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No, as I said in the post, I applied a curve (distribution) derived from recent weekly readings to the annual oil use. Note that the first chart is en...
Interesting, I stupidly didn't do that calculation. My calculated heat loss, done for the heat pump installation, is around 12.3kW, but that is also a...
The Met Office WOW website I mentioned has that. You need to register to download the data, but it is free to do so (csv format). I do it once a month...
I certainly welcome any such attempt! I think it may be considered an interesting case, often it is the anomalies that lead to better understanding, s...
The heat energy used (energy in) is measured, and accurately (meter on the oil delivery tanker, external dedicated kWh meter for the heat pump). The h...
Try the Met Office WOW website (<=link). You can search for a weather observation website near you and download the data (you have to register but ...
I don't think so. Consider the facts I presented (measured use), and the assumptions I made (efficiencies), and while the latter are only estimates, t...
I raised this paradox (the 'disappearing COP') in another thread a while back and didn't really get a satisfactory answer. The best I got was somethin...
I still think the biggest obstacle is price, both installation and running costs. Even with the BUS grant, a heat pump is going to cost a lot more tha...
Thinking about it, I am not sure that would work. If you had been logged out, but didn't know you had been (as happened to me), then clicking 'Save Dr...
Yes, there is that, and there is also Crtl + A > Ctrl + C before clicking add reply, but both rely on remembering to use them. The problem is that ...
I couldn't agree more. I can think of so many examples, often from the sailing world where the ancient and modern are so very different (new classic b...
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