SteamyTea

Most of the energy is used keeping goods cool, not the air. The air in a fridge is a few tens of grams, with a SHC of 1. Just a litre of water, mass 1kg and a SHC of 4.2 will swamp the 'noise' of door opening.

We had that last general election. Place went all Tory. They still think Margret Thatcher is the bees knees, even though it was coming on for 50 years ago she took over the Tory party.

Last week. There is Trevithick to add to the list. And Humphrey Davy. And, more up to date, Mick Fleetwood is from here. Redruth, just like Kristin Scott Thomas.

Auto correct, not that I know where Corneal is

Is it a large loop, how will it cope with just 4 or 500 W of demand?

Depends how you class Maybe we should class people by mass. Not sure the mass should be inverted or not. One very fat person could be the same as 3 normal people.

Corneal has lithium in abundance. No good Chinese restaurants though.

About 3 times my usage. Now I know I live alone, but I don't have a third of a fridge, or cooker, or even a third of a water tank. I also don't have a heat pump.

All I have heard for the last 7. Still not seen hell in a hand cart.

Well, my shoes, they come from Singapore My flashlight's from Taiwan My tablecloth's from Malaysia My belt buckle's from the Amazon You know, this shirt I wear comes from the Philippines And the car I drive is a Chevrolet It was put together down in Argentina By a guy making thirty cents a day Well, it's sundown on the union And what's made in the USA Sure was a good idea 'Til greed got in the way Well, this silk dress is from Hong Kong And the pearls are from Japan Well, the dog collar's from India And the flower pot's from Pakistan All the furniture it said 'Made in Brazil' Where a woman, she slaved for sure Bringing home thirty cents a day to a family of twelve You know, that's a lot of money to her Well, it's sundown on the union And what's made in the USA Sure was a good idea 'Til greed got in the way Well, you know lots of people are complaining that there is no work I say, "Why you say that for When nothing you got is US made?" They don't make nothing here no more You know, capitalism is above the law I say, "It don't count 'less it sells" When it costs too much to build it at home You just build it cheaper someplace else Well, it's sundown on the union And what's made in the USA Sure was a good idea 'Til greed got in the way Well, the job that you used to have They gave it to somebody down in El Salvador The unions are big business, friend And they're going out like a dinosaur But they used to grow food in Kansas Now they grow it on the moon and eat it raw I can see the day coming when even your home garden Is gonna be against the law Well, it's sundown on the union And what's made in the USA Sure was a good idea 'Til greed got in the way Democracy don't rule the world You better get that in your head This world is ruled by violence But I guess that's better left unsaid From Broadway to the Milky Way That's a lot of territory indeed And a man's gonna do what he has to do When he's got a hungry mouth to feed Well, it' sundown on the union And what's made in the USA Sure was a good idea 'Til greed got in the way

On today's Life Scientific there was some American saying the science is easy, it is people that are hard.

Can I come and break them in Sunday?

Was 10p/kWh in the early 1990s. A small EU made car was 7k then, about 15k now. A pint was 1.50, now 4. A basic desktop PC 1500, now about 350. My neighbours house was in Aylesbury, 38k now and over 250k. Bank rate about 8% now 2%. Very hard to compare prices we all have different spending patterns and priorities. Why would you pump it. Making on sight would be easier.

The Archers? The Curios Cases of Rutherford & Fry.

That has to be done as well. But for the next 6 months we have to support the retailers. Except we have legislation and international commitments. Still, at least I will be able to look at Grade 3 and 4 farmland without it being totally coveted in solar panels. Not sure if anyone has told Fizzy Lizzy that it won't be covered in food crops either. Just rock, gorse and muddy now the rain has started.

The 18 kg panel, plus wind loading. Does this mate have a spiderman suit?

Get a couple of spare modules as well.

Have you fitted a module. Easy enough to fit as you can brace against the rail. Once fitted the rail is covered.

We are the experts, @Onoff and I. Do you like bean and potatoes mash? I can donate a succulent cutting I steal from the sub tropical garden, and an echium that grew from bird poo.

Half the time they produce nothing, then half of the remains time they produce less that 100W, half again, between 100W, but below 200W. So while it is true to say you get less maximum power, you probably get a lot more energy oversizing. If you store that energy, you can design to draw more power via other methods.

That is the difference, Nod's wife built the shed/garage/workshop.

Can't you get pressure activated valves. https://www.norgren.com/uk/en/list/fluid-control-valves/pressure-operated-valves?refine=port-size-over-portsg1forwardslash4 I seem to remember they had them dotted all over the oil refineries I used to play on as a kid.

Listening to the news this morning, there was some German energy person on. He was saying that they (the Germans) need to find a German solution to the energy crisis. Will that be another Final Solution for them. While I was pondering all this, another bit came on about how, if we had done the suggestions mooted at the beginning of the 'crisis', they would have been wrong and inadequate. I agree with this. Then I thought more, and wondered if we do not bail out the energy retailers (as opposed to the producers), should we give discounts to individual users, similar to what we are currently doing. Then I thought even more. If you get RHI, FiTs or had a grant to fit RE kit, should you be getting any help. You have been claiming 'help' already, sometimes quite a lot. Then, after more thinking, I realised that is way to hard to manage it all, so went back to my original idea mentioned it on here somewhere some weeks ago, that we just need to support the energy retailers. Then a bit more thinking, to what extent do we need to support them. The long term, auction mean price of electricity has been around £50/MWh. So why not set the price cap at £75/MWh that retailers can pay, then the Treasury chips in the difference, which some days may be £100/MWH, other days nothing. The records are there, accounts and bookkeepers like doing that sort of stuff, and the end users (us) have manageable bills, all be it higher than they were. A secondary advantage is that it should encourage investment in RE. I would include nuclear in that, but they cannot buy a £1 sandwich from Poundland without it costing a million quid, and by the time they got the sandwich it would be a decade old and more mouldy that a British Rail one. Then I thought my 2 minute shower was over and I better get out, don't want to waste energy. No one can see your tears of pain as hot shower water goes down the plug hole.

Can you not just do s split at the incoming mans, then run the house of one part of it and the iMist on the other. Not as if a broken pipe is going to cause a real problem in a fire. Have yo read the news recently about power cuts and rationing?

I have often wondered how good pumping the heat back into the ground works as an intersessional store. What usually happens is that moving ground water, which has percolated from a large, local, catchment area, moves past the borehole pipes and is the real source of the energy. Having said that, you have to dump the energy from cooling somewhere, so may as well use the borehole pipes.