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Tougher in fact.
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Welcome Mark Without seeing the pictures, and if you don't want to change the doors/thresholds, can you get some ramps made up to make entry and exit easier.
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My Father chopped some toes off with his petrol Flymo. Just for clarity, if you chop your big toe off, you only temporarily loose your balance.
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Your Home Base Load / Background Power Draw
SteamyTea replied to MrMagic's topic in Photovoltaics (PV)
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Pick you up too, you will need to keep that garage warm when working all winter on your car and tractor.
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Chop Chop then as I am interested in seeing the data, methods used to analysis it and the conclusions drawn. Where is your factory, if it is local to me I may drop in. Just seen you are in Andover, about time I did a trip up country, can pick up @JSHarrison the way.
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Your Home Base Load / Background Power Draw
SteamyTea replied to MrMagic's topic in Photovoltaics (PV)
My major loads are at night, but if I look at the fraction of time that I am drawing up to 10W, it is, between 28/06/2019 and 07/07/2019 (last week) 0.6, so 60% of the time. 10W up to 20W is 0.01, 1% of the time. So that is basically the radio, laptop and fridge, toilet MVHR unit. If I look at the same time period, but bin the data into 1kW chunks, then 0W up to 1000W is 0.92, 92% of the time. 1000W up to 2000W is 0.004, so less than 0.5% 2000W to 3000W is 0.05, so 5% (probably kettle and cooking and maybe washing machine) 3000W plus is 0.021, so water heating is around 2% of the time. I need to work on my sub 1000W loads, but mainly below 50W as that accounts for 72% of the time. Radio is 3W, laptop 8W, fridge, on average 5W. But when I look at the numbers at 1W resolution, 60% is between 0 and up to 1W. So I am not going to worry. 60% of the time I use no power at all, I should ask for a reduced meter rental. -
If we just put PV on our roofs, that would reduce the energy getting though by about 20%. We could also put reflective film on windows, probably cut out 30%. Flooding is probably a bigger risk than drought, but personally I can't see London getting the same climate, or even the same weather as Barcelona. London is in a plain, Barcelona is coastal, but the Med, which is a unique sea. Barcelona is also surrounded by hills. Worth remembering that Barcelona had a lot of infrastructure changes brought about by the Olympics, London did not.
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And set up a radio station. The pictures are better on radio.
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Mining area here, so all badly polluted, leaks radon, agriculturally worthless (good land is Grade 3b). Or something like this: USS West Mahomet in First World War dazzle camouflage
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They didn't collapse then, and they would be bailled out again. I have often wondered if you found a bit of common land, put some plastic pipes in it, cordoned it off with spikes and hi-viz tape, then put some signs up saying: "Contamination Survey: Do not remove" Then, if it does not get disturbed for a year, put a large box filled with concrete on it. Then a shed, then a few piles. Then a bigger shed, but with windows. You get the picture.
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Welcome I would spend some time properly learning all you can about building physics and planning law. If you really want to make a difference, get on the local parish council and work your way up the political ladder. There is a serious lack of 'young' people involved in local politics. Failing that, how about a houseboat.
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Would you really want that actuator cluttering up the view.
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My argument was not to do with the emitter area or temperature, it was to do with the albedo, temperature, area, line of sight and distance of the object receiving the IR.
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It is selling the infra red dream again. Work well until you put some clothes on. I really thought this nonsense had been banished, but seems that people think there is a real advantage to it still.
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What are these? https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/green-tech/conservation/graphene-heating-system-dramatically-reduces-home-energy-costs See the disclosure statement.
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Electric cars create more carbon dioxide than diesels.
SteamyTea replied to K78's topic in Environmental Building Politics
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What my Father said. Had my cataracted eyeballs changed at 44.
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Electric cars create more carbon dioxide than diesels.
SteamyTea replied to K78's topic in Environmental Building Politics
I think, but I am no chemist, that it is the cobalt that is the hard one to get out. There are projects to repurpose old car batteries, but I think that is not the best use for them. There is also the price volatility to take into account. Cobalt is very volatile. Figures from Metalary -
Electric cars create more carbon dioxide than diesels.
SteamyTea replied to K78's topic in Environmental Building Politics
I think there is a discrepancy between people that buy new, or fairly new cars, and people that buy end of life cars. Having bought news cars in the past, and see nearly £20k in depreciation over 5 years (same time I bought a holiday home for £36k). I decided that end of life cars were better value. So far the total costs for the last 20 years has been less than the previous depreciation (I do drive like my Mother these days and can get 100,000 miles out of a set of brake pads, they used to last 5,000 miles).
