Jump to content

SteamyTea

Members
  • Posts

    23270
  • Joined

  • Days Won

    187

Everything posted by SteamyTea

  1. The panel degradation is a tricky calculation, similar to German cars in a way. Many panels were sold with a minimum output, this was achieved by having panels that started overrated. So a 250W module may well have been a 275W module. But the degradation was based from 250W. My Mother always bought Mercedes for 30 years, she thought the depreciation was lower. I pointed out that it was calculated on the base model and did not take into account any extras, and as anyone who bought a Mercedes in the 70's, 80's and 90's knows, everything was an extra.
  2. Yes KISS again
  3. So if I get this right, you want to make a "wedge" of PU foam to go around the window upstand, so that the water will always roll downhill, yes? If that is the case, just get working with the saw, rasp and sandpaper on your celotex offcuts. To hold it all in place, try sticking it down with gelcoat. One think to remember is that matt does not like to wrap around an external corner, so a big radius is needed. Much bigger than it looks like you already have.
  4. Yes, PU sheet is the way to go. You can get it with a glass fibre tissue covering, makes it much nicer to handle and uses less resin when you come to lay it up. Any chances of some pictures. Failing that, corrugated cardboard.
  5. I heard you never use it as a rule.
  6. Can you flush gallons of water down everything, talking a tonne or two, not a bucket. See if it goes away, or backs up. Maybe with some bleach to act as a marker smell.
  7. Probably was that, just relayed to me very badly.
  8. On one hand. Must have been all that Black Forest Gateaux.
  9. I herd it from a Porthleven fisherman, and from a supplier. Though, like all tales from fishermen, it is hard to know for sure.
  10. Keep sea bass, you are only allowed to catch one now. North Sea fisheries are currently closed to cod fishing I think. Eat Haddock, for Cod's sake.
  11. Don't hedge funds pay the minimum they can get away with, while hoping the project fails. That way they get a bigger slice of the saleable asset.
  12. If going for export payments/FiTs, then the meter has to be by the main import meter I seem to remember. It is so that only exports/generation after system losses are metered.
  13. But as flat as your site. And it is still only 1989 there.
  14. Conversely there are greater problems of creating new ghettos. The trouble with a ghetto is that it drops to the lowest factors of acceptability, rather than somewhere acceptable for most people. One bad neighbour, or an absent landlord, can ruin the everyday life for a few dozen people. That cannot happen is more dispersed housing. There was a bit about it on the news. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-49837050
  15. 10 minutes at 100°C and supper is ready.
  16. Except the MCS rules. Some suppliers may push the limits a bit, but not that much.
  17. Then they have not charged you for anything else. That is not a bad quote/price paid.
  18. Geting back to the size of housing, almost. Rather than cram people into smaller and smaller places, why don't we cram workers into a smaller footprint. Why don't we build high rise, combined, hospitals, shopping centres, offices, schools, resturants, cinemas, car parking, all the daily stuff. Could surround them with nice fields, woods, lakes, seaside views etc. Then put the houses in a ring around them. Would make for easy transport, not chris crossing town to see a mate in hospital, after picking the kids up, before a night out. It is all in one place. Maybe some heavy industry would have to be pushed out to one side, but that is no worse than today. And just think, if a resturant/food court was on the top floor, how good the view would be. Then, on the roof of that, could be a sports field. Great fun when someone hits a six. Javelin would be interesting, as would archery.
  19. @JSHarris is the one for working out the latent heat of evaporation.
  20. Hunt around and see how much a battery pack and invert/charger for it is, then see if your quote still makes sense. I would think, though not been involved in this for a few years that a 6 kW system would be around £10,000. Maybe a bit more, or less depending on how hard the install was. Scaffolding is not free remember.
  21. What make and model is your inverter? Or do you have micro-inverters on the back of each module, or two.
  22. That could be used for a wind turbine, or a solar farm. Or even as a carbon sink, if you like growing trees.
×
×
  • Create New...