SteamyTea

Got a vision of Felicity Kendal now. And Rick Mayall.

That is impressive. But not wanting to dampen things, you have also paid for a better insulated house, a heat pump (I assume) and probably tough out the odd days with thicker jumpers. But it does show that a lot can be done, relatively affordably.

Did you calibrate yours, I can't remember.

Still an expensive way to supply power. Large scale solar is so cheap, compared to domestic scale, you can't really compare the two. It is even cheaper where land, and associated planning restrictions, are not pushing up the development costs.

The pricing structure will change. Reform have started the ball rolling, even if they call the auction system a subsidy (factually wrong), it does open up the topic for debate in parliament. Trump did a similar thing in the USA during his first term as president. What happened was that Texas, the oil trading capital of the world, invested heavily in wind and solar. The bottom line is that wind and solar are the cheapest forms of generation, so investment will head there because the returns are better. Why would they invest in new generation, even if it is replacement generation, when the cost is double for the same wholesale price. What I think is the problem is the general perception about power generation, these are long-term projects with even longer term paybacks, but still profitable (unless you are French). Too higher priority is currently being put on 'intermittency', all generation is intermittent, gas especially. The gas supply has to be managed, it is not as if the bulk natural gas supply is infinite. We don't notice this as consumers, but the large generation companies have to carefully manage and arrange for future deliveries, which is why the price of natural gas is volatile. If we relied on coal fired generation, even assuming we had 60 GW of capacity available, how much do you think a tonne of coal would cost, more than the current price of about £100/tonne, before processing.

Do a dimensioned sketch and see what the creative minds on here can come up with.

Put your grizzle in a pasty.

You could have spent a day a week getting those qualification. Just think if you could have done an environmental qualification and sorted them newts out on the cheap.

In a flood zone.

I did, made my eyes water.

And Vicars, not as if they can change horses mid stream.

Really. Was raining here an hour ago. I find leaving a hot commercial kitchen after serving up 200 meals helps. 30+°C seems cool sometimes.

Can help shifting those logs, as long as the mantissa is correct. (I am old enough to have had to use slide rules as well, why do you think BL cars were so hopeless)

Generally, if a solid walls goes from the foundation to the roof, it is structural. It can be removed and parts replaced with structural beams, but it needs to be properly calculated by a structural engineer who knows what they are doing, as it can impact on other parts of the building structure. We have a good structural engineer on here, @Gus Potter, so hopefully he will come along and give some words of wisdom.

Was that using dedicated software, or like a constipated mathematician, you worked it out with pencil and paper? If the latter, I am sure there is enough knowledge on here, that suitable calculations can be created. Maybe a new section in 'Boffin's Corner' can be created with some suitable templates and instructions to follow.