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SteamyTea

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  1. Not sure how long ago Octopus made this offer, but a few minutes on Gridwatch would have shown the times that were most likely to be the 'saving session'. Should have just burned up a few kWh. Not exactly a surprise that national usage goes up around tea time is it.
  2. Because it is the right thing to do.
  3. Yes, but only if you can utilise it. @ProDave would flush any left over down the drain.
  4. About 90p. Bet you wished you had used more now.
  5. I thought it was an Irish company, have they totally pulled out of the country/EU?
  6. Four I think, but not absolutely sure. The idea of isolators is that you can work on a system safely i.e. change a fuse without the risk of a live wire giving you a shock.
  7. Been meaning to do mine for two decades. Hard choices have to be made, waste time drawing a house, or waste time at the beach. @irnbru There are a number of free CAD packages, as well as free illustrating/photo editing ones. A lot of people use Google SketchUp. You can get a few ideals of what it can do here: https://sketchup.engineeringtoolbox.com/
  8. May be worth reading up on Jet Grouting as this seems to be a modification of it. https://theconstructor.org/geotechnical/jet-grouting-procedure-advantages/14470/
  9. The isolators can be in the garage, as long as they are easily accessible. If I understand your wiring correctly, you will be dealing with the voltage from, in effect, 3 panels, does your inverter work efficiency at reduced voltage?
  10. Just had a quick look at Geo ear's website. Two things would concern me. Seems they are using an expanding polymer, probably a polyyrethane. The other is the use of the word 'leading' in their blurb. I worked for the leading supplier of saunas, steamrooms, spa baths and sunbeds. We joked that it meant we made mistakes and the customers paid for them.
  11. Well at least here it will dilute the sewage overflows and not worry the sea life as much as as dog and human waste.
  12. Porthmadog is a place in Wales. Better known as Porthmadoc. Used to do slate.
  13. Get the main problem sorted first. You don't want to charge batteries to then just export 90% of what you have generated (assuming your PV is on an unused for import phase).
  14. Can you limit the speed of another router, then plug that in-between the main router and the energy hungry, time thief of a nerdy stay at homes Xpox?
  15. Probably because it is quite energy intensive on the processing. No need for water softeners down here, must be all the salt in the sea doing it.
  16. You need two. If you want to know what they are like inside. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001d5dw Who would have thought an autopsy on the radio was brilliant.
  17. MCS has a system registration database. Don't think it is public though. Call up MCS and ask.
  18. You got goats as well. To keep foxes our, give the neighbours, in the next street, a gift if some rescued battery hens. Should do the trick.
  19. Better to have a decent office manager than a 'whizz kid'. PV is mature technology, basically installs itself. If you could connect up a 1970 stereo system, you can do PV. Tell him for the right money I will sort out his crap installers.
  20. 1.341 British hp if we must embrace BREXIT.
  21. Or Portuguese 'heating engineers' are as shit as ours. Not sure if an A/C unit, designed primarily for cooling is the right choice for heating. Would have to see the specifications. @Old McDonald What is the size of this shed, and roughly how thick is the insulation? We could do a rough heatloss calculation and then get a better idea of what is needed. Just to clarify, I really meant to suggest that the night storage heaters were charged with PV most of the time. There is no fundamental difference between a fan heater, a panel heater, a storage heater a heat pump solution. 1 kWh of delivered heat, at the required temperature, is the same as any other 1 kWh of heat delivered. Why we use standardised units.
  22. If the PV has really been set up like that, a claim against the installation company is in order.
  23. Shorter hours of daylight as well as the 'sunbeams' travelling though more out the turbid atmosphere. Solar power follows the product of 3 sine waves (or 3 cosine was depending on how you want to work it). In other words, it is not linear. What does PVGIS have to say about your setup?
  24. Next time you chat to him, ask him which project he was dealing with. The Rosenanowes Quarry project started in 1977 and achieved its aims sometime in the late 1980s, think the site was eventually closed down in the early 1990s because it was only a proof of concept, never intended to be a production site. This one is still going, but seems to have lead times similar to a new nuclear power plant. https://geothermalengineering.co.uk/united-downs/ I am not against geothermal (HDR), just think that a bit of sanity has to be brought into the mix. It is really, really, hard to do and so far not been achieved, in 45 years (so can't really be claimed to be new technology). Hot Wet Rock and other Enhanced Geothermal Systems is a different matter, this has been going on for decades.
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