SteamyTea

Your PV is going to take 15 to 18% of the energy out of the sun as well.

Many years ago I was at a pub (Red Lion, Marsworth) chatting to a friend. This woman, who he knew, turned up and started talking to us. I thought she was a bit pissed as she was slurring her words. When she got onto talking about ivy and how it was a very ancient plant, and that is why it was hard to kill, I wondered off. Couple of days later, on Radio 4 (probably GQT), there was, what sounded like a very drunk woman talking about ivy. She was a world expert. And she had had a stroke, but may have been pissed as well.

That sounds like the video links @pocster keeps sending me.

Then why pay a premium for a crippled version.

why don't I get these problems. The only PC that gave me problems was an old girlfriend's ME one, but then she did have a habit of delete system files and folders. I set up SAMBA on the Linux boxes and it worked fine. Do have to set it up on each one. Of just use WinSCP.

That can't be right. Apple are the best, can't be bettered. They are made for complete idiots to use, a newborn would be able to set it up. Well that is what Mac people tell me, but they are wankers, worse than vegans.

I just looked at the Land Registry to see how many detached newbuilds have sold in Cornwall and Buckinhamshire this year. Bucks has 15, Cornwall 20 The mean price Bucks £573,989 Range Max £995,000 Min £375,000 Cornwall £322,614 Range Max £639,950 Min £200000 Looking at the last 3 months of 2019 Bucks sales 147, Cornwall 93 Mean Prices Bucks £564,237 Max £1,165,000 Min £310,000 Cornwall £326,050 Max £689,950 Min £156,000 But I have no idea where you are and what the market is like.

Is now really the time to be looking to purchase? Already about 20,000 less home users about, may be 50,000 or about 7% of home owners no longer needing them by the end of the year. (I just made those numbers up and I have no real idea what is going to happen)

Don't reducing combustion temperature in a diesel engine increase particulates, I thought it did. Not talking the very latest designs, thinking more around Euro4 standards. Lowering temperature does cause more visible smoke, but a lot of that is unburnt hydrocarbons.

I think part of the problem here is very local, think it is called the 'canyon effect'. We also have a higher proportion of older cars, diesel vehicles (industrial estate is near by), no gas from my road upwards, high fraction of solid fuel users, and chronic under investment in housing stock. You would think the M25 would be worse, but it isn't, well not if you use NOX as a proxy for particulates. I also live about 100 metres uphill from a double mini roundabout, so cars are breaking or accelerating.

Interesting problem, many one here like MVHR because it improves internal air quality, but as soon as the neighbours become antisocial, it all goes wrong. Someone needs to investigate the best method, be it activated charcoal filters, moving vents and intakes, or an ozone generator, to find out what works. I live about 50 metres from one of the countries worst polluted roads, MVHR could cause me more problems that it saves.

Your ears have a very small surface area, and are set up to detect very tiny changes in air pressure, the 'popping' has little to do with the actual ear in isolation. It is the way it is connected, via the Eustachian tube to the rest of the world, which is very large. Then there are the 'mechanical' bits of the ear, the malleus bone, which is like a pump to amplify the tiny movement of the ear drum. The ear was never designed to sense overall pressure differences, and why should it, not as if, 2 million years ago, we rapidly changed altitude. Those it does serve as a good warning when swimming down into deep water. Quite a marvel is the ear, probably better,and more useful, that the eye. Not that I would want to be without either of them.

It is in the social sciences. Not sure how effective it is really. Seems to work in simple, clear cut cases i.e. weeing into a urinal, but not more complicated issues. Three word slogans seem to work bets there.

So are these https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Protable-Fire-Rated-Self-Closing-Door-Hinges-Single-Action-Adjustable-Spring-T3/202976905472

So a horrible amount of energy you planet killer. Stop bathing, and washing clothes, one advantage of social desolation, you can go smelly for weeks, hell, I know people that do that anyway.

Yes, there are many ways it could be done. But a basic modification to a lever tap seems a sensible, easy and cheap way to do it. Just a case of changing the tap, no need for any wiring, it does not need to be times to the millisecond. A normal tap could have a minute to close, a bath tap 3 minutes (or something like that). By using a lever it would also be easy and quick for most people to see where it is in the cycle, and to move it a bit to add an extra minute or so. It may not be as elegant as some taps, but it is only a (expletive deleted)ing tap with a spring and friction clutch in it.

Not even that really, it is a desire to save energy by the user, the meter type or display is only a tool to help. If you think back a decade, some people over at the other place, thought that using a CT clamp to sense the current was pointless as they did not take voltage or power factor into account. They totally missed the point.

Profit is not solely based on units sold though. A Rolls Royce dealer is probably just as profitable as a Peugeot dealer, but sells a lot less cars. (John will be along to say I am speaking bollocks, but I could have said the same about Farm Shops and Tesco, or Saville Row tailors and Primark)

Or better still, a good 2 metres apart.

Well no. But I don't think anyone serious has claimed they do. Bit like saying that the fuel pumps at Esso stations save fuel.

Basically yes, but with more user control. I don't want Captain Birdseye, or the watchful eye Seaman Matey, controlling my shower. Just a string that slowly returns the lever, gives you a visual cue to how much time is left as well.

I want a domestic version of that. Would make having a shower so much nicer, and more economical. There does need to be a delay fitted in to get over the 'first slug' issue, but sure that is not hard, maybe a wall button with thermostat (my Mother's shower has that). It could be something as simple as a kick switch fitted to the side of the bath (inside it obviously).

Just modified my post to say not them. They are horrible. I like a controllable lever.

So have I. I had a lodger that had trouble turning taps off. Now this was not the disabled one. It was a youngster (well early 20's) that just seemed incapable of turning taps off properly. He had never paid a metered water bill, or any domestic bill for that matter. But while thinking about lever taps, does anyone make a self closing one? So if you turn it on, it runs for a minute of whatever, then closes fully. Would only need a small spring and a friction clutch. Not those horrible, council fitted, push button ones, that open fully when thumped and splash water all down the front of your trousers (light coloured ones).