Boffin's Corner

427 topics in this forum

1. The Great Thermal Mass Myth................ 1 2 3 4 5

   By Jeremy Harris, May 20, 2016   

   • thermal mass
   • heat capacity
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     • thermal mass
     • heat capacity
     • temperature
     • energy
     • thermal conductivity
     • specific heat
   • 122 replies
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   • joe90
   • May 10, 2024

2. Avalon local llm

   By Pocster, February 15
   • 21 replies
   • 624 views
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   • -rick-
   • 11 hours ago

3. Starlink .... thoughts? 1 2 3 4 5

   By Post and beam, November 6, 2025
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   • Gone West
   • Sunday at 08:51

4. One for the mechanical engineers

   By SteamyTea, Thursday at 11:22
   • 2 replies
   • 156 views
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   • SteamyTea
   • Friday at 18:08

5. ESP32 S3 m5Stack Cores3 swmbo friendly watering system!

   By Pocster, January 20
   • 20 replies
   • 941 views
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   • Pocster
   • March 27

6. Whole house audio

   By Pocster, February 10
   • 23 replies
   • 854 views
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   • Pocster
   • March 26

7. chatGPT and the like for landscape inspiration

   By Post and beam, February 25
   • 6 replies
   • 515 views
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   • Roger440
   • March 18

8. Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood

   By SteamyTea, February 28
   • 4 replies
   • 306 views
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   • Mattg4321
   • March 1

9. 4G mobile phone signal booster

   By BotusBuild, February 22   

   • mobile signal
   • 4g signal
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     • mobile signal
     • 4g signal
     • phone signal
   • 13 replies
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   • BotusBuild
   • February 23

10. Cheap Electricity in the USA

    By SteamyTea, February 12
    • 7 replies
    • 408 views
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    • Alan Ambrose
    • February 18

11. Stainless Steels in warm, damp and chlorine environments.

    By SteamyTea, February 13
    • 17 replies
    • 542 views
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    • Alan Ambrose
    • February 17

12. Voice control 1 2

    By Pocster, February 11
    • 35 replies
    • 913 views
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    • SteamyTea
    • February 14

13. You and Yours: It's been a long winter - and we want to know if what you've done to your property has worked? Are you warmer? And is it cheaper to run?

    By SteamyTea, February 3
    • 0 replies
    • 334 views
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    • SteamyTea
    • February 3

14. Really, this amazed me.

    By SteamyTea, January 23
    • 2 replies
    • 573 views
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    • Spinny
    • January 27

15. Wood Bark, and just a little nominative determinism

    By SteamyTea, January 9
    • 9 replies
    • 714 views
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    • SteamyTea
    • January 12

16. I have done it.

    By SteamyTea, January 3
    • 8 replies
    • 709 views
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    • SteamyTea
    • January 3

17. Predictive heating control or monitoring

    By JohnMo, December 9, 2025   

    • ufh
    • radiators
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      • radiators
      • central heating
      • boiler
      • ashp
      • gshp
    • 2 replies
    • 703 views
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    • JohnMo
    • December 9, 2025

18. The sun and the rain

    By saveasteading, November 17, 2025
    • 4 replies
    • 943 views
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    • FuerteStu
    • November 17, 2025

19. Solar energy is going to power the world much sooner than you think (cheaper than plywood)

    By SteamyTea, October 27, 2025
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    • 1.2k views
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    • JohnMo
    • October 28, 2025

20. Some of us knew this over a decade ago: it caused a serious spike in food prices about 15 years ago.

    By SteamyTea, October 13, 2025
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    • 1k views
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    • Mattg4321
    • October 13, 2025

21. EMBER, a think tank, has produced this report

    By SteamyTea, October 7, 2025
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    • SteamyTea
    • October 7, 2025

22. Batteries and chargers

    By SteamyTea, September 28, 2025
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    • JohnMo
    • September 29, 2025

23. Wind curtailment 2025 cost nearly £1bn

    By BotusBuild, September 25, 2025   

    • wind
    • curtailment
    • 14 replies
    • 977 views
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    • BotusBuild
    • September 27, 2025

24. Hydrogen: could be more trouble than we think

    By SteamyTea, September 26, 2025
    • 0 replies
    • 877 views
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    • SteamyTea
    • September 26, 2025

25. Kingston Efficient Homes Show 2025 Short Talks

    By DamonHD, April 27, 2025
    • 4 replies
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    • SteamyTea
    • September 20, 2025