SteamyTea

Or your head/budget will compromise on.

I don't comment on people house designs (well I did once). But I get the same endorphin release from sitting down with a coffee, a good book and a Marlboro. I also get the same health benefits as cold water swimming, from a hot bath. Just saying

Not yet, but it is early days on the RE journey. Here is a breakdown of the 2752 major installed capacities. There is a total capacity of 97,155 MW on the grid. That is almost 100 GW of capacity. Source Capacity /MW Capacity Percentage /% Gas 29916 31 Wind 23202 24 Coal 12296 13 Nuclear 8918 9 Solar 8675 9 Hydro 6365 7 Cogeneration 3006 3 Waste 1886 2 Biomass 1584 2 Storage 897 1 Oil 372 0 Wave and Tidal 38 0 Not that far to go really, especially when you see that there is less than a GW of storage.

Highest in South Wales usually. Get purple/yellow sunset when there is a NE wind blowing the Welsh air down here.

Just be listening to yesterdays Any Questions. Lionel Shriver says that the housing problem is to do with immigration. About 40 and a half minutes in. Should keep the people of Sarratt in Hertfordshire feeling safe. DWIBNH

Well yes, and no. It is local councils who decide the future needs, and we vote (or usually don't vote) them in, so that is the choice of the people. Price is a difficult one, regardless of supply levels, developer profitability, or need, if something is being sold out and someone cant buy it, then it is too cheap. The problem is really distribution of sales, not the actual product/service on sale. Or ignorant purchasers. If people were really struggling to find anywhere to live, they would go to the selling agents and point this out every Saturday morning. The selling agents, who seem to have no problem selling homes, will not see a problem otherwise.

A few people on here claim, and back it up with 'evidence' that low CO2 electrical generation cannot work. I just had a quick look on the Templar Gridwatch site (this is the proper gridwatch site). Gas is supplying about 9% of out power. Now I know it is a Saturday, but at 31 GW of power being delivered, it is not particularly low, but it is a fantastically low amount. So the next time someone says tat RE does not deliver, remember this. And, if they want to get cute and point out that the capacity factor of RE is dreadful, tell them to look at this site: https://electricityproduction.uk/plant/ It shows the utilisation of different generation installations. Pembroke is currently at 8.7% utilisation. Nearby Wear Point wind far is at 42.9%. For some reason the solar reporting is not working today, probably got one of @Radian's RPis attached to it.

It could be argued than main stream developers don't design what the public want at all. But, if all new houses get sold, then they are what people want, and too cheap.

A decision I made when I was about 12, been one of my good ones.

I have 6 in my tiny 2 bed terrace.

I have cured the legacy support after death. Stay single. You all know it makes sense. Shall I get my coat again.

You need to fit a mass flow sensor on the pipework. This is generally the bit that is missing. Temperature sensing is cheap and easy, £200 of DS18B20s strategically placed all over the place will give you loads of useful data. You can add extra 1wire GPIOs to a Raspberry Pi Zero W to save overloading one pin and build in redundancy that way, modify the /boot/config.txt file. dtoverlay=w1-gpio,gpiopin=x Where x is the extra GPIO pins. You can do similar with i2c.

Borrow @pocster's tape measure, you may find that the hole and the glazing are different.

Could shorten the life of your fuses.

Only if not too old, and female. I shall get my coat

Disregarding my flippant remarks about additive CoP. Space heating and DHW are different things. They operate at different temperatures and at different times if the day. You will almost certainly be adding forced ventilation if some sort. I have never looked at the numbers as they are hard to come by, but I often think that even with MVHR at a more realistic recover rate if 80% over the year, the other 20% may be enough to heat most of the DHW. What we need is output energy sensors on all heating heating systems, then the data would be easy to analyse.

It is the Chinese, or Russians. Or MI5/6, NSA. Or could be that they cost a tenner.

Probably more than 35p/kWh Was chatting to my MCS contact last night, he has just put in a 5 kWh battery system at his own place, cost him £5k. He only did it as he wanted to know more about them.

@Adam2 Just a thought, you don't have underfloor heating in the gym do you?

Shhh, keep that quiet or the trolls be be along telling you how wrong you are. You going to start heating your water with an EAHP. May be worth looking into as you can heat the house with A2A, at CoP 4, then heat the water with EX at CoP 3. If you remember the old story about the sound cancellation machine by Arthur C Clarke in Tales of the White Hart, you will know what happens.

Especial when close to 50° North. Thankfully it is usually cloudy down here.

If you can find latex sheet in the colour you like, you could glue that onto black mats.

That can't be right. Copper HW cylinders are routinely encased in sprayed-on PUR foam. Silicone sealant is slightly acidic, perhaps your plumber was thinking of that? He could have been thinking about copper pipes going though granite, that corrodes pipes pretty fast. If you got a bit of plastic conduit (LSF) and slit it lengthwise, you could fit it over pipes and cables, maybe even wrap it in self amalgamating tape. Then get happy spirting what you like into the hole.

I just did a search X rubber gym mats where X is the colour. (expletive deleted)ing loads.

Not from large suppliers that offer reliability and flexibility, but small domestic suppliers are probable a pain to them. As well as that, domestic suppliers are often trying thier hardest to not export. The idea of SEG, FiTs and previous schemes (ask @DamonHD what he has) was to help start an industry, not reward purchasers. The UK is currently trying some very complicated and difficult schemes (just look at what Octopus are doing) to understand. This is mainly because we are trying to shoehorn a distributed generation system onto a centralised generation system, and the easy way to do that is to cut usage, not increase generation.