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    I wish.
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    And also in a very small fraction of people tested/surveyed. This weeks comic had an article about this very point (not bacon, sampling methods).
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    Yes and your suggested solution was the creation of a definitive single source of truth for global warming Yes, it is called data, and we have a lot of it. I suggest that education is the way forward, not myths, prejudice and denial of the truth. This is starting to sound like the Woman's Hour joke I heard a couple of years back. Question: "What do 9 out of ten people enjoy?" Answer: "Gang Rape".
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    As NiFe are large and heavy, could they be redesigned and incorporated into the foundations of a house. Might sound a bit 'whacky', but be already use timber, steel and concrete beams to do that.
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    Which goes back to my original point.
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    These are a couple of 200W ones, on a fairly windy day.
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    Yes, because the science is done (Svante Arrhenius showed the link, John Tyndall tested it) , there is nothing much else to know about the overall picture. Some details still need to be finalised, but it is really just confirmation. Using the term sounds to me like educational insecurity, or just sour grapes, take your pick. Or try going to a shop and asking for something and then claiming that under your post modernist views the price per kilo is wrong. You should be OK as your opinion is just as valid as the person who bothered to weight it, find out the unit costs, added the marketing costs and other overheads and bothered to run a business selling the 'stuff' (stuff is a term used by science to mean matter, generally).
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    People that like WBS would point to that as proof about how great they are.
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    I shall ponder that while I am out.
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    3 people who are well known for working in research science. I feel a 'Storm' moment coming on.
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    A Brief History of Humankind did not receive very good reviews from the science community.
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    That may have been true until the 'science method' came along and people like Betrand Russell and Karl Popper showed what nonsense had been going on before. A majority or consensus does not make something true.
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    It's OK, just get the people that did it to come back and do it again. After informing BC, who may or maynot have seen it, but never did anything about it either way. By making a fuss you will be helping get rid of bad practice and hopefully bad building.
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    Or i just shows how people can pick things to suit their vision of the 'truth', even if they contradict themselves in the same sentence.
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    Sounds dreadful, over protective, dull, and everything I hate. If they ran a climbing tip, would they put fluffy cushions on the deck and a lift up the rocks.
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    You should try Cornwall! I go to one of the most visited spots, I just see cars as a challenge and refuse to ride in the gutter. Having said that, I don't ponce about and if I can get out the way I do. You can usually tell if a rider is confident or not by the way they position themselves on the road and how much they wobble.
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    I use this for my stretching exercises. Got it for nothing as the rear brake had disconnected itself. The mudguards and saddle cover were from Poundland, water bottle I picked up in the 90's while watching the end of Le Tour in Paris, I like to think that Alex Zulle drank from it. The speedo was from B&M for a fiver. The rack and bags I already had. So a 7 quid bike. How much is a yoga lesson?
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    On a more serious note, it is going to be a struggle to get adoption of these sorts of systems until the price is really low. I was chatting to a biker yesterday and we started to talk about EVs and climate change. His view was that you never pay back the embodied energy and carbon on batteries, climate change did not exist as 'the climate has always changed', RE was too expensive, solar and wind power just 'don't work at all'. I asked him where he got all this information from and he could not say. He also thought old cars and bikes where better as some produced the same power as today's vehicles. He then told me that methane was the real problem as it had a higher GHC potential than CO2. So 'we need to burn that instead as it only produces water'. I pointed out that not eating meat would have a greater benefit, but he did not like that idea, so it was rubbish (and it is in some ways). I come across these sorts of 'fact' quite a lot. I really think that there needs to be proper education on this, not popular newspapers spouting total rubbish all the time. I am not sure how to do that without it sounding like a sermon. I always pose the question 'what benefit is it to you keeping things the same?'. Usually goes unanswered.
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    Because they are generally wealthy tossers that like showing off and self promotion.
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    Not many location suffer the voltage problem, a few rural ones maybe. Trackers are just a waste if time really. If they were so great, all the solar farms would have them. If you go for a multi-split system, then you need to make sure the inverter can handle the number of strings, or have multiple inverts. You have to remember that an inverter needs a minimum voltage to start working. And it is best to undersize inverters, so you are limited on choice. My idea uses a single inverter and a box of switches. You could dump to a load, but take the day before yesterday, that load would be on for a fair slice of the day, much easier to just disconnect excess generation surely.
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    Of just watch some youtube videos and teach yourself. Then a Big Mac for tea. Just remembered that two ex-girlfriends now teach yoga. Looking back it is amazing the similarities between them, and the reasons they are both ex's. Here is a video about Meditation for Humility, what a load of shit.
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    If you want all the news on energy storage, and in a very rosy delivery, then go here: https://www.energy-storage.news/
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    I ride my bike to the woods, there is a cafe there and it is a simple ride. Up hill on the way home though
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    Just Ohm's Law really. Change the amps or the volts and you get different power. The amps or voltage are changed when the internal resistance of the module varies with different light levels and temperatures. Some people may notice that they are getting less power this week that they were in April (did we have any sunny days this year back then). This is to do with sun angles and panel temperature. It is the sun angles that people tend to get hung up on, but usually that is set by the design of where you want to place them, so you have little choice. I did suggest that if you have lots of area and choice, you could have as much PV as you like by switching the arrays as the sun moves across the sky, while still staying within the DNO imposed limits. Surprised no one has picked up on that. You do need a big DC switch though. Or power down the inverter, switch array, power the inverter back up.
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    Yes, things have moved on, but they now dress it up as 'complimentary therapies'. Why not sell it for what it is, a pleasant experience. I can't stand the spiritualism of it all, bloody whale music and scents that make me sneeze. Like Yoga, good for you all that stretching and balancing, but I am sure no one has really been enlightened to the mysteries of the life, the universe and everything from it. LSD does that. Off to pick wild mushrooms in the woods now.
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