SteamyTea

But a stone age with cheap, safe food, education, health care, societal safety nets, justice systems, integrated personal transport, public entertainment, very cheap communication.... The world gets better every day. It is too easy to take one personal example and assume that it must also apply to everyone else. Personally I am quite happy that part of my local taxes goes in housing the homeless, I don't want to walk up Market Jew Street and see a dead body in a shop doorway again.

Can you use steam on it? Maybe a wall paper stripper with the bit you hold against the wall removed.

Up until the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I can't think that net zero was costing me anything extra. While kWh prices may have increased, efficiency gains more than counteracted that. My last two cars have regularly used two thirds of the fuel that my cars from twenty years ago used, and they have been better cars. My laptop uses a tenth of the power that my old desktop used, and is more powerful, my house uses a third of the energy compared to when I moved in, with only minor changes to it. I also pay less income tax than I used to in real terms i.e. less cash as the tax free allowance has increased and the lower rate has reduced. I don't wear rose tinted glasses, though I had some 45 years ago (they were all the rage then).

Does it work with Vim, or cocaine?

Lots of Trouble, Usually Serious. Whose Ruth?

They will have to move that rock in the middle of the road, or there will be an accident.

TL:DR Are we talking about public liability insurance (compulsory when doing work for others I think) or product insurance, often called warranty (kind of thing that NHBC charge for).

WTF, that is not a ventilation problem, it is a building design problem. I am pretty sure building built in 2022 should have been designed to combat extreme temperatures. Are your neighbours having trouble as well?

Did they now, quite worrying really. https://bssa.org.uk/bssa_articles/bimetallic-galvanic-corrosion/

Technically they are very useful for stability. One problem, with the UKs pricing system for electricity, is that the developers may be charging £300/MWh, pushing up the price for all power to £300/MWh. That nonsense must stop, it is not a 'renewables' problem as the price to start up a gas plant can be even higher.

I worked on a basement swimming pool in a hotel once, as the pool was being enlarged, an underground stream was breached. I have never seen a project go so seriously over budget.

Think you may have missed a zero. 0.033 W.m-1.K-1

May not be the cheapest option though. Bulk transmission losses are quite low, it is local substation losses that the problem, and we cannot easily get rid of them without serious engineering.

I don't think anyone that works in the planning of wind farms thinks that. Totally agree with that. Where was the other 89% coming from, and are you just talking local demand, or national?

Do they want it, or you going to fly tip it. (We are constantly fighting a battle with fly tipping, disadvantage of a free carpark and a tennent that never locks the gate when they leave)

I am up for it if I can. Don't get carried away, this is our good week, and it is almost over.

This is what Cornwall is like most of the days. And the beaches.

Lots to put in for the 15th. https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/May-15 Brian Eno's birthday

What, manlove then

The ghost of Heath Robinson. You could have done this to get the same saving.

For real, we have had quite a lot of rain. In fact, when I went to Bodmin Moor to pick up some MVHR pipework on Easter Friday, it was torrential.

All this nonsense about range anxiety. How many people actually drive more than 200 miles in a day. Not many. And as @S2D2 says, 600 miles is possible. (I am an exception and frequently driven 600+miles in a day, a few times a month, and if I had the cash to hand would have a Model 3 LD over a BMW M5, the nearest competitor)

So they are not actually doing it, it is being planned. Quite different from

The majority of people lease purchase, and only do a handful of thousand miles a year, usually very short, urban journeys as well. These are the people that EVs are aimed at, not the isolated rural dwellers or the high milage people. It really is not a technical problem anymore. You got a link to that, or is it just an academic study (been reported in for over a decade). Cleaning up ships emissions has increased solar forcings, and raised global temperature (as has China's improved air quality), but it is not a conspiracy, con, or anything nasty, just a side effect of better technology.

A man well known for his science/technical background and never saying what people want to hear.