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SteamyTea

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  1. The Guardian is trying. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/11/blending-hydrogen-gas-heating-add-almost-200-uk-bills
  2. Having less caravans on the roads would improve my motoring experience. I don't really see what you are getting at. You say you cannot afford an EV, but can you afford, or at least willing to pay for, any car that costs the same as a Zoe, around £30,000. I bought my last new car back in 1990. Cost £11k. The updated model is now £21k. Edit: Just checked the price, seems it is £27k for the equivalent model, 21 was the basic 'hire car' trim.
  3. Well that is true. There are no cheap bits of Cornwall on ugly ceilings, or beautiful Cornwall on expensive ceilings. Cornwall is rainy today, so really horrible.
  4. Were Outspans. Not Jaffas, like @pocster
  5. At those sorts of prices it is worth doing on most transations. If I have to take a rotten bag of oranges back to Sainsbury, it costs me more. (Don't think I have done a proper shop in Sainsbury since that incident in 2003)
  6. Should have just fitted
  7. That is a bit naughty. I wonder if I could buy a car and do the same, one of the online traders is offering 14 days money back. Buy a dog of a car very cheap, buy same model, swap plates and send the dog back.
  8. It is the kind of thig that banks should be offering, but not at 20% of the contract price. Maybe 0.3% plus a one off set up charge.
  9. My local Dirty Turks has just started charging £7.50. Still a bargain for the amount of flavour a calories.
  10. Heard it on the radio yesterday. Odd I thought, do they think that all ICE cars have a mass the same as a Fiat Uno (700kg) and all EVs have the same mass as a Ford F 150 Lightening (3000kg). As for FC cars, looking up the mass of a Toyota Mirai and compare it to a Tesla Model 3. 1950 kg against 1847 kg. 2 minutes shows what nonsense is spread about. For comparison, a Ford C-Max is 1700 before 50 kg of fuel is put in.
  11. What was that, I fell asleep. Or was it distracted by a raindrop on the cafe window.
  12. Check with the forum bosses, they may have to deal with an influx of new members and spammers, and angry people.
  13. And the current increase in energy prices is less? Investing in national infrastructure is not the same as one house investing in one heat pump, or one car being swapped for an EV. The accountancy is different.
  14. May have misread the title. But always worth listening to on a wet and windy Tuesday morning.
  15. We need @ToughButterCup to make up one of his tedious, but useful, checklists about checking up on companies. We wants/needs something to do now he has finished his build. @Susie and @Kelvin Let us know the outcome. No need to name the company, but it may show if a credit check is worth paying for. I used to know a girl in the 1980s who had a brother that was almost as good as mathematics as she was. She decided that short skirts, vodka and children from unsuitable sperm suppliers was a good way forward in life. Her brother, he went off to university (on of the Cambridge ones) studied mathematics, got his Master's and became an accurary for an insurance company. He said that it was dead easy if you have the information to calculate the odds, easier than bringing up children, and you get paid £100k a year for it. Now I know why insuring against financial risk is expensive, not the risk, it is the salaries paid to the staff.
  16. Ohms Law. Or put a volt meter on it.
  17. Yes, and often means people buy an over specified system. I do think we should sell, trade, and discuss energy by the joule, MJ or GJ, would save a lot of confusion. Some petrol stations still don't have temperature compensation on their pumps. That means you pay more to go a lesser distance. And if you listen to gas and oil traders they use therm and barrel. And often you don't know if the price is USD, EURO or Sterling. Jacob Rees-Mogg may love all that stuff, I prefer a simpler live with just 7 definitions. Length - meter (m) Time - second (s) Amount of substance - mole (mole) Electric current - ampere (A) Temperature - kelvin (K) Luminous intensity - candela (cd) Mass - kilogram (kg)
  18. KW, kwh, and other combinations. Grrrrrr
  19. You need to know the voltage that the lamp runs at i.e. 3V, or 12V.
  20. You have done the right thing, twice. Always worth five minutes checking Companies House. You can track directors as well, see if they have a history of insolvency.
  21. Just make sure your cheeks an are pointing into the wind. Will be just like primary school again.
  22. Can be replaced with wee wee.
  23. Dirt boy, that though never crossed my mind.
  24. It is because, as you have shown, a lot more inputs and outputs. I always reduce the ∆T by 3K as that is where my house seems to sit above OAT when left empty.
  25. Try culling into it with a sharp knife. Whoops, did I type culling, meant to say cutting. Culling it what need to happen to idiots.
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