SteamyTea

Yes There are some limitation to the research at the bottom of the webpage. I also think the estimate of energy use is rather high. A modern office does not have a CRT monitor attached to a 300W desktop PC. Or old fashioned lighting.

On the face of it, this seems to make sense. Except, as we decarbonise the grid, so the products made using grid energy get decarbonised. PV plays a large part of this decarbonising, as does wind. So comparing something manufactured a few years back with a much higher embodied carbon and energy content, with what is happening today is rather bad accounting.

Yes Yes It is down to having 5 million + visitors a year, with a resident population of around 600,000. All that has to be clean up before it hits the sea, and as the vast majority of the population is within a mile of the sea, it is expensive to pump it inland, clean it, then pump it back again. Thames water charges £1.35/m3 for water, £0.87/m3 waster water. South West water charges £1.85/m3 for water and £3.58/m3 waste water. Now it is also worth remembering that we get a lot of rain, we get charged for that too. There is currently a vote of the local population about how often dogs are allowed on the beach. If past votes are anything to go by, they will be allowed on all beach most of the time. I pay a lot to make sure the beach stay clean, then people come along and let their dogs shit on them. Really is hopeless sometimes.

They are making a lot of goods for 'us' though. And rather than look at national boundaries, we need to look at per capita and population density. But even that is tricky as it makes Australia, with relatively little population for the country size look good, but they supply a lot of coal and iron ore for India and China.

How many people are in this place, and what else goes on it it i.e. heating system, if factory connected to it. May also be worth finding out what sort of CO2 is use. Some only estimate based on other gases.

I think it would be better to just be open about taxes. We don't really have an issue with 'sin' taxes anyway, and they are good at changing behaviour. It also seems odd that we don't tax at a higher level the things that are easy to tax, but we tax at a low level the things that are hard to tax i.e. income tax v corporation tax. I would like to see a large sign on council owned carparks justifying the charges and fines. Something along the lines of: 'Little of the cash raised here go to keeping the crap shops in the High Street' Or 'Taxing the local workers because the government has reduced income taxes too much' Or, how about. 'We privatised this as we don't give a (expletive deleted) for you' That last one would look good on an NHS carpark. https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/manufacturer-news/2020/01/21/jaguar-i-pace-offered-via-nhs-salary-sacrifice-scheme

Some forests are expanding. Just like some glaciers are. But I am pretty sure that on average, both are shrinking.

Probably similar. And if I got some more modern storage heaters then I would have more control than I do now.

At the moment most is produced by evaporation, so 100% renewable. Lithium isn't the major issue anyway.

Only temporarily. Isn't that what governments are for. They have a difficult balancing act to do, so they have to change policies and tax rates as things change.

I achieve ~85% on the night rate, and 100% heating and hot water. And I am wasteful with hot water.

There isn't really, especially with water. I can only get supplied by the most expensive company in the country. And this is in an area with more rain than anywhere else. But the beaches are kept clean so that dogs can shit on them. So well worth £800/person.year.

Has the print function disappeared for everything, or just that document? If it is just the document, it may be read only, or have similar restriction placed on it. I hope you downloaded it from a trusted source, Jeff Bezo had pictures of his todger copied.

2 way switching. Cheap, reliable and not reliant on a third party app.

Just watching Demon Seed. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075931/ We have had this warning in 1973, though Julie Christie did not film it till 1977.

If each shower is using 10 kW of energy, and you have a store of 200 kWh, then with no reheating, you get 20 minutes of shower time if they are all running. To reheat that lot with a 50 kW heater would take 4 hours. The usual demand on for bathing is considered 3 kWh/day.

Re the space heating. Have you considered air2air for each room. With a bit of careful ductwork you can fit it in with the ventilation system. You can basically heat as many cylinders as you like as long as the heat source is large enough. By using cylinders you can heat them overnight at a cheaper rate. There is also Sunamps. One for each room, if there is the space.

Think the one I had fail was WD too.

Always worth plotting against the PVGIS datasets. I think they do daily if you dig down deep enough. When I started in the PV industry, I had a number of calls from dissatisfied customers. These were on systems that had nothing wrong with them (was a rarity for the company I worked for). I checked the local weather stations and it was an exceptionally dull autumn. nothing can be done about normal variation. Unlike the NE facing system that was installed because the customer did not want them on the SW of his house. I should have got the salesman to add a couple of extra thousand to that for the hassle. Can see why no one else was willing to do the job.

I think there is legislation that cars have to be supported for 12 years (not 100% sure on the years). But history has shown us that cars have been supported for decades. @Onoff can still get bits for the Pug.

Now I know some people on here work in IT, But at the home level, how many of us have really had a disk fail. I bought a new one that was noisy from the start and it failed within a few days. Apart from that, in 26 years of using PCs at home, I have not had one fail.

Easier and cheaper to just back up stuff. It is what data compression is for. I recently set my Mother's old PC up with the built in Windows backup. Took 5 minutes and when the things dies (it is 15 years old), it is a case of pull the memory stick out, then put it in the new PC.

I got some USB adaptors that let me plug 4 USB devices into a single socket. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-in-1-Micro-USB-Male-to-Micro-USB-Female-and-3-USB-2-0-Female-Host-OTG-Adapter/301755853448 Then you can get some cheap USB memory sticks Can set it up to do backups as well.

Too true. Just because something is possible does not mean it is needed. I am not looking forward to when the FM radio system gets discontinued, though I felt the same about AM not broadcasting my favourite station.

I have a Buffalo 1 TB network drive. It just plugs into a LAN port on the router. Try rebooting the BT Hub with the storage connected.