Marianne Heaslip
@marianneh.bsky.social
Workingtonian in Liverpool (home)/Manchester (work), UK.
Architect working on tools and processes for better building retrofit, mostly in houses, mostly for coops and community energy orgs. Keen on the need to #stopburningstuff.
Architect working on tools and processes for better building retrofit, mostly in houses, mostly for coops and community energy orgs. Keen on the need to #stopburningstuff.
Some advocate and make their children listen to the Peter Green version - and then we still find and like Rumours.
I will always be a disappointment to my father in that respect.
I will always be a disappointment to my father in that respect.
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Some advocate and make their children listen to the Peter Green version - and then we still find and like Rumours.
I will always be a disappointment to my father in that respect.
I will always be a disappointment to my father in that respect.
Hmm. I am not looking forward to the arguments that will happen on terraced streets when gulley chargers encourage people to think of the space outside their house - which is part of the shared public realm - as 'theirs'.
Made worse by how massive cars are getting, and pavement parking.
Made worse by how massive cars are getting, and pavement parking.
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Hmm. I am not looking forward to the arguments that will happen on terraced streets when gulley chargers encourage people to think of the space outside their house - which is part of the shared public realm - as 'theirs'.
Made worse by how massive cars are getting, and pavement parking.
Made worse by how massive cars are getting, and pavement parking.
Also, in all my experience of doing building performance evaluation work, wherever there was a 'gas backup', it had a nasty habit of ending up being used a lot more than originally intended - so I would take those carbon savings claims with a giant pinch of salt.
November 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Also, in all my experience of doing building performance evaluation work, wherever there was a 'gas backup', it had a nasty habit of ending up being used a lot more than originally intended - so I would take those carbon savings claims with a giant pinch of salt.
Yup. It locks in gas use and infrastructure - I think that's intentional. And means you still have a standing charge to pay for gas.
It's also an inherently more complex system - and therefore harder to maintain and more likely to go wrong. Not ideal for your average household to have to manage.
It's also an inherently more complex system - and therefore harder to maintain and more likely to go wrong. Not ideal for your average household to have to manage.
November 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Yup. It locks in gas use and infrastructure - I think that's intentional. And means you still have a standing charge to pay for gas.
It's also an inherently more complex system - and therefore harder to maintain and more likely to go wrong. Not ideal for your average household to have to manage.
It's also an inherently more complex system - and therefore harder to maintain and more likely to go wrong. Not ideal for your average household to have to manage.
Oh actually - I think I have just worked out who you are! Lovely to bump into you!
November 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Oh actually - I think I have just worked out who you are! Lovely to bump into you!