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No. This is a myth. Most will become carbon in the soil.
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It may be low carbon in your mind, but the CO2 emissions are worse than a gas boiler and now grid electricity. And that is before starting on all the other risks of timber combustion.
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Combined PV and thermal collector to heat pump
SteamyTea replied to Temp's topic in Photovoltaics (PV)
Not a new idea, there must be a reason why it has not caught on. Maybe frosting of modules, snow staying put, harder to install, expensive. I suspect it is easier to just fit separate PV and an ASHP. -
Can you show me a gas or coal power plant that has 100% capacity factor over a year. Those are mean figures, find out the variability between different sites and different turbine types. And, it is measuring different things. The MW / MWH, against a 100% capacity factor. I wonder when this will be available and how much it will cost, and more importantly how reliable it will be I love the idea of having this, but looking at their site it doesn't look like it is going to be any time soon. There is a reason that the 3 blade wind turbine dominates.
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Should not be, your imports and exports are treated differently, separate accounts with whoever you want.
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Shall translate that drekly.
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Should be ok. Oh hang on, aren't they in hock to the French Government for over £20bn. I am with EDF, always found their prices reasonable.
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It better be with a large company that can easily raise billions on the stock market.
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Expanding foam quick set and then some …
SteamyTea replied to Pocster's topic in General Construction Issues
Old work mate of mine had an Austrian Mother. They ran a taxi company. One day she asked "vot is a vanka? -
Expanding foam quick set and then some …
SteamyTea replied to Pocster's topic in General Construction Issues
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You can by adjusting the air mass flow rate. Either manually or automatically.
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Yes, I forgot the 25 years ran for a couple of years. I wonder how much some companies are willing to pay for homegrown power at the moment.
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RHI is 7 years, original FiT was 20 years, payments index linked and free from taxation.
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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.
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Monday morning: Oh FFS.......!
SteamyTea replied to ToughButterCup's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
Does your nose run and your feet smell. If so, you are built upside down. -
Monday morning: Oh FFS.......!
SteamyTea replied to ToughButterCup's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
He said his don't smell. -
Monday morning: Oh FFS.......!
SteamyTea replied to ToughButterCup's topic in General Self Build & DIY Discussion
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.
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So when I have my 3W kitchen light on, it flashed every 10 minutes instead of every 20.
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I still think you are a (expletive deleted).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
