SteamyTea

Tax is a strange one. We have got used to income tax going down. We are about to have a rise in NI, and there is already a fuss about it. To me, I am not too bothered where taxes are raised, income VAT, Corporation, Council Tax, Death Duties. It all even out at the national level. Generally goods and services have got better over the last 40 years, every year is a Golden Year. It would be nice to have a society where everyone contributed, but we have created a very unequal society somehow. No idea what to do about it, but I think it will have to be changed.

There are a number of reasons it will only be a niche player. Like biomass energy in general, we don't create enough, so the CO2e savings are of no real consequence. During my weekly drive up to the Home Counties, I look at the solar farms that are scattered along the edge of the A30, M5 and M4. We have about 2300 miles of motorway in the UK, most is though farmland (as expected as we have only urbanised around 10% of the land. While not every part would be suitable to add 20m of PV to each side, it would certainly add a lot for very little cost. About 15 GWp.

Sum off least squared against the calibration gauge for every temperature bin. Or just use anomalies if absolute readings are not that important. Good enough foe me. Sun is out, so I am off out.

I have a box of bits, including a CO2, a Plantower particulate, numbeous BME/P280s and a few other bits. Really must start cobbling them all together. Kind of thing I have been keeping for when I break a leg and can't go out. (I broke my pelvis a few years ago but could still drive, so that was not enough of an injury)

Much of the oversizing is to do with the variation of your climate. So down here in Cornwall, the temperature is fairly steady i.e. very really 0°C and almost never over 26°C. But take the NE of the country and you often get -5°C, while the SE can see maximum temperatures of 30°C. Heating system are generally designed to cope with 99% of all weather events, for that 1% of extreme cold, plug in a fan heater. So knowing your local weather is important. So if I was up in the NE, I would oversize by 30%, in Cornwall, 10%. It is, in reality, a case of going to the next size up that is available. A 200lt DHW cylinder for 2 people will be alright.

I really need to get to grips with MQTT as I collect quite a bit of data. Fitting a BMP280 is useful. Just a shame that CurrentCost vanished as I like the Envi Opto I use to collect my energy data. Not sure what has happened to a couple of your images, are they links to local storage?

Nor me, but not sure how much slower I can go in mine to improve on my usual MPG in the low 60s. Anyway, not many BEVs would let me do my weekend commute. Now that I stop at Bourton-on-the-Water for a coffee, I am buggered if I am going to stop on the M% on the way up. (journey back is different, I am enjoying my high carbon cheese burgers, only £3.kwh-1, bargain in food terms)

I take it he failed maths at school. Or he only charges at the expensive places.

Yes. But if you look at the real price, it has not gone up for years. Gas has been way to cheap. Not as if we have never been told to do something about it in the past.

Did they tell you the wholesale future prices has gone down?

Will that affect room heights?

How is that an advantage on a MVHR unit that does a very basic job.

No.

I use less than that the 3 or 4 days a week I am away.

That is a good thing, it reduces the spinning and hot spinning fossil fuel reserves. It is better to close down a few wind farms that let a large gas plant be shut down. The restart costs are to high both financially and environmentally. Luckily we don't have much biomass and OCGT units running now.

How old were your modules. If a few years, for a lot less than the original kWp price you, you may have been able to upgrade to more efficient ones. Does depend on what they buyer of your house thinks about them. I would think at the moment, and till about May, PV could be charged out at a premium. Come June, we will have all forgotten about today's increases in electricity prices.

Anyone hear the R4 interview with the woman about her energy prices. Hardly a typical person.

I have been saying this for a while now. The difference in day and night prices has been eroded over the years. For most people the price difference between a fixed tariff and a flexible one has been similar, as long as they use 70% at the cheaper rate. Even at my 80%, my unit price has been about 16p/kWh. Not so different from what a lot if people were paying anyway.

Time will tell.

Going to be fun this is. 60p/hour to run a fan heater.

Assuming it is grid connected, and you have the appropriate inverter and safety isolators, what does your local DNO say about an increase in capacity?

Pumps and valves may be indoors. They make a noise. You get clicking, popping and gurgling from most CH systems in my experience. None are silent. I can hear my immersion heater when it is on.

They do a similar thing with E7. The day rate is higher than the capped rate. But overall the price is still cheaper for me.

Some buyer will pay to have them taken away. The big cost in decommissioning a system will be scaffold hire.

What about non DD customers? After a quick scan I cannot see it.