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Then go and buy a cheap 2 kW one and an extension lead. Pointless trying to run the whole house from a generator for the very rare occasion it is needed. Out here in the stick, more and more overhead cables are being buried, looks better and they are more reliable. Wish they would do the one 4 metres from my front window and the one 40 metres from my back window. The rear one is shared with the phone wires, so would get a reliable phone service,, may temp me back to a landline, but I doubt it.

Owned by the French, so they will just extend lunch, to 3 months.

British Rail was the same in the1980s. They also had a problem on the Tuesday after a Bank Holiday. Was so bad they offered overtime rates to get people to turn up. I never used trains in the 80's.

I have a serous allergy to dogs. While looking for a holiday rental earlier in the year, I had to discount the vast majority of them.

I don't think you will go off grid for £23k. And just think how good the reviews will be when your first guests say they could only bath half the dogs and supper was cold. Reliable water, sewage and electricity are a must for a business.

I had a letter from my supplier saying no problem. They have moved the Smart Meter fitters to customer services.

Once it is below $22/barrel it is just a battle between Saudi Arabia and Russia. One problem on the horizon is refining capacity. That could be hit due to staff being ill. And a lot of refining is done in India.

well you started by introducing yourself and your project. The rest is 'thread drift', which in this case, is good. We like people that have data as it makes life clearer. Now are you going to explain to @Eileen the proper way to show units.

I don't think I had to put in any payment details when I registered my Kindle. (I already had an Amazon account since 1999, but keep that separate)

Hello. Are you in the UK? or elsewhere. have you considered bottled gas or a larger cylinder? I worked out that to run my house from batteries for 3 days would cost over £60,000, but that was 15 years ago (when deep discharge, lead acid, batteries where king).

Do you mean charging a rate of 6 A, which is around 1.4 kW (how fast you fill the batteries), or putting in 2 kWh of charge (how much you fill the batteries)? Same here. One of my local Tesco has a 7.5 kW charger, would have to have a very long coffee there to make it worthwhile charging up. But it does have a view over Carbis Bay, so not too bad. Did you do a costing of putting in extra PV to just heat the water? How much does it cost to service your ST system each year? Generally PV is not cheaper to install than ST and is also more reliable, but if you have a good working system, that you can self service, probably not a lot in it. Be good to know though.

Yes, the initial installation has to be below £100/kWh really. That is assuming no losses over the first 1000 charge cycles and power bought in at 10p/kWh (about current E7 price). That tracks wholesale price, not CO2 intensity. Would be interesting to look at the correlation between them. Old nuclear is cheap, as is marginal natural gas generation. Then biomass screws it all up, but in reality it is higher than coal.

That's excellent. It can tell you so much about when, on average, it is best to run heavy loads. Link it into Gridwatch and you can work out the best time to reduce CO2, which is what it is all about anyway. I think I am going to switch off the auto correct. I had an ex offering a 'lick down' the other day, but I am sure it is not what she meant at all, especially considering what the conversation was about, quite inappropriate.

Like herb immunity, eventually most will get it. That last chart collection is useful. Does the Victron software allow you to grab the raw data for each element.

Does it save the data so you can look at it in fine detail. I collect data about every 6 seconds. Means I can easily pick up the kettle going on, or even if I have left a light on upstairs, and I only use 3W LEDs. It is 7 kWh, not upper case k (there is disagreement as to whether there is a space or not between number and unit). A capital K is Kelvin, a temperature scale. Units are really quite easy. There are the SI ones i.e. metre, kilogram, second. Then there are derived ones wish are normally named after a person so a watt is named after Watt, a j is named after Joule. as the k means kilo, or 1000, it is lower case, an hour is not named after a person, so it is lower case. It gets odd only in that a watt or a joule is all lower case, but the abbreviation W or J is upper case. And the kilogram is the odd one out, though it is now properly defined.

If a landlord has a tenets that is claiming state benefits of any sort, part, or all of that money will end up in the landlords pocket. Does that mean some landlords are living totally of state benefits? Many people in a street near me don't work, so the local housing association has a deal with the council to get paid directly (what knob though it was a good idea to directly pay tenets the housing benefit so that they can 'learn to manage money').

So around 23 Wh/litre and 19 Wh/kg. Size and mass is not really a problem for domestic storage, so they have a place in load balancing. Do you monitor your daily energy usage to see when the batteries are charging and discharging?

I think I read it, what made me think there was something to it. I would go a step further and remove all other taxation. We have trouble collecting some taxes, think corporation tax, so abolish it. There would still be a need to police income, but like traffic wardens, people choose to work in a tax office.

Some of us are a bit pedantic about units. So what will be kWh, not Kwh. If you select the text you wish to reply to, a small box will appear with 'Quote selection' in it. This will notify the person that you have replied. Same as using the @ sign before a username. And welcome. Now the important part, how much do the batteries cost and what it the volumetric energy density (how large are they).

I am sure I mentioned a few years back that we should just pay tax on every penny we receive, regardless of how we receive it. So in effect a turnover tax. We could, apart from a few 'sin' taxes, scrap all other taxation. Then it is just an argument as to what the percentage tax should be. I am sure no one would complain if it was 8%. But 65%, would cause complaints. But that is about the average tax burden that we currently pay.

How are you getting on with these batteries. I shall assume that it is 4.4 kWh (storage capacity, kW is power)

Was your wife driving? Claim on her car insurance.

Would platinum be the best, can get that from underneath cars.

Shoe = 5 Boy = 5 Icecream = 2 Shoe + (Boy x Icecream) = ? 5 + (5 x 2) = ? 5 + 10 = 15 I always feel assaulted, after a bit of battery, with these things.

Right. Shall relook at my area and see how they line up with the roads.