SteamyTea

RHI is 7 years, original FiT was 20 years, payments index linked and free from taxation.

I think we should keep a list of the smaller/newer energy companies that get mentioned in the news. These will probably be the ones that vanish. Heard Dale Vince earlier, so will Ecotricty survive (does depend on the government bailout). And Chris Burk from Colorado Energy.

Does your nose run and your feet smell. If so, you are built upside down.

He said his don't smell.

Nail the (expletive deleted)er to a breeze block and throw it in with the newts. Lead paint may assure a slow, and painful, death. And can you stop the (expletive deleted) shitting in my flowerpots.

With the size of house you have, be cheaper to not bring them back.

So when I have my 3W kitchen light on, it flashed every 10 minutes instead of every 20.

I still think you are a (expletive deleted).

That does not save energy, just consumer cash. We need, in the short term, reduce energy usage. By far the easiest way to do that is to hike the price up. Start the Week was about climate activism today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000zsdg Was an interesting listen. I often think we forget why we are transitioning out energy model.

Wasn't there some dodgy, inter-state trading going on as well. And who can forget Enron. Ramping up RE capacity is the way to go, maybe we will start to build large turbines on land again, that would get the installation cost down. And more storage. Thermal storage is by far the cheapest, so back to cylinders and night heater. Though if 30 million houses each stored 10 kWh/day, that is only 0.3 TWh, or 109 TWh/year. Not much greater than our current wind generation. That would sort it, £2.5bn/kWh.

While I agree the price volatility is a short term, the legal and political implications of Nord Stream may hamper long term price drops to Europe. We have seen this before in 2006. While our investment is wind energy is impressive, it is still on going and a long way from completion. In 2020, wind energy contributed about a quarter to the electrical mix (75.61 TWh). 1,514,226 TWh was the UKs primary energy in 2019. So wind power is 0.005% of our energy mix.

I have a similar one, but for muffin.

That was to do with lowering CO2, not price. When I bought my first new car (a 205) in 1987, there was no price difference (on performance) and the diesel had better seats and radio. I have always stuck with them, never been enough of a difference to swap (I am in a higher energy cost part of the country).

If you are with a small 'challenger' provider, you may find they disappear. I don't see how only being two of you in the house changes the house base load, that is a function of size and internal temperature. Changing your car could possibly save you £350 a year.

Yes, then Oxfordshire. Works here.

I am interested. Do you know the embodied energy to make those batteries, and the associated carbon emissions, which are of course regional.

This is about bricks. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3csz2w8

@craig should know the answer, he had broken more windows than Microsoft.

Do a quick search for Isle of Wight. Think there is about 4 people doing projects there.

Have you thought of starting a blog on here. A quick description of beams, pillars and crossmembers, the types in most common use, basic calculations to determine sizes and best practice to installing them. I would find it useful and save me having to find my copy of: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Buildings-Fall-Down-Structures/dp/039331152X

On some standard electrical meters, the LED flashes when power is drawn from the grid i.e every Wh. It goes in permanently when exporting. If that is the case, a simple optical sensor could pick up the difference and divert power. A more expensive option would be battery storage in parallel with thermal storage. But that would require a BMS of some sort, and probably a secondary inverter. Has anyone actually looked at the fraction of time that their systems are importing, exporting and diverting. May find that the cost if diverting is greater than the savings over a typical year. That does depend on the kWh prices if imported energy and individual attitude to sharing green power with unknown consumers.

Does your diverter electrically isolate the 3 kW immersion heater from the grid when your 1.75 kWp system in generating? Would you not be better off with a 1 kW and a secondary 0.75 kW element (of maybe a 0.5 kW one as max power dies not happen that often).

That is because lawyers, accountants and medical doctors speak Latin, and we all know that means they went to a very posh private school. Anything to do with making stuff was left to the school failures, they speak in grunts, never wash, drive a van, smoke and swear. (I went to posh school, learnt Latin, and Greek, passed most of my exams, then downgraded to engineering. Made me look like the brightest in the class)

Welcome I am sure a plumber or two will be along, as will out two bathroom experts @Onoff and @pocster X is an unknow quantity, Spurt is a drip under pressure. (Isn't a Janner a Plymouth resident)

Jeremy Harris tried to explain it to me, I did not get it. Would it not also depend on how fast the inverter electronics are reacting as well, I assume they use 0 voltage switching, so at best the are on or off at 0.01s.