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Went to school with a girl called Tracy Crane. Prettiest girl in the place. Bet she has changed somewhat in the decades since then. Wonder if she is still blonde. This was Basildon after all.

Yes. While I don't buy into the "GCSE are easier than 'O' Levels" because they assess different things, combining subjects is not always successful. If we are to do that, we may as well just teach English and Mathematics. Then hand out all the other subject books at age 14 and let the kids decide what they would like to learn.

Don't do any pointing and get some of these. Then do some proper climbing.

Except it keeps the solar gain in. My house, when unheated, is usually 4 to 5°C warmer than external air temperature. Just as well as I hate turning the heating on.

True, it is why I don't drive a Tesla Long Range of some sort. Thing is change happens, and that change can be costed in to a certain extent today.

Mr G sounds a right (expletive deleted). I would question why he is so available.

Get @pocster to give a hand. He now knows the value of getting others to help. Would have saved him hiring a crane and 3 strong men. Some say that he like to watch the greased male form.

@George You are only talking about price. The costs of running an ASHP take into account external prices such as carbon dioxide reduction, security of energy supply. If we swapped the proportion of taxes placed on electricity production into gas, coal and oil, the consumer price would be very different. "The price of everything, the value of nothing"

I was at university with two guys from Uganda. Chalk and cheese they were. Except they both agreed when they were referred to by one pig ignorant lecturer as 'you Africans'. They were more tolerant of the white SA girl who liked to tell them about her 'cheerful' black maid. "Hey Bwana, may I ride in the motor, or shall I run behind". Interesting in mathematics lectures that it was only me, the 2 Ugandans, and the South African, who had heard if calculus. We all did 'O' Levels. Calculus is not introduced until 'A' Levels now.

Didn't @Construction Channel do his own underpinning? Did he get insurance or take the usual farmboy attitude and decide that it is not worth it.

It is were the corporation's step in. It is easier and cheaper to built RE in developing countries, and also much easier to rewild. We, in the UK, are often hampered by our own rules to protect nature why we have not had any new, onshore, windfarms for nearly a decade. Can blame Cameron for that.

I assume this is a gas boiler? Ask the resident expert @Dave Jones he claims his is silent, unlike all ASHPs which have to be noisier. I have recently been staying in a house with a gas boiler. I was surprised how noisy it was. Not a horrible noise, just a background roar. I will be back there next week, so may take some sound readings. I am also surprised, in my house, how good the cheap, panel doors are at reducing noise. I can heat my E7 cylinder heating up when I am in the kitchen, but not upstairs when I am next to it.

13°C is still chilly.

Was when we could pick up rolls for 3 quid. Think I spent less than £30. I keep meaning to have a read of my neighbours electric meter to see how much they have used, but think they both have smart meters fitted, so newer than mine.

I have just had a 5 hour car journey (68.7 MPG, with 3 paving slabs in the boot, shall take the seat out next weekend, save a bit of mass). I have had many thoughts on how we should be tacking our environmental problems. The first is to split it up into the main areas: Energy Food Nature Too often I think 'commentators' are talking about different things when they get into debate. I heard on the radio recently, think it was about plastic packaging, that there is serious food waste in developing countries. Think this was also mention in my weekly comic a while back. They don't have the infrastructure to harvest effectively, transport, store and process. I am not blaming developing countries, just highlighting that a relatively small investment can go a long way in some places, and not very far in others.

I spent very little, but I made sure it was effective.

I have just got home, house has been shut up for a week, but the windows have been 'on the latch', so the place is ventilated. 18°C in my kitchen, which is NE facing, so if there was sun today (think it has been rain), the kitchen has not had any since noon. It is 14°C outside. No heating on, not been on since March I think. Where in the country are you?

Yes. There is a reason they are called hydrogen fool sells. Another example of people not understanding the science. The simple answer to to ban combustion technology. That would solve the atmospheric emissions problem.

About 70%. But that is just the conversion, it does not include the water treatment, or compression. I kg of hydrogen takes around 55 kWh of electricity, 1 kg of hydrogen has about 40 kWh of energy. A lot of thermal energy is given off in the process. A fuel cell has ~50% efficiency. A lot of thermal energy is given off in the process. So before compression, storage and transportation, around 35 to 40% efficient. A Tesla Model 3 has a mass of 1850 kg. A Toyota Mirai has a mass of 1950 kg. Similar cars, except one is slower, more expensive, can't be easily refuelled and handles worse.

It don't help having to listen to Tony Blair on Broadcasting House this morning. He may well be right, but I hate listening to him.

Unless you believe in the multiverse, then there will be ~26x500 of them, in any combination, including not having any.

If I could go back to the second second of the universe's creation, I would edit it. But we are only given half an hour. Richard Feynman was asked to explain his Nobel award winning research in 2 minutes. He rightly pointed out that if he could do that it would not have been worth a Nobel.

Got out of mine in the wrong county, Buckinghamshire.

Yes. Try and establish if there is soakaway nearby. My basement used to get a good 6 inches of water in it.

Not one of the Isles of Scilly @pocster the pimple.