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  1. Red or White, alcohol % and vineyard make a difference.
  2. Palm oil usually, has been known to be called Orangutan tears.
  3. Just go to the local chippy, ask for haddock as it is usually cooked to order.
  4. No mention of polydimethylsiloxane, but I guess if it has not been tested, they cannot report on it. It is a shame that the chemist I knew at university has retired, she was brilliant, even explained, in less than a minute, why CO2 causes energy to be trapped when in mixed with other gases.
  5. Put an energy meter, with a temperature logger on it. Will give you really useful information.
  6. I know the curves, and how to make them (Level 3 Technical Drawing), did not realise how recently he was alive, born 9 years after my Grandmother and died 5 years before.
  7. Try not to place radiators under windows, a more central location is best.
  8. Welcome What sort of system is the ASHP connecting to, radiators or UFH?
  9. Would a silicone oil get around that problem, silicone is very inert.
  10. What I have. Seems to do most of what I need it to do, and can microwave and oven cook at the same time. Not sure how energy efficient it is, and never baked a cake in it, or made a soufflé, but works well.
  11. Right You can get the data here. A few codes to look up, but it is geospatial data so you can make a good estimate to what is generated, and as there are commissioning dates, you can work out the FiT/SEG rates. https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2022-05/Feed-in Tariff Installation Report May 2022 Part 1.xlsx Too late at night for me to look at it, seems this surprise bank holiday caught us out tonight, and our supplier who did not deliver until after opening time. Right a quick, look I cannot leave data alone. PV systems 4 kW and under (mean 3.96 kW), 268,800 between commissioned between 16/07/2009 and 20/03/2019. Those are MCS registered systems and do not include off grid systems. So about 806,400 kWp installed. 0.81 GWp.
  12. It is, but I still don't throw it out the window. Do you have some numbers to compare? I have no idea how many GWh are paid for at 4p/kWh, or how much is paid for mainstream tradional generation by the energy retailers. Traditionally it was around £50/MWh. Trading houses made a good markup on relatively small quantities of power, so maybe they are the people to ask about the best way to set this up.
  13. How much are you willing to pay to use the DNOs infrastructure? How much time are you willing to spend administering the flows to your neighbour/s? How much are you willing to pay to enforce non payment of bills? How would you feel if you set up all the above, then your neighbour/s decided to not use your power? Are you willing to pay your taxes on the income? £40/MWh is a pretty good price in my opinion considering you are doing it for next to nothing (read an export meter every now and again and submit readings). If you really want to sell power to customers, via the NG, then become a proper energy supplier and run it as a business. They seem easy enough to set up. Here is a list to show how easy it is: Energy Supplier Date Supplier Went Bust No. of Customers New Supplier Whoop Energy 18/02/2022 262 Yu Energy Xcel Power Ltd 18/02/2022 274 Yu Energy Together Energy (inc Bristol Energy) 18/01/2022 176,000 British Gas Zog Energy 01/12/2021 11,700 EDF Energy Orbit Energy 25/11/2021 65,000 Scottish Power Entice Energy 25/11/2021 5,400 Scottish Power Bulb Energy 22/11/2021 1,700,000 Special Administration Process Social Energy Supply 16/11/2021 5,500 British Gas Neon Reef 16/11/2021 30,000 British Gas CNG Energy 04/11/2021 41,000 (Business) Pozitive Energy Zebra Power 02/11/2021 14,800 British Gas Omni Energy Ltd 02/11/2021 6,000 Utilita Ampoweruk Ltd 02/11/2021 600 + 2000 (Business) Yu Energy MA Energy 02/11/2021 300 (Business) SmartestEnergy Bluegreen Energy 02/11/2021 5,900 British Gas GOTO Energy 18/10/2021 22,000 Shell Energy Daligas 14/10/2021 9,000 Shell Energy Pure Planet 13/10/2021 235,000 Shell Energy Colorado Energy 13/10/2021 15,000 Shell Energy Igloo Energy 29/09/2021 179,000 E.ON Symbio Energy 29/09/2021 48,000 E.ON ENSTROGA 29/09/2021 6,000 E.ON Avro Energy 22/09/2021 580,000 Octopus Energy Green 22/09/2021 255,000 Shell Energy Utility Point 14/09/2021 220,000 EDF Energy People's Energy 14/09/2021 350,000 British Gas PFP Energy 07/09/2021 80,000 British Gas Money Plus Energy Ltd 07/09/2021 9,000 British Gas Hub Energy 09/08/2021 6,000 E.ON Green Network Energy 27/01/2021 360,000 EDF Energy Simplicity Energy 27/01/2021 50,000 British Gas Yorkshire Energy 02/12/2020 74,000 Scottish Power Tonik Energy 06/10/2020 130,000 Scottish Power Go Effortless Energy 03/09/2020 2,500 Octopus Energy GnERGY 18/03/2020 9,000 Bulb Energy Breeze Energy 18/12/2019 18,000 British Gas Toto Energy 18/12/2019 134,000 EDF Energy Uttily Energy 15/10/2019 280 (Business) Total Gas and Power Eversmart Energy 06/09/2019 29,000 Utilita Solarplicity 13/08/2019 7,500 SSE Cardiff Energy Supply 09/08/2019 800 SSE Brilliant Energy 11/03/2019 17,000 SSE Our Power 25/01/2019 31,000 Utilita Economy Energy 08/01/2019 235,000 Ovo Energy One Select 10/12/2018 36,000 Together Energy Spark Energy 10/12/2018 290,000 Ovo Energy Extra Energy 21/11/2018 108,000 Scottish Power Usio Energy 15/10/2018 7,000 First Utility Gen4U 13/09/2018 500 Octopus Energy Iresa 13/09/2018 90,000 Octopus Energy National Gas and Power Limited 25/07/2018 22,000 Hudson Energy Future Energy 13/09/2018 170,000 Green Star Energy
  14. (expletive deleted)ing autocorrect evens (expletive deleted)s it up when manually changing words. Maillard, 140 to 165°C. Your lucky to have birds, most have died down here, as much as I dislike seagulls, not having them feels odd, shall soon get used to it though.
  15. I know nothing about them, are they just a small, hot oven? How do they cope with the Mallard reaction? Do they just become extra kitchen clutter.
  16. Environment How to make leaf mould to nourish your garden Autumn leaves provide a free and easy way to make leaf mould, a useful growing medium and soil improver, says Clare Wilson 14 September 2022 By Clare Wilson Deborah Vernon/Alamy WITH the dry summer the UK has had, some trees are already shedding their leaves. To me, that means one thing: leaf mould. This unappealingly named substance, made by collecting autumn leaves and letting them rot for a year or two, can be used as a growing medium and soil improver and is easier to make than garden compost. Compost heaps are a great way to get rid of garden and kitchen waste, but they take work to build up and feed with the right mix of materials, and turning them over can be heavy going. Dry autumn leaves, though, can be collected in just a couple of hours. As leaves turn brown in autumn, the tree is reabsorbing many of their nutrients. By the time they fall, they have a much higher carbon content relative to nitrogen than fresh leaves do. This means that autumn leaves can’t be broken down by the bacteria that feast on green garden waste, and are instead broken down by fungi. Dry autumn leaves therefore take longer to rot than fresh leaves, which is why it isn’t a good idea to add them to compost bins in large quantities. But, once collected, you can more or less leave them to it. If you have the space, you can build a small cage for storing the leaves, using chicken wire for the walls and a post at each corner. An easier option is to store them in black plastic bin bags. Leaves from most deciduous trees are fine, but bigger and thicker ones, such as those from horse chestnuts, take longer to decompose. One solution is to shred them before bagging. If the leaves are lying on your lawn, run your lawnmower over them and tip the grass box straight into the bin bags. It doesn’t matter if some grass clippings are mixed in. I have previously “harvested” leaves from the street, where they were conveniently swept into piles. But don’t take them from busy roads in case they harbour pollutants. Nor should you take leaves from forests – the woodland soil needs them more than you. Fill the bags about three-quarters full and dampen the leaves with water if they are dry. Tie the top, then stab with a garden fork so air can get in. You can help the decomposition by shaking the bags a couple of times per year. It takes a good two years for the contents to rot down into leaf mould, which is a dark-brown, crumbly and light-textured substance. Once sieved, it is good for sowing seeds in, unlike home-made garden compost, which would be too dense. For potting on young plants, mix one part leaf mould with one part garden compost and one part horticultural sand. If you can’t wait so long, after one year you can use the partly rotted leaves as a general soil improver or an organic mulch, a substance used to cover the soil around the base of plants to reduce moisture loss and keep down weeds. What you need Black plastic bin bags A garden fork Storage space Autumn leaves Clare Wilson is a reporter at New Scientist and writes about everything life-science related. Her favourite place is her allotment @ClareWilsonMed These articles are posted each week at newscientist.com/maker
  17. Must be because the growing season is over. No seed spreading till spring.
  18. No need for it for any type of cylinder, it is a paranoid nonsense. The problem is with unserviced, badly designed and maintained, air conditioning units, not peoples domestic hot water. If it was, we would be reading about thousands of cases every week. The WHO estimates 10 to 15 cases per million of population for Europe, Australia and the USA. About half what road fatalities are in the UK, and a ninth of the USA fatalities. And they are fatalities on the roads, Legionella does not kill everyone that gets it. Or put it this way, have any of us met someone that has had it?
  19. Did the driver have a semi when he spilt his load, alone.
  20. Quite normal, as it that is how they are made. You need ventilation in a 'cold roof' or condensation becomes a problem. You don't seem to have hardly any insulation up there, when was the place built? You can easily increase the amount of insulation, just don't block up the ventilation and make sure any wiring is safe to be covered or relocated.
  21. Plenty of room for one of these.
  22. I did my driving tests in High Wycombe. Lots of hill starts there. I could change a clutch in an MGB in about an hour and a half.
  23. Did I leave those gloves in the box of bits I dropped off, the one with the long, temperature controlled, glass dildo.
  24. Repair or replace?
  25. Noted. If you can fit a tank above a bath, if it does leak, at least there is something watertight below it to catch the water.
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