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by sharpener
Wed Nov 20, 2024 4:48 pm
Forum: Media and Culture
Topic: Maintaining sub-sea cable infrastructure
Replies: 2
Views: 184

Re: Maintaining sub-sea cable infrastructure

Brilliant piece of writing, completely unputdownable, allow 20+ mins to marvel at what goes on on the sea-bed.
by sharpener
Fri Nov 15, 2024 9:27 am
Forum: Cafe
Topic: Pavegen
Replies: 5
Views: 314

Re: Pavegen

This comes round and round every few years. Each time some new class of material e.g. triboelectrics is invented this is heralded as the possible miracle application. Even supposing the conversion efficiency were useful the complications of maintaining it and repairs/re-instatement after trenching f...
by sharpener
Thu Nov 14, 2024 10:27 am
Forum: Media and Culture
Topic: Are people really so dim?
Replies: 20
Views: 855

Re: Are people really so dim?

Yeah I was thinking the same about panels mounted landscape. I'm most surprised at PD for wall mounted panels. I think they can/could look excellent, but simply assumed planning depts would be more concerned with them than roofs. It's a pity, they would be almost un-noticeable against the dark slat...
by sharpener
Thu Nov 14, 2024 9:55 am
Forum: Media and Culture
Topic: Are people really so dim?
Replies: 20
Views: 855

Re: Are people really so dim?

Sorry about that, I was sure the rules had been softened for England, as in Wales it's now "panels cannot protrude more than 1 metre above the plane of the roof." for permitted development. [At least England doesn't have our silly 'within 3m of a boundary' rule for PP for an ASHP, I think...
by sharpener
Wed Nov 13, 2024 7:03 pm
Forum: Media and Culture
Topic: Are people really so dim?
Replies: 20
Views: 855

Re: Are people really so dim?

Given that deemed permission now exists for installs on walls, and flat roofs with the panels no longer having to follow the roof pitch, but upto 1m higher), you may find that the LA has relaxed its position on PV facing the road. To be clear, not saying they will have, but there's a chance, especi...
by sharpener
Wed Nov 13, 2024 10:44 am
Forum: Spaceheating
Topic: Storage Heaters, Tariffs & Control
Replies: 21
Views: 895

Re: Storage Heaters, Tariffs & Control

Surely Octopus must already make use of the ability for TOU tariffs as they require a smart meter for the customer to be on them. Whether they could take over the particular meter in question might be an open qestion, and whether the meter would display the correct tariffs is another question. Stil...
by sharpener
Wed Nov 13, 2024 12:12 am
Forum: Spaceheating
Topic: Storage Heaters, Tariffs & Control
Replies: 21
Views: 895

Re: Storage Heaters, Tariffs & Control

AFAIK the point of the 5-terminal meter and separate DB was so that it was impossible to run the storage heaters except in the cheap periods. Unlike the Radio Teleswitch E7 meter I had until recently which supplied the entire establishment. Modern ToU tariffs don't care either what you use the outpu...
by sharpener
Mon Nov 11, 2024 4:11 pm
Forum: Transport
Topic: Battery ICE train
Replies: 14
Views: 562

Re: Battery ICE train

I was at Glouster services this August. There were 20-odd Tesla Chargers with one Tesla charging, and 20-odd non-tesla chargers with only me charging. A 10-min splash and dash meant that I could get the hammer down. Exeter on the way home was similar: loads of chargers, got straight on one no probs...
by sharpener
Mon Nov 11, 2024 1:59 pm
Forum: Transport
Topic: Battery ICE train
Replies: 14
Views: 562

Re: Battery ICE train

Otherwise you're saying that anyone who holidays in the UK cannot drive an EV because it isn't suitable for that trip to Cornwall once a year. Is still an issue. Even though I have an EV there are occasions e.g. complicated trip Devon - Cambridge - funeral in York - singing in Doncaster Minster and...
by sharpener
Mon Nov 11, 2024 1:28 pm
Forum: Transport
Topic: Battery ICE train
Replies: 14
Views: 562

Re: Battery ICE train

Stinsy wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 12:47 pm I've heard that they run diesel trains on electrified lines in the UK because diesel is cheaper than electricity...
Not to mention running EV charging points at Mway service stations from diesel generators (presumably as an interim measure). Or is this an urban myth?