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NOTE Transcript 2024-04-11 from FLAC by https://elvery.net/prototypes/transcribe/ on my MacBook Air M1 on maximum quality setting.
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Hi, I'm Damon Hart-Davis, and welcome to Earth Notes podcast on all things eco and


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green and efficient at home.


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22nd April 2020.


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Another brief diarycast from EOU Towers on blue skies and PV and self-consumption, cemeteries


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and mains.


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(Sorry Lewis Carroll!)


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Last Tuesday, the 14th, when I went out for my daily walk at a gentle 08:30, it certainly


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felt more like 6am or even earlier on a normal weekday, so few people were about.


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But not zero.


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The A, B and C arks hadn't somehow left without me, nor had the Triffids struck!


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Allegedly, on Twitter, "The traffic is back and so is the pollution."


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"It's definitely not just trade vehicles though, plenty of Chelsea tractors."


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Maybe the City Mapper Index for London at 9% today vs 8% last week supports that, or


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maybe not.


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I haven't seen lots of traffic when I've been out and about.


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The reduced pollution from lockdown generally, including private cars, may be gifting us


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bluer skies, warmer days and warmer mains water here at 15 degrees C, which is on the high


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side for April.
The blue skies also seem to be bringing good solar PV generation. For example edie said UK smashes solar generation record at 9.68GW on the


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20th.


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Here in EOU towers I think it's probable that our usual approximately 15kWh per day


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in April will be beaten.


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I aim to air a regular 'statscast' on the energy and related numbers at EOU HQ, with some interesting


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national and global numbers stirred in.


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Other good news is that though it shut a little while ago on seemingly spurious grounds,


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our next door cemetery is opening up again tomorrow for walking.  As one of the larger


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and more interesting green spaces around here that's good for people near it such as me,


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and takes little pressure off other parks and outdoor spaces too.


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Oh, and more!


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On the Radbot side we are busily working towards a patent application before our coming funding


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round, and having my name on a patent as inventor is one of my bucket list items.
(Along with my name on a scientific paper - done, and getting a PhD and becoming a prof - not holding my breath!) 


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If you listen to the last (metacast) episode you may notice that this one is constructed


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with a new standard intro/outro and uses compression rather than "Normalize".


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What a time to be alive!


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There's more on my Earth Notes Web site at Earth.Org.UK.