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  1. SteamyTea
    I have not read much of this thread, I have a life, but as you are dealing with the 'railways', don't they have some odd and peculiar rules and laws associated with them i.e. their own private police force.
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    I may have a go with it tomorrow. Just been playing the ESP2866 today. A few quirky issues, but more to do with not having a proper internet connection, which means I can't access NTP data for a timestamp, and just can't seem to get a DS1303/3231 to play at all.
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    You will have to explain that a bit more once I have mine connected up again. I was getting some data, but had know idea what it actually was. Are you going to pop id down the local pizza place in Salisbury and see what it reads
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    Yes, I was watching a movie made in 1952, said that the world had had it and the future was in space. Made me chuckle. All my life I have heard that the world is going to hell in a handcart, or similar. But all my life the world has got better and better.
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    For that price you could have burned 43333 lt of diesel (at 60p/litre) and at 30% efficiency got 130 MWh of juice on demand.
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    Or a stove. I just see this as another danger of WBS, not one I have thought of, but I am sure I can 'sex it up' to make it really dangerous. And add in a bit about EMF. A picture of a hipster's beard going all spiky should do it. Probably because of the type of plastic that Dyson uses, cheap Malaysian stuff.
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    My end is as hard as granite
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    Welcome (back) James. That is the sort of house I like, simple, clean, self built and probably pretty low on energy usage.
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    Had a look and I can't find it. Which is odd as I never delete pictures.
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    Hello

    SteamyTea replied to Ralph's topic in Introduce Yourself

    There was something on Radio 4 today about negative equity. The specifically mentioned Scotland. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09smh8f
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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.
  13. SteamyTea
    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

    Get a copy of SPONS, it will give you an idea of the current costs. http://www.rics.org/uk/shop/books/pricebooks/spons/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIsdew8YPO2QIVCCjTCh2oHA72EAAYAyAAEgLMIvD_BwE And become an eBay hunter.
  15. SteamyTea
    If you get a BMW, no one lets you out of side turnings. It is the law.
  16. SteamyTea
    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.
  22. SteamyTea
    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.
  25. SteamyTea
    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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