I don’t understand how you think the smaller coupon gets more volume. It gets no volume as the hypothetically “good honey” redirects everyone away from it.

We never have been 100% renewable in the UK. It’s more that we go into surplus and shutting generators down is more expensive than the price going negative. Hence we won’t get huge negative prices. Connectors to other countries can only export so much.

It also only happens when:

• long term weather forecast underestimated weather based generation.
• demand is low. (E.g. weekend and public holidays)

The population of Germany is only 25% bigger than the UK, so I think the two are comparable. A larger manufacturing base will make the demand-side curve more predictable though. Still, we’re largely talking about the effect of supply unpredictability.

That’s still a shitty exploitative business model. A bit less deceptive, but that original coupon vendor is still having affiliate revenue stolen from them.

Personally, as much as I loved Bill Hicks at the time, and he died far too young, I don’t think his material has aged well. The level of corruption he was railing against just seems cute these days.

Jimmy Carr

Fern Brady

Starting off on the gentle stuff there.

George Carlin. Start with Class Clown, it’s more approachable than his later stuff but once you get him you can pick up anything.

Join once. Leave seven hundred and twelvety times.

My problem here, and I don’t mean to victim blame but I don’t understand why anybody thought Honey had a business model that was trustworthy. Most people would see through the slimy guy in your example, so why would they install a slimy guy in their browser? Why would people take sponsorship from a slimy guy? Why would they read our copy that tells kids to “install it on every computer in the house”?

Nobody asked themselves “How does Honey make money out of this?” because at the very least they were going to be data scraping! That much was obvious.

It also happened in the UK and I suspect other European countries with significant wind generation. Is this still a rare event in Germany? 2-3 times a month isn’t uncommon here. Especially in the winter.

You may be ok if you’re not waiting week to week for a new episode. S1 was good…really good. S2 is still good but slow.

I struggle to call this capitalism. It’s so twisted and corrupt it doesn’t resemble what it started out as.

Yes it’s imports. Norway / France and Netherlands mainly.

It’s the coal they’re burning.

UK for comparison (Average over year)

Not sure I’d be trusting Musk’s communication network at this point. Especially not in Ukraine.

To turn the light off/on

No. Electric. My price changes every 30 minutes.

I wrote that message this morning when the price was low. Now at 5pm the price is nearer 40p. Obviously you don’t charge a car at peak prices.

Over the last 4 weeks I’ve averaged 18p/kWh. That’s mainly by making sure I do things like charge the car when it’s cheap.

My rate is very variable, but the figure I used is the off-peak rate on a rate designed for EV owners that gives cheap overnight electricity.

My gas price is 5.9p/kWh which also changes, but day by day. Today is average.

• 12.5miles per $electricity-dollar (17.1c / kw-hr home charging costs)
• 17.1 miles per $gasoline-dollar ($3.10 per gallon last fillup).

UK figures:

• Right now my electricity price is 6p/kWh, but the wind is rather high today (Storm Darragh). Still there are tariffs that guarantee 7.5p (9¢) overnight for car charging. That gives 24.3 miles per $electricity.
• Petrol is ~£1.40 a litre here ($5.30 per US gallon). So, 9.8 miles per $gasoline.