SteamyTea

Will they do me a hole for a couple of hundred quid. Only radioactive granite to get though.

Don't know, but owned by National Trust now, the biggest thieving bastards around, who fail to mention, after you have paid £6.50 to park, walked over to it, that you cannot go into even the harbour but now without paying extra and pre booking.

Just been chatting to someone that told me about a Scotch Lass that had invented a sleeping bag/backpack that incorporated solar panels to warm the sleeping bag before use. Apparently it is aimed at homeless people. Pointed out that homeless people tend to sit in the shadows most of the day, a few fraction of a metre square will not produce much energy anyway, and that a soggy sleeping bag takes a lot more energy to warm up. I suggest a cheap (less that 20 quid) airbed would keep them warmer at night.

But it does not use 'far' resistance electric. By law, workplaces need to be at the palindromic temperature 61°F or 16°C in Roman Catholic. Try running at so it is not visible. Most will miss the target as well i.e. heat the whole wall or ceiling (10s if m²) so the radiative levels are a little above ambient levels, to warm up less that a m² of clothed person. Also worth remembering that radiation levels fall off rapidly with distance (inverse square law). That never gets mentioned in the sales brochure, or the emitter temperature.

Making him smile will help.

I work in one, one of the few left. Yes, but shit views. It has changed a lot in the last 35 years. Not a place I go to much since I stopped being at the University.

Is that because the owners did not register them, so probably putting waste into the public sewer without paying.

That is what happens in Falmouth, all those up country yatch owners. Wales must have a similar water problem to us, all your major towns are on the coast, built on rock, seasonal tourists (god knows why), lots of rain. All the tings that make a water system expensive.

If you still use the sewage system, you still have to pay. Have I mentioned that we still have the most expensive water (well the waste really) in the country. If I was building a new house, I would go for a borehole and sewage treatment plant. I estimated that it was about 15 years payback, 15 years ago. Sea is clear today. Not bad considering the population has doubled in the last week.

You can get a map of borehole locations and depths from the British Geological Society. Many are very shallow and are usually on farms.

Well not quite. The electromagnetic spectrum can be used as a gauge for temperature. Above I mentioned the photon energy, photons, or light particles, are really what moves energy about (remember that heat is the old word for energy). Different atoms and molecules rotate and vibrate in proportion to different frequencies, which once a threshold is reached, causes an electron to totally absorb a photon. After a very short time, that electron will drop down to the previous state, releasing a lower energy photon, Which will find another electron to 'charge' and start the cycle again, but at a lower energy level. That process happen, at the sub atomic level, to all materials and is how energy is transferred. We are taught at school that there are 3 types of thermal energy transferred, convection, conductance and radiative. They are all radiative really. There is a method of energy transferred that is different (in this context) and that is bulk mass movement i.e. pumping something hot to cold, or the reverse. This does not really transfer energy though, just places it in a more convent place for later use. There is lots of nonsense spoken about energy transfer, much of it goes back to simple school science (convection is really about density difference), but it really just comes down to electrons being excited by photons, causing the material to vibrate and rotate, which just a state change (potential to kinetic) and back again (kinetic to potential). It just happens really fast, at a tiny scale and in vast numbers.

Others trying to do the same.

To those that understand it and have a choice/influence on when power is used. Would not help my Mother's Care Home, they would be crippled more than the inmates.

Because I've already done it for him. 25% off their bill seems pretty cheap for software training. As my mate from the Midland's would say' "that will learn ya"

Be a bugger for me as I am on a ToU tariff (E7) with around 85% of my usage during the night.

I think it is in France that domestic electrical load is limited to quite a low level. Maybe @Mike or @Garald can tell us more. France has a lot of nuclear, so while low CO2, it is not the fastest responding generation source. They are well connected to other countries though, which helps with bulk transmission when needed.

My Combination Oven Width /m 0.30 Depth /m 0.29 Height /m 0.20 Volume /m3 0.02 Area /m2 0.46 Power.m-3 /kWp.m-3 Power.m-2 /kWp.m-2 Microwave Power /kWp 1.45 83 3.1 Oven Power /kWp 1.7 98 3.7 Grill Power /kWp 1 57 2.2

The reason these are sold by snake oil salespeople is because they are very cheap to get manufactured, easy to install, run off an ordinary power outlet, and when on, can give the impression they are effective, compared to no heating. As @JohnMo shows, they cost a (expletive deleted)ing fortune to run. If they were as good as claimed, then we would have had them for years, not as if electricity is a new thing, or infrared, near or far (700nm to 1mm ish) has just been discovered. The photon energy of infrared is generally accepted to be between 1.7 eV and 1.24 meV. Visible light, i.e. what we see with our eyes, is between 3.3 eV and 1.7 eV. As the wavelength gets longer, the intrinsic energy gets less. This is why even small microwave ovens (~23lt) are 900W. Will have to measure the inside of my new oven to see what the kW/m² works out at.

Now you are being cruel to Austin 1100s

Your new to this site so I feel no need to defend my pedigree, and don't ever put me in the McCloud camp, I have had my run ins with him on an associated matter.

Ropes, cleats and whips?

Don't think I will bother.

As opposed to what, unnatural waves? Do you have direct comparisons about the energy savings compared to traditional heating systems? Would be normal data to have for a commercial organisation.

Start a topic on it, one of my biggest bills is for water.

And forget that the company fuse already limits what they can have. Always was amazed when installing PV systems how many people thought that 3 or 4 kWp of PV gave them independence from the electricity company. I never told them about auto disconnect.