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    Pull it off the wall, you will soon find out.
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    Yes. Though I could not get up close to measure it. Think I may have a picture somewhere of the first part they were doing. Shall see if I can find it after work.
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    They pay about 66p/litre for heating oil in Canada, so about 7p/kWh. And when I was over there in November, I noticed a lot of ICF places being build. They added a lot of extra insulation to the outside.
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    Hello

    SteamyTea replied to Ralph's topic in Introduce Yourself

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    If you get a BMW, no one lets you out of side turnings. It is the law.
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    Is the thermostat wireless. If it is, move it next to one that seems to work happily.
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    It really is not worth it in my opinion. You can do a rough estimate. Dry a turd, find its mass and then assume it is as good as wood, calculate the kWh. More fun would be to make a Bomb Calorimeter, basically a bucket filled with the richard and oxygen. Then measure the temperature increase. May end up with something like this:
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    There was a guy over at the other place that paid around £50,000 for a home AD system. It never worked, but having met the two guys that designed and installed it, I was not surprised. A mate of mine was working in the AD industry and said that feedstock was crucial, theirs can from a creamy, which has a high calorific value. It hardly worked for a week without some problems or other. Running temperatures are important too.
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    We were warned that there was only 5% spare capacity in the generation market a couple of years back. That was up from 2%.
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    Biomass is frowned upon by a few of us on here. ASHP, if set up correctly is probably your better choice. 0.5 kWp of PV is not worth bothering with, is that the size someone has said or is it a misprint/mistype.
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    I only go there to tease these days.
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    Some of us are only giving small snapshot from our own research. We have had much larger debates on this over the last decade on the green building forum.
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    Too true, I have never liked incentives. All it has done is helped out the USA/Canadian logging industry. Not at all, quite appropriate really. I am still doing my tree growing experiment. Though after 5 years I think I shall either: Dry them out and weigh them Plant them in Tehidy wood
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    Just stops the book closing don't it. There was a bit on a once popular motoring show on BBC 2 about it. And make for a noisy ride. Then a turbo, though most cars are going that way anyway. Torque is an odd thing, it does not translate directly into power, or acceleration, but you would be getting an automatic anyway these days. Manuals are rubbish.
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    Like dieting, wood burner use gets muddled up with lifestyle. Particulates, like lead, accumulate in the body, so adding extra into the atmosphere, regardless of the source, is a bad thing. I don't hear people saying that we should go back to leaded gasoline because of the diesel fuel scandal (which was a cheating issue, not a standards or technology one). We have alternatives, use them. And this nonsense about 'I have a bit of woodland', there are better uses for that land that can produce more energy i.e. PV, AD, Microhydro, windturbine.
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    Yes, and she left smiling. Seems while I was enjoying myself that things have been kicking off in the background. Damn my need for sleep.
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    She did
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    I shall have to try it, run out of hot chillies to eat now. So where is this Gummy Bear one.
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    Can we add TT = Turd Tube to the abbreviation list. I will smile every time I see an Audi now, or the IoM.
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    No, just my heart. But I have fixed the hair wrencher
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    I am off for a cold shower.
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    I better offer her the use of my Gillette Mach3, the blade is having its monthly swap out tomorrow. Born in Angola, so all very strange. Though I tell people I am 6'6", West Indian and very strong
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    Cause not. On 'proper' fuses, the ones with wire in them. Being the lower element, the temperature rise is very modest, and I limit the on time to less than 3 hours (after careful measurements).
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    15 quid for a new adapter. May have to fix her up another way.
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