Last seen: Jun 8, 2025
You’re probably quite right. Fair enough.
Assuming, as mentioned before, that cheap leccy is green leccy, yes I agree. The trick is to sanity check that assumption every now and then otherwise...
Good point well made, @judith, but I guess that depends on how you play it. I'm a strong believer in the 80:20 rule; 80% of the benefit for 20% of t...
I already use Forecast.Solar so I’m going to install Solcast alongside and see how they compare.
Actually that wasn’t where I was coming from. There’s a company in Wales that produces solar panels that are almost indistinguishable from slates. ...
Absolutely. An explosion requires a very specific set of conditions and they took three or four attempts to understand those conditions in detail. Onc...
Agreed, @jamespa, and I remember seeing a video whereby the RNLI teamed up with some Royal Navy ordnance experts to demonstrate the effect of (and lik...
I don’t suppose your listed building has a slate roof, does it, @cathoderay?
That is indeed an interesting path, @ianmk13. I’m still discovering things about how my charger and EV work together that might complicate things a bi...
Do bear in mind, though, that methane is lighter than air and so dissipates easily and won’t naturally pool in drains and underground voids. That’s ...
It may well be this is already your intention, @editor, but it feels to me as if each of the webinars could do with a fairly specific focus. The infor...
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@transparent and @toodles of course. Forgot I could att...
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@melonbuffet Balancing on colder days makes the job muc...
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RE: All your heat pump problems solved by -- a plate heat exchanger in a plinth!
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RE: Say hello and introduce yourself
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RE: Help Stop the MCS Heat Pump Monopoly
Response sent. Thank you for highlighting the document...
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RE: Is my Samsung heat pump working too well?
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@transparent Not a swell season then ☹️
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update - my old installer insisted on a heat loss of 11...
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