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Insulation layer for shorter time constant?
SteamyTea replied to Alan Ambrose's topic in Underfloor Heating
kWh Thermal inertia is what you need to be looking at. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_inertia -
My father was severely allergic to wasp stings. I have never wanted to put it to the test as I have all sorts of allergies. Apparently some people react normally to the first sting, then can get sever reactions to subsequent ones.
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Generally, manufactured goods are now of better quality and last a lot longer. So 'industry' can produce more with less. Vehicle manufacturing was at all time records untill 2016, don't think the decline has anything to do with 'net zero', energy prices or lack of investment. Trying to think what happened 10 years ago, seem to remember that we were going to become world leaders.
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Summer holidays have just finished, should be easier getting hold of people now, until last week of October.
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Cancer is a generic term, it is not one condition, why I always take those sort of stories with a pinch of salt. I will just stick to using it to write erotic stories about you.
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Higher memory prices and a cure for cancer. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0m39g7xzevo
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New self build design, heat and architect
SteamyTea replied to Jack757's topic in New House & Self Build Design
Really. May work if you suspend yourself naked a few mill above the floor. -
New self build design, heat and architect
SteamyTea replied to Jack757's topic in New House & Self Build Design
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.
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Probably best to check them at the end of the heating season, rather than the beginning of the new heating system.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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when is a screed dry enough for flooring?
SteamyTea replied to saveasteading's topic in General Flooring
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And the panel fit is better than the cars. (Sorry, could not resist)
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Waste water capture and re-use
SteamyTea replied to stephanh's topic in Environmental Building Politics
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?
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
