WEBVTT NOTE Transcript 2024-04-11 from FLAC by https://elvery.net/prototypes/transcribe/ on my MacBook Air M1 on maximum quality setting. NOTE Body edited. 00:00.000 --> 00:05.460 Diarycast Hi, I'm Damon Hart-Davis and welcome to Earth 00:05.460 --> 00:12.140 Notes podcast on all things eco and green and efficient at home! 00:12.140 --> 00:17.600 21st March 2021. Lockdown continues, though our kids have been 00:17.600 --> 00:23.680 back at school a couple of weeks, and the pubs may open (outside) on the 12th April. 00:23.680 --> 00:29.960 The 21st is census day. And I've had a first AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccination. 00:29.960 --> 00:35.080 Here is a brief round-up since Christmas, so pretty much the first quarter of 2021. 00:35.080 --> 00:39.680 25th December 2020: I stayed at home for Christmas while the family 00:39.680 --> 00:44.700 went to visit granddad in our bubble. On Christmas Day I was getting festive wafts of burning 00:44.700 --> 00:50.600 food and sounds of smoke alarms through my MHRV, truly yuletide. 00:50.600 --> 00:56.320 24th January: we had snow, thus little to no generation from the grid tide system, but 00:56.320 --> 00:58.840 some from the vertical panels off grid. 00:58.840 --> 01:04.200 In January generally: it looks like about 20% of this month had a grid carbon intensity 01:04.200 --> 01:08.720 low enough that heating water by electric resistance would be lower carbon than gas. 01:08.720 --> 01:12.600 (There's some extra technical detail on the podcast Web page.) 01:12.600 --> 01:18.800 11th February: it was nominally -8 degrees Celsius overnight here last night, and a record 01:18.800 --> 01:25.200 low temperature for the UK this millennium at the Braemar weather station of -23.0 degrees 01:25.200 --> 01:30.560 Celsius. But now my off grid battery is full for the first time since late October! 01:30.560 --> 01:36.360 14th February: the outside temperature at noon was back up to about 11 degrees Celsius today. 01:36.360 --> 01:42.759 15th February: "The Beast from the East II" lasted from about the 6th to the 15th of the month, with gas demand peaking one day at just over 40kWh. 16th of February: I have tentatively expressed interest in 01:51.640 --> 01:56.720 additional solar PV storage in a "Solar Together" group-buy scheme. 01:56.720 --> 01:58.880 16th February again: 01:58.880 --> 02:05.360 I'm interested to try for an e-bike, (e.g. borrow for a month for free) in the local scheme, 02:05.360 --> 02:08.280 assuming that it is all still running when we're allowed out again. 02:08.280 --> 02:14.520 21st February: at around 3pm it was warm, about 14 degrees Celsius and sunny enough to have 02:14.520 --> 02:19.000 washing drying on the line, and lots of windows open to air the house a bit (with the heating 02:19.000 --> 02:20.520 turned off of course)! 02:20.520 --> 02:23.480 The off grid battery warmed up to 12 degrees C. 02:23.480 --> 02:24.480 27th February: 02:24.480 --> 02:31.640 for science I'm testing if the new Park Brewery 2 litre growler might avoid landfilling or 02:31.640 --> 02:38.600 recycling any packaging in the course of regular vitamin B(eer) intake, for example by having two 02:38.600 --> 02:44.360 2 litre growlers in the fridge and exchanging them each week for full ones like milk bottles... 02:44.360 --> 02:49.520 February generally: annoyingly we had record high electricity consumption this month, partly 02:49.520 --> 02:54.560 due to both kids doing lockdown schooling from home, each using a computer all day. 02:54.560 --> 02:55.760 8th March: 02:55.760 --> 03:00.480 we're starting regular home self-testing for everyone from this week for covid. 03:00.480 --> 03:06.280 16th March: I'm (slickly and easily) booked in to get my first covid-19 vaccination shot 03:06.280 --> 03:07.960 in a few days' time. 03:07.960 --> 03:09.280 19th March: 03:09.280 --> 03:15.640 it's sunny enough to recharge my entire stash of NIMH AA cells on my desk that I use in Radbots 03:15.640 --> 03:17.240 etc, off-grid. 03:17.240 --> 03:18.640 21st March: 03:18.640 --> 03:22.200 it's census day and AstraZeneca jab today. 03:22.200 --> 03:26.120 The first person to DM me on Twitter or email me about this comment in the next few 03:26.120 --> 03:27.120 days. 03:27.120 --> 03:30.160 I'll get you a tenner, GBP10 or equivalent! 03:30.160 --> 03:36.560 There's more on my Earth Notes Web site at Earth.Org.UK.