SteamyTea

My diesel can do that as well, just mine makes a lot more noise.

I seem to remember, back in 1973/4 that we had an energy crisis, and to save electricity, the three day week was introduced by the government. Then, in 1984/5 we had the Miner's Strike. Then, during the 1990's, we had the Dash for Gas, with 35 new gas turbine power stations being built. I am not sure than 'home grown' energy security is any more secure than any other form. But with wind and solar, we can, if we ignore NIMBYs, plug in to the existing infrastructure a lot easier and quicker. There is a saying, “Steal a little and they throw you in jail; steal a lot and they make you king” (Eugene O’Neill), surely distributed generation is, by nature, more secure.

Wine, dine and 69

Both very (expletive deleted)able back in the day.

Or Christie. Read the book decades ago.

I worked near Nottingham when they blew up so cooling towers. We all went outside to watch it. It went foggy, so only heard the bangs. Made our factory shake.

I suspect the biggest risk to public health will be panels falling on people.

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Just like the NRA want. I suspect the they would oppose PID in Fairfax VA though. But you are totally correct, we accept about 1,700 deaths a year on our roads, 75% being males. So get the girls to unplug them.

Generally by the 'wildcat' drilling companies. Nuclear fusion is going to be market ready in 20 years time.

I am pretty sure that the safety regulations have thought about all the issues above, so as long as the kit meets the safety standards, there will not be unmanageable problems.

Let it be done

They have never been to France then.

Which is why it hurts when good advice is totally ignored.

Those children know why you need to get a thermometer, which temperatures to take, why you need to take them and how that can help. But this child is just going to be childish, except I am no ones child any more.

Would it need to be under a steel plate as well, or is that for <50mm.

I seem to remember that the plug in wind turbines were 1kW nameplated. While they would very really generate half that, the rules may allow for 1kW to be fitted already. I suspect it will not be the most cost effective method for home generation. A lot of people will buy them but place the panels badly and be very disappointed. That will lead to a lot of bad press and set back domestic PV installations.

It just goes to the nearest load, wherever that may be. There will be safety features built in to auto disconnect if needed. We had plug in wind turbines 20 years ago. They literally had a 3 pin plug that you just pushed into the wall socket.

That may be on the DC side, but then there will be a bit of induction on the 230 VAC side. Jury rig something up and test it. A capacitor, resistor and/or a diode across the lightweight AC switch may help (snubber).

The problems here are manyfold. So no easy answer. What is probably needed is a very flexible coating that is water and UV resistant, vapour permeable, easy to apply (spray), cheap, the right colour, and because you are in Scotland, temperature stable. Search for microporous rubberised coatings. We used to use a Jotun product if a sauna was next to a steamroom or spa bath.

Look up the k-values. Mortar around 1 and dense plaster about 0.6.

High resistance R-value. Low losses are U-value.

Enough to run a couple of RPis for data logging and web serving. Any turbine below 5 kW is pretty pointless in my opinion. Much better to get everyone that wants a turbine to put the money towards a 5 MW one and pocket the revenue cash.

Did they not sell them on the Bounelli effect that a restriction increases airspeed. Never seen any mention of reduced density because of lower pressure, but then marketing and PR would be horribly dull if a real or imaginary, number was put in. I once went to a talk about solar power, the lady delivering it put up Einstein's E=mc² and explained that as the mass, m, was very small, we could ignore it. Did not take long for the hall to erupt into laughter.

You are going to need something the region of 0.6 kWh/m² to exceed 27°C floor temperature. So if your power input is a ridiculously high 100W/m² going to take a 6 hours (this assumes 7°C above ambient). You can probably just change the flow temperature curve to limit the floor temperature overshoot.