SteamyTea

won't they be WTO rules?

That's interesting. I just heard that the government is going to invest money into carbon capture and storage. But two weeks ago they said that, within a decade, all housing will be powered by off shore wind turbines. So two policies, one that captures something the other does not produce.

Energy in > Energy out All you need to know really.

This is the reason @joe90 turned down a drink.

Once you go past a certain point of insulation, heat losses via ventilation start to dominate, MVHR recovers much of those losses, and gives you fresh air. And in the summer you can turn it off, and in the shoulder months it can be set up to draw in colder air from outside, without any preheating if wanted.

Why do you like to open windows? And a new build should be as airtight as possible, regardless.

What did I say?

It is the Regent's Canal, so probably not. But other places have slums. My sister runs a canal boat business, she hates all the other users, and the people that manage her arm of the waterway, and the local marina, and walkers. I suspect she is the nightmare one.

Yes. We know what happens when too many people live without proper infrastructure. We called it The Great Stink. Many of the environmental problems that we suffer today are because places have expanded without regard to infrastructure. It would be an interesting exercise to work out exactly what a small town would need to be 'off grid', a lot of land for energy and food, an underground aquifer for drinking water, then treatment plant, a river for waste water, and a treatment plant, some way to distribute goods and services, and building materials, glass may be difficult as it would need an industrial processes. As a starting point it may be worth finding out how all the components of a house are made, and where they come from. Not many will be local.

I had some doors like yours. Were great till I put some glass in. Then walked into them. Had to put a big crosses with tape on them to remind me to open them.

So would I. BSI has all the standards and criteria, they are not cheap to buy.

To right, the basis of the policy was wrong from the start and should only be compared to coal burning, not gas or oil.

So can the neighbours

I seem to remember that in the early 80's the UK sold something to Romania, in return we got tinned tomatoes. They ended up cost 9p/tin, and where very good. Not point buying any other really. Not sure what we sold, think it may have been a ship.

I am going to rise to this. Do you, Dave Jones, think that immigrant, on mass, cost the country money? Blair also banned Fox Hunting, and dragged us into an unnecessary war. I am not fan, and never was, of Blair.

Because it is not a science, and they speak complete nonsense, but think they know the answer to everything.

It is why I was skeptical of that 17% figure. Like a lot of 'statistics', it needs questioning right at the start. Don't get me wrong, I am all for intensive farming, and it is a technological playground, which is interesting. But I will always question things that seem a bit iffy. Like the use of artificial light, and the claim that it reduces food miles.

But only about 10% different here. And they don't actually say what they are measuring.

Is that maximum power, or energy? I shall try and read the link later, just off out.

This is my opinion as social science is not my fields (though I had to study it, and wasted a year with social scientists once). Nearly everything in life is sculpted by others expectations, this is something the media can play on as it is easy to do so. There is no need to show a genuine cause and effect as, like astrology, there is no burden of proof. The 'proof' is in the number, say enough things, to enough people, and some people will agree. Now that has happened in the last 40 years or so in the UK is that we have had a decline in manual jobs because of globalisation. This has affected some people much more than others. Now if you are affected, or live in a community that is affected, then it is easy to blame the people that have got the jobs, or the people that caused them to go away. It is also hard to see an individual who makes, what seems to be, a disproportionate amount of salary, from doing a simple task. It is also hard to see people who are long term unemployed. It is this unbalance in out economy that people should really be blaming, and trying to rectify, but it is much easier to blame others, while doing nothing. When a chance to for change does come along, especially when an emotional argument, not based in fact, is used, people get swayed. A truly rational person looks at the facts presented, not how they are presented. Very few people are truly rational. Just changing one word for another, can make a huge difference. "You will be better off" "You could be better off" The above appealed to Brexeteers. "You know what you can have" "You know what you can loose" The above appealed to Leavers.

The second one, xenophobe, I hate autocorrect on my phone.

Unlike the xenophobes that voted to leave.

Or 9kW (Edit, put right above) Not really about kW though, it is about kWh as that takes a time period into account. During a typical week, the CoP may range from just under 1 (legionella cycle), to over 6 (very mild, dry weather and at the point of maximum power transfer). It also matters where it is measured. What comes out of the hot tap will be lower than what comes out of the hot pipe from the ASHP.

Can I come and have a look next time you are visiting, I think there is more to this than meets the eye. Two related things spring to mind. They are undersized and the majority of the use will be for DHW.

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