What's standing in the way of me using my Nissan Leaf battery to power my home? How long will it be until Vehicle to Home (V2H) is available? How much of a contribution will this make to smoothing the demand curve and reducing the need to fire up gas plants at key times?
You can, the latest Nissan Leaf batteries hold around 60kwh , the average house uses approx 30kwh per day, so a Leaf battery could power a house for approx 2 days
Better news is that the Leaf has bidirectional charging so you could plug it into your home electricity supply and keep the house going
I have a friend who lives in the middle of nowhere USA, where a standby power supply is needed because electricity outages due to storms are down for days. Her original standby supply was backed up by batteries and propane. But she now has the capability of plugging her Ford F150 EV into the standby and keeping it charged via that
Have you ever found yourself being a NIMBY? That is, have you ever opposed the construction of a building or infrastructure project on environmental, cultural, or any other grounds?
Maybe a bit too detailed for the q&a session but I reckon you’re likely to be able to answer it as I’ve not managed to find out elsewhere …
I think that National insurance number (NINO) is not part of the one login dataset. First part of question is whether I’m correct.
It’s important as my second supposition is that NINO is the key Id on most hmrc and dwp systems. If that is true then attempts to make one login the entry to those will fail and if they don’t get onboard, it will never reach the scale required to become the de facto national Id …
One Login is intended to be overarching; so individual departments map their internal identities onto One Login...? I'd argue that it's a conceptual successor to Government Gateway; whilst NINOs were used as a primary key in one department and only "leaked out" whilst there was a gap left by the lack of a good identity mechanism widely accepted across lots of government bodies - and they still had to make their own arrangements for auth, because NINOs don't do that, and for various edge cases (because there are a lot of people and organisations who aren't in a PAYE scheme, might not even be in the UK, but might still have dealings with another part of UK government)
Although HMRC have the Unique Taxpayer Reference.
Surely any org which currently uses NINOs internally would be able to map those onto One Login, so that citizens can get a consistent login experience....?
Thanks for that. My interest in this comes from pensions angle. Pensions dashboards are meant to be available in a couple of years ie people can log in to a dashboard and see all their pensions in one place. They have chosen one login as the identity provider so once user has logged in, the dashboard will have all the Id information that returns to use to match up to pension records. Pension schemes are required to record NINO so I was surprised when I looked at the standards to see that was missing. Without that, the dashboard is going to have to use other data - basically name and address to try to match up to pension records which will be less reliable.
Instinctively the NINO feels like a good, unique way for public services to identify people in the UK, and it was common for a long time - but recent guidance has highlighted some reasons not to rely on NINO. If you want some especially dry bedtime reading, there's GPG 45...?
Also the pensions dashboard ecosystem is quite complex, so I worry there may be some organisations involved which don't necessarily collect NINOs.
(Personally I think that an earlier GPG, in the CESG era, was partly responsible for torpedoïng Government Gateway, and setting back online public services by years - but times have changed)
One pitfall of the upcoming Abundance shift is the lack of non-politico wonky authorial avatars that previous vibes like Skepticism, Wokeism and errr, Anti-Wokeism seem to attract, and therefore, you don't see many celebrities sharing social media screenshots and canvas about building more houses, densifying cities and promoting nuclear and renewables.
My question is this: Which celebrities or influencers are more likely to spread the message?
Has Brexit weakened or strengthened Britain in the face of tariff threats from the US? When will Northern Ireland have self-government? Can Margaret Thatcher be held responsible for the ascension of Trump? Is Boris Johnson as big a buffoon as he is portrayed in some mainstream media? Is Nigel Farage?
What with the proliferation of massive SUVs, and the general weight increase of cars of all sizes when they go electric (is an electric car really much heavier the the ICE equivalent?), how do we solve the eternal pothole problem?
Obvious answer: use our cars less, so how do we get people to do that?
How should proponents of the Abundance agenda engage with the trade offs inherent in giving us better lives while not destroying our ecosystem? Assuming that we accept that climate change is both bad and happening, and that biodiversity loss is something to be avoided, if not reversed.
Do you have a generalised theory of externalities to go with the O-Malley.Abundance agenda?
By which I mean: I suspect all the pro-Abundance stuff has an associated undesired consequence / externality. Now, I'm guessing your general response is the NIMBYs overemphasise the costs and ignore the benefits.
But, presumably there are some situations where more supply comes at too great a cost. For instance, I worry a lot about cheap self driving cars leading to (more) gridlock in large cities.
So, I just wonder if you have a theory that shows where the balance gets struck. I know you feel we've got the dial currently set way too low, but where's the sweet spot? Is it to introduce a price mechanism, maybe? So, loads of new roads but make them toll roads etc?
You've mentioned being Abundance-pilled quite a lot. What's your take on the criticism of the abundance discourse focusing too much of regulatory and policy failings but lets corporate power off the hook?
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What's standing in the way of me using my Nissan Leaf battery to power my home? How long will it be until Vehicle to Home (V2H) is available? How much of a contribution will this make to smoothing the demand curve and reducing the need to fire up gas plants at key times?
You can, the latest Nissan Leaf batteries hold around 60kwh , the average house uses approx 30kwh per day, so a Leaf battery could power a house for approx 2 days
Better news is that the Leaf has bidirectional charging so you could plug it into your home electricity supply and keep the house going
I have a friend who lives in the middle of nowhere USA, where a standby power supply is needed because electricity outages due to storms are down for days. Her original standby supply was backed up by batteries and propane. But she now has the capability of plugging her Ford F150 EV into the standby and keeping it charged via that
Have you ever found yourself being a NIMBY? That is, have you ever opposed the construction of a building or infrastructure project on environmental, cultural, or any other grounds?
Maybe a bit too detailed for the q&a session but I reckon you’re likely to be able to answer it as I’ve not managed to find out elsewhere …
I think that National insurance number (NINO) is not part of the one login dataset. First part of question is whether I’m correct.
It’s important as my second supposition is that NINO is the key Id on most hmrc and dwp systems. If that is true then attempts to make one login the entry to those will fail and if they don’t get onboard, it will never reach the scale required to become the de facto national Id …
One Login is intended to be overarching; so individual departments map their internal identities onto One Login...? I'd argue that it's a conceptual successor to Government Gateway; whilst NINOs were used as a primary key in one department and only "leaked out" whilst there was a gap left by the lack of a good identity mechanism widely accepted across lots of government bodies - and they still had to make their own arrangements for auth, because NINOs don't do that, and for various edge cases (because there are a lot of people and organisations who aren't in a PAYE scheme, might not even be in the UK, but might still have dealings with another part of UK government)
Although HMRC have the Unique Taxpayer Reference.
Surely any org which currently uses NINOs internally would be able to map those onto One Login, so that citizens can get a consistent login experience....?
Thanks for that. My interest in this comes from pensions angle. Pensions dashboards are meant to be available in a couple of years ie people can log in to a dashboard and see all their pensions in one place. They have chosen one login as the identity provider so once user has logged in, the dashboard will have all the Id information that returns to use to match up to pension records. Pension schemes are required to record NINO so I was surprised when I looked at the standards to see that was missing. Without that, the dashboard is going to have to use other data - basically name and address to try to match up to pension records which will be less reliable.
Instinctively the NINO feels like a good, unique way for public services to identify people in the UK, and it was common for a long time - but recent guidance has highlighted some reasons not to rely on NINO. If you want some especially dry bedtime reading, there's GPG 45...?
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/identity-proofing-and-verification-of-an-individual/how-to-prove-and-verify-someones-identity
Also the pensions dashboard ecosystem is quite complex, so I worry there may be some organisations involved which don't necessarily collect NINOs.
(Personally I think that an earlier GPG, in the CESG era, was partly responsible for torpedoïng Government Gateway, and setting back online public services by years - but times have changed)
One pitfall of the upcoming Abundance shift is the lack of non-politico wonky authorial avatars that previous vibes like Skepticism, Wokeism and errr, Anti-Wokeism seem to attract, and therefore, you don't see many celebrities sharing social media screenshots and canvas about building more houses, densifying cities and promoting nuclear and renewables.
My question is this: Which celebrities or influencers are more likely to spread the message?
Has Brexit weakened or strengthened Britain in the face of tariff threats from the US? When will Northern Ireland have self-government? Can Margaret Thatcher be held responsible for the ascension of Trump? Is Boris Johnson as big a buffoon as he is portrayed in some mainstream media? Is Nigel Farage?
What with the proliferation of massive SUVs, and the general weight increase of cars of all sizes when they go electric (is an electric car really much heavier the the ICE equivalent?), how do we solve the eternal pothole problem?
Obvious answer: use our cars less, so how do we get people to do that?
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How should proponents of the Abundance agenda engage with the trade offs inherent in giving us better lives while not destroying our ecosystem? Assuming that we accept that climate change is both bad and happening, and that biodiversity loss is something to be avoided, if not reversed.
Do you have a generalised theory of externalities to go with the O-Malley.Abundance agenda?
By which I mean: I suspect all the pro-Abundance stuff has an associated undesired consequence / externality. Now, I'm guessing your general response is the NIMBYs overemphasise the costs and ignore the benefits.
But, presumably there are some situations where more supply comes at too great a cost. For instance, I worry a lot about cheap self driving cars leading to (more) gridlock in large cities.
So, I just wonder if you have a theory that shows where the balance gets struck. I know you feel we've got the dial currently set way too low, but where's the sweet spot? Is it to introduce a price mechanism, maybe? So, loads of new roads but make them toll roads etc?
You've mentioned being Abundance-pilled quite a lot. What's your take on the criticism of the abundance discourse focusing too much of regulatory and policy failings but lets corporate power off the hook?