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SteamyTea

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  1. You could have spent a day a week getting those qualification. Just think if you could have done an environmental qualification and sorted them newts out on the cheap.
  2. In a flood zone.
  3. I did, made my eyes water.
  4. And Vicars, not as if they can change horses mid stream.
  5. Really. Was raining here an hour ago. I find leaving a hot commercial kitchen after serving up 200 meals helps. 30+°C seems cool sometimes.
  6. Can help shifting those logs, as long as the mantissa is correct. (I am old enough to have had to use slide rules as well, why do you think BL cars were so hopeless)
  7. Generally, if a solid walls goes from the foundation to the roof, it is structural. It can be removed and parts replaced with structural beams, but it needs to be properly calculated by a structural engineer who knows what they are doing, as it can impact on other parts of the building structure. We have a good structural engineer on here, @Gus Potter, so hopefully he will come along and give some words of wisdom.
  8. Was that using dedicated software, or like a constipated mathematician, you worked it out with pencil and paper? If the latter, I am sure there is enough knowledge on here, that suitable calculations can be created. Maybe a new section in 'Boffin's Corner' can be created with some suitable templates and instructions to follow.
  9. For an audience that failed GCSE science and are scared of numbers without a £ sign in front of them.
  10. It is a popular summer pastime down here. Why they have a waist height seawall. Happens every Tuesday evening at 8PM.
  11. Only a small handful of what's. You sent it me remember. Just found the cold one in Widl. 99p And here is a sausage scourer for you. That is almost 3 quid I have wasted on you.
  12. Says total output 1200W MAX. Bur it also says things for the USA market.
  13. I don't think so. But give it a go to prove me wrong. Or is it as case of one or the other but never bothered together.
  14. Which is only doubling the ducting diameter (assuming it is round).
  15. What load can each individual outlet take? Is the total constant load 10A?
  16. Shopping in Budgens will do that for you.
  17. So you will be let down by the window supplier, get pregnant and have a death. Not to mention KM talking in whispers behind your back, but to the camera. You can tell him that he was right about a comment I made that he replied to, was about thermal mass, and I was a teacher when I made it.
  18. In electrical engineering, to get maximum power transfer, you use Jacobi's Law. To muddy the waters, there is also maximum power efficiency. PV inverts have MPPT built in, I wonder how difficult, or even if worthwhile, to have a similar system in HP. There are a lot more variables, OAT, IAT, WT, run times, input costs etc, but it would be a good add on to basic weather compensation.
  19. Generally the best place for them. It would be an interesting project looking at reheat time with different deltaTs, and how it affects the CoP of the systems.
  20. That may be more to do with the temperature differences, heating is not linear, it starts with rapid energy transfer, then the rate if transfer reduces as the stored water temperature rises.
  21. It was not a good analogy, or was it a metaphor, maybe a similarity. I actually thought it was quite a good explanation of the electricity market's marginal pricing. Odd though, as usually in business, marginal pricing reduces the price up to a limit, where a step change happens i.e. the factory reaches capacity and a new factory has to be built. I suspect this has come about because there is over capacity in the market i.e. we have more than enough plants, but the high cost of keeping them operational needs payment.
  22. But Little Tim Hartford's mate got 3 hours of gardening for 300 quid, not 1 hours gardening for 300 quid. I better write to him before September.
  23. Wish I had one. Left home at 6 AM and forgot to open the upstairs windows. After 11 hours driving in 30+°C temperatures, and an hour in the old folks home, which was very warm, I get home and my bedroom is 32°C. I just want to sleep deeply.
  24. Yes. It is easy to forget that it is the change in load that makes the difference. Very much the same in thermodynamics.
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