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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266 @TerryE is the man for these.

Just reading the longer piece about it. I hate legal language, but it is quite interesting about the 'material and weight' aspect. The real answer is to develope more, low density, housing. If your neighbour is 200 metres away, it would be a rare event.

Add kW and kWh to your autocorrect.

Just had a quick scan of the article. A similar case happened in the US about a decade ago. But the picture amazed me, how does that produce 11 kW as claimed by the article. Maybe there is more hidden away on the other walls and under the shed.

Yes it is.

Why is the RPi not counting the pules off the meter?

We should just measure all energy in the derived SI unit of joules (or kJ, MJ, GJ, EJ). Would make life so easy to compare then. Seems barmy to me that we sell bottled gas by the kg, liquid fuels by the litre, coal by the sack, timber by whatever someone want so to quite (bag, tonne, cubic foot, lorry load). No wonder people are confused. We can label food with kJ, why not the rest of the energy market. And don't get me started on BOE, Therms and what Americans use.

I am in split minds about that. I am not sure of the figures now, as it is 40 years since I studies automotive engineering, but back then, a secondary brake (hand brake) had to be capable of applying 14% of the vehicles rated braking force (that depends on age and mass of vehicle). Applying all 4 brakes via the foot peddle, supplies up to 100%. There is also the matter of brake cooling. Depending on the type and style of driving, applying a brake onto a drum or disk can cause either overheating or reduced cooling. Not so much of a problem these days as brakes are very good (mine have done about 100,000 miles without any maintenance/replacement), but other drivers may not drive like my Mother and overuse brakes.

Ah, right. It was not too clear from the data sheet. Can I connect via that to my raspberry pi.

So if banks/lenders will not lend against a property with the correct and acceptable insurance, the site should be worth the value of the land, minus demotion and disposal. Bet if you asked a lender to sell you a place at they they would say bugger off.

Is there enough kVAs? shows 4kV, which is 17.39A @230V but only 16A @250V. But I have no idea what size your system is. Has a max wire size of 2.5mm2 on the output, so that may be a problem too.

Buildhub doesn't to as well as expected. https://www.scamdoc.com/view/71796

Electric Drill and Angle Grinder. Do just about everything with those two.

Why I am questioning the pipe spacing, seems a bit counter intuitive to me. But it may depend on the depth of the pipe and the temperature of the fluid.

Could you explain the reason for that?

Already happened, how else can you explain building on flood plains, next to beaches and halfway up muddy hillsides.

I often wonder, getting it back to building, what would happen if we all 'thought' differently about the underlying physics and prices. Would be have beautiful ivory towers or carbuncles? Would they be fast to build? Cheap too. How well would they withstand a gale from an unexpected direction. Probably it is a good job that we tend to do what we have, or others have, done. Keeping the status quo is often a good policy. All very exciting what is going to happen.

31st Jan 202? And all this is just to say, 'here is, or isn't, a cheque, now how shall we proceed to the trade and social aspect'. This is going to last longer than the Neverending Story, 1979 to 2016.

Corian is an acrylic polymer, with some alumina trihydrate in it. So no good for putting hot pans on, why it is better as a spashback rather than a counter top.

You are still getting air changes. I left my place sealed up when I went away for a month, it had a strange smell when I got back. Turned the heating on and ventilated more than normal, smell soon went.

The definition and calculations for affordable housing are also a nonsense,

I mentioned that once and got my comment deleted. If one material line becomes too expensive, then another will take its place, it is what substitution is all about. The other thing is that buyers work to a price point i.e. they are unwilling to spend more than x. So that may mean there are more refurbishments and smaller projects as there is more elasticity in the price.

I wrote, rather sarcastically, about the difference between cars and houses a while back. I will come clean, it was not my idea, but one from @Ed Davies a few years back. But here is the link anyway. Building Cars and Houses I do think that we have to seriously reform planning and all the professional fees we pay to build. An old work mate was building two identical houses, so had to pay the timber frame company two lots of fees for architectural and structural work, just imagine if you had to pay the full development costs of a tire for each corner of your car.

I once drove my old Chrysler Alpine about a mile and a half on the starter motor. Just got it rolling, jammed it into second gear and turned the key. Got me home. And no, I had not run out of petrol, was the ignition coil.

We used to make the Corian smaples that were sent out, thousands of them. It is pretty easy to polish up. That gets rid of most marks, scratches and stains. Jewelers Rouge, T-Cut, Farecla or even Jiff/Siff will normally do it. Polished up nice from an 800 grit Wet or Dry rubbing.