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Sounds more like a thermostat than a heating element. Most thermostats have a safety cut out, could be that has tripped. Some are resettable. It may look a bit like this.

There has been a bit on the radio about companies and the environment. Analysis Only got bits of it but sounded interesting. It got me thinking about corporate investing. It should not be too hard to set up a business investment scheme that allowed you to offset your investment with an equivalent investment in green technology companies. So say you want to invest in an armament company. It should be easy enough to calculate their carbon footprint as they have to declare this already. Reducing it down to make life simple, let's say one tank has a carbon footprint if 300 tonnes. As part of your investment you have to buy some shares in a green technology company, say a windturbine manufacturer. Now a windturbine can easily off set 300 tonnes of CO2. So only a small investment would be needed, maybe as small as 3% (would have to look into that) of your total investment. One advantage of this is because CO2 is a global problem, it does not matter where this new development is geographically placed. There are several African companies that would welcome electricity, even if it is not at the quality of service that the industrialised countries are used to i.e. a bit if wheat threshing can wait till it is windy (or sunny), it does not have to be done instantly, and it has to be better than beating it with sticks in the sun. Maybe this is something that @Adsibob may know a bit about. The big problem I could see happening with this is stopping green washing (ecobollocks). As the financial industry is already highly regulated, and audited, tacking on genuine low carbon generation technology should not be too hard. This would not be the same as carbon offsetting, it would be for genuine new generation where no generation is currently planned.

A wick, or capillary action to use the right term, will work regardless of orientation and does not care if it is inside a tube or on the outside of a filament. It is electrostatic forces at work.

Before getting over excited about fitting batteries, have a good look at your energy usage time series, then work out where you can change the loads, or shift them to the cheap rate. Also look at what it would cost on different tariffs, people get hung up on just one part of a tariff and loose sight of the whole.

Milk flows through shredded wheat. It soaks into Wheat-a-bix. Both those trap air. But we should really be trying to minimise the use of concrete, all these ICF are really just poured concrete houses.

What happens if an AI refused to answer questions, or just refused to give a convincing answer, will we stop it's benefits? Many innocent people have been terminated, so I can't see the problem with turning off an AI.

We have to electrify everything, and (expletive deleted)ing quickly. The IET said about this 30 years ago. Though I think they were the IEE then. I think the biggest difference in strategy to heat old homes will be what happens in the same street. If the neighbours get PV and a heat pump, other soon will. The real test of government policy will be with EVs, if they backtrack on that too much, then we know they will on gas boilers. There really is a lot of nonsense said about the EV and HP policies. Same tactics that the Brexiteers used, rubbish others research, but never show your own. Don't know where you get your news from, lots of talk and research being done. Just last week was a program on Radio 4 talking about it. So about a decade to capture some if the excess atmospheric CO2, and minutes to put it back in. Domestic combustion should be stopped now. If all the biomass in Earth was used as an energy crop, it would last about 400 days at current usage levels. Actually it would last a lot less as converting thermal energy to mechanical or electrical energy is not brilliant efficient. On my trip up country yesterday, I passed a sign saying Europe's Largest Solar Farm. Then the message about stopping it. FFS, where do these (expletive deleted) think electricity comes from, Unicorn Farts (I did pass Glastonbury in the way up, but it was further up the M5). If in a decade we have installed enough wind capacity to supply 27% of the UKs electrical demand last year, with gas supplying 39‰, we can do a lot more in the next decade. Saying it cannot be done is just wrong, talking oneself out of believing it can be done is a national pastime. We have the knowledge, and the engineering, and the cash to do it, just got to stops the false stories circulating about when the wind does not blow and the sun does not shine. The chart below is from the Wikipedia page on UK Wind Power. 37%of the non wind and gas is basically low CO2 generation. We are a long way up the path to zero carbon electrical generation. As I said earlier, there has been a huge change in the power generation industry, and most people have not noticed it at all. The storms a couple of years back took out the local distribution networks mostly, not the large bulk distribution, and to the best of my knowledge, it did not cause any major problems for the wind turbines. But rather than focus purely old housing, with a quarter of our emission coming from transport (ish), and by the nature of cars getting replaced on a regular basis, and legislation coming in that makes them harder to drive in some towns and cities, we should see a rapid decline in vehicle emissions. 40 years ago, we often say very smoking cars, now it is very rare. The EU did a report about vehicle emissions. Here is a useful chart. Improvement were happening, so they can happen again.

Just got back home, so shall do a proper reply later. But last night, after an excellent curry, I listened to this. (expletive deleted)ing brilliant for a spoof. Just get the kids and the women out the room. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0fsz1pc

Will give you problems as too little catalyst (really an oxidant) will stop proper cross linking of the monomers. You can get different hardeners to get round this problem. Your biggest issue will be UV light, that caused the top to react and cure faster, this stops the excess styrene evaporating away. If you can be sure it will be dry early morning, that is the time to do it.

All depends on how you calculate it. They generally use hydrofluoroolefin which has a GWP of 4. Zero ozone depletion. Quite a stable molecule, so will hang around for at least 100 years. The drive to the shop to buy it will do more damage as I think there is only a few grams in a can.

I am off to get a curry soon. Shall I drop by tomorrow and, um, drop one. That should be a good initial test.

A few cans of expanding foam. If it is wrapped in thick polythene, it will last for decades.

Trez bien. Do you have any outside lighting? And how are they cabled? Sink/washing machine waste, tumble dryer?

Usually how I judge other people's wives.

Phone up all the small glazing companies. I found a great one not too far from me. Look online as well.

There will be more Telecoms entry, outside pipes and cables. You can cling film over the bogs, just make sure your wife uses one before you do.

I have done some monsters in the past, think Loch Ness, and hat sort of length. Two ful buckets of water just ain't enough sometimes. Like Sherlock Holmes and his two pipe problem, mine became a 3 bucket problem. Once managed to block up 3 bogs in one weekend. Luckily the doctors found the problem and now I only do knee high ones after a long flight, why, I don't know. Tempted to enter the world's longest Cumberland sausage completion. Should be good for a deadcatting strategy.

Won't be a waste of time, once depressurised you can easily feel the leaks. Main ones are windows and doors, they can be adjusted, forgetting to tape up vents for the test, keep checking you really have done them all. Then there are the service penetration, squire silicone on the outside while the test is happening. Loft hatch. When @joe90 had his done, I did not tell him for days that the air inlet for his wood burner was blowing a gale. People that burn wood like that natural fresh air feeling. So kept quiet.

The toughened, double glazed pane for my door cost me 65 quid, 16 years ago. Yours looks a bit smaller.

Long journey up country, not a lot else to think about. I always have to blank my mind when I pass @pocster country. Imagine breaking down on that stretch of the M5.

15 year old schoolgirls are vaccinated for @pocster' Pimple now.

Then could fill the tower with gas, keep the pressure up and the towers can be made much lighter, saving steel. I think think they need to sink a few nuclear subs. Then run the generators and electrify the hull. Get the polarity, and depth right, it will eventually float back up. Then fill a huge balloon with hydrogen and wait till the wind is in right direction: free delivery to site

As you have already said, insulate to building regs, except add a bit to the floor because of UFH. You don't want to be loosing more to the ground than what goes through the roof. PV is a no brainer, cheap and easy. Diverter to a cylinder, cheap and simple. Forget batteries, just not worth the hassle, so let the next owner swap the inverter to a hybrid one. Get the airtightness as good as you can, then, as long as you have not put in stupidly sized windows, you can get cheaper windows, saving 0.2 W/m².K on windows is really desperation to get through SAP, or altruism. MVHR, worth it and you will need it anyway for ventilation. Why bother with data cabling, everything is going wireless. Stick in a car charger. We are heading towards EVs, so that is one less thing to worry about. Gas Vs ASHP. Assuming the plumbing is designed correctly for both, and connecting to the existing supply is cheap, it don't matter. I would opt for ASHP and not worry about gas at all.

Similar here, but at my mother's care home. But I did have this view earlier.

Tried to pick an argument with me when I was in agreement once.