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by Krill
Thu May 09, 2024 5:57 pm
Forum: Media and Culture
Topic: "Grid Stabilisation Park"
Replies: 7
Views: 343

Re: "Grid Stabilisation Park"

OK, that makes sense, cheers :xl:
by Krill
Thu May 09, 2024 1:31 pm
Forum: Media and Culture
Topic: "Grid Stabilisation Park"
Replies: 7
Views: 343

Re: "Grid Stabilisation Park"

What's the difference between one of these and those great big spining wind turbine things?

Being serious here, not trolling: I don't get why wind turbines don't work for this?
by Krill
Wed May 08, 2024 10:35 pm
Forum: Media and Culture
Topic: Waterwheel snapped shaft
Replies: 4
Views: 280

Re: Waterwheel snapped shaft

What an excellent refurb /repair. You would hope the owner would come to the party even if just costs ........ Looks like about 1 weeks work + £1,000 stated parts? At his skill level that's about £3k + travel & accommodation. He should NOT be carrying that whole can. The customer got a complete...
by Krill
Wed May 08, 2024 4:17 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage
Replies: 583
Views: 102501

Re: Nowty Towers Vs UK Grid Storage

Solar panels, a protective system to save your roof tiles from dangerous solar radiation and stains which are expensive to remove! Save money on expensive roof repairs with solar panels!

Think this sales pitch would work?
by Krill
Wed May 01, 2024 9:10 am
Forum: Cafe
Topic: Kintore Hydrogen project?
Replies: 7
Views: 267

Re: Kintore Hydrogen project?

Ammonia production?
by Krill
Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:24 pm
Forum: Wind Power
Topic: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?
Replies: 3619
Views: 469210

Re: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?

Just bought 57.7 Watts of generating capacity.
by Krill
Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:21 pm
Forum: Wind Power
Topic: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?
Replies: 3619
Views: 469210

Re: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?

I've talked this over with my wife. Due to tax considerations we think these co-op models are uninvestible for us in any meaningful sense. For context two higher rate tax payers with a £10,000 emergency fund paying 5% interest already use half the interest allowance. Add in other general slush funds...
by Krill
Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:41 pm
Forum: Wind Power
Topic: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?
Replies: 3619
Views: 469210

Re: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?

Ok, so I'm understanding that the ability to increase your annual usage on the Ripple system simply enables you to buy shares in any future schemes, but no option to increase existing holdings. Great, that focuses the mind a bit - time for some good number crunching tomorrow I think... MrPablo, are...
by Krill
Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:10 pm
Forum: Wind Power
Topic: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?
Replies: 3619
Views: 469210

Re: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?

What's better, £2,000 into this, or into 8 commercial panels on a suboptimal pergola connected to a battery stack via dc charge controllers? That's the scenario I'm looking at and I suspect that keeping the wife happy is the governing factor. It's probably the wind farm for me.
by Krill
Wed Apr 10, 2024 5:32 pm
Forum: Media and Culture
Topic: Giant Canadian "Green" H2 plant gets approval
Replies: 1
Views: 113

Re: Giant Canadian "Green" H2 plant gets approval

Green Hydrogen and ammonia . So it looks like they generate the H2 in situ, store it locality, then produce the ammonia from it. Ticks the box that it has two sources of reneable energy (wind, hydro) for inputs, (and who knows, maybe even tidal at some point in other places in the Newfie grid freein...