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Auto-updated 2026-01-04.By Damon Hart-Davis.
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The podcast started in . The first two episodes were created to support a local naturalist who leads guided walks around our local council housing estate.
Episodes are typically:
- 'snackable' at just a few minutes long
- on a green, or energy efficiency, or energy data topic: 'storycast' not 'chatcast'
- based at home
Some episodes are a little more tangential, such as listening to the temperature of your radiators for a whole year in one second.
Some episodes are longer. Watch out for video too!
There are also ambient and sonification episodes with little or no commentary.
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Episodes
76 episodes, newest first:
- : VIDEO AI Promo Rap Style Video 0 min a c
- : KEHS talk: Keep Cool and Carry On (2025) 7 min a c
- : KEHS talk: My Home Heat Pump Installation (2025) 11 min a c
- : KEHS talk: Home Batteries (2025) 8 min a c
- : KEHS talk: Our Solar PV System One Year On (2025) 11 min a c
- : London Heathrow Airport Summer Landside Ambient (2025-07) 11 min a c
- : 16WW Heat Pump Sounds (2025) 1 min a c
- : Why Do Start-ups? (2025) 16 min a c
- : A Home-heat Carol (2024-12) 12 min a c
- : MUSIC RSS Podcast Feed Efficiency Sonification 2 2 min a c
- : Crows in the Cemetery on a Hot June Afternoon (2024-06) 6 min a c
- : MUSIC RSS Podcast Feed Efficiency Sonification 1 2 min a c
- : KEHS talk: The Truth About Heat Pumps (2024) 13 min a c
- : KEHS talk: Why Do Solar? (2024) 20 min a c
- : KEHS talk: Fresh Home Solar PV Install in Kingston (2024) 25 min a c
- : KEHS talk: Draughts, Insulation, Ventilation (2024) 12 min a c
- : Repair Café Kingston Report to Council and TTK AGM (2024) 6 min a c
- : Diarycast - Year In Review (2023) 5 min a c
- : 16WW Hot Noon Garden Ambient (2023-09) 7 min a c
- : Paris Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09) 5 min a c
- : UK Home Heating Decarbonisation Seminar Presentation (2023-08) 17 min a c
- : MUSIC Yearly Electricity Grid Flows Sonified 2 min a c
- : MUSIC Water Music: In The House 1 min a c
- : Diarycast - Year In Review, and One Weird Trick (2022) 7 min a c
- : The Sound of Campsite (2022-08) 8 min a c
- : Six Minutes of Med-ness (2022-08) 7 min a c
- : TTK AGM Overview (2022) 7 min a c
- : Statscast - Energy Storage Stats Special (2022-05) 8 min a c
- : 16WW House Suburban Sparrows Ambient (2022-05) 11 min a c
- : Hanwell Hootie Ambient (2022-05) 11 min a c
- : Diarycast - End of Year Roundup (2021-12-28) 3 min a c
- : Diarycast - June to November Roundup (2021-11-14) 6 min a c
- : English River August Ambient (2021-08) 11 min a c
- : Microbrewery Ambient (2021-09) 11 min a c
- : Direycast - I'm All Right Jack (2021-08-28) 4 min a c
- : On Being a Hardware Developer (2021) 12 min a c
- : Herne Bay Ambient (2021-07) 24 min a c
- : Wren Loud and Bold Ambient (2021-06) 2 min a c
- : Diarycast - March Warm, April Snow, June Xmas (2021-06-14) 3 min a c
- : Diarycast - Smoke and Snow to Census Jab (2021-03-21) 4 min a c
- : Soundscape - Going Postal in Audio 21 min a c
- : Diarycast - Interview Snippets (2021-01-14) 4 min a c
- : Statscast - Load Profile (2020-12) 4 min a c
- : Soundscape - Solstice Exercise Mile Walk 20 min a c
- : Diarycast - Solstice Lockdown Edition (2020-12-21) 8 min a c
- : VIDEO Smart Radiator Valves Video 17 min a c
- : Statscast - Baselines and Bats (2020-09) 9 min a c
- : Weymouth Ambient (2020-08) 22 min a c
- : Diarycast - Summer Catch-up (2020-09-25) 5 min a c
- : Soundwalk - an hour on the Cambridge Road Estate (2020-09-12) 61 min a c
- : Bats Around our Home aka 16WW 38 min a c
- : Diarycast - Conscious Uncouping - Travel (2020-07-22) 9 min a c
- : Diarycast - Conscious Uncouping (2020-07-12) 7 min a c
- : Statscast - Normal-ish June, Heating Re-viewed (2020-06) 9 min a c
- : Statscast - Lockdown Changes, Log Noises (2020-05) 11 min a c
- : Diarycast - Urban Dawn Chorus (2020-05-23) 24 min a c
- : Diarycast - Ambient Sound of a Graveyard (2020-05-13) 11 min a c
- : Diarycast - Lockdown Patently Workable (2020-05-10) 4 min a c
- : Statscast - PV Up, Travel Down, Weakly Weeklies (2020-04) 11 min a c
- : Diarycast - Blue Skies PV High (2020-04-22) 3 min a c
- : Metacast 2: Podcast Specs and Workflow (2020-04) 5 min a c
- : Diarycast - Lockdown Lawnmowing Sadly Allowed (2020-04-13) 3 min a c
- : Metacast 1: Blue Yeti, Shy Eurasian Footwear (2020-04) 4 min a c
- : Coronacast for March 2020 2 min a c
- : Sign-off for 2019, Hello 2020! 7 min a c
- : VIDEO OpenTRV Movie Mashup 2 min a c
- : Water Music: How Does Tap-water Temperature Sound in Time-lapse? 5 min a c
- : The Green Existence of Adam Hart-Davis 6 min a c
- : PV Sounds: How Does PV Grid-tie Generation Sound in Time-lapse? 3 min a c
- : Battery Sounds: How Does a Battery Sound in Time-lapse? 3 min a c
- : Rad Sounds II: Attempting a Higher-fi Home-heating Time-lapse 3 min a c
- : Greener Travel: Why Cut Car-bon Miles? 4 min a c
- : Rad Sounds: How Cool is your Home Heating in Time-lapse? 3 min a c
- : Aircon On, Windows Open! (2019-08) 3 min a c
- : About Our Greenish Home aka 16WW, with Bonus Bats and Sparrows 4 min a c
- : Solar Panels in My Garden 2 min a c
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Diary
Diary of some EOU HQ and notable and personal events/stats, for a future diarycast!
- : ~-1°C outside at ~Z and blue sky, flow temperature ~44°C (so CoP for space heat and DHW will be similar), and the house seems warm enough (and a visiting neighbour spontaneously said so too); should be down to -2°C (ie design temperature) late evening.
- : a dusting of snow by dawn this morning...
- : starting the new year with a (cold) laundry load and (intensive) dishwasher load while grid carbon intensity is low-ish (≪100gCO2/kWh)...
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