SteamyTea

It is a lot more complicated than it first looks. Will you want cooling? Why place radiators against a potentially colder wall Wil any of the bedrooms be used for other purposes i.e. children doing home work in them. Will forced ventillation be fitted, with, or without heat recovery. Will secondary heating be fitted i.e. a wood burner (just don't fit one). How is the house expected to perform during the day and different seasons i.e. solar gain, or lack of it. How simple do you want the system. How controllable do you want the system. Do you want to take advantage of different, and potentially unknown, time of use tariffs.

Depends how it is worded and chatted. If x-axis is accidents, and y-axis is volume of useful paperwork, then if my hunch is right, it should be a negative correlation. Swap the axis around, and it becomes positive (but still shows the same result). if, on the other hand, the paperwork is too voluminous, badly written and unorganised, them the correlation could be 0, or flat, but with a lot of variance between data points.

Probably best to check them at the end of the heating season, rather than the beginning of the new heating system.

I suspect there is a stronger correlation between sites with good paperwork and low accident rates.

Like China is working towards, very rapidly. And India, sub Saharan Africa as well. I get the feeling that people that think 'Net Zero' is expensive rubbish think that we should have done it already, not done anything, blame others, not blame others, we are a good example, not a good example, it will make a difference, won't make a difference. I suggest that you all get together and come up with a coherent plan as why we should drop the policies and just carry on as normal, rather than divert the climate change debate to one about personal finances.

Isn't that because we have stopped burning coal to generate electricity? But our economy has changed to a service one. I don't think there was a debate about climate change, or energy pricing, when BL went under. The UK has always imported goods in relatively recent history, why we had such a large Navy and administratively controlled a third of the Earth's land. Yes. A theory that, if it was a science, would be called a Law. Not many electricians, brick layers, accountants or consultants build their own rockets and launch satellite to get broadband in rural areas. Similarly SpaceX does not farm potatoes, even though they control a lot of land.

Other countries are decarbonising as well. Not studies this in detail, and we are certainly not the best, or worse. https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2

By extracting more fossil fuels, it just delays the inevitable transfusion to overall cheaper renewables. Be a bit like not bothering to cover a roof as it seems cheaper to just repaint the ceiling every few weeks.

Amazon have a 'best price' policy. So that stops the traders selling bellow the Amazon price and also stops genuine bargains. Online trading is not for small sellers any more.

Sounds very scary. Makes me wonder which contractor has gone missing.

And the panel fit is better than the cars. (Sorry, could not resist)

Would need a (expletive deleted)ing app these days. You can't believe anything on the interweb though.

As a non-creative it doesn't help me either That seemingly poses a challenge, but would the 'creative' just create a different payment schedule of some sort?

under my system you would pay tax on a refund as it would be treated as income. Obviously genuine mistake would be an exception. I would tax state benefits as well. Then it just becomes an arguement about how large they should be, not a threshold arguement.

I think that has been tried out. You get issued with a monthly currency that becomes worthless at the end of the month. (expletive deleted)ing stupid idea. Bitcoin is limited to 21 million coins (until it isn't) and a new coin is issued about every ten minutes (I think). What would happen if a digital currency was fixed volume from the start i.e. a crypto£ had 4 trillion issued tomorrow (so close to the value of a £ that is currently in circulation at the moment). There is an economic theory that money has to keep moving (what the 2008 banking crisis was about, in part). Money in Circulation, or Money Supply, if fixed may have some strange side effects, but not really sure what they would be (maybe Monopoly is a good example).

Yes. Why would that be a problem? Yes, but the prices of goods and running a factory would be reduced. Also, the taxes would only be claimed on the workers wages i.e. like income tax is now.

Every payment they receive. So if you go to work, and earn £1600/month, £400 goes in tax. If you rent a room, or house out, 40% goes. If you sell your car, a painting, your home, 40% goes (consider that a wealth tax). But you won't be paying a lot of secondary taxes like VAT, fuel duties, inheritance taxes, council tax, NI, 'net zero', etc. Would make central government much more accountable as it would show how well they can spend our money.

That seems tricky on the face of it. It would have to take in many factors such as growth, inflation, behaviour change etc. I have not looked at the recent figures but seems to remember that about 40% of the countries GDP is taken as taxes. So about £1tn/year. I may have to look that up again as it was nearly 20 years ago I studied economics. Most of the taxes are income tax, NI and VAT. So under my system we could tax all incomes at just under 40% and fill in the gaps with my 'sin' taxes.

Why I think we should just have two taxes. One on individual income, and the other a 'sin' tax. Though there would be huge disagreement on what is considered a sin.

Or make it an equilateral one. The area (size) of a triangle is 1/2 x height x base. So changing the angles makes no difference to the area, it just changes where the priorities are. There may be a management tool hidden in a triangle, somewhere, if I thought hard enough about it.

If you hunt around on here, our old mate @Jeremy Harris fitted one, part from lifting it up, I seem to remember that it was fairly simple. You may have trouble buying one though without an F-Gas certificate.

Not now.

I just done the same, two packets, so unhealthy they have a government warning on them.

They have for bathrooms.