Jesse B

Exactly where my mind went too -
Will be curious to see the implementation!

Spotted this coming in iOS26:

Adaptive Temperature automatically adjusts your thermostat to your preferred temperature when you’re on your way home, and adjusts to save energy when you leave for the day or go on vacation.

I’m flattered, but really I just dabble in a bit of everything that catches my interest 🤓

I wouldn’t have guessed back in high school that my chemistry lessons would be making a comeback 20+ years later to try and work out carbon capture systems!

This means for one of our small ships with ~35 tonnes of CO2 emissions per day, for each day’s sailing we consume 10 tonnes of fuel and 100 tonnes of Ca(OH)2…

And are left with 135 tonnes of CaCO3.

They also said “Carbon capture is really the only thing that we can do.” so I suspect there’s some level of creative phrasing in there 🙃

Unless mistaken, going from Ca(OH)2 at 74.0927 g/mol to CaCO3 at 100.0869 g/mol is a 35% increase in mass - assuming you do actually get it perfectly dry.

Which part? The energy intensity, or the weight?

I’ll see if I can dig out my notes from when we spoke with them a while ago, I had put some numbers to the weight gain. Your article states ‘no major net gain’ which is a bit vague haha

This option has fairly low energy intensity onboard (compared with liquifying pure CO2 for example) but it does mean loading tonnes of what is essentially rock… which will get even heavier as it becomes saturated.

It’s an interesting concept.
As with many carbon capture options, it will depend on having global infrastructure to both support the shore/vessel transfer, and the local processing.

I do like this!
Miss standing on the bow with just the sea and stars, and the rush of the wind.

Especially today when our weather optimisation had predicted winds to become more favourable.

Seeing the Main Engine kW drop slightly as our WindWing kW picks up, and the ship’s speed increase, is very satisfying 🤓

Time series chart showing main engine power, sail or ‘WW’ power and the ship’s speed. On 20 July the sail power increases dramatically, along with the ship’s speed, demonstrating the impact the sails are having.

When I first put solar panels on my house, I was opening the app all the time to see what was going on with them. Were they generating? How much? How much power was I using?

While that obsession has calmed down, now I find myself doing the same with our ships using sails…

a woman is sitting on a couch and says i was the bad influence Alt: GIF of a woman sitting on a couch and excitedly saying ‘i was the bad influence?’

😇

Tanker sailing across the sea, with the name ‘Brands Hatch’ on the front and ‘AeroPower’ branding on the side. Standing tall above the ship’s deck are three large sails almost like aeroplane wings.

We’re just days away from taking delivery of our fourth wind-equipped ‘AeroPower’ vessel.
The first ever newbuild, and the first tanker, to have BAR Technologies WindWings fitted!

With 2.5x the wing area of an A380, we expect to save over 1,200 tonnes of fuel and 3,800 tonnes of CO2 each year.

Screenshot from 08:30 in London, but showing auto time zone as Jerusalem.

Screenshot now from 18:30 in London, but also showing auto time zone as Jerusalem.

Something weird with the location data on Thameslink today, around St Pancras/Farringdon area -

Both this morning and now on my way home, my phone ‘Automatic’ time zone has decided I’m in Jerusalem.

A bit of a surprise to look at my watch and see I’ve lost two hours 😳😅

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NOAA, the agency with ocean scientists who are the most concerned about deep seabed mining's environmental impacts, just promoted the Trump admin's deep seabed mining Executive Order in a news release. www.noaa.gov/news-release...

Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts so please have a watch or listen, and share with anyone you think they might help.

(That’s practically everyone btw!)

YouTube video by Luton Sexual Health EP 1 RSE for Grown-ups: Welcome & Introduction

One of my favourite people launched her new podcast today, ‘RSE for Grown-ups’.
They cover the UK relationships and sex education curriculum, with extra insights from her work in outreach at Luton Sexual Health.

The first three episodes are out, with more to follow 🤓

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4) simplified automations. I had some monster paths in NodeRed that can be handled far more gracefully now I know better!

Lots more of what I want to achieve can be configured in the HA UI now, no coding required. Both HA and my knowledge have improved in this since my last setup!

3) Backups. It’s embarrassing I didn’t have them more frequently… data is still there if I want to use it but I’m not importing anything into my fresh start.

HA have made backups ridiculously easy this year, including to google drive etc. for remote storage.

2) Loading devices and integrations into background ‘areas’ first.
I have some named ‘hardware’, ‘software’, ‘web services’ etc.

Then I can pull only those entities I want into actual areas like ‘kitchen’ and ‘bedroom’ to avoid clutter.

Home Assistant things I’m doing in my fresh start system, based on learnings and frustrations of the past…

1) More template sensors for key things like solar generation where I want a long-term history. Means I can point the template at a new device if/when I need to, and not lose history.

I set my friend up on HA Green a few weeks ago and that’s going strong.
Have a few key automations and it just carries on happily in the background.

My own is a bit more involved - currently at 750 entities and I’ve not added everything back yet 🤓

I’ve just been running HA OS to date - no idea how dividing up a system for something like this works haha

The intensity kicked up a notch when I started using Predbat for energy optimisation. The run time of the optimisation increases with tariff complexity. Never even made it to agile haha

The eMMC definitely can, and I have a couple of ideas I can use the micro computer for in the near future.

But at the same time giving home assistant a bit more room to breath probably isn’t a bad idea!

It appears the little eMMC has given up.

The computer itself seems to be just fine, but it’s got nothing to run anymore 😅

Time for an upgrade to a £150 Intel NUC with a proper SSD perhaps.

After almost 4 years of running 24/7, and the last year especially being pushed a little hard… my tiny computer running Home Assistant died today.

Was I diligent in keeping backups?
No… the last one was from Jan 😅

Will I restore that backup?
Tbh not sure - sometimes starting fresh is nice!

Perhaps they were using marginal rather than average grid intensity to assess the benefit? 🙃

Because others are moving with urgency.

We’ve already seen British Transport Police state they’ll have men searching women if they think they’re trans.

What other harm will be done in the months and years you’re reflecting and discussing, while actual people’s lives are impacted by this nonsense?

I’m not sure people have months or years to wait for clarity, or to have proper recognition and protection for trans and non-binary people unambiguously defined in law.

We saw how quickly Wes moved to enforce the tory ban on trans healthcare - his first priority in office.
Where’s that urgency now?

You’re probably going to hear (or already have) about the Supreme Court’s ruling on trans people today.

Weirdly, the Supreme Court didn’t hear from a single trans person when making their decision. Funny how that keeps happening, huh!

www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...