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  1. The Government could buy PV capacity, but the problem is, they would make such a pigs ear of it that it would cost £1/kWh delivered.
  2. I may be used the wrong word and meant platykurtic anyway. Flat in the middle bit. If you plot the CET PDF you find that around the mean temperature the probabilities actually reduced a bit. A 'bit' is a statistical term to mean 'i can't tell you exactly'. Why the mean is really called the 'central tendency' as that gives some wiggle room on the numbers.
  3. The PCB was probably printed, rather than etched. So could be part of that processes that has dissolved.
  4. I used to work for the RNIB, they have a special format for computer screens, I used to know the ins and outs quite well. They also took advantage of Alt Text to get JAWS to read out the screen. Trouble was, I left the 'o' out of the sentence 'counting children'.
  5. Same with my house, maybe a bit lower. HDDs are based on a normal distribution around the the mean temperature, with the standard deviation changing for different climate zones (the kurtosis) rather than actual location specific data. As the UK has a more leptokurtic temperature distribution (flatter in the middle bit), this can skew the number of 'official' HDDs and CDDs. They are still useful for a first order approximation and when you have a system up and running are probably the best method to fine tune your weather compensation curve.
  6. Only two are in focus, they will be from the reconasence planes.
  7. For a bore hole GSHP to work efficiently, it needs a flow of ground water, so geology is important. A 'slinky' based system works the same as an ASHP in that is using the local mean air temperature, just with less variation around that mean temperature.
  8. If your 300 litre cylinder was at zero and the immersion heater takes it to 100⁰C, then that is 35 kWh. About a third what you registered. And it would be boiling. Somewhere in your pipework will be a pressure relieve valve, wherever that vents to should show some sign of steam coming out.
  9. If you want to see how badly a GSHP can go wrong, both technically and financially, take a trip to my local swimming pool. Jubilee Pool
  10. Swapping a tumble dryer for a Poundland washing line is still way better.
  11. I thought everything in Australia was upside down, so making a British roof is going to cause problems, mainly the tiles falling off.
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