SteamyTea

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.

She did

I shall have to try it, run out of hot chillies to eat now. So where is this Gummy Bear one.

Can we add TT = Turd Tube to the abbreviation list. I will smile every time I see an Audi now, or the IoM.

No, just my heart. But I have fixed the hair wrencher

I am off for a cold shower.

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

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).

15 quid for a new adapter. May have to fix her up another way.

Been checked out, I am safe to work with children and vulnerable adults. I do pretend that the courts have said that no ones children are allowed within 500 meters of me, but usually gets misunderstood. Then I get my lights punched out. I will probably stop posting when the new terms and conditions come out. Lined the cupboard walls with 100mm of PU sheet, then filled in the gaps around the around the cylinder with mineral wool. Leaving an airgap at the bottom for the cable (cause I am a good boy).

My rather cute, blonde, single female neighbour has asked me to fix this. Said it has stopped vibrating. She is picking it up later tonight. (She is really a redhead but has the decency to dye it blonde). This has gone so far off topic it is now silly

Not for me, what to see what fingering fish does to my skin

3 things here. A. Very small sample B. Treating normal allergies C. It is science, whether you believe it or not

But back to energy storage (almost) To store 24 kWh as gasoline would take about 2.5 lt.

I think he is quite the opposite, he did a good program about energy. Always hard to get a complete picture across on a short program. And he did bother to reply to me once, or twice. https://drivetribe.com/p/internal-combustion-its-all-a-bit-YZGOUlf-RnKJY2S4fdl0_w?iid=DUUZjFaPToGbFv4oPrbYPA worth pointing out that my first stint at university was studying Automotive Engineering

Pretty poor really. You could measure the thickness, find out the material and then work out the thermal losses. Before I secondary insulated my DHW cylinder, I was loosing more than I was using. Oh and don't believe the manufacturers claims, the testing regime is, to say the least, a bit odd.

"Batteries are rubbish". James May, Top Gear, 31 July 2011

I had to plug my car in today. The cold did my battery in. £14 quid for a charger and after a couple of extra cuppas, it was as good as new. Quite surprised that the battery is the original one, so 12 years old. Lead acids are great. Just going to wait till the summer to buy a new one. Today is probably not the cheapest day to get a new car battery.

Just for starters: http://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/air-pollution Statisticians are pretty good and finding out what is happening and can account for differences in populations, environments and incomes.

That is more cars than I have seen at the Land's End charging point.

Was tried in Corby. They used a lake to dump excess heat from the leisure centre. They forgot about evaporation losses.

It is set up for just that. No one is going to give power away. When we opened the tap on the Norway gas interconnect, we had negative gas prices. That never filtered though to the retail consumer. But at the moment we have higher than average import prices, and that is not filtering though yet. Though the exchange rate difference will this year.

Because they had never fitted one before. They are probably fitting heat pumps now.

Sizing is about knowing your heat loads and temperature ranges. Then the juggling starts which is based on the specific heat capacity of water which s 4.2 kJ.kg-1.K-1, which is 0.k00116667 kWh.kg-1..K-1. kg-1. To be on the safe side, and to save doing solution to partial differential equations (or partial solutions to differential equations as I prefer to call them) that take the form δT/δt(x, y, z) = 0, we usually just sum all the inputs and outputs and then add a bit for a laugh. So you have a store that can hold 450kg of water and it has an input temperature of 10°C and you could just get away with a 60 lt shower at 40°C. That is a gnats under 16 kWh. The shower only uses 2 kWh of that, so you are left with 14 kWh for space heating. But not quite as you have to take into account the minimum temperature required for your space heating needs. So say that is 35°C, you then have, in effect, 390 kg of water to play with, so that works out at only 2.3 kWh left over for space heating. (You can see why space and DHW should really be separate). So iterating again but with a TS temperature of 60°C 0.00116667 [ Wh.kg-1..K-1] . 450 [kg] . (60 - 10) [K] = 26 kWh Take away the 2 kWh for a shower, then you have 24 kWh for space heating. This does not take into account any provisions for thermal losses (pretty high on a TS at 60°C over a day) or extra inputs during the day. There is a lot of criticism about about system sizing, but it really is quite limited and is usually based on the worse case i.e. coldest weather, limited input time period, maximum hot water requirements. This accounts for what can seem like extremely large TSs put into places 5000lt is not unusual.