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  1. They have tried that already.
  2. Went to visit my Mother today, there was a tatty copy of Picture Post from 1941 on her bedside table. The issue was about housing, planning, comfortable living etc. (expletive deleted) all has changed in 80 years. Except the front cover of the magazines. Would be on the top shelf, and a brown paper bag now, and probably an undercover copper as the shop keeper. Going to show it anyway.
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  3. Gas, oil, coal and timber fires also produce CO2. They also convert most of the hydrogen in the hydrocarbon to water vapour. A really badly set up gas boiler will also produce some oxides of nitrogen. (combustion chemistry is quite simple, generally, just look at what the base fuel is made from, split it up and add an oxygen atom or two to it. NOX is normally a secondary reaction caused by high temperature or pressure)
  4. Am I reading that right. 314 Ah at 3.2V, so 1 kWh. 6000 discharges, so £0.19/kWh before the cost of the juice you put in.
  5. Except political disenfranchisement. I tend to think that people that don't vote are happy with what government is currently in. A better system is to give the incumbent the unused votes, there is more of a voter incentive to vote a party out, or keep them in, that way.
  6. Or we having the cooling requirements. A lot of France has similar weather to us.
  7. So my old lodger, who had a stroke in the first 3 years of her life, is a scrounger. As are the people affected by thalidomide. Are the workers that got made redundant when a large employer closes scroungers?
  8. Define 'scroungers'. Seems the over 65s are currently the biggest contributors to income tax. https://ifs.org.uk/data-items/share-adult-population-paying-income-tax-age-bracket
  9. "No taxation without representation" Or "No representation without taxation" Alan B'Stard
  10. Was that really caused by the reduction in uncontrolled ventillation or by an increase in internal temperature dry the structure out. Have you tried checking the RH levels without the PIV switched on recently?
  11. TL:DR the replies. It is worth doing a heat loss calculation on your house, then you may be able to target the areas that can be improved. My guess is the suspended floor (it is a large area) and general air leakage are your main problems. Double glazing, in isolation, does not cause condensation, it is caused by the interaction of humidity and temperature, you can get condensation at 40°C.
  12. There are a number of different reviews about world energy, EIA, OPEC BP, Petroleum, all are within a fraction of each other. Makes it easy to see the Venezuela has more proven reserves/resources that anyone else. The trouble with all these reviews is that many people do not want to believe them. Those people cannot be helped.
  13. I have been told many times that the world economy is affected by oil prices. So I thought I would look at global inflation rates and oil prices since 1970. When inflation is low, oil prices are high, and visa versa. Seems to be the polar opposite from what I was told.
  14. Yes, but it is a good place to start looking for a leak.
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