SteamyTea

Real men use Swarfega and sand, end of.

Some one was chatting to Robin Ince about science today. He said that you have to read science at a different pace. Good observation, it is not really like a story book.

Was the last time I went there about 10 years ago. I was walking the coast path. Thought I would go in there for supper. Went to campsite first, showered and at supper time walked back to the Wink. Did not do food. So got a taxi back into Penzance and had supper there. I looked at buying the house nearest the old harbour (say old, as in collapsing sea wall), it was the seaweed that was hanging from the roof that put me off, and that was after just a small storm. I do like it there.

For quaint it is parts of Penzance, all of St. Just, Marazion (which is nothing to do with religion), all of the Lizard, and oddly enough, on the outskirts of Redruth and Cambourne. @JSHarris Mother lives in an interesting part and only a few minutes drive from either coast. If they like running, then try Helston, largest lake in Cornwall, if not he SW is there. I walk around it and it takes 2 hours, other run around it and take 2 hours, same as the bicycleists.

Sounds to me like he does not know Cornwall too well and is sticking to the places nearest Devon. He should look at places like Perranporth (one of the best beaches in the world), Porthtowan (if he likes surfing), Portreath (if he likes cheap), Hayles (if he fancies odd, but near St. Ives). St. Just (if he wants isolated and where the ice aged ended and made a beach), Lamorna, if he fancies being washed away with the harbour wall), Mousehole (no parking, but nice lights), Newlyn (for history and cheapness), Penzance (for just about everything, and still cheap), Marazion (for cosiness and one of the best views in the world), Praa and Breage (still decent and underdeveloped, though I see that R&J Supplies are selling up), Porthleven (get in quick, it is the new Padstien), Cury, Mullion, or just about anywhere on the Lizard Peninsular (no mobile signal). Then you are around to Falmouth, which for some reason thinks it is a lot better than it is. Penryn if you like sailing and students. Then you can cross the estuary and join royalty at St. Mawes. Around St. Austell is still reasonably priced and close to Devon, but avoid the town, it is just dire. There are a few places inland, but generally it is very deprived, I know, I live in one of the most deprived areas of Europe, 50 quid makes you feel wealthy, but a few pills and a bit of blow takes the pain away for most around here then they rob my house, or set fire to a neighbours (4 house sin the last decade within 500 yards of me). I took the below picture earlier today, it is where they are developing some new flats where the price starts from £216,950, and if you want an extra bedroom (so that will be 2) add an extra £94,000. I hope the owners of the sleeping bags find somewhere warmer tonight, and with less dogshit around them. Oh, and not on the noisy main road either.

There are cheaper and better places than Port Isaac (or Portwenn as some know it). Some even have loads of unrestricted parking. Ask him how much he wants to spend and what sort of summer income he fancies.

A minute don't sound too bad, but then I live in Cornwall and everything is 20 years behind, except Norfolk.

Flow rate is how many litres per minute comes out the tap. Then you work out the volume of the pipe and that should give you the time. If you compare it to other other taps around the place, you should be able to see if it is that bathroom has a particular problem, or it is just a general lack of flow and pressure. All a bit of a faff I know. But I will get you measuring everything eventually.

Do you know how far away it it. If you can estimate it reasonably well, and you can easily measure the flow rate (jug and stopwatch), you can work out if it is a real problem or just something you have to live with. Are the pipes lagged?

So is FF using the same amount of memory of have you only used PaleMoon?

Tempted to reread it. Read it when it came out and it did not seem that complicated. But since then I have got a better science education, so may have to shift entrenched ideas. One of the few books that has moved with me over the last 32 years and 4 houses. Wonder if it is possible to copyright a voice. Don't look like it. http://www.iflscience.com/technology/you-can-now-download-stephen-hawkings-voice-software-free/

Forgot this until I heard it on the News.

@newhome What sort of foundation do you have, and was it quick and simple to do?

That is a societal change, not a technological one though. The phone was invented in 1854, radio communication in 1887. So just 99 years to sort the two out I was promised rocket ship holidays to the moon and a hovercar. The only things that that I seem to remember Tomorrows World getting right was my cataract operation. A bit of digging dragged this 1986 broadcast up. TW's 21st birthday. http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/tomorrowsworld/8027.shtml

Which brings me back to thinking about foundations. What would be s suitable, and DIYable system to use. If you look at what @recoveringacademic got up to at his place, you will see some of the problems he encountered.

True But that is like buying a small 2 seater and then getting a trailer to get your shopping home. If the ESP2866 can fit analogue ports on for a couple of quid, I am sure the Raspberry Pi Foundation could do the same. SATA would be nice, but don't see it happening.

How hard would it be to manufacture a basic wall module that could be knocked up in a shed/garage/shipping container but just about anyone that also complies with the thermal, structural and safety elements that are needed for a house. Thinking that some basic jig would need to be made and people then just slot in the OSB and timbers, then glue/nail together. How hard can that be?

Still don't have the two things that would be really useful though, a real time clock and analogue ports.

Is there enough kinetic energy in a moving raindrop to make it worthwhile? You can work out the potential energy from PE = Mass x Gravity x Height. If you take the rainfall from a very heavy shower, so 40mm/hour, ready to roll down a standard module of 1m by 1.6m at 30° inclination, that is: PE = 0.056 [kg] x 9.81 [m.s-2] x 0.8 [m] PE = 0.436 [J] The Laws of Energy Conservation state that energy can be neither created or destroyed, but only change form, so how does this changing from potential energy to static electrical energy create anything useful? Is there some magic PR going on? Edit: Thinking about it, the average height of a module should be used, so that is half the energy available to convert to static electricity.

Pop-up Pocster, all very scary, there are cartoon characters on this site

How much energy are you looking to store. I can understand trying to reduce fossil fuel usage, but you have to be realistic about the variance of PV over an hour, day, week, and then balance that with the capital cost of storage.

You will find that the humour on here can be a bit strange and pop up in the most unexpected places. And a lot of teasing goes on too. @Ferdinand has the best lines

Just powered up my ESP2866 and I can ping that from the PC, but not the with WedRPL for some reason (changed the IP to the ESP's one 192.168.1.101). Can ping it from the RPi as well. So that is all good. Just need to join it all together now so I can send a Bash command to the ESP2866 to send some data to the netdisk which is sitting on 192.168.1.3 and I can get to from the RPi, but not my PC for some reason.

Probably every 6 minutes, except the energy monitor which is every 6 seconds (captures the kettle that way). I have had a look at a few webpages about bridging, but none seem to make sense. But I have got an RPi set up to connect to my neighbours wireless and to my old router via an Ethernet cable. Can ping things from my PC happily. 192.168.1.100 is the Ethernet, 192.168.1.30 is the Wireless. My old router is on 192.168.1.2 on the Ethernet and 192.168.1.1 on the Wireless. That is as far as I have got so far. What next? C:\Users\SteamyTea>ping 191.168.1.100 Pinging 191.168.1.100 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 191.168.1.100: bytes=32 time=305ms TTL=50 Reply from 191.168.1.100: bytes=32 time=275ms TTL=50 Reply from 191.168.1.100: bytes=32 time=280ms TTL=50 Reply from 191.168.1.100: bytes=32 time=280ms TTL=50 Ping statistics for 191.168.1.100: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 275ms, Maximum = 305ms, Average = 285ms C:\Users\SteamyTea>ping 191.168.0.30 Pinging 191.168.0.30 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 191.168.0.30: bytes=32 time=350ms TTL=50 Reply from 191.168.0.30: bytes=32 time=313ms TTL=50 Reply from 191.168.0.30: bytes=32 time=574ms TTL=50 Reply from 191.168.0.30: bytes=32 time=538ms TTL=50 Ping statistics for 191.168.0.30: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 313ms, Maximum = 574ms, Average = 443ms