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SteamyTea

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  1. He is an architect, bet he gets lots of calls about his work. He has a beard, though I was expecting a hipster one.
  2. I am still waiting. My state pension will be the most consistent earning in my life.
  3. Could be rounding errors. It does need to check the grid is alive, seem to remember that it has to disconnect within 5 seconds, so must sample at least that often.
  4. Very popular in the rurals. In places along the Penzance to Helston road it looks like a cat's cradle. One of the local MPs hates wind turbines, but notice they have one on the family farm.
  5. Think mine uses 1.3 kWh for a 40⁰C wash. I tend to use a 30°C was now as I spend less time over fryers and more by a chopping board. Why were you exporting at 47W?
  6. Go on eBay and buy a second hand CurrentCost meter. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=currentcost&_sop=15 Bound to be one there.
  7. Just been to there website and it is not obvious where the unit prices are, and Thier ToU tariff has been stopped. They are also exempt from the price cap.
  8. That is more like what I wanted to say. I trying (badly) to point out that the same product may have to be considered differently, in different situations. Tomorrow I am driving up country and back, gives me a good 12 hours to ponder things.
  9. This weeks comic had a large article on looking for sub atomic particles. CERN has just about reached its design maximum energy limits, and pretty close to the physical maximum anyway, so now they are looking at more sensitive detectors. The sensitivity is in the number of good detection they get, rather than the accuracy and precision. They look at millions of data points at a time, rather than millions of separate runs. I seem to remember that in the old BSI standards there were recommended sample rates i.e. 1 in 20, 1 in 50, 1 in 1000, as the sample rate decreased the confidence in the results decreased. The mathematics of it are pretty simple. It is the interpretation of the results that is important. So I could design and build a set of identical beams, some for my shed, and some for a new roof on my house. They would both do the same job and be subjected to the same loadings. But the ones on the shed, if they did fail, would have much lower consequences that the ones in a new roof. So to be safe, SEs allow for this and do what @joe90 does, over engineer. I was watching an extreme engineering Youtube yesterday, the MiG 15 had a loaded mass of ~5000 kg. The LM F35 has a mass of ~22000 kg. They both basically do the same job, from different eras, and like buildings, I am amazed how skinny and fragile old roofs look.
  10. Should have chucked a couple of buckets of water on it. That is a useful service to have (well in my opinion). It does seem a pretty comprehensive bit of kit.
  11. So in the dead of night, when nothing is running, it should show zero then. Is it a generic grid intensity number, or is it monitoring Gridwatch or similar?
  12. I find the Dulux Easycare very good
  13. What is the leaf graphic for? Is there always a small draw from the grid?
  14. If there was more snow, it would be like a blank sheet of paper.
  15. Thanks. Making, testing and breaking stuff is a lot of fun. Should be taught at school. I may in the near future, knock up a beam, and a column, which will be more like the thing I want to build the shed from. I will be drawing them up in my CAD, mainly to work out the least amount of ply sheets I need to buy.
  16. Glass and bush more like. No harm in upskirting in the privacy of your own basement.
  17. That means the thermal and mechanical properties are different, depending on orientation.
  18. Yes, seems that the same 12 year old web designer does all the Reach stuff these days.
  19. Most of the inefficiency is not in the home these day, especially all electric homes. With generation changing to RE, inefficiency is, environmentally, a thing of the past as they don't pollute like combustion plants. This does not mean we need to go back to 100W incandescent lightbulbs and 32inch CRT TVs, just that overall, electrification is a much better system than combustion.
  20. I think it is done via a URL to a webpage that then has the functionality you are after on it.
  21. I think this is just bad reporting. https://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/news/people/more-than-a-dozen-square-metres-of-forest-open-land-and-water-in-worksop-and-retford-developed-upon-4285045
  22. It is easy to put some code in a QR. https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com/
  23. Thought you were in Lithuania, not Romania.
  24. I like this idea, what model fogger did you buy?
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