SteamyTea

For how long can we look at your hole. kWh you (expletive deleted).

Been using it for years, well actually use the main site where the proper data is. So to save myself time, and as I am not your secretary, if you search on here you will see a fair few charts I have done that analyses the data. This is why I know what I am talking about, I have been doing this kind of research for nearly two decades. Now if you want to learn about what you are doing, listen to this weeks Monkey Cage. No need for me to say more.

Have you been following COP15

Shall we let the striking NHS not pay the insurance cover and let anyone be a staff member. I think the real problem is that when these bodies are set up, usually with the best intention, the wrong people are asked how it should be done.

There is quite a lot going on at the moment, mainly tidal flow as it is cheaper. Tidal lagoon is probably the next best, but still a huge investment, and if you thought the environmental legislation was hard on self builders, just imaging what blocking the sea is going to do. Quite simply, today, we have two very viable, and cheap to deploy technologies that are well understood. We just need to get on with installing them. As I was walking back from Mousehole towards Penance, I could see the small wind turbine at the college site. About a half a mile to the left if it is a radio/microwave mast. Twice the height, higher up, and much more visible. For a relatively small cost, the college turbine (think it is 100 kW) could be changed to a 1 MW one, it would still not be as prominent as the microwave tower. Planning will never let it happen.

Can you show me the times when there was no RE generation at all. Then it is just a matter of scaling. You need to back up assertions with evidence, not half backed opinion.

What happened last winter when you had a similar problem, did you change some pipework about? Has a sensor fallen off somewhere, are all connections good? Mild weather coming in on the weekend.

You really don't understand how the energy market works do you.

The sensible thing to do is designated parking. When I lived in an old terraced street, neighbours used to complain about parking. The most vocal had 5 vehicles, 2 were vans. Houses were 4 metres wide.

I think it is a pretty good idea really. Not the kind of thing that would be taken up voluntarily. So like better insulation and condensing boilers, legislation is needed or it will not happen.

There is quite a difference this year from the long term averages.

What is to stop people connecting a secondary charging point that does not have the controls/spyware fitted? Something like this? https://www.amazon.co.uk/QUBEV-CHARGING-UNIT-TYPE-SOCKET/dp/B07WV579VB

Worth a listen https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct3j7x

Isn't that what Heating Degree Days do? Allows you to compare on a common basis i.e. 12 or 15⁰C.

Contract for Difference is how it is done these days. Basically fixed price, fixed delivery, and heavy fines for non delivery. Offshore wind is now about £33/MWh. Third of the price of new nuclear. Cheaper tan gas generation, even before Putin's shenanigans. Been going a few years, since 2015 I think, but there are still legacy systems (think the old FiTs as a comparison). No government is going to allow a large percentage of the population to be disconnected because of domestic energy prices, they will want to keep it at about the historical norm of 5% of household income. Now I think household income is about £38,000, so about £2000 a year spent on energy. Probably not that far off that with these prices. You have to remember that the price was artificially driven down by a few (about 30) companies that had dreadful business plans. We are now paying the price, in part, for this. I think Bulb, just one supplier, is running up a few £bn in government debt, it could not even be given away. Octopus has recently taken over the customer list , but I suspect it will be a separate company as the deal is that, after a few year, if any money is made from Bulb customers, Octopus will give the treasury a few shillings. Some people greed, to save a few pence, has cost us all about £160 this year so far.

Shit, you have posted up my secret data source, that is available to everyone that has an opinion that needs challenging.

'Many' is not good enough. Really has to be all. I often think that technology is often self serving. Just because something can be done, it does not mean that it has to be done. Good engineering standards are all that is really needed, and those are based on basic physical properties. It is those basic properties that often get lost, and often misunderstood.

It is a risk benefit analysis really. Just the price of risk is often not high enough to discourage, and the benefit is usually overstated.

Was a general point about the energy market. Imagine trying to buy transport fuel by the 'enough to get me to London'.

Or just download the local authority energy data, local weather, and play. Friend of mine actually did this at university. Was a good correlation between age of buildings and energy usage. A very impressive step when building regs changed and cathode ray tube TVs went off the market.

Yes it is. But nothing to stop tested materials being fitted. Having been involved in a material failure that caused 2 deaths, I can tell you that it is a harrowing experience dealing with the Coroner, police, insurance companies, suppliers, customers and having to face the victims families. And it was an incident that happened before I joined the company, but as the senior member of staff, I took the abuse (one director left when the writ turned up, the other remaining one bankrupted the company not long after, but before the fine was paid). Do the right thing.

We have the smallest area housing in Europe. It is quite hard to disagregate the true numbers unless the experiment was set up with the express purpose of finding something out. I would like to play with their data and see what comes out. I did hear a good term about data collection yesterday. 'Like trying to count the number of vegans in a town but asking customers in the burger bar'

Yes, we used to buy timber to make the saunas like that, but at least it was in planks. Though thinking about it, it may have been the size of the woodpile before machining, then the lads chopped it up wrong and burnt the evidence. I think energy should be sold by the megajoule, no arguement about how much energy is in it then. Barmy that we buy it by the volume, mass, or archaic units, and even mixed units, that have their origins lost in history and folklore.

How would you feel if an unqualified tradesperson came and fitted an untested product into your home?

Our fault for bombing the shit out of it years ago. Heroes of Telemark