MikeSharp01

Don't agree fully Dave as our little villager if built up at night and then fully damped it stays burning, albeit at a very low output, and will reignite in the morning when you open the dampers.

Can you point to the evidence for this as it stopped me putting a light to the Woodburner this morning in favour of letting the LPG fueled central heating stay running. Sadly I cannot do the test as I only have two diesel cars

These are part of the union's individual rules - as I understand it we can make our own.

Only think about, let alone do, this if you really understand the risks. I am no expert but there has been loads about this switch in the press and only a very small subset of the pension holders can make this work for them in the long term. Essentially the main case is if you have a second pension / income that you can live on then its worth doing, sadly the other case is where you have a life limiting illness and you want to have cash now for treatment or the just doing the things you always wanted to do.

As I understand it you get the first 25% of every draw down tax free - so I don't think you can take the 25% tax free portion in one lump and leave the rest. I will be happy to be corrected on that one.

Perhaps Sharia then... Its a cooperative effort no lending or borrowing - technically not benefiting from lending or borrowing I think!

V funny - for recursion see recursion, I took meta as meaning somewhat abstract - middle men / women who provide the service but somewhat abstract from it by the process of linking, in the case of P2P, people together in a virtual space - while taking a cut. So as far as you are concerned you are linked to a peer but in fact this link could be of almost limitless abstraction depending on the set up. It is, after all, a form of financial engineering is it not.

Crowd funding is a bit of an umbrella term covering a number of models some of which are charitably based, others commercial and others personal. They do not all have a repayment model some have an in kind return - IE a free flight in the restored airplane or free product from the first production batch others have a share concept with returns based on dividends. Peer to peer has been discussed here before and is more commercial. Both are largely unregulated and are delivered through on-line platforms some of which buffer the risks in the Peer to peer space I have not come across any buffering by the intermediary (meta middlemen) in the crowdfunding space.

Sorry Jeremy didn't mean to imply anything else, I think your post was clear in setting out the context and the product, I was perhaps too free with the term - I have edited my post.

I have a little MAKITA one which just does two axis, great for most activity - never quite worked out why you would need three axis - but I am confident I will be told. I also have a concern that mine, and the others I played with before I purchased, project lines about 3-4 pencil line widths wide which I find frustrating 0.3mm wide would be ideal and not technically difficult but none of those I tried came close, in the end I try and mark in the centre of the line.

One last blast, if me learned friend pleases. - Godwin's law is perhaps like several forms of speech / conversational signposts that prey on the limited knowledge of people - very few have knowledge of similar despots so the number of options, when a particular situation occurs in conversation is limited to the use of common mode similes such as the person above mentioned. Returning to Solar farms then we might surmise that this thread has just about exhausted the solar farm discussion. We have ranged from members experience of growing hemp - purely in the interests of science, to the calorific value of various crops, swung by the general mastication (I hope I spelled that right) of sheep and their propensity to chew on wires, via the visual impact of the farm on the marshes - it will be visible from the main drag the A299, meandered past the need for nuclear power, discussed getting in the bulk cells deal and the even more burgeoning need for energy storage. All in - with a couple of side tracks into new words and two unmentionable subjects the B word and H word, not a bad basis for my discussion with will no doubt be a very slick sales team at the consultation next week. Thanks all.

When I started this thread I had no idea it would go the way it has gone. One thing I have learned - and in learning I have coined (not BIT) a new word for the dictionary. 'BRENTROPY' after James R Newman, and to a certain extent thermodynamics, in that every conversation tends to Brexit unlike entropy in James's definition where everything tends to "death and disorder". At the core of my definition however lies the concept of uncertainty which seems to not unreasonably sum it up. Ho Hum.

Sad thread Dave and most frustrating for you. Being caught up a situation beyond your making and control is unenviable. We all feel for you - keeping the faith and persevering will get you through it.

Serious engineering though...

Loose / Loose - but only beans are grown on this land it is grade 3b agricultural apparently!

Well it will do no harm to ask will it.

The thing that interests me is to see if I can get them to let me add my 20 panels, and those of other locals who might want in on the deal, to their order as the unit price will be stonking -

Well next week I will pop along to the local consultation event for UK's largest solar farm which will be just down the road from Whitstable in Graveney. It will have 350MW, 4 x the current largest, at peak output and spread over 890 acres. I know what I think - what do you think? Loads on the Web - neatly balanced description HERE from the Guardian.

I wonder if this came out of or is designed to compete with a similar app I was shown by IBM in 2012 - can't recall what it was called but it was all about buildings, people, routes and assets. It could draw plans and put in the people who worked there - not sure it had an 3D capability.

An unenviable task but there is loads on here about purchasing windows.

My study is about 5m at the peak - it does not feel cavernous even though it is taller than it is wide or deep.

Welcome and great to have you aboard. Where abouts in the process of self building are you?

You may be right but we initially had Equitone as the cladding and the scheme was specified with UV facade underneath it. The build up came from a design of a house in Guildford although we also look at an EPDM undersheet. So anybody thinking of using it should check.

Actually that is correct - Tyvek do a facade membrane that does the job @ about £4 m2!

If you are thinking of going for the underskin / rainscreen approach loads of other options become available in addition to timber. For instance take a look at things like Equitone panels.