SteamyTea

So does that not show that it is the amount that can be borrowed is setting the price, rather than the build cost?

What planet you from. One with very low gravity.

@Ed Davies Could that not be done, in time, with NFC. Just tap the device to the phone, router, box of tricks and let it set itself up. Might also be a way to hard wire in encryption.

Oddly, since getting a half decent smart phone, I use it more. I like that I can go for a walk and see how my steps match my heart rate, the route I have walked, speeds and climbs. I can also post nonsense on websites, find out the time of tides, take pictures etc etc.

They probably meant that particular model, that weighed the same as a motorcycle battery, had limited coverage (a term that was not associated to the technology at the time), was very expensive etc etc. I think people wanted a mobile phone, and could see the benefits, they just did not like what was offered at the time. Bit like the the Matra/Renault Rancho. Now the best selling cars are based on the same concept.

I heard that the CLIC cancer charity had to change names from Cancer and Leukemia in Teenagers. Why is Exeter University so up itself?

Like asthma caused by the fungi.

I can be a bit off with quips. Having renovated 3 old buildings in the past, I would say yes, not worth the effort. In hindsight, the last one I did, I should have gutted out and then dealt with the core problems, the lack of foundation (was a 1860's stable block converted into 6 cottages. Built on the old beach in Weymouth). I like modern materials, they can easily be shaped to look like an old building. It really should not be hard to build an airtight, and therefore watertight, box. Then add things to make it look pretty.

First thing is to look for any very obvious leaks. Damp and mould is really the secondary sign there is a problem. Then knock down and rebuild to modern standards.

No, was there a decade ago doing my Masters, then it was a miserable building down the arse end, as far from the car park (they charged) as possible. I have been to the 'innovation centre' should be called 'hopeless dreamers'. Is the Falmouth one where the art goes on?

A door needs to be accessible from outside. Here is my secret code, it is embedded in the shame.

I am watching paint dry (literally), so have just read (skimmed) a paper about embodied energy to make Lithium Ion batteries. The materials takes 391 Wh to deliver 1Wh The processing takes 763 Wh to deliver 1Wh Total is 1154 Wh/Wh. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212827119301015 So as soon as you have 'used' the battery 1200 times, you should be into energy negative. The interesting thing is that the vast majority of the energy is in the processing, this will only come down in the future, and, so say the old worn out meme, if that energy comes from a low CO2e source, it does not matter too much environmentally.

The very first commercial wind turbine was installed down here, between Falmouth and Helston at Sewogan. It sat unused for decades, but I think it has gone now. Was pretty ugly.

It is always a problem in small houses, but even worse when the place is longer and thinner. My house is 3.5m wide, almost a metre is taken up by staircase, leaving 2.5m. Pop a sofa in, and now down to 1.25m (ish). Put a TV in and you are about a metre from it. I don't have a TV. The point I was making, was that for the same area, layout can be a lot better than what I currently have. I only have one bathroom, and very little storage.

Vaguely. I found Penryn campus a bit of a rip off all over. Was not a happy time in my life down in the Geography department. They charged extra to put butter in a bacon sandwich.

It should be, though if the fan is out of balance, or the case not fitted correctly, then it could make more noise. You probably have, there are thousands used as A/C units. Usually a few feet up a wall. Have a look around bars, small supermarkets, offices.

Prepared or forced.

They just don't. It is all to do with the area they present to the wind and the windspeed.

Had this conversation with @caliwag His idea of small, and mine are different.

Wet, windy, warm and sometimes sun. Not even thought about heating for months now.

May depend where you live. Near a busy road, or an arable farm, or very close to the sea. All those throw up a lot of particles, all the time. I live just off one of the most polluted roads in the UK, hard to believe that in windy, wet Cornwall. The dirt I get in my windows is the worse I have known.

You knocked out the traffic lights in Truro, which is 50 miles from you. And they blamed it on a windfarm and a gas plant, now we know the truth. Shall we call it the 3C event.

Does that mean getting rid of a cooker and fridge, eating out every day instead. Using a launderette is just horrible, I have often thought they could be improved, and incorporated into cafes. Where do you put the eBike in a small flat. I did minimal living when I was a young student, probably the biggest single thing I had to move was my stereo. No, I shall stick by my statement that we need to build bigger places. Building smaller places does not reduce price, that is set my how much people can borrow. If people could swap excess assets for 'experiences', that would cause a lot of environmental damage from the extra transport alone. That is before the extra consumerism.

He thinks it is always worth paying for a professional. Then he goes on to relate a story about an estimator adding 20%, passing it onto the boss, who adds another 20%. Says it then comes in on budget.

For anyone interested it goes into supporting professionals because they never get the estimate wrong. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0007djl