SteamyTea

Wish I was. I have so much advice for 40 year olds. Seems strange that when I was 40 I was lecturing undergraduates, no idea what has happened to them, except 1. But most will be getting close to 40 now.

1 kWh. How are you going to insulate at those temperatures? How are you going to get the energy back out?

Yes, but I now know that a stuffed toy can flick a switch with cat like reactions.

So basically there are two circuits, one increases the mains frequency (50Hz) to the resonant frequency (400Hz maybe). This produces a fixed power output. The other circuit switched that resonance circuit on and off. This then pulses the pan with energy. More time off than on, the lower the temperature, more time on than off, the higher the temperature. Yes?

I have a 1987 TF place, no problems. Just get a proper survey done.

Looks like English but can't make sense of it. Does it basically just turn it on and off to limit the power, or is the power limited by reducing the current input to thee induction coil?

Or becomes new soil. There is a perpetual myth that any fallen timber rots down to CO2. Probably why the CO2 levels in the Amazon rain forest are chokingly high. Good job that all the ocean flora is collected up and stored safely before burning, would have to swim in carbonic acid otherwise.

Does that stop the pollution and habitat destruction? If I grow my own tobacco, will it be acceptable to smoke it in a pub?

Same as we did in the UK 50 years ago, wait till the power comes back on. In Paris, if something is broken, it is usual to riot. Get a gun. Just don't breath in the cordite fumes. The WHO has declared that there is no safe limit for particulates. https://www.who.int/teams/environment-climate-change-and-health/air-quality-and-health/health-impacts/types-of-pollutants This does not mean that we are all not breathing them in all the time, but adding to them is not a good idea.

Most of my jokes are recycled.

My induction hob pulses, like the old resistance hobs. I think they all work like this.

Basically because there is a cost in producing a lower energy fridge, it may not seem much to us to put in a bit more insulation and change the compressor type to work with a different pressure refrigerant gas, but to the companies that have to to develop, engineer, produce, market, distribute and warrantee them, that cost is millions. To raise that investment, they have to have something to sell, and that is the older, proven designs. That is how mature businesses work.

Sounds very good to me. When some wind farms were build in Australia, many residents complained about the noise. When the developers showed Thier operational data, a lot of the time the turbines were shut down. Transpired that farms in that area were virtually worthless and the owners were trying to get compensation. So log noise data as well as operational data, then see if it correlates with the times the neighbours say it disturbs them. You could actually tell them this is what you are doing, then they will know to take you seriously.

Yes, but you would have to glue a spare phone to the meter. My monitor just needs a small washer glued over the LED, and it logs a timestamp every time the light pulses.

Fridge/freezer energy performance was a rolling scale, so what was lowest 4 years ago drops of the scale and is replaced by what was middling, the best rating got even better. So todays Es and Fs are better than 4 years ago B and Cs.

You could count the LED pulsing and use that data.

It does rely on data collection, which everyone should be doing anyway. It does amaze me that people will spend £100+ on smart light builds, but are unwilling to spend half that on energy monitoring.

I still have a bit of work to do on air leakiness, but as I currently do not have MVHR, I have to live with a bit of leakage. Maybe dMVHR is the answer, but would need 4 of them, so maybe not, or two of them and a bit of ducting. May try and add another 100 mm of loft insulation, but because it is a very small house (50m2 TFA) loft space is useful. There is some air leakage between the loft and the main stud wall that needs looking at, but that means pulling up the boarding, so a spring job. I would like to have a warmer house, I grew up in the tropics, but I can live with 20°C ish. 23°C is my ideal. Someone on here was going to buy an internal wall mounted ASHP that has the inlet and extract though the wall. Keep meaning to find the thread again and see if they got one, and how it is working. One of those in the living room would heat the whole house I think. My mean power, for everything, is 360W, so 7W/m2.year, which I think is really small. 3 kWp of PV on my SW facing roof, and a couple of kWh of battery storage would make a very big dent in my usage, especially if I diverted the rest to the DHW. 6 kWp would probably mean I could go off grid, but would have to steal my neighbour's roofs. As I am 200m above sea level, and one of the highest building around, I would only be happy with roof integrated, not because of the structure, more to do with noise. The main problem is when usage is low, any news purchase does not make much sense once the basics are covered. A more economical car would be my best current saving, but I currently need something that can do 300+ miles at zero notice, so that can wait.

I have found that weekly predictions are pretty accurate, daily a lot less so, but can be useful if standard error is taken into account.

Let's hear them. 'One Point' weather prediction would be a useful tool, and with today's cheap hardware, should be easy to implement.

I keep my vents well hidden this time of year.

For the few quid that a buffer costs, fitting the correctly sized on saves hassle. You may end up fitting on anyway. Cold lofts are not the best place to fit hot stuff, the parasitic thermal losses can be quite high. Better to have those losses within the heated envelope, during the heating season they become useful.

You sure. Receipt is in the box if you want a refund.

Yes, that is why I am not sure if it is good or not. May go and read my neighbours meters later, then see what they are in 12 months.