Gareth Simkins
@garethsimkins.bsky.social
Senior Comms Adviser @solarenergyuk.bsky.social
Trustee @chemtrust.bsky.social
Project Manager @croydoncommenergy.bsky.social
Co-founder, Campaign for Safe Furniture.
Ex- @endsreport.com. Cargobiker. Happiest geek you ever met. Own views.
Trustee @chemtrust.bsky.social
Project Manager @croydoncommenergy.bsky.social
Co-founder, Campaign for Safe Furniture.
Ex- @endsreport.com. Cargobiker. Happiest geek you ever met. Own views.
That was from seven years ago - an archived tweet that I transferred over to this abode of relative sanity.
October 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
That was from seven years ago - an archived tweet that I transferred over to this abode of relative sanity.
It’s is clear another effort to distract from what we all know Trump was doing with Epstein.
On vaccines - in the 1940s my father saw three school friends die from diseases now unheard of in the UK. I shudder to think about the same thing happening again, to unvaccinated kids.
On vaccines - in the 1940s my father saw three school friends die from diseases now unheard of in the UK. I shudder to think about the same thing happening again, to unvaccinated kids.
September 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It’s is clear another effort to distract from what we all know Trump was doing with Epstein.
On vaccines - in the 1940s my father saw three school friends die from diseases now unheard of in the UK. I shudder to think about the same thing happening again, to unvaccinated kids.
On vaccines - in the 1940s my father saw three school friends die from diseases now unheard of in the UK. I shudder to think about the same thing happening again, to unvaccinated kids.
Given that the fellow is 73, I would have my doubts.
September 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Given that the fellow is 73, I would have my doubts.
A guy who doesn’t like immigrants becomes an immigrant without appreciating the several hundred tons of weapons-grade irony, in other words.
July 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A guy who doesn’t like immigrants becomes an immigrant without appreciating the several hundred tons of weapons-grade irony, in other words.
I forgot that I put this together:
July 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I forgot that I put this together:
Ah, close enough. There will always be the odd circumstance where PV doesn’t make sense (like a house in permanent shade) and the rules will accommodate that.
July 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Ah, close enough. There will always be the odd circumstance where PV doesn’t make sense (like a house in permanent shade) and the rules will accommodate that.
Fortunately, the existing Building Regs are making more and more newbuild homes go solar. It was ~42% at the end of last year and likely rather more now, even before the Future Homes Standard kicks in. solarenergyuk.org/news/more-th...
More than four in ten new homes in England built with solar power
More stringent rules on energy efficiency has driven a surge in residential solar panel installations
solarenergyuk.org
July 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Fortunately, the existing Building Regs are making more and more newbuild homes go solar. It was ~42% at the end of last year and likely rather more now, even before the Future Homes Standard kicks in. solarenergyuk.org/news/more-th...
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Delighted to say that the UK's government-industry Solar Roadmap was published this morning, describing dozens of practical measures to boost the supply of cheaper, greener power, deliver new industries and create skilled jobs. #solarsky #solarenergy solarenergyuk.org/news/roadmap... #solarenergy
Roadmap seizes ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity of the solar revolution
A new era of clean energy independence dawned today, with the publication of the long-anticipated Solar Roadmap
solarenergyuk.org
June 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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More details here: bsky.app/profile/gare...
Delighted to say that the UK's government-industry Solar Roadmap was published this morning, describing dozens of practical measures to boost the supply of cheaper, greener power, deliver new industries and create skilled jobs. #solarsky #solarenergy solarenergyuk.org/news/roadmap... #solarenergy
Roadmap seizes ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity of the solar revolution
A new era of clean energy independence dawned today, with the publication of the long-anticipated Solar Roadmap
solarenergyuk.org
June 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
More details here: bsky.app/profile/gare...
More details here: bsky.app/profile/gare...
Delighted to say that the UK's government-industry Solar Roadmap was published this morning, describing dozens of practical measures to boost the supply of cheaper, greener power, deliver new industries and create skilled jobs. #solarsky #solarenergy solarenergyuk.org/news/roadmap... #solarenergy
Roadmap seizes ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity of the solar revolution
A new era of clean energy independence dawned today, with the publication of the long-anticipated Solar Roadmap
solarenergyuk.org
June 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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I was working on selling quantum cryptography systems 20 years ago, intended to protect against the ability of quantum computers to crack conventional codes in an instant. I thought then I might have been a bit too early. Turns out that I wasn’t half right.
June 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I was working on selling quantum cryptography systems 20 years ago, intended to protect against the ability of quantum computers to crack conventional codes in an instant. I thought then I might have been a bit too early. Turns out that I wasn’t half right.
I vote Mothra.
a statue of a monster is standing in a forest
ALT: a statue of a monster is standing in a forest
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June 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I vote Mothra.
I wrote a massive thread on this subject last summer, in response to a question from Rugby Union referee Nigel Owens strangely enough, before I left Twitter in disgust. It all boils down to grid access, both this side (UK) and the other side of the Atlantic. x.com/GarethSimkin...
Gareth Simkins on X: "@Nigelrefowens Dear Nigel, I run media relations for the trade assoc @SolarEnergyUK_. I’m also a half-Welsh rugby union fan & ex-player. I would be really happy to discuss solar farms, food security and why they are built where they are. I can understand your concerns - but they are misplaced." / X
@Nigelrefowens Dear Nigel, I run media relations for the trade assoc @SolarEnergyUK_. I’m also a half-Welsh rugby union fan & ex-player. I would be really happy to discuss solar farms, food security and why they are built where they are. I can understand your concerns - but they are misplaced.
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May 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I wrote a massive thread on this subject last summer, in response to a question from Rugby Union referee Nigel Owens strangely enough, before I left Twitter in disgust. It all boils down to grid access, both this side (UK) and the other side of the Atlantic. x.com/GarethSimkin...
Yes, it boils down to informed guesswork and a lot of maths. But they should all be saying the same thing.
May 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Yes, it boils down to informed guesswork and a lot of maths. But they should all be saying the same thing.
Well, I certainly had a few grazes from falling over. It wasn’t here though - I was on holiday somewhere, either in France or perhaps Switzerland in the summer, around 1990. I would have been about ten years old.
A few years later, I think I saw a scarab on hols in France. It was huge.
A few years later, I think I saw a scarab on hols in France. It was huge.
May 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Well, I certainly had a few grazes from falling over. It wasn’t here though - I was on holiday somewhere, either in France or perhaps Switzerland in the summer, around 1990. I would have been about ten years old.
A few years later, I think I saw a scarab on hols in France. It was huge.
A few years later, I think I saw a scarab on hols in France. It was huge.
But there are only so many hours in the day.
May 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
But there are only so many hours in the day.
As a kid, I was once knocked over on my bike by a flying stag beetle. I thought I had got on the wrong end of a stray tennis ball until I saw it on the ground - it was quite a wallop.
May 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
As a kid, I was once knocked over on my bike by a flying stag beetle. I thought I had got on the wrong end of a stray tennis ball until I saw it on the ground - it was quite a wallop.