SteamyTea

CurrentCost used to make a logger for most gas meters as well as electric meters. A million or so of these meters were given out free 15 years ago, most were never used. It is a shame that there is not an easy way to locally log and store Smart meter readings. Half hourly data is generally as good as you need, but knowing maximum power can be very useful. There is always this though.

Here is the Didcot Head Office Office. They do have a unit at Southmead Industrial Park.

There is a books that may help. Or movies, if food enters into it.

I use an old CurrentCost energy monitor, connected to a Raspberry Pi, this creates a time stamped daily file every time I use a Wh, or an average over 6 seconds, for both temperature and energy usage. I think use a local WeatherUnderground weather station for external condition, though have just added a basic external temperature logger (RPi and DS18B20) that is also a secure webserver for a bit of fun (found out I am colder than the local weather station, but I am higher up). I also collect sea surface temperature and National Grid data. All that is mashed into a spreadsheet and I then average it out hourly with some minimums and maximums. That hourly data is searchable by date ranges. I know that on the Friday the 6th January, between Midnight and 1 AM, I used 0.01 kWh, Max Power was 0.1 kWh, 73% of that hour I used no power at all, the room temperature was 19.1°C, my back garden was 9.4°C, but the local weather station was 11.1°C and the sea surface temperature was 11.3°C. I used 0.00000003% of the energy generated by the National Grid, which at that time was 82% low emissions and 14% high emissions. I have no (expletive deleted)ing life, or friends.

Encyclopaedias posses knowledge. Possess and Knowledge need to be defined in the right context. Like arseholes, everyone has an opinion on knowledge, some are right. I think they can already. All Barristers do, and many other professionals.

Thinking is overrated. If I said/typed what I was thinking, I would be in prison, frequently.

Making sure it cannot get too hot. Keeping the temperature safely below the combustion temperature of all the nearby materials.

How are you going to deal with thermal safety. Really needs special testing and hard to make intrinsically safe.

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.