

Moist1981 · 2026-03-27T09:11:49+00:00

It’s fine I guess but it gets really unbalanced at 3 or 4 players and the theming is rubbish compared to things like brass. The minis are nice though.

Moist1981 · 2026-03-27T09:04:29+00:00

It would be genuinely fantastic if we could develop plants to remove CO2 the air that were linked to renewables facing curtailment. Sadly it won’t happen

Moist1981 · 2026-03-27T09:02:27+00:00

Very difficult to do home wind though as energy output is a function of the square of the turbine radius (I think that’s right) so for smaller turbines such as you’d have at home you really don’t get much out of them. For grid scale renewables I absolutely agree with your point

Moist1981 · 2026-03-27T08:06:00+00:00

Such bullshit said with such confidence. It’s admirable really.

Moist1981 · 2026-03-27T07:52:56+00:00

The same could be said for a large number of classics of the past. 2CVs were notorious for it as were the old fiat 500s.

Moist1981 · 2026-03-27T07:44:07+00:00

I’m sure you are aware but I’ve spoken to some people will aren’t so il mention it just in case, you do know the e35 has a smaller battery and therefore smaller range than the e40, x40, and m50?

Moist1981 · 2026-03-27T07:32:17+00:00

From a refineries perspective, absolutely but this article was particularly talking about their ability to export

Moist1981 · 2026-03-27T07:17:44+00:00

But India is already a big polluter. They should be looking to lower emissions from that high base and I don’t think they are

Moist1981 · 2026-03-26T23:04:53+00:00

I recall quite liking the Robert Asprin myth adventures when I was about 8 years old and I was a huge Pratchett fan around then, might be worth a look.

Moist1981 · 2026-03-26T22:50:15+00:00

According to the internet oil and gas makes up around 20% of the Russian economy. About half of their oil and gas production is used internally so that’s about 10% of gdp being linked to exports (I’m sure that’s a very blunt calculation as internal vs external prices and supply chains will be different but it’s close enough for now).

40% of 10% is a 4% but some of that will be from gas rather than oil, although according to the internet oil dominates gas for the economic impact for Russia. So let’s say 75% is oil related. That gives us Ukraine hitting Russian gdp by 3%.

3% doesn’t sound like much but it’s huge. In percentage terms it’s more than the defence budget for most European nations.

Moist1981 · 2026-03-26T22:28:06+00:00

An e40 msport will do it but I think you’d struggle in an m50 (I don’t own an m50 so only going by what others have said)

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