SteamyTea

You will wish you never looked it up. Six impossible thing before breakfast.

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He would be 104.

If yo want to increase the head, why not make and fit a ram pump, then pump and store some water up high (a tree maybe). Then, when you need a decent amount of power, let the water flow back down into the turbine. Overall you may get less energy, but you may get a usable amount of power.

If your car is getting on a bit, and you have those stupid plastic headlight covers, large angle grinder with a polishing bonnet on it saves you getting an MOT failure.

One of the biggest counties in the land. Population density is a third of Buckinghamshire. Think it is more to do with mean age this week. Newly weds, just breds and nearly dead.

AKA Rampant Rabbit. Got a used one for sale, anyone interested.

I like a bit of spice. Shall have a look when I get out of St. Ives. I may be some times. For some reason when people get here, their cars get 2 feet wider in their minds.

What software do you use to sketch things up in? We did, is it LRC circuits, this in college. Actually in a mathematics lesson, got the basic concept i.e. you can reduce voltage and power with less waste heat, but did not really understand what was going on at 'the mechanical level.

Yes, why I said 'big holes'. There is a reason portholes are round and not rectangular. It is the same reasons we model atoms as circles (in the most basic models), all the energy levels are at their lowest.

After a drill, that looks like a gun, an angle grinder is the best thing you can get. Get a really large one, then pretend it is a chainsaw. Can't you drill big holes to take the joists, holes are better that rectangles.

That is a bit rich coming from someone that blames war and COVID, but not their choices, for the problems.

Almost, but alternatives and replacements come into play. Picking the right substitute is the hard part.

What makes you think any architect will know about insulation (above BRs) and UFH, let alone the performance difference between them.

It's really as simple as thinking about the analogous mechanical components Inductors and Capacitors Is this how cheap 230V LEDs are powered?

So all that government aid used, in part, didn't happen. A major part to the arguement about leaving the EU was to allow the UK to trade nimbly and quickly to a changing commercial environment. We are not exactly seeing that happen. What we have seen is Sterling loose value against major currencies, delays in goods being delivered, reduced workforce in some areas of construction, etc etc. What we have not seen, nor did we see in the run up to fully leaving was a boost to the economy. That reduction in economic power, and the associated drop in business confidence, lays firmly at the feet of BREXIT. Blame other issues as much as you like, but deep down you know that being commercially isolated from our biggest market is hurting, and will hurt for the rest of our lives. End of.

A bit of 'post purchase justification' going on here.

Interested, but don't understand the details much.

If that is all the stream is delivering, or all the pipe can deliver.

Not if the mass flow rate is the same. That is where the energy is, not the wheels. 1 litre a second is very low.

Well that is because we cannot blame the EU anymore. Some people will always blame an existential threat, weather real or imagined. I think Germany was the world's fourth largest market for PV, we do not have easy access to that market anymore, we are now in completion with them because of a quirk of geography (near Rotterdam). But I think the vast majority is now installed in larger PV farms and not on domestic roof tops. Low carbon generation does not care if it is made in Mayfair or Grimsby.

The £1500 have any on buying (some) EVs has been stopped today. No bad thing really.

Around half my current DHW needs. There is an advantage of having a proper gravity fed system with a tank in the loft, rather than draw in cold water from the ground all the time.

The problem with that is, without some storage to act as a buffer, you have to match supply and demand. As an EV is basically a storage device with wheels and seats, if it can accept small, low power, sips of energy, then that is the better way to do it. It is also worth comparing utility values. If, with a car it costs x to get to work, and you earn y. You may be better off washing clothes during the day (and hang them on a line to dry).