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@scalextrix Depends on your personal circumstances, if you have 20 years to wait for a return on your investment you may well be very correct. In my...
@jamespa The bottom line is, the country (and the world for that matter) has left it too late to start the renewable transition. The Government ...
@old_scientist I too had investments in the renewable's industry but with the high interest rates, the lack of grid capacity and poor strike pri...
@judith With Anglia Water it was a compulsory upgrade it seems. The official line is to enable them to identify leaks more accurately. From wha...
@jamespa Currently it is due to over production of crude oil and some producing nations not towing the line with regards to production agreement...
@scalextrix Well let us see after they have built all the power hungry data centres they have planned for the south of England! With the fail...
@jamespa The climate science or the fact there is a lot of renewable energy generating companies making a lot of money to practically do nothing ...
@editor I feel your pain Brother! I have a similar issue for this Winter regarding choosing the fuel to use for space heating and sadly the oil won ou...
@majordennisbloodnok I do not have recent figures sorry. When we (2 adults and 2 teenagers) moved into our current house (2016) water was based on a...
@majordennisbloodnok we have had a water meter for 10 years now and financially have been better off with it as there are only two of us in a 5 bed ho...
@pie_eater I have been thinking of adding cooling to my system over the last 12 months+. I am not too keen on the condensation issue as I have had to ...
@johnmo I appreciate your willingness to help, however I thought I would give you and other readers more detail about the reason for my decisions. I a...
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