SteamyTea

Any reason you want a GSHP over and ASHP. There is a large price difference in the units and the installation costs. Don't get temperature, the ⁰C or K, confused with the power, the kW, of a unit. Power (kW) is also different from energy, the kWh unit is usually used in the domestic setting for energy, through the proper unit is the joule, you need 3,600,000 J to make a kWh. What you need to do first us a decent thermal model of the house. This will set the maximum heat load and the most likely power needed satisfy it. Going from an occupancy of 2 to 10 is a huge difference, you are probably financially better off with a secondary cylinder that just uses immersion heaters run directly off the mains electricity. To heat a cold, 200 litre cylinder to 60⁰ will probably take around 12 kWh of electricity. That will cost, even at 20p/kWh, £2.40 a day. Less that a couple of metres of GSHP pipe.

Isn't there a problem with galvanic corrosion due to dissimilar metals i.e. zinc (4 shells 2 outer electrons) and aluminium (3 shells, 3 outer electrons). Many module manufacturers will not warrantee their product unless a recognised mounting system is used.

Will it be a 'limited by supply' scheme. Most of the government 'incentive' schemes seem to be. And I am sure it will be shockingly complicated overall. What is does do is put a floor price on new/replacement installations, not sure if that is good or bad for the general public though.

Did you manage to see how they fitted the balustrade in place. Might be useful for a when people ask how to fit one to their stairs.

Are they. Not my experience of listening to phone interviews and radio phone in shows.

When I stand out in the cold, my testes get a walnut veneer.

Coat hooks still give me the shivers 43 years on.

Well it is better than none. But for a 3 or 4 car family it may be a problem. Especially in rural areas. Then there is the issue of car to grid. That may have a 4 kW limit to it (like most domestic PV).

Pleblon, it goes nicely with vulgarlour.

What next, will we have to fit locks to doors and windows, plumb in water, and take waste away. I would think fitting a charging point to a new build was dead easy. Trouble is, it will probably only be a 7 kW one.

I have to work with some, and out of 6 of them, only 1 is pleasant. (expletive deleted)ing shits the lots of them.

You mention 'engineer' several times in the introduction. I suspect the best you will get is a technician. (this is not to demote technicians, they are skilled people, but they should not be promoted to engineer status without the proper higher education qualification)

Get hacking, I suspect the security is not hard to break on council system. While you are at it, crack into the land Registry, I know a couple of bit of land I would like. And what does 'whack' mean. There is a Rob Stewart song that has the line: "While I'm jackin' off Readin' Playboy on a hot afternoon" https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/rodstewart/threetimeloser.html I know what that means.

There are only two aspects in the way that windows affect solar gain. There light transmittance The reflectivity. All the rest is geometry. The easiest way to limit solar gain is to fit a reflective film. This can be retrofitted to the windows that are giving you a problem. If you are concerned that a film will reduce the light levels in the house, then this is only what shades do. So no difference in reality. If you want to get really high tech and expensive, then self dimming glass or clear PV glass. Cheaper to fit and run aircon.

Mondays are generally a high demand day as people return to work and industry ramps up after the weekend. This year has probably been more pronounced as many people who have not been working because of holidays (last week was very good weather) and the drawing to an end of Furlough.

Was there today, up for lease.

Just had a look at the last ten years worth of electrical generation data. I picked Mondays during weeks 35,36 and 37 as these will always take in the Bank Holiday and the main start of school. I suspect you will be getting cheaper power next week. I can't be bothered to look up when school started each year, but others can.

That is probably because software engineers do not understand the problems involved. That is why they are software engineers and not energy traders or renewable energy experts. And if it is a government funded project, then it will never work.

I use Dulux Easycare on the St. Ives picture frames I make. It stays white.

Comes as a solid lump these days.

That may be contractoral obligation. Most of Europe is on a different timezone. Coal fired power stations were limited to 20,000 hours run time a few years back (2001 LCPD). So they are only working within agreed limits, not, as far as I know, breaching them. About this time every year scare stories go about that claim we don't have enough capacity. Since I started taking an interest in this over 2 decades ago, we have not 'run out'. Taking the Copernicus view, the best predictor of future usage is past usage patterns. It is not as if the National Grid does not know about future trends, or if they do, they are doing nothing about it.

And give the Taffs a shortcut to here, no thanks. Trouble with the Seven Barrage is the ecological cost. Don't bother me as I am 200m above sea level, but controlling a few billion tonnes of seawater would have unexpected consequences somewhere. Now tidal flow turbines are a much more interesting concept.

True in my experience. But some of us suffer from perpetual vertigo, which is not the same thing at all. Did not stop me rock climbing, but then you are looking for your next handhold/best route, and what is below is irrelevant.

No diesel came on yesterday, or OCGT.

Or a higher than expected demand by almost 10% compared to the year before. (I will concede that the last two years have been a bit odd)