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Depends on diet. Powering a bike with hamburgers is less efficient than powering it with porridge. I wouldn't be so sure about that. Animal fat is a very efficient food if you need energy, which is why polar explorers took tallow candles: they can be eaten in an emergency! Paraffin wax wouldn't hav...

There's no way I can do anything about mine, apart from get a fire hose! It did partially clear itself in today's sun though - and I got 400W for a few hours with a grand total of 1.1 kWh!

https://renews.biz/97105/ocean-winds-installs-final-moray-west-turbine/ “Power boost mode engaged” like something from Fast and Furious Apparently it's a software feature based on real-time weather (wind-speed) data. I guess it lets them keep the output more finely tuned when they are near the maxi...

Ae-midlands I think it’s just the frustration with the bureaucracy of public services that only gets worse. I have a fair bit of experience of the court system and the NHS recently and the determination to avoid responsibility and providing a service is staggering. None more so when a gentleman was...

We live in a conservation area and I checked online to see if I could install solar panels. It looked like I could as long as they didn’t face the road, however I emailed the council, before I had them installed, in August 2022. No reply yet ……just sums up the incompetence of public services in thi...

While it was a pretty rubbish article, it's more than a little unreasonable to accuse people of being dim. my first google search hit was https://www.sunsave.energy/solar-panels-advice/planning-permission/conservation-areas "...But if you live in a conservation area, there are a few extra step...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqxwjwqw3xdo An energy efficient home - why is it so difficult? “The whole question of how to better insulate the house is a real mystery to me,” says Mr Duffy, a director of sustainability think-tank Citizen Network. “I don’t know where the expertise for that is.” ...

I saw that a few weeks ago and wrongly thought it had been a discussion on here before then ? I would have liked this idea to be applicable to retrofit homes too - so anyone who undertakes to reach a minimum standard of upgrades to their property can then benefit - if necessary it could I suppose b...

I agree, Box Bear is a good story. Meanwhile, SWMBO just noticed some Daily Express clickbait (which she read out but ignored) an "Octopus zero" tarrif. A quick Google produced https://octopus.energy/blog/introducing-octopus-zero/ which seems to be a month old. We've just launched Octopus ...

It seems to me that it is best to fit an undersized HP and rely on secondary heating (log burner, resistive electric, etc.) on the very coldest days. The one thing that leaps out at me is that to use cheap-rate power to charge up a SH you need to anticipate the need a day ahead... Most people's cen...