SteamyTea

Read this, then drink a big drink.

Mice will thank you for that I have wondered if it is necessary to punch a large hole in each tray. Surely they must cause over ventilation if anything.

Down here (I am actually up country right now) they just run the sewage pipes directly into the sea. Only the dogs are allowed to leave their shit on the land.

Plus the standing charge cost that may be £200 a year now (just guessing as don't have gas and can't be bothered to look it up).

That is the bit I had forgotten how to calculate, I knew it was there, just not looked at this sort of problem for 3 decades. Thanks.

Just swap like for like, I got my cylinder from Trevor at Cylinders2go. Quick delivery to my end of the country. Think about adding secondary insulation around it while the old one is our, makes a big difference. I just stuffed the cupboard with Sheet Foam and mineral wool, and lagged the pipes more.

When we see boilers have an efficient of xx%, has anyone actually measured their usage. I often read on here that the oil burning brigade say it is hard to measure and the don't always trust the delivery quantities. Same with gas boilers. And wood burners are even worse, no one bothers to weigh the amount of timber they put on, but all claim the moisture is 20% or below.

About a quarter of my daily usage in the non heating season. We already have this system up and running, called E7/10. The driver was different when it started in the 1960s. Then it was because electricity was going to be too cheap to meter.

A few years ago, the company next to us had some external claddings fitted. I noticed that one of our cupboard doors was stuck. This was right under where the work was done. Transpired that it was nothing to do with the work, just that the company had rearranged thier office space above. This included some racks to put files on. They moved them pretty quickly to a proper external wall, problem sorted.

Large, very round, and incredibly full. Going to shoot up the chemist's now.

Why I asked.

Much of it is to do with my lifestyle. I work evenings, so the house gets shut up at about 4PM, then I get home between 9 and 10PM. Just realised, I leave the back, downstairs window (where the temperature logger is) open a bit at night, I am a smoker. Here is a quick chart of mean house temperatures and solar power. I would have to slice it a lot more to find out what is actually happening, but I like 23°C as a temperature (grew up in the tropics), so don't open the back, upstairs, windows till it goes over that. But basically I have less than 3.5° swing between the coldest and hottest, and darkest and sunniest times. Why all this nonsense about timber frame houses overheating is bollocks. I probably have a greater percentage of glazing to wall area than most, but as it is small house, overall not much. Quick chart.

Yes

Got this one, but not a correlation as I did not find it very useful. Mainly because I am on E7 and the load is fixed, and my house temperature tends to stay the same.

All grid, I am on E7, which is why the larger loads are before 7AM. You can see when I put a new timer on the DHW as I shifted it over an hour, so save on an hour's standing losses.

Have hidden my architect designed house behind some pampas grass. Not because I am a R4 GQT old swinger, just because it offends me.

Just because I like charts, here is the monthly breakdown.

Here is what has happened so far this year, the missing 2% is due to imports, which I cannot account for. Ignore my usage, which is 0.0000011% of grid capacity, and just read the green and red lines off from the secondary y-axis on the right.

As you say, not until we have true excess installed capacity. It is because of this that we are also developing a new nuclear fleet. Now whether that is the best thing to do, or as an alternative, just install a lot more RE and some large scale storage (which can be distributed) is a different debate. Some made up numbers. UK night usage: Between 25 GW and 40 GW, so over a 6 hour window, 150 GWh and 240 GWh. Now we know the price of both wind power and nuclear power, £40,000/GWh and £95,000/GWh respectively. We also know the capital costs £1.25bn/GW installed capacity and ~£8.3bn/GW installed capacity respectively. We also know the capacity factor, wind is around 40% and nuclear around 90%. Once planning is consented, we know that wind can be deployed in about 18 month, and nuclear about 12 years. Taking the most simple arithmetic model, how much wind capacity can we install for the same money as nuclear. 8.4 [£bn/GWn] / 1.25 [£bn/GWw] = 6.72 GW. Multiply that by the capacity factor and you get 2.7 GW. For comparison, taking capacity factor into account, you get 0.9 GW of nuclear for the same money. You would also be generating, with wind, approximately, after 18 months, 3.5 TWh/year. That will increase every 18 months, so: 3.5 TWh/year from Jan 2024 7 TWh/year from June 2025 10.5 TWh/year from Jan 2027 14 TWh/year from June 2029 17.5 TWh/year from Jan 2031 20 TWh/year from June 2033 23.5 TWh/year from Jan 2035 This is the point where the price of wind power equals nuclear power and nuclear is almost onstream. So if we stopped investing in wind here, from every year onwards we would generate another 23.5 TWh/year. Total wind generation to date would be 110 TWh/year. Nuclear 0 TWh/year. But we will give it a chance to catch up, by projecting into the future even more. So nuclear will be generating 7.8 TWh/year, wind 23.5 TWh/year. Really no need to project into the far future is there, nuclear is not going to catch up. Yes we do need some nuclear (or other type of base load generation) so that wind power can be used for balancing, but the problem is at the moment (2022), we need new generation. Luckily the people that put up the money are not investing in nuclear, or hydro, they are investing in wind (solar is a small fraction in the UK) and battery storage, because they know they get a return on their investment much quicker.

The purest Number One

Longevity the last I heard. They are generally cheaper to make, but not sure what the processes is when combined with silicon.

Lower down it looks like a walnut.

I groomed myself yesterday,

I find washing windows is futile, as soon as a hoolie comes in, my windows are covered in salt, and I am two miles from the sea. If it is a sunny day, I go outside and take full advantage of the light. When it is dark, I don't care what the windows are like.

Perfectly possible to prepare any food in that manner. Generally cheaper to buy semi prepared food though. To make an un processed vegan mean, first buy a field, then leave alone for 3 years, then plant your choice of fruit and veg, then wait till harvest time, then harvest and throw most away as it is diseased and maggot eaten. Then boil or roast. Then throw away and get a donner kebab.