If you have solar PV and a battery but still use gas for heating then this is the elephant in the room. Gas fired CH is likely still your household’s largest contribution to carbon emissions. Plot 1. Our 2024 actual. Plot 2. Prediction based on our new Aira #AirSourceHeatPump.

We were in a dark sky area on the coast in South West Wales and sat out on a warm night on the 10th May 2024 to watch the sky dance over St Brides Bay. Clearly visible once your eyes adapted. Sadly my phone pics don’t do it justice.

Spring has sprung!

Hard to believe it’s mid April in the UK and 23 Celsius in the sun. Pictures from an idyllic walk through the countryside near #comptonVerney and #combroke Warwickshire UK earlier today

This is what passes for a perfect solar generation curve on our UK Midlands south facing 3.15 kWp solar PV array. We usually see the earliest +20 kWh day at the start of May, but was on the 6th April & is the earliest we’ve seen in 14 years We’ve had getting on for 2 weeks of sunny days now.

I’ve just started my latest 1:48 scale aircraft modelling project. Somewhat back to front reading of the kit destructions means I’ve started with these. What do you think the aircraft is?

A recent #plasticmodelling build. RAF Red Arrows Bae Hawk T Mk1 based on the Trumpeter 1:48 scale kit. Not a bad kit, but the incorrect wing fences need sorting out and the pre WW2 era RAF roundel decals supplied by Trumpeter had to be replaced.

A vintage Airfix 1:48 scale BAC TSR-2 prototype built during COVID lockdown. The kit has some major inaccuracies which required a number of aftermarket items and some major surgery to correct in order to better represent XR219, the only prototype to fly before the project was canned in 1965.

I see your bracket fungi and raise you this Auricularia😉

An old codger new to Bluesky. Amongst other things, I’ll be posting on the #plasticmodels I make in retirement. My latest build? Old school Hasegawa 1:48 F-4J Phantom II in the US Bicentennial markings of VMFA-451 in 1976. Various aftermarket bits and bobs were used to pep the basic kit up a bit.

Even has a crewman in the prototype pressure suit needed to fly the unpressurisable Horten 229 at altitude😉

Here’s my build. Revell re boxing of a Dragon kit. Accuracy is a tough call when only a single prototype flew? Plenty of scope for the Luft46 crew and what ifs. Incredibly futuristic design, but cannon muzzles right next to jet intakes would have been a gun gas ingestion nightmare!