Robert Osfield

Human babies cannot shiver to raise their body temperature. But brown fat comes to the rescue! 🌡️

Nancy Rothwell told us about thermoregulation during her 1998 Christmas Lectures, about the physiological processes that balance our bodies.

Watch the full series: www.rigb.org/explore-scie...

"What is needed is the pragmatism of robust but affordable climate action" In our newest audioblog, @mliebreich.bsky.social is calling for a pragmatic climate reset, based on his recent piece for BloombergNEF.

Listen 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKG...
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Vaillant Arotherm Heat Pump Guide | Energy Stats UK 2025 Vaillant Arotherm Heat Pump Guide covering weather compensation curve, SensoCOMFORT controls, hot water modes, COP/SCOP measurement and performance tips.

I’ve owned my 5kW Vaillant Arotherm Plus heat pump for nearly 3 years now and I’ve written lots of articles and guide, but they are spread all over the site.

So I’ve created an Arotherm landing page pointing you towards all the important articles.

energy-stats.uk/vaillant-aro...

YouTube video by James Talarico We will not be deterred

🚨Watch!

Texas Rep @jamestalarico.bsky.social lays out the threats aimed at him at his TX Dem colleagues in this short 43 second clip.

Please keep supporting our @texasdemocrats.bsky.social who are standing up to fascism on behalf of the entire country!

#MessWithTexas

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What Are Time of Use Tariffs? | Energy Stats UK 2025 What are Time of Use Tariffs is a common question. We look into how ToU Tariffs and Smart Meters in the UK could help you save on your electricity bill.

Been on a bit of a roll with blog articles over the past few weeks.

Here's another one that I thought could be useful.

"What Are Time of Use Tariffs"

energy-stats.uk/what-are-tim...

A good thread showing examples of consistent push by the Times to discredit EVs, repeatedly claiming things that are blatantly false.

Issuing small "corrections" after headline and articles pushing lies doesn't absolve them of guilt of working as a propaganda front for the fossil fuel industry.

A New Puzzle Piece Emerges for the Causes of the Little Ice Age If you look at a 2000 year history of atmospheric CO2 Concentrations, a little blip is visible early in the 17th Century… just before the exponential rise of CO2 associated with the Industrial Revolut...

Finally wrote this up...
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Tesla sales are significantly down year on year, collapsing by 60%.

Model Y refresh clearly hasn't revived Tesla's fortunes.

Toxic Musk effect? Competition from European and Chinese brands?

Break down of the fuel types for July and for the year to date show how relative strengths of each type ebb and flow each month.

Year to date show clear strong growth for BEV and PHEV of 31% and 31.5% respectively, muted growth for HEV at 6.5%, and steady decline of Petrol and Diesel over 10% down.

@smmt have published their UK new car registration figures for July 2025, BEV and PHEV grew 9.1 and 33.0% respectively, while HEV, Petrol and Diesel shrank 10, 14.7 and 7.9% respectively. Overall market shrank 5%.

Strength of PHEV pushes back the late BEV adoption curve to 50% around May 2027.

I've just published a LinkedIn post on the design and installation process for my home heat pump 😀 @newarkcylinders.bsky.social @openenergymon.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/design...

The slope might be steep but it's the most SANE response to the climate crisis.

UK High Court grants Palestine Action judicial review over terror proscription Labour government moved to proscribe the group after members spray painted two military planes at RAF Brize Norton

"A High Court Judge has ruled in favour of Palestine Action and granted the direct action group a judicial review to oppose the UK government’s ban on the pro-Palestine group."
👍
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ICE cars today will be at minimum 15 years old. That's beyond the average age of retirement of the present fleet.

With littler to no infrastructure to fuel them.
With little to no infreastrucutre to maintain them.

ICE Retirement age will go down, not up.

Lab-grown blood could resolve shortages of rare blood types and many more problems. 🩸

Angela McLean, the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser, explains how this could transform medicine.

Watch the full talk on engineering biology: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHcB...

Once the ICE fleet share drops significantly the ICE fuel infrastructure will begin collapsing and it'll become increasingly impractical to run ICE vehicles.

Once no one manufactures ICE cars how long will spares for them also dry up?

My guess by 2035 ICE will be niche, just for the enthusiasts.

"China could be 100% EV by 2050."

X "could" be 100% EV by Y.

My guess X being most the World.
And Y being 2040.

Once BEVs are cheaper to build and buy, how much longer are folks going to buy an ICE car?

How long will folks keep an old ICE car on the road when BEV is cheaper to buy and run?

Build out of coal power stations in China no longer looks linked to emissions growth. Suggests lower coal plant utilization rates due to growth in Renewables.

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🤔 Have CO2 emissions in China peaked?

Amidst a massive rollout of renewable generation, CO2 emissions in China have plateaued, if not decreased slightly, even against a backdrop of continued economic growth.

North Scotland region 100% powered by Wind. We got so much wind power we're exporting to other parts of the UK reducing their reliance on Gas. Love it.

A lot more folks need to tell Trump and his fossil cronies to F*** OFF you corrupt and abhorrent example of humanity.

Major parts of Internet run on open source software, Major parts of folks phones and other devices run on open source software.

Open source provides the underpinning of almost everything technological with use today, much of the contributions to this are done freely.

Not enough folks realize.

Um.... I have been an open source developer running a free software business for a quarter century now...

Wikipedia ain't an anomaly.

It CAN be done...maybe! We have (75%) made 2 episodes of Zapheap

I have written a short uypdate about our recent filming of a new version of the old favourite, Scrapheap Challenge.
This is The Zapheap.
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UK gov report on public charging stats :

www.gov.uk/government/s...

"there were 82,002 public electric vehicle charging devices
available in the UK in July 2025, an increase of 27% since July 2024"

Please to see you?

YouTube video by Everything Electric TECH No Energy Bills? The Radical Plan To Make Energy Much Cheaper!

Every now and then, a new technology allows a new economic system to develop. We are living in one of these moments, this is a critically important change.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoYM...

UK vehicle production falls but foundations set for recovery

🚗🚚Car & CV manufacturing declines -11.9% in 2025
📈Pressures eases in June as car production increases by 6.6%
🔮Total annual output anticipated to fall by -15% but reversal expected in 2026 with 6.4% growth

smmt.co.uk/uk-vehicle-p...

Experience the Refined Intensity of the MG IM5. A pure electric intelligent SUV with ludicrous power and advanced driving technologies, all wrapped in an elegantly flowing form.

MG IM5 and IM6?

Looks like they are chasing the Model 3/Y market segments:

im.mg.co.uk/im5

Dogger Bank A is live!

1.2GW of offshore wind capacity

40% owned by equinor, 40% SSE and 20% Vagronn

Located 130-190km East from the Yorkshire coast.

The power comes ashore at skipsea and connected into the grid at Cottingham.