inigo
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Comment · 3 years ago
Yeah, there are half-hourly pricing tariffs too, but I think that's a bit more niche - the added value is mostly if you have an electric car and your own solar panels.
Comment · 3 years ago
There are several comments from people who don't see the point of smart meters, or think that it's just about removing the need for meter readers.
There are two important things that can only be done via smart meters:
- Time-of-use tariffs, which are aligned to the cost of energy production. For example, Octopus Tracker (https://octopus.energy/smart/tracker/) has an energy price set daily based on the wholesale rate. This is (on average) cheaper for customers, and cheaper for the supplier (because they don't need to spend as much on hedging).
- Demand shifting, so customers can be paid or get discounts for reducing electricity usage when the load on the grid is high. The UK did this over last winter, and led to a peak energy reduction of 188MW (about 10% of the UK's coal power generation capacity). There's a report at https://octoenergy-production-media.s3.amazonaws.com/documen...
Both are ways of aligning the cost and environmental impact of energy with its price, and both become increasingly important as a higher percentage of energy is generated from variable renewable sources.
Comment · 3 years ago
I do have a general idea of how much land costs in the UK, and also, I've been to Milford On Sea several times, and I've walked and run across the land in question. It's not on the nice area of the beach: that's a few hundred metres further down the coast, and that's where there are things like beach huts. It's a good piece of land for dog walkers, though - and there's a footpath running through it. I don't think you could realistically build anything there, hence the low price.
If you are visiting it, I can highly recommend Verveine, a really good fish restaurant about half a mile away, on the High Street. A great tasting menu - 8 courses with matched wines, for £130 - much cheaper than London, just like the land prices. Excellent desserts.
Comment · 3 years ago
The property you are selling is a piece of beach land in Milford on Sea on the south coast: https://passport.mattereum.com/West.London.Lets.01/
"The NFT is listed on the NFT marketplace OpenSea for offers over £1.9M"
That piece of land was last sold for £7000 on 20th October 2021.
https://search-property-information.service.gov.uk/search/su...
I know inflation is bad, but £7000 to £1.9M is an impressive increase in value, for a piece of scrubby beach that looks impossible to get planning permission for.
Comment · 16 years ago
Yes, lots of people who like RDF dislike the RDF/XML serialization of it. It's ridiculously verbose, hard to process with XML tools, not very human-readable, and there can be many equally valid RDF/XML serializations for any given RDF graph.
N3 is much more widely liked - http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Primer - as is RDFa - http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-rdfa-primer/