SteamyTea

Not from where I was sitting. Normal in the summer when the Emmets are down and forget that the rules of the road are the same this side of the Tamar as they are in the rest of the country, not what we want during our 5 months off from them.

Yes. These twats yesterday did it for me, all I wanted was a coffee from a national chain. https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/scene-a30-crash-cornwall-driver-8033042

And if the new legislation goes though, you will be a criminal, for just thinking about it, maybe. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/14/new-anti-protest-bill-raises-profound-concern-human-rights-groups-say

I don't know that much about it, but I think there is a reduction if they invest in low carbon technologies (probably were going to do that anyway) and I think they may be taxing low carbon generation at the same windfall rate (35%). So snookered both ways. Just convinces me more that for every rule we have that makes something compulsory, we have another rule that makes it illegal.

So do I.

Exactly. Power (W, watt) is energy (J, joule) divided by time (s, second) Energy is power (W, watt) multiplied by time (s, second) There are 3,600 seconds in an hour

kWh, never kw/h J.s-1s-1 is a nonsense unit, and that is what you get when you divide power by time.

Please report back on how it goes. I would quite like to run one ring on my induction hob and the grill on my oven at 15pkWh (plus conversation inefficiencies) rather than the over 56p/kWh (or whatever it is now) on the day rate. Be a bit of fun to do as well. Should be possible with my energy profile. 11, 12 and 12 are the lunch time hours.

My apprenticeship was at a company that made destructive testing machines. One way to test a circuit would be to power it up and pop it in an oven at 100°C, then time how long it lasts, then pop another one in at 150°C and time that, finally at 180°C and time. Plot results and you can hind cast to normal temperatures.

All companies need someone good at woodwork. Was there not some research done where they asked stock brokers and black taxi drivers about there views on the economy, the taxi drivers were better, but then so where monkeys choosing numbered bananas.

Yes, and they will, but may well claim it was stolen. My car insurance is up for renewal, loads of emails, texts and unsolicited calls, they will all stop next month. How many of us (actually mean you lot) use encrypted email, especially at work?

If you are going to self install (rather than an MCS installation) PV and batteries on your house, then you could buy some of the kit early and use it to wire the the van up. Or just a couple of Honda generators and a leisure battery/small inverter for lighting/fridge/radio. How are you going to do space heating and DHW?

Just wise.

They wanted my phone number to sign up, so it can (expletive deleted) off. I was going to ask it to write a story about @pocster and his dungeon. Looks like I will have to do it myself, oneday.

Still someone's child.

Barbados is nice this time of year.

Seemed fine to me, did I miss something.

I don't have a fireplace, or a TV. I did sneak a glance at the Radio Times at the supermarket, had the same cover it did in the 1960's, except in colour. There was an old story by Rob Newman about putting on his headphones, borrowing a magazine from @pocster, and pleasuring himself in his bed room. He opened his eyes and his Mother had placed a cup of tea beside him.

Sunbeds

A UV radiation source won't.

But quiet filth, no one really likes a screamer. I think Art Garfunkel sang a Paul Simon song about it. Duncan

Not really. Radiation happens at all frequencies, or wavelengths, if you prefer. Some frequencies are absorbed better by some elements (bond strength, orbital paths/angles/distances). Marketing loves it when people do not understand physics and think that a seemingly simple, and rational explanation, explains it all. The biggest problem with Infrared heating is it cannot run at a high temperature, so needs a lot of area. This causes the ratio between the emitter to the receiver to be large. It makes no difference to the amount of energy needed to heat an object, but the power delivery, the W/m² is low. Just heating the air in the building is probably best. That way, we breath in warm air.

Can you add a secondary seal/jamb on the door frame to get a better/secondary/tertiary seal. It only needs to be as wide as the seal. One way of damping sound/vibration, is to add random masses, in random places, they do not have to be ridiculous heavy. Can you build a fence in the front? A bit of experimenting and you may be able to make one that dampens a fair amount of the noise. If you have a neighbour with a loud car (usually a young male), some of this up the exhaust one night may help. Only £5.99 from Toolstation.

I suppose it comes down to interpretations of what they mean my zero energy. All the talk is about Net Zero, which I think is a reasonable aim at the moment. In the future it may not be. Main thing is that people are seriously working on it, rather than just talking about it. I don't think that generation has to be on site to qualify, it just has to be dedicated generation. I would like to see a row of old terraces that are converted to Net Zero, without combustion technology, that would be a real challenge.

Sunshine here