SteamyTea

You can reverse axis in Excel Though I suspect this is not what you meant.

What like this

Your mum really should put your crayons away.

Something like this. Just punch in the numbers, use conditional formatting to colour in the cells after they have been resized so that height and width are equal. Or chart it.

YES ! ?? That sort of talk can only go down south in the Pocster household.

Some don't think so. You child killing, farmer starving, water thief.

No it isnt, depending on the road chosen it is Bude, Bodmin or Saltash. But I agree, the inner parts of Cornwall are ugly, but it is hard to sell the place to dog owners if the old piles of mining slag look worse than dog shit on Porthemmet beach. I pay to clean up the mess.

Yes we all remember you mooning.

No, The Horror that is Cornwall.

Yes, me.

I pay more in standing charges. And that is before taxes on it. Fuel poverty is a myth, water poverty is the financial killer. I am now going to drive my car to town, get a coffee and complain that the world is not as good as it used to be. That will probably cost me a tenner in all. (we are so lucky in the UK that we still have choices, some are good ones, some a bit silly)

I should have put a borehole in and 'piggy backed' the SWW sewage system. They charge the majority for getting rid of the water, but base it on my imported water. Fresh, clean drinking water costs me £1.9101/m3. Getting rid of that costs me £3.16958/m3. 2 thirds more. Now get this, I have a fixed charge of £38.20 a year for my drinking water, but £53.85 to get rid of it. 41% more. All that so that people can have clean beaches for their dogs to shit on.

The Carnot cycle, you can't get better for a heat engine. You have mentioned a fair few negative things, reinforced by @PeterStarck's comments. What it is really down to is having a system correctly sized and installed. A kW is a unit of power, if your house need say 3 kW to raise the temperature by 5°C, then it matters not if that power is supplied by a heat pump, an oil or gas burner, or even an open fire. What will change in the energy input, this is where heat pumps win. They use less 'imported' energy as they get the majority of the needed energy locally (the air or ground). As for price to install, people tend to change traditional systems bit by bit, but this just masks some of the costs. Add up all the costs over a 25 year period and they are probably similar. And what narks me is that people often talk about 'payback' of a heat pump, but that never gets mentioned when talking about traditional systems.

That is to do with reducing attenuation. Which is another factor in sound propagation. It is why there is a large reducing in sound levels between 1 m and 2 m away, the surface area of the 'sphere of sound' is greatly increased, which reduces the energy per unit area. Realistically, any half decent ASHP is not going to make much noise. @joe90's air blower for his sewage was a bigger problem.

This is the biggest problem. It is why I don't have PV, and ASHP and a Sunamp. Just not worth it for my usage. Using an inch less water in the bath gives me a bigger saving than all that, but that is partly because my water costs me more than the price of heating it.

The dB sound scale is non linear though. https://www.britannica.com/science/sound-physics/The-decibel-scale

That's because they don't look at data. Once cleaned up that data should give you a pretty decent idea of what is happening at different times of the day. Then you could change behaviour to optimise the storage i.e. if little solar stored during the day, go out that night to a friend's house. Generally what happens is that you will use less energy overall, which makes the system seem to perform better.

You should have bought a decent inverter. Now you may have to get one of the export power mangers for your inverter.

The majority of people on here, and in the general population, can't understand how to take advantage of E7, so anything that 'they have to tinker with' is a non starter. Let's face it, most people on here, and nearly all of the general public, don't understand how electricity is made and distributed, they think it comes from Unicorn Fart. If you tell them that during the day, the Unicorns are doing some other things, like powering offices and factories, so the only way you can get more is to pay extra, but tomorrow those times will be different, as the sun has come out, they will get very confused. So yes, people just want a simple installation and operation. My computer has 287 commands built in at the command prompt. I use 2 of them, (cd and copy). That is 2 more than most people, in the world. Things have to be simple from the outside.

Worth a go, could be interesting.

You have to define 'eco'. It is a nonsense term otherwise. Quite interested in your energy monitor though, care to post up more details?

Yes, it will not change much when you initially move into your new place (we take our habits with us). Yes, and no. That is pretty useless really, can't see any numbers, so just about impossible to work out what is happening.

can it show the energy, rather than the power?

What do you use in the place you currently live in? There are many on here that will agree with that method.

Do you know, or can you accurately estimate, your night usage? Don't know what your weather is like so far north and east of the true West Country, but down here it is a 'no weather day'. So just a white/grey sky and no wind, occasional rain. But because there is a lot of scattered light, it would be interesting to see how much your PV will generate, probably not as bad as one assumes.