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NOTE Body edited. 00:00.000 --> 00:02.000 Diarycast 00:02.000 --> 00:07.000 [INTRO MUSIC] 00:07.000 --> 00:17.000 Hi, I'm Damon Hart-Davis and welcome to Earth Notes Podcast on all things eco and green and efficient at home! 00:17.000 --> 00:20.000 12th July 2020. 00:20.000 --> 00:25.000 A brief personal record of events seen from EOU towers since the end of May. 00:25.000 --> 00:29.000 My corner of the conscious uncouping and lockdown lifting. 00:29.000 --> 00:33.000 (There are some photos and other extras in the page for this episode added to the transcript.) 00:33.000 --> 00:35.000 25th May: 00:35.000 --> 00:42.000 my glasses were falling apart so I mailed my opticians on this bank holiday Monday more in hope than expectation. 00:42.000 --> 00:44.000 I need my glasses in order to be able to work. 00:44.000 --> 00:50.000 Amazingly I had email and phone responses very quickly and I ordered replacements to arrive by post. 00:50.000 --> 00:55.000 After a chase up and a fortnight-ish shiny new replacements did indeed arrive. 00:55.000 --> 00:56.000 31st May: 00:56.000 --> 01:04.000 as noted in the statscast for May, PV generation was a record here at 24kWh per day over the month, 01:04.000 --> 01:08.000 versus the previous best of 21 and a more typical-ish 18. 01:08.000 --> 01:10.000 16th June 01:10.000 --> 01:17.000 I had to return a failed product to Amazon today and so visited my friends who run the coffee stall at the station near the drop-off point. 01:17.000 --> 01:23.000 The roads were fairly quiet and the train station very much so given that it was just after 9am on a weekday. 01:23.000 --> 01:28.000 Also the 16th, in confinement I have ordered a few relatively inexpensive tools. 01:28.000 --> 01:33.000 This lockdown is neither war nor Armageddon and thus online ordering still works. 01:33.000 --> 01:39.000 Today's innovations include a nicely designed Raspberry Pi 3B+ case, 01:39.000 --> 01:47.000 a clever bidirectional Satechi USB-C power meter and a rug under my desk and chair to protect the carpet a bit. 01:47.000 --> 01:48.000 17th May: 01:49.000 --> 01:55.000 I (wonkily) counted steps from my normal lockdown exercise jaunt to and around the edge of the cemetery next door. 01:55.000 --> 02:01.000 The circuit seems to be about 2,000 steps or 20% of what likely should be my daily target. 02:01.000 --> 02:02.000 20th June: 02:02.000 --> 02:09.000 I encountered a new bright Cinnabar moth in the cemetery identified for me by the nice denizens of Twitter. 02:09.000 --> 02:16.000 My photo attempts don't do it justice, seemingly almost fluorescent pink when fluttering in direct sunlight over a grass lawn. 02:16.000 --> 02:18.000 22nd June: 02:18.000 --> 02:25.000 yesterday someone on Twitter suggested that home batteries such as my Enphase should be recorded on the local fire brigades' database, 02:25.000 --> 02:29.000 since as with PV there are some extra hazards when fire-fighting. 02:29.000 --> 02:35.000 I contacted London Fire Brigade yesterday and today had a call back saying that LFB has no such database. 02:35.000 --> 02:37.000 28th June: 02:37.000 --> 02:45.000 as described in the statscast for June I have finally created visualisations, graphs, for gas consumption vs weather 02:45.000 --> 02:50.000 (kilowatt hours per heating degree day) from Loop and degreedays.net data. 02:50.000 --> 02:57.000 I did this to better understand 16 WW behaviour but also to better understand the relationships between those items 02:57.000 --> 03:01.000 to check if the kilowatt hour per heating degree day normalisation is reasonable. 03:01.000 --> 03:02.000 I think it is. 03:02.000 --> 03:07.000 Not perfect but a fair reflection of the physics in messy real life. 03:07.000 --> 03:08.000 9th July: 03:08.000 --> 03:14.000 I visited the barber for a long overdue haircut and not so close shave, hoorah! 03:14.000 --> 03:18.000 The place wasn't very busy and only alternate chairs were being used, 03:18.000 --> 03:22.000 but a couple of us were waiting inside and face masks weren't required. 03:22.000 --> 03:26.000 Clearly touching of hair and face is going to happen in this situation. 03:26.000 --> 03:27.000 11th July: 03:27.000 --> 03:32.000 I went to the pub, my old local, for the first time in months and caught up with the landlord, Rick, 03:32.000 --> 03:35.000 and a friend I hadn't even considered might be there. 03:35.000 --> 03:40.000 We ended up discussing Open University Computer Science teaching, which was unexpected. 03:40.000 --> 03:44.000 That serendipity is what social non-distancing is all about. 03:44.000 --> 03:49.000 Like the barber's, not very busy, doors propped open, face masks not required. 03:49.000 --> 03:55.000 I was less than impressed by the bloke who followed me into the gents, ignoring the one-at-a-time sign, 03:55.000 --> 03:58.000 questioned the whole lockdown saying that he didn't know anyone who died of it 03:58.000 --> 04:02.000 (I said that I do, sadly), then left without washing his hands. 04:02.000 --> 04:03.000 Oh dear. 04:03.000 --> 04:07.000 These experiences are probably not much different to anyone else's. 04:07.000 --> 04:12.000 But sometimes it's worth contemporaneously capturing the detail before it fades from memory. 04:12.000 --> 04:17.000 And now here's a gratuitous clip of the ambient sound from 16WW's back garden 04:17.000 --> 04:19.000 as I have been preparing this episode. 04:19.000 --> 04:20.000 Enjoy! 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 [birds chirping] 06:30.000 --> 06:36.000 There's more on my Earth Notes Web site at Earth.Org.UK.