SteamyTea

All the rules for an existing driver to get a bike test is too high a barrier to entry. And, the range of electric motorbikes is pitiful. Odd thing with EVs, it is the large ones that have the range, not the little ones. The opposite to ICE cars.

Barwick Green, works every time. Especially now that Alf Grundy is in town.

Until a cable comes out. Then it is an unexpected hazard.

So which half of the world do you want to exterminate. Don't be shy, or politically correct. Just say it.

They end up down here. And last a good few years more.

We polluted more, per capita when we had half the population. You have fallen into the Malthusian trap. And that is now about 200 years old.

What makes you say that. The average milage in the UK is 8000 miles a year. So even if half the storage capacity vanished, they could still travel 3 times the mean daily milage. But I still want an EV that does 400 miles between charges.

Think they are dumping them up in some Scottish islands to store excess wind power. If we lived in an idea world, many things would be different. But we don't, so we have to let the global free market do it's thing.

They have vast hydro electric plants, and a few geothermal ones. Environmentally it is probably better than using PV in Australia. There are many things that can be done, but often at a higher cost, both environmentally and in cash terms. Companies don't choose to throw things away if there is a better alternative. Quite simply, there is not the economies of scale with lithium ion batteries to make 100% recycling worth while. Why they are finding a secondary use for them as grid storage devices. Give the RNIBb a call and see if they agree. They said the same about gasoline when you had to get it from the chemist shop. "Something for the weekend Sir".

Not sure our disability legislation would allow that. There have been many things removed from pavements because of it. I like the this idea. Just needs a method of being able to use other peoples booms. Dedicated parking is not a goo idea, we have it, and no one except 3 of us who have lived here the longest take any notice of it, but take a lot of abuse when we ask others to move their vehicles.

And Australia, USA, Canada, China, Russia, and possibly Cornwall one day. Not unusual to ship raw materials and finished goods, hard to think of anything that isn't. Transporting by ship is probably the lowest cost, most fuel efficient and least polluting method there is. There will be a report that shows different. What reports do. A million what? It is still combustion, and often the environmental damage is still greater than burning fossil fuels. Again, there are reports that argue it both ways. There still needs to be an EV that does 400 miles between charges, but my car ha passed its MOT, it did need new brakes on the front, but they lasted 140,000 miles almost. So what is all this My car is almost 13 years old, and will last another year I hope.

It is really do do with the user interface, not what goes on behind the scenes. My car is in for the MOT at the moment, been lent a Toyota, even though things are different, I can still work it. Shame the IT industry does not take the same approach.

How useful us this eCO2 sensor? https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/adafruit-sgp30-air-quality-sensor-breakout-voc-and-eco2

If he heat pump and the emitters (radiators, UFH, forced air or whatever) are size correctly, there will not be a problem. I think the problem is, that as a nation, we are used to the idea of a gas boiler. There is nothing inherently wrong with a gas boiler, they are cheap to buy and install, are small, can throw out a lot of heat, but also throw out a lot of pollution. There is nothing to stop a house having UFH and radiators, even in the same room, if that is what is needed (what is wanted is another thing).

Can you explain why not? It may loose the CoP as temperature rises, but if you have enough storage at the lower temp an ASHP can easily deliver at, where is the problem.

4th window from left. Quality Cornish building.

@Crofter Not sure if you have sourced this yet, But I was in a place called MacSalvors (very well known don here for odds and sods), they have some channel that is what sounds like you are after. Give them a call, and if you have no luck closer to home, I can get you some and post it up. https://www.macsalvors.com/

Just to add to this, @joe90 knows a thing or two about dealing with Devonshire planning people. Probably mentioning his name will get you whatever you want.

At least you are not paying Cornish water rates to get rid of rainwater. Rained every day for 31 days here. Not a record by any means, have known it to rain for 66 days. Probably still worth putting a bit of mass into it, just in case. Or making sure, that if it does rise, no serious/expensive damage is done.

Welcome As most people say, land is the hard bit. Around Plymouth is also a restricted I think, Cornwall is not so bad. Have you considered find a wreck of a house, but in a location that you like, then either refurb, or in a few years knock down and rebuild. It is very easy to get locked into detail at the very beginning i.e. I must have XYZ. You could also go looking for an existing log cabin or even a static caravan (old girlfriend of mine had one just outside Moretonhampstead), then look at doing things on the site.

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The problem is logging CO2 is expensive. But you really don't need to as RH is a good indicator, though not an accurate of actual CO2 PPM. Then there is how many areas you want to monitor. If you have MVHR, you can easily stick 4 sensors in the duct work and monitor the whole house and the external temperature. As for rolling your own, it really is not hard, and you can design it to get the data of in a format that you want, rather than what some spotty millennium thinks you want. Only about 15 things are needed. A Raspberry Pi Zero W 4 DHT22s Temp/RH sensors 4 Resistors An RTC (Real Time Clock). Memory Card Serial to USB cable PSU (Power Supply Unit) Wire Box to put it in I am sure one of us could knock you up an image for the memory card that will make it all work.

Why not pour some gravel into the IBCs, a third of the way up (or so). That should stop them floating away when the water table moves.

I have a number of questions about this. Do you fancy starting something in Boffins Corner?

There are quite cheap modules on Alibaba, from under $0.25/W