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Auto-updated 2021-02-25 11:57 GMT.The podcast started in . The first two episodes were created to support a local naturalist who leads guided walks around our local council housing estate.
Episodes are typically:
- 'snackable' at just a few minutes long
- on a green, or energy efficiency, or energy data topic
- based at home
Some episodes are a little more tangental, such as listening to the temperature of your radiators for a whole year in one second.
Some episodes are longer. Watch out for video too!
There are also ambient episodes with little or no commentary.
Episodes
- 2021-02-07 Soundscape - Going Postal in Audio 21 min
- 2021-01-14 Diarycast - Interview Snippets (2021-01-14) 4 min
- 2020-12-31 Statscast - Load Profile (2020-12) 4 min
- 2020-12-22 Soundscape - Solstice Exercise Mile Walk 20 min
- 2020-12-21 Diarycast - Solstice Lockdown Edition (2020-12-21) 8 min
- 2020-11-13 VIDEO Smart Radiator Valves - EcoHome Lab (2020-11-12) 17 min
- 2020-10-10 Statscast - Baselines and Bats (2020-09) 9 min
- 2020-09-26 Weymouth Ambient (2020-08) 22 min
- 2020-09-25 Diarycast - Summer Catch-up (2020-09-25) 5 min
- 2020-09-21 Soundwalk - an hour on the Cambridge Road Estate (2020-09-12) 61 min
- 2020-09-18 Bats Around our Home aka 16WW 38 min
- 2020-07-26 Diarycast - Conscious Uncouping - Travel (2020-07-26) 9 min
- 2020-07-12 Diarycast - Conscious Uncouping (2020-07-12) 7 min
- 2020-07-05 Statscast - Normal-ish June, Heating Re-viewed (2020-06) 9 min
- 2020-06-10 Statscast - Lockdown Changes, Log Noises (2020-05) 11 min
- 2020-05-23 Diarycast - Urban Dawn Chorus (2020-05-23) 24 min
- 2020-05-13 Diarycast - Ambient Sound of a Graveyard (2020-05-13) 11 min
- 2020-05-10 Diarycast - Lockdown Patently Workable (2020-05-10) 4 min
- 2020-05-03 Statscast - PV Up, Travel Down, Weakly Weeklies (2020-04) 11 min
- 2020-04-22 Diarycast - Blue Skies PV High (2020-04-22) 3 min
- 2020-04-19 Metacast 2: Podcast Specs and Workflow 5 min
- 2020-04-13 Diarycast - Lockdown Lawnmowing Sadly Allowed (2020-04-13) 3 min
- 2020-04-10 Metacast 1: Blue Yeti, Shy Eurasian Footwear 4 min
- 2020-03-21 A Short Coronacast for March 2020 2 min
- 2019-12-30 Sign-off for 2019, Hello 2020! 7 min
- 2019-11-09 VIDEO OpenTRV Movie Mashup 1: Video Out-takes and The Rest! 2 min
- 2019-10-29 Water Music: How Does Tap-water Temperature Sound in Time-lapse? 5 min
- 2019-10-28 The Green Existence of Adam Hart-Davis 6 min
- 2019-10-19 PV Sounds: How Does PV Grid-tie Generation Sound in Time-lapse? 3 min
- 2019-10-13 Battery Sounds: How Does a Battery Sound in Time-lapse? 3 min
- 2019-10-12 Rad Sounds II: Attempting a Higher-fi Home-heating Time-lapse 3 min
- 2019-09-22 Greener travel: Why We Should Cut Car-bon Miles 4 min
- 2019-09-15 Rad Sounds: How Cool is your Home Heating in Time-lapse? 3 min
- 2019-08-28 Aircon On, Windows Open! 3 min
- 2019-06-21 About Our Greenish Home aka 16WW, with Bonus Bats and Sparrows 4 min
- 2019-06-15 Solar Panels in My Garden 2 min
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Plans
Here are some vague plans for future episodes. Don't hold your breath!
- Diary of EOU HQ and notable events/stats...
- 2021-02-21: ~3pm warm (~14°C) and sunny enough to have washing line drying again, and lots of windows open to air the house a bit (with the heating turned off, of course)! Off-grid battery up to 12°C.
- 2021-02-19: ~6h Internet outage (maybe routing) overnight:
www.earth.org.uk:443 188.226.184.152 - - [18/Feb/2021:23:33:14 +0000] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 12386 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98 Safari/537.4 (StatusCake)" www.exnet.com:80 173.231.59.205 - - [19/Feb/2021:05:52:10 +0000] "GET /1995/09/10/ HTTP/1.1" 200 467 "http://www.exnet.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Adsbot/3.1)"
The FTTC DSL connection was reported as up but not packets were flowing while I was watching. Apparently caused by "maintenance work" somewhere between me and the exchange, my ISP called to tell me. - 2021-02-16: interested to Try Before You Bike for an e-bike (eg borrow for a month for a free).
- 2021-02-16: have tentatively expressed interest in additional solar PV storage in a "Solar Together" group buy scheme.
- 2021-02-14: external temperature at noon back to ~11°C!
- 2021-02-11: nominally -8°C overnight here last night, and a Record low temperature for the UK this millennium at the weather station at of -23.0°C, but now my off-grid battery is FULL for the first time since late October!
- 2021-01: looks like ~20% of this month had a grid carbon intensity low enough that heating water from electric resistance would be lower carbon than gas:
% gzip -d < data/FUELINST/log/202101.log.gz | wc -l 4487 % gzip -d < data/FUELINST/log/202101.log.gz | awk '$2<190' | wc -l 907 % gzip -d < data/FUELINST/log/202101.log.gz | awk '$2<190' | head 2021-01-03T03:25Z 186 2021-01-03T03:35Z 182 2021-01-03T03:50Z 185 2021-01-03T03:55Z 185 2021-01-03T04:05Z 185 2021-01-03T04:15Z 182 2021-01-03T04:25Z 180 2021-01-03T04:35Z 180 2021-01-03T04:45Z 181 2021-01-03T04:55Z 183
It was available on ~18 days of the month, in all cases about enough to capture at least ~6kWh, more than our average 4kWh/d consumption, so maybe we could have avoided running our combi for DHW on those days:% gzip -d < data/FUELINST/log/202101.log.gz | awk '$2<190{print substr($1,1,10)}' | uniq -c 28 2021-01-03 46 2021-01-04 37 2021-01-05 13 2021-01-10 51 2021-01-11 33 2021-01-12 107 2021-01-16 78 2021-01-17 51 2021-01-18 50 2021-01-19 48 2021-01-20 101 2021-01-21 42 2021-01-22 22 2021-01-25 21 2021-01-28 41 2021-01-29 96 2021-01-30 42 2021-01-31
- 2021-01-24: snow! (Little/no generation from the grid-tied system, some from the vertical panels off-grid.)
- 2020-12-25: Getting festive wafts of burning food and sounds of smoke alarms through my MHRV: truly yuletide!
- Build a beat from eg 4 daily cycles with overlay on first beat, or interleaved beats from another source, and slower arc eg from annual cycle. BPM 120 (2Hz), 135-145?
- Brief video open house tour of green features (and link clips to existing articles).
- Interviews with FnF, about how lockdown has effected their 'greenness'.
- Fairphone 3 review, possibly as a video episode, and possibly including audio/video recorded by the FP3 itself.
- Sonify mains voltage fluctuations as seen by the Enphase.
- Sonify change in GB electricity generation before and after lockdown.
- Sonify change in GB transport use (eg TfL journeys) before and after lockdown.
- Do 'virtual' very low carbon non-holiday (video?) sadcastvisit to Midi w/ receipts and photos and clips from last time!
- Capture weekly cycles, though that means running faster than 1 year to 1 second (day = 365Hz, week = 52Hz) to make week audible.
- Discuss eg reduction in peak-time weekday imports with Enphase ToU, and sonify, and discuss other Enphase featues and foibles.
- Turn snippets of sonified data into sampled notes and form tune / percussion. Maybe have note frequency be the mean for the data set.
- Mains water temp to midi note; poss play all years in parallel.
- Audify the fridge/freezer (W -> midi note) and other appliance.
- A take on the daily treadmill getting Radbot to market, eg including fundraising (maybe with some video clips spliced in).
- Interview (audio only, or video) over Skype or SquadCast or Zencastr or similar.
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