SteamyTea

Doing a similar 'spring clean' at the moment. Don't think I can post up what I have found that belongs to my old partner. May forward a picture to @pocster, then deny all knowledge (shall strip out geolocation data and replace it with his position).

That late in life. I have an out of date Part P. I shall a play when I have more time, never used the ADC on the 8266s.

......... Quite interested in this. Can you post up a diagram. I have some ESP8266 that I can play with.

Why I pay them so little, I like the noise.

Large scale compressed air storage (often in old salt mines) is not new, been around a while. Competitive on price and tested.

That neighbour you dislike. As a peace offering, let them park their car in your drive for a few months. I hope that wall that your better half wants changed is the one facing the bottom of the drive. Or just pressure wash it.

Lots of people. They prefer to call them 'the conservatory'.

Weather and time.

Bit more complicated than that because of the effective area lost where the motor spindle attaches to the fan. Small fans loose a greater fraction of area. But that lost area also has less of an overall impact on airflow. Then, approaching the blade tips, 'apparent wind' effects can dominate, why blades are twisted and have different areas/profiles. This can also affect the air vortices after the blade, too low a pressure and the airspeed speed stalls. Small fans i.e. computer cooling fans, are basically blunt tools to shift as much air as possible, within a fixed form factor i.e. fit on the CPU and within the case. This is why liquid cooled systems are now used. My old Acer had a phase change system that allowed for a very low profile, but a larger fan fitted in a more convenient place (I cooked the CPU as I never cleaned the fan out). Quite simply, when it comes to shifting air, fan diameter, and therefor surface area, is the governing factor.

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High Wycombe's old maternity unit was called The Shrubbery.

I think the fast response is a bit of a myth. Probably takes a few seconds for systems to adjust and synchronise. Emergency generation (usually diesel) responds fast, as do hot spinning reserves (why they are hot). I often think that people think that the advances in IT system that were seen between 1985 and 2005 can be directly implement into grid scale, bulk generation. There is no 'Moore's Law'.

Seems rather complicated. Why not just install a few more, tried and tested, geothermal systems. Shall see what 2026 and 2028 brings, I suspect nothing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_power "There is enough stupidity around not to have to look for conspiracy"

Or when no imports at night. I have loads of times I import nothing. Worked hard to get the house like that.

Off to the dump, will be is the skip with an old laptop in an hour. Got a couple of large boxes of PC hardware. Most of that will be going to the dump soon. Don't think many people need 1990s components like graphics cards, sound cards, dial up modems and memory modules up to 1 Mb. Or a 40 Mb hard drive.

Where did you see that, I would want to write to them about it.

Depends if you have a backward looking council, and an MP in your county that is the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (last bit is dogging in Tehidy Woods, why they wanted to charge for parking). Anyone notice his absence on Any Questions last week, was from his constituency.

Only by not using physics and maths. We could cover buildings in mirrors, that will help overheating and hardly change the night time losses. Not tried to seriously calculate it, but there must come a time where the energy losses/gains from ventilation outweigh the losses/gains and storage from the building's materials.

Had a thought. Can you sense and measure the DC side for generation, then compare to the import AC side. I have one of these that I once thought may be useful, going to dump as it has been in loft for a decade. Can you hack into it, or use it for parts. Can deliver next Monday as i fancy passing my mates tombstone.

More lopping. Copper nails can help to attach things to trees.

I have seen optimisers added to each module (still need to remove modules) and then wired as normal into a SMS SB (4000 TL). Don't remember any advantage, but it was an unshaded install anyway, just a customer being ripped off.

I hope it don't. More usual to measure it in Wh/mile. My old oil burning Ford (take the boy out of Essex, but not Essex out the boy) uses about 1.5 kWh/mile.

But you have some tree shading, and you cannot get rid of that. Your modules may have lost a few percent of their performance in the last decade as well. Have a look back at your old data to see what it was producing. Your current inverter may be a bit oversized, but probably not worth changing. Used to go through Thundersley, every day, on way to school in Westcliff on Sea. Life was in black and white in those days.

Do the 'other two' meters go to separate consumer units (fuse boxes). You may be better off finding an electrical to trace a few circuits. State of the arts in the 1960 was 'energy too cheap to meter' and a self winding mechanical watch. And a Ford Cortina.