Boffin's Corner

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

2. Predictive heating control or monitoring

   By JohnMo, December 9, 2025   

   • ufh
   • radiators
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     • radiators
     • central heating
     • boiler
     • ashp
     • gshp
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   • JohnMo
   • September 27

3. Grid flex rhymes with derivatives trading: an observation

   By DamonHD, September 21
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   • SteamyTea
   • September 21

4. Avalon local LLM 1 2 3 4 22

   By Pocster, February 15
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   • Pocster
   • September 10

5. Water Supply Automation (aka Smart Meter)

   By MortarThePoint, August 30
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   • 422 views
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   • MortarThePoint
   • August 31

6. Scrap your new car now. Well not really. 1 2

   By SteamyTea, August 10
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   • Roger440
   • August 14

7. How to unlock unlimited geothermal energy, anywhere we want 1 2

   By SteamyTea, July 23
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   • sgt_woulds
   • July 31

8. This puts any of our challenges into perspective 1 2

   By saveasteading, July 9
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   • saveasteading
   • July 20

9. I don't do maths

   By SteamyTea, July 11
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   • SteamyTea
   • July 11

10. chatGPT and the like for landscape inspiration

    By Post and beam, February 25
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    • canalsiderenovation
    • July 6

11. Europe’s heatwave is the hottest and most humid ever 1 2

    By SteamyTea, June 29
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    • SteamyTea
    • July 3

12. Can home batteries help save the climate and save you money?

    By SteamyTea, July 3
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    • JohnMo
    • July 3

13. Dewpoint Temperatures and Absolute Humidity Spreadsheet

    By SteamyTea, June 28
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    • SteamyTea
    • June 30

14. Starlink .... thoughts? 1 2 3 4 7

    By Post and beam, November 6, 2025
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    • Onoff
    • June 26

15. Some of you are in for warm weather next week, and some of you have portable A/C

    By SteamyTea, June 20
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    • SimonD
    • June 21

16. ‘Forgotten’ pollutants cause 15 per cent of global warming

    By SteamyTea, June 20
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    • SteamyTea
    • June 20

17. Does the UK really have the most expensive electricity in Europe?

    By SteamyTea, June 3
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    • SteamyTea
    • June 4

18. M2.0 NVME SSD - hardware issue

    By Jenki, May 28
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    • Jenki
    • June 2

19. SE battery over modbus

    By Pocster, May 28
    • 3 replies
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    • Pocster
    • May 31

20. Controlled sphere rotation 🙄

    By Pocster, May 17
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    • Pocster
    • May 17

21. Heat pumps and Zoning/TRVs

    By DamonHD, April 16
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    • JohnMo
    • April 16

22. Power to The People: Rewiring Britain

    By SteamyTea, April 8
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    • SteamyTea
    • April 8

23. One for the mechanical engineers

    By SteamyTea, April 2
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    • SteamyTea
    • April 3

24. ESP32 S3 m5Stack Cores3 swmbo friendly watering system!

    By Pocster, January 20
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    • Pocster
    • March 27

25. Whole house audio

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