Last seen: Aug 28, 2025
Yes, absolutely. In your first sentence, you said we need a lot of food including chicken to feed our large population. In that, I disagree; the pop...
Agreed, @Jeff. What can or should be done is a completely different discussion to what will or even might be done. Nonetheless, I do feel that there i...
I'm not quite so sure, @editor, that this is quite so controversial as you expect. That meat production is more carbon-intense than that of most plant...
@mjr so if you’re basically saying Google is the spawn of Satan to be avoided in favour of almost anything else, I agree.
@mjr, oh you've picked a minefield! I'm not sure whether this site actually uses Recaptcha (i.e. Google's offering) or another flavour of Captcha. I...
Assuming the pallets are in good condition, I reckon I can dismantle them and reclaim about 85-90%. There are some, of course, that are held together ...
Another off mains sewage here. We have a Klargester under one lawn, dealing with the septic waste and a soakaway under another lawn dealing with the...
I know it's starting to encroach back the other way on your "My home farm" blog, but how about discussions of other sustainable living topics? My ques...
@Jeff, spot on; I'd forgotten that. Octopus are pretty open with that too, explaining the reasoning behind not mixing Octopus Go and Outgoing Octopus.
@editor, specifically no. In fact, you don't even need to be on an Octopus consumption tariff. They state quite explicitly that you can be consuming v...
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Interesting read and MCS are as you say, beyond useless...
By benson , 2 hours ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation
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RE: Electricity price predictions
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By Jeff , 5 hours ago
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RE: Ecodan & MelCloud scheduling
Yes, the 2 are separate. To add to the complex desig...
By HCas , 1 day ago
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?
I think there may be a little confusion in the wording ...
By Old_Scientist , 1 day ago
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I should clarify that the FoxESS web interface is not l...
By Old_Scientist , 2 days ago
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
Previous was vented and I needed a shower pump and a ve...
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RE: Mitsu Wireless Controller and MelCloud
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RE: Why so many sigenergi installer recommendations?
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RE: Flexi-Orb Heat Pump Scheme: A Game-Changer for the UK's Heat Pump Industry
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RE: Octopus replacing the fixed 15p/kWh export rate with a market tracking one
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By Toodles , 3 days ago
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RE: Heat Pump Books For Beginners – Bodge Buster & From Zero To Heat Pump Hero
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RE: Air source heat pump roll call – what heat pump brand and model do you have?
@editor Hi Mars, We have just installed a Grant Aerona...
By GrahamF , 4 days ago
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RE: Sanity check please. Battery storage and inverter sizing.
There are MCS guidelines about how close to the edge/ri...
By Old_Scientist , 4 days ago
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RE: Balancing financial efficiency and comfort using the Octopus Cosy tariff
I estimated our usage on the following basis. The mos...
By Old_Scientist , 4 days ago
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@editor Something changed in this last 12 months, they ...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 5 days ago
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RE: Does anyone have experience of a smart water meter?
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RE: Powerwall 3 or Myenergi or something else?
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By Old_Scientist , 1 week ago
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RE: Mitsubishi PAR-WT60R-E Wireless Controller installation
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By DavidAlgarve , 1 week ago
