PowerSwitch

I have been on it twice. First time 2019 through to early 2021. Prices were low, particularly during the first lockdown. Quite a few negative pricing events. My average monthly price was 5-12 p/kWh. Starting last year, prices crept up more and more as the wholesale price rose so I switched tariffs. ...

Sudden thought : if the Standing Charges go up by 5x or so then even with ZERO consumption you could have substantial bills. The standing charge is not going to rise by much unless further electricity utilities fail this winter. In fact it should actually go down next April as the supplier of last ...

I was wondering about the possibility of putting them offshore, this would address some of the security concerns. It would also remove the need to purchase land, and as many people would object to living near to a nuclear facility it would take that issue away as well. Problem with offshore is you ...

vtsnowedin wrote:Considering that there are thousands of tanks in farm country storing cattle semen in liquid nitrogen at -313F I think they are overstating the difficulty.

Just don't get the vials mixed up

I suspect that the main reason mask wearing does work is that those that are wearing them also practice social distancing and hand disinfection as much as possible while wearing them. It is the combination of apparel and behavior that might make the difference. Anecdotally, in my experience, social...

Facemasks seem to prevent the aerosol transmission. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/28/understanding-aerosol-transmission-key-controlling-coronavirus-wash-hands The problem I have with this is the actual real world evidence does not at all support this. If aerosols are significan...

You can listen to the entire Podcast here from Dr Michael Yeadon. It is a fantastic listen but terriyfying at the same time. How have the questions or doubts he raise not been addressed by the Government to date? https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/download/cwx3wc/Yeadon_MM2_1286i02g.mp3 download here, or l...

This is a nice graph that is doing the rounds on twitter showing total deaths.



The next 4 week period will be interesting...

A curious fact that Sweden has just had it's least deadly single month in the last 160 years...

https://twitter.com/sebrushworth/status ... 5343185921

https://cornucopia.cornubot.se/2020/10/ ... dliga.html

Is there any data where no measures were taken? Even Sweden let people wear masks and social distance so I know of no country where the population did nothing to avoid getting infected. Literally no one is suggesting 'do nothing' or 'encourage people to go around licking lift buttons' :lol: so I th...

On the 'died in the next year' question. Around 20,000 deaths with covid have occured in care home residents - a bit less than half of all covid deaths. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/articles/deathsinvolvingcovid19inthecaresectorenglandandwales/d...

Concerning masks, what are your thoughts on variolation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2026913 As pointed out in the NEJM article, it is purely a hypothesis. From the very start of the article. it’s possible that one of the pillars of Covid-1...

Has it not occurred to you that these millions died because there was no lockdown ? Please explain logically how a lockdown 100 years ago would have helped save millions of lives? Medical care was rudimentary, there was no vaccine or other treatments 'on the horizon'. Lockdown would not have helped...

The sufferer, in this case, had no symptoms during his covid19 infection, so no lung problems. Having re-read the article, where does it say he suffered no symptoms? It says his illness lasted two weeks but not that he had no symptoms. In anycase the article is misleading. The headline figure of 60...

It seems that large numbers of young people are getting long lasting symptoms from covid-19 infections similar to ME. “If I had known that I’d be this ill, I would have taken everything a lot more seriously back in March,� Russell said. “But all that we heard back then was that if you were ...