SteamyTea

That is something I do after my 4th mug of morning.

Really not the way to look at it. It is not really just the insulation's k-value that is important, it is the whole design philosophy.

Correct, but the Chancellor (though parliament) sets the overall inflation rate that the BoE has to report when they do not achieve it. Income tax/NI and VAT policies also have an affect in inflation. But my response was about economists.

Think it is Board Masters this weekend. And I was at a small town carnival earlier, that was busy, and packed in. The band actually asked people to get closer.

It is not their job to deal with it. We have an elected government, who chooses a Chancellor, to do that job. Economists basically describe what is happening, and give viewpoints on possible courses of action, based on history and ideology.

Pre FiT days, the PV industry was asking for Net Metering. But in the best Labour Government fashion, we got a highly controlled and stupidly priced system. I think the real problem is that the DNOs modeling assumed much lower domestic uptake (systems were £20k for 4 kWp back then) and did not ask for better control/finance of the local grid.

Depends where the growth is reduced, if it takes away the froth in the economy, not so bad. We have had historically low unemployment rates for a decade or more now. No large nationalised companies to close down.

Deaths from it are a lot lower now. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

Usually buying and selling bonds/gilts, not the same as physically/electronically printing money. On day the bonds will mature, then we will see who has their pants down when the tide goes out. Hopefully we will have swapped out our bad ones for better ones.

Been embedded for 90 years at least. Savers are looking forward to higher interest rates. There are, last time I looked at the ONS and BoE figures, more savers than borrowers, and we have historically high amounts of savings. An economic slowdown is not always a bad thing, a lot depends on what was driving the growth. In the UK it is not productivity, usually cheap money. We will have a skew to the economy, and growth will be hampered because we have left the EU trading block, but, if you believe this government, it is what everyone wanted.

Why is that a problem, general, and sector, inflation takes cash out of the economy. As long as personal debt does not get out of control, then inflation can quickly drop: that does not mean prices go back to the level of before the inflation cycle, just a 'new normal' is created.

A few on here have UFH with an ASHP and do not bother with heating in the upstairs rooms at all, and they are 2.5+ metres higher. The energy to heat an extra volume of air is pretty minimum, in itself, losses from walls, windows and air changes will dominate. Not sure why he (the builder) thinks an UFH system will feel cold at floor level just because the air temperature at celling level may be 3°C higher. Temperature is not energy. May be worth reviewing the heat loose calculations just to be sure.

And it looks alright. Alt + 248 gives you a °

Gimp mask. My anti-virus just kicked in, who are we trying to get a ransom from, or for?

Edit on your blog as well

You mean kWh, for both So the ASHP is using about 100 W, 2.4 kWh a day. The car is using 0.25 kWh per mile.

No, under qualified fitters, not the industry as a whole. Entrenched ideas and philosophies are so hard to get rid of, I would terminate any conversation with a plumber that was negative about them, even if I was asking to have a combi boiler fixed.

Odd, I studied automotive engineering over 40 years ago. Not changed significantly. The basics are the same, and now you can plug in a relatively cheap diagnostic computer and it tells you where to look. Having said that, 30 years ago my 205 GTi developed a common misfire, 3 CPU units later (at Peugeot's expense) it was still there. I suggested that it might be the inlet temperature sensor. £7.50 later, problem solved. Was over 30 years ago. The one option at university we did not take up in 1981 was Vehicle Electronic System. Probably just as well as the lecturers knew jack shit about them.

You don't mean years do you.

Good stuff. Have you tried it on cooling mode yet?

I have always fancied getting one of those medical school skeletons and burying it in a sand dune. Then let it slowly expose in the weather. Next two weeks will be ideal time to do it.

August is holiday time as well. They will be bring all there illegitimate children, and tattoos to Penzance.

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That has nothing to do with taking the power away. Energy is always conserved, to if the PV module receives 1 unit of energy, converts that into 0.2 units of electrical energy, then only 0.8 units are passing though to raise the temperature of 'something else'. As you say, 'up north', and to be honest, down here in the far west, we are not bothered too much by excess temperatures. So it may be worth looking at your house design, and orientation to the sun, to work out if it is really the roof causing the problem or the gable ends i.e. if one faces SW and gets a good solar bashing in the afternoon.