thomas
@thomas@feddit.uk
- Comment on Doom Bar brewery in Cornwall to close and production to move North 2 weeks ago:
I do wonder whether ‘protected designation of origin’ could apply to beer too. But alas, the brand is just commercial IP at the end of the day. Chewed up by the capitalist machine…
- Comment on Doom Bar brewery in Cornwall to close and production to move North 2 weeks ago:
Bass is king! 🔺
- Comment on Doom Bar brewery in Cornwall to close and production to move North 2 weeks ago:
Molson-Coors not good for UK brewing, but the water in Burton-On-Trent is up there with the best (take your point on water being purified though).
Burton snatch anyone?
- Comment on Energy bills in Great Britain forecast to jump by £276 a year from January 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like a massive job. I just bought an old house and replacing the sprawling pipe layout would make me die inside. Luckily it has a newish thermal store for a biomass(!) boiler.
- Comment on Energy bills in Great Britain forecast to jump by £276 a year from January 2 weeks ago:
What we talking here? Solar? Battery? Heat pump?
- Comment on ‘We have to bring the benefits bill down’: Healey signals return to welfare reform 2 weeks ago:
The melody didn’t pop into my head until line 3.
- Comment on Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK 2 weeks ago:
You can get a 22kwh Renault Zoe for £3k, but you’re looking at a 10 year old car.
- Comment on Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in UK 2 weeks ago:
The cheapest new car you can buy in the UK is a Dacia Spring. £135 a month or £12k. 150miles range.
- Comment on UK deepens reliance on Musk's SpaceX, spending nearly $40 million on satellite services 5 weeks ago:
The technology is great and it has no competitors. No point beating yourself up about who led its development, when there’s no alternative.