JohnMo

We've been saying that for ages. March was great for solar!

All depends how deep you need to go and ground make up. We were almost pure sand down to 34m so there's a lot of steel liner instead of plastic. This has a knock on as the treatment needs to remove iron oxide. Our drilling company insisted we used a water dowser (man with a couple of sticks) to identify location and depth of borehole. All work perfectly. Our system is down hole pump, to 100L accumulator, backwash filter that also does iron oxide removal, 10 and 5 micron cartridge filters and a UV filter. It was all pretty easy stress free, water quality is great. Works just like main water. Saves £500 on my council tax bill (Scotland includes water and sewage on council tax bills)

You don't apply for it, it just a notification, saying your house has a generator that do upto 3.6kW output. But really if all or most houses have some generation, you should almost flip the notification, to you don't have a generation connected to the grid. Or just scrap the needless bureaucracy. And it is paperwork for the sake of it, to keep the masses in their place

You can switch on of at will, they do it the time. If you couldn't switch off it wouldn't be safe. A field or several field are connected to one offshore facility. But they are also connected to an onshore hub. They all work together, it's not a 5 mins task to start up a none producing asset,so quite a lot of forward planning is needed.

Started a new job at start of March, offshore gas field, was originally built in late 80s by the government and originally owned by the government. Was used exclusively for gas turbine generators for peak loads. But when British Gas was privatised it was also. They did in the 80s, no reason why a government couldn't do it again. Drill for Britain, by Britain, and owned by Britain. Then worldwide oil and gas prices don't matter so much.

Didn't actually pay anything for planning, it came with the land. Building Warrant cost £4400 for architects fees, plus £4500 for structural design with certificate.

You mean various colours and various finishes and different application methods and what preparation you need. And what make. And you could use wallpaper! Oh dear, meltdown coming.

Or use PIR, ours came with zero extra wrapping etc.

Sorry this is just wrong and getting boring. How are the plugs live, the output from the solar is zero without a mains input, so how do you have live pins? Or are people falling over and burying there heads in the pins?

So no acid rain, the most polluting form of electric, yes it great. By the time you opened the coal mines to feed one coal power station and build the power station, you could have built 3x the capacity in wind - Scotland did.

Sorry you can't build the rules around the idiots that will ignore them anyway. And just circumvent what rules are there anyway. The only way to that is shutdown the internet and tax all products that come via mail from overseas with a huge surcharge, to make it not cost effective. That's not happening is it

And why were coal mines phased out? Not because they were great. Think the energy used in this thread, would keep the lights on for decades.

You can buy them now have been able too for an age. Ecoflow sell them, the instructions simply state in the UK we sell without the plug, as you need to connect to the CU. These systems exist suspect there are plenty just plugged in already. They also sell batteries to plug in as well. Output is just restricted to keep them safe, unless the appliance is directly plugged into the battery.

Hairdryer

Are you taking the p!ss? Or still living in the 70s?

A bit of silicone and a wet finger?

Why would it go in a plastic box, isn't the repair to the concrete floor? If they were hitting the plastic box with hammer there wouldn't be a plastic box in the photo

Trim the white plastic to be tidy. Mix some self levelling compound and pour in. Have a cup of tea/coffe

Why would we?

And the current cost is? There are 10.35kWh per litre. So my comment still stands. Oil users were bragging not that long ago, it was the cheapest way to heat, now it's not for the first time in ages.

Maybe not that instant either, you may feel some radiant heat directly in front of it. But room doesn't get instantly get hot.

Why don't people do some simple maths. Your heater is costing you approx 52p per hour to run. Electric is circa 26p per kWh. Oil even now is about 10p per kWh - Less than half the cost of electricity. Sorry life's too short to be cold, running electric panel heaters to save money, not real.

Yes, but true.

No they operate the DC in an island mode - a bucket load of safety protocols built-in.

You apply for planning when it's approved, you then apply for a warrant, similar to building regs drawing, again these are reviewed and approved by council, you have to demonstrate how you will achieve your as designed EPC. You have to provide a structural design certificate that covers the whole build or all structural calculations and an additional charge for review. You also provide an as designed EPC. Once council is happy you can legally start build. All stage inspection is via council.