SteamyTea

Most is not good enough for me. At my age, I would get worried about waking up with a wet bed.

Then we need to get some general information pages that are easy to reference. And sort out the forums hopeless search function. Actually better off getting rid of it and just using Google site:

It is now, and it brought down the Heath government.

Depends how tall the tower is. About time we stopped fitting half a dozen 2 MW turbines and just fit an 8 MW one. We got into this mess though our planning system. It was not unusual for developers to apply for 6 turbines, get refused, then apply to put 2, larger ones in. And this nonsense about giving 'locals' cheap energy, that is just rewarding wankers. Should do it the other way around, cut them off if they kick up a fuss.

We should make houses that are easy to pull down and recycle then. Technology may move on, a little bit (think how little it has changed in the last 40 years), but the Laws of Thermodynamics and Conservation of Energy will still be the same. We have a couple or 3 new members on here, how long before we have to tell them to build an airtight and, better than building regs, insulated home. And then explain that if a ground floor is heated, much more insulation is needed. Then how a heat pump works, and how PV roofs can be cheaper to install than fancy tiled ones. And my bug bear, fitting 40, 5 W, LED bulbs in a kitchen is not low energy. It is still like 2 old 100 W bulbs.

True. One of my old university flat mates threw himself of the cliffs, and another one drank himself to death, last year. Glad I moved, would have been my turn next I think.

I rubbed a bottle I found and a Genie came out and offered me 3 wishes. 1st wish: a penny more than I can spend; granted. 2nd wish: to build a 5 mile high wall around Wales; granted. 3rd wish: asked the genie if the wall was watertight, told yes. Fill it with water then.

Used to make air filters. The smaller the better as they cost pennies to make and it made the technology seem better.

And when I do my weekly drive by I don't notice it has gone. New houses there now I think. Did they ever find the body of the guy who got buried there?

No any of them live near an old nuclear power station, but don't work there. I was working up near Nottingham when they blew up the old power station cooling towers. No one missed them, but people did not mind then. They were just something that was there. But he only got about a third of voters on side and did not sway many of his party to support BREXIT. I think he is like Wedgy Benn. Stands up, says his well written and delivered piece, everyone nods, then forgets about it.

Only have to look on here for the range of answers.

In many ways, though a bit more costly, off shore is a good place for wind turbines. Probably why Vattenfall have an office in PZ. A few years ago, over at the other place, there was a hot debate about on shore wind turbines. Most agreed that they were acceptable 'in the right place', which was no where close to where they lived. The right place for on shore wind it on top hills, and then as large as possible. When I said that, it did not go down to well. Somehow I think that J R-M will do little damage, he is an irrelevance and most know it. Having said that like Boris in he past, he is entertaining.

I only need two. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign

No, we're in the nice bit of Cornwall. It's the sandstone filtering the water around here Don't filter out the Devon Farmer's nitrates too well.

Not for long with your water.

Electrification in the only generation that can be done cleanly. It does not have to be fossil fuel based. So which is easier. Insulating all 30 million properties to an average U-Value of 0.2 W.m-2.K Building another 10,000 5 MW wind turbines (about 200 GWh, or around 6.5 MWh per house). I idea of rebuilding is attractive, but not practical if you have to quickly house 5 million people. "Don't let the better be the enemy of the good"

It could only solve part of it. If we got rid of all domestic usage, we would save, nationally, about 30% of the primary energy usage. The big problem is insulating old buildings. We have seen what happens when the job is done badly, why we have forgotten about Grenfell, less than 5 years ago. To cover both energy security and meet CC obligations, we need to be electrifying as fast as we can. Anything else is just adding more sticky plasters.

I have some.

We are all that, and like to smirk at others when things go wrong. Back to your original idea, and maybe others can comment, how about sheathing any timber that is going to get wet often, or is partially buried, in GRP. Done properly, it will easily last 60 years. Done badly, a couple of weeks. Foamglass can be used to thermal structural elements as well, but not had any experience of it.

If Putin turns the tap of to the 'unfriendly' countries out bills will go down a lot. Have to get used to only having a few hours of power each day.

Uranium and Lithium. ProDave 0.37%, SteamyTea 0.63%, PeterW 0.4% and the winner, @joe90 0.74%

What they should look like.

What is the inside of your kettle like.

What a lot of letters.

This is giving away the secrets of successfully making composite plastic components. A combination of chemical changes that can cause uneven shrinkage, mechanical alignment that can warp components, making them seemingly 'grow' in place, evaporation that is uneven due to varying matrix thickness, or shape. Mismatch between the matrix components. The list goes on. As a mate of mine who worked for International Paints (industrial division) once said '(expletive deleted) I have it easy, just tell the (expletive deleted) to not put it on too thick, and no drips'.