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Paint it with a bitumen paint and make sure that the inside can stay dry. You could always cast a concrete floor in it to stop any floating.

Just dig a hole with the JCB and bury the shipping container. Then a few light tubes and a periscope. Will be quiet, may float when it rains, but that gentle rocking s soothing.

It is the same thing really. Decrement delay is time.K-1, or temperature drop/raise Thermal Inertia is energy.m-2.K-1.s0.5 So you can think of it as as the difference between R-Values and U-Values. You know they are related with R-Value being measured in m2.K.W-1 and U-Value being measured in W.m-2.K Just arithmetic juggling really. The interesting thing is that for any given mass, to get a timeshift, there is a narrow temperature difference band it can work in. Below is a chart that modelled a 1m2 section of wall made from brick. To get a 12 timshift, you need a temperature difference between inside and outside (called the energy forcings) of 1.8°C. To get a more useful 8 hours temperature release the temperature difference will be 1.2°C, which is basically parity with external temperatures once internal energy forcings have been taken into account. For OSB you can have a temperature difference of 19°C and have any absorbed energy released over a period of 8 hours. I have to put in a caveat that this is just working with my house and my temperatures over the last 4 weeks. I am sure those figures above will change when I have more data, and it is just a basic model, does not take into account air changes (they are kind of built in as it is real temperature data) and window area (again kind of built in).

Like calling the Post Office, Consignia. I can remember when an Opel was a sweet, a stone and a car, now it is only two of those. Shall I rebrand?

Could well be because of the nuclear side: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/04/uk-takes-5bn-stake-in-welsh-nuclear-power-station-in-policy-u-turn I still call those crappy little Japanese cars Datsuns, even though the are Renaults now, and built in Sunderland.

Done a quick 'first draught' of different materials (got to look up more material properties). But if my house was made of brick, it would have had a mean response time of 35 hours over the 11°C mean temperature differences that I have good data for. 35 hours is greater than one day, so not much use. If it was just OSB the mean response time would be 3.8 hours over the same mean 11°C, so a bit more useful. Just got to find some more material data until I can find something that would give 12 hours, which would be best on average, but as this time of year the days are long, gentle overall warming would happen. I shall see if I can get some more data. But as an aside, I have been pretty happy with the temperature inside my house the last 4 weeks or so.

Or grow cacti. I may have a go at modelling a wall that is being hit by the sun, just to see how much energy it can absorb and loose. I ma have enough data from the last month to do that.

Ship some over, make them work 12 hour days, deduct board and lodging from their net wages and keep hold of their passports. Apparantly there is trouble getting pickers down here this year, serves the gang masters right for treating the workers like slaves.

No ta.

All of them, including roofers, which is a worry. I would go out taking pictures of builders, but that would be just strange.

I have. Be an interesting correlation.

That much, I wish

My ex girlfriend got a local builder in because 'he was the expert on Cornish Units'. He also owned a pub. Says it all. Purely out of scientific interest, are fat builders better or worse than thinner ones? Now Poldark. Some of the film crew sometimes come in for supper when they are filming locally, not that I would recognise the Aidan Turner. I never recognised Ray Davies of the Kinks and he used to come in quite often.

Just heat capacity would do. If you have a look at this page you can see the thermal properties of materials. Some may surprise you. http://www.kayelaby.npl.co.uk/general_physics/#2_3

All 'Thermal Mass' is, is the product of insulation and specific heat capacity of a material. There is a lot of misunderstanding about how it can make a building thermally stable. Nearly all the examples come from 10° South of the UK with much sunnier climates and much higher temperatures, especially in summer. When I was studying the affect of solar radiation on mass (granite in fact), there was no real gain to be had with typical UK insolation levels. Our old mate Ed Davies did some work on it and concluded that a sheet of 9mm plasterboard could absorb and release energy just as well as 4 inches of brick. Don't fall into the trap that adding mass is all you need to do to store or stabilise thermal energy. If you want to slow down the rate of change of the losses though a wall, look at cellulose insulation. It has good insulation properties, good specific heat capacity and very good sound absorbing characteristics.

What happened to just using light to transmit data around the house. Seem to remember you could get LED bulbs that also sent the signal. Then you just have an IR device where you want to get the signal.

What, with naked men on the bog. That is your local called 'The Cottager' Bit of timeshifting here to avoid trouble Looks like you will be using The Glory Hole now

I don't care as long as they have good tits.

I have what is considered an offensive joke that I heard on Woman's Hour last year. Sometimes I am tempted to post it up

I was told that if you have one, or are one, you can use it. So I am OK. (now how long will this stay up)

What are you trying to achieve and why do you think that adding mass will help? You could try a simple experiment by getting some water butts/containers and filling them up. Water is about the best energy storage medium you can get. You would need to monitor the temperature before and after the experiment just so you are not kidding yourself that it has worked.

The building trade does not seem to be very professional. If it was regulated like banking, insurance or government procurement it would be so much better. Maybe that is where they come from.

Because the government of the time was ill advised. No it isn't, but if the country is going to get serious about air pollution, then that is the first to go, followed by heavy fuel oils, lighter fuel oils, spirit fuels and then gasses. There has to be a pragmatic approach to all this and using energy delivered per primary energy unit is a pretty good way to go about it. Timber burning in a domestic stove is one of the worse for a number of reasons. There are much better uses for saw dust, making sheet material is best. You are trying to defend the indefensible here, it is a bit like vandalism, it is never alright to cause a tiny bit of wilful damage just because other are doing more, is it.

Is there a figure for PM10 and PM2.5's per kWh energy delivered? That is quite worrying, I have some waste timber that is covered in lead paint, shall I bring it over for you to burn? It is the easy, cheap and best solution to this problem. Get this weeks New Scientist to read more in the Analysis section. @PeterW shows your assertion of 0.1% to be the bollocks I knew it was. We are heading that way and it will happen. The UK now does not burn much coal for electricity production. It is a start. I really wish people would start to accept that wood burning is unnecessary and unacceptable these days.

Is there one that is available, or is it a jumble of parts. I don't think it is like buying a computer, speakers, mouse printer, monitor. I once saw two qualified electricians test the short circuit voltage of a 3.5 kWp system on a very sunny April day. They did this by putting a short circuit loop in after the DC isolator. When I say I saw it, what I meant was I smelt it. Dopey pillocks. They never had a chance to measure the voltage.