Boffin's Corner

430 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
   • (and 4 more)

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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 1 2 3 4 8

   By Pocster, February 15
   • 194 replies
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   • Pocster
   • 23 hours ago

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

   By Post and beam, November 6, 2025
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   • Gone West
   • Sunday at 17:59

4. Controlled sphere rotation 🙄

   By Pocster, Sunday at 09:34
   • 7 replies
   • 144 views
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   • Pocster
   • Sunday at 14:50

5. chatGPT and the like for landscape inspiration

   By Post and beam, February 25
   • 8 replies
   • 840 views
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   • MikeSharp01
   • May 7

6. Heat pumps and Zoning/TRVs

   By DamonHD, April 16
   • 2 replies
   • 235 views
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   • JohnMo
   • April 16

7. Power to The People: Rewiring Britain

   By SteamyTea, April 8
   • 0 replies
   • 277 views
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   • SteamyTea
   • April 8

8. One for the mechanical engineers

   By SteamyTea, April 2
   • 2 replies
   • 353 views
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   • SteamyTea
   • April 3

9. ESP32 S3 m5Stack Cores3 swmbo friendly watering system!

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

10. Whole house audio

    By Pocster, February 10
    • 23 replies
    • 1.1k views
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    • Pocster
    • March 26

11. Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood

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

12. 4G mobile phone signal booster

    By BotusBuild, February 22   

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

13. Cheap Electricity in the USA

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

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

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

15. Voice control 1 2

    By Pocster, February 11
    • 35 replies
    • 1.3k views
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    • SteamyTea
    • February 14

16. 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
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    • 519 views
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    • SteamyTea
    • February 3

17. Really, this amazed me.

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

18. Wood Bark, and just a little nominative determinism

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

19. I have done it.

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

20. Predictive heating control or monitoring

    By JohnMo, December 9, 2025   

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

21. The sun and the rain

    By saveasteading, November 17, 2025
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    • FuerteStu
    • November 17, 2025

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

    By SteamyTea, October 27, 2025
    • 6 replies
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    • JohnMo
    • October 28, 2025

23. 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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    • 1.2k views
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    • Mattg4321
    • October 13, 2025

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

    By SteamyTea, October 7, 2025
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
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    • SteamyTea
    • October 7, 2025

25. Batteries and chargers

    By SteamyTea, September 28, 2025
    • 6 replies
    • 1.5k views
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    • JohnMo
    • September 29, 2025