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by nowty
Wed Jun 30, 2021 9:26 pm
Forum: Water harvesting
Topic: Simple Pleasures
Replies: 2
Views: 5182

Simple Pleasures

End of the month, so I was doing my rounds taking all the various meter readings. I was checking my water meter (under the floor) fed from my water harvesting system which sucks water from an underground river into a 500 litre tank. It then is pumped via a pressure pump for flushing the toilets and ...
by nowty
Wed Jun 30, 2021 5:38 pm
Forum: Media and Culture
Topic: Financial tail wagging the energy dog?
Replies: 5
Views: 1833

Re: Financial tail wagging the energy dog?

Well the government is going to announce that £15 billion of Green Bonds will be issued via National Savings. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57670057 https://www.investmentweek.co.uk/news/4033695/sunak-announce-gbp15bn-green-savings-bonds-scheme-public-reports But me thinks better returns will ...
by nowty
Wed Jun 30, 2021 4:03 pm
Forum: Media and Culture
Topic: Flying car!
Replies: 12
Views: 3282

Re: Flying car!

Old news, Bond villain Francisco Scaramanga had one back in 1974. :lol:

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by nowty
Wed Jun 30, 2021 3:38 pm
Forum: Wind Power
Topic: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?
Replies: 3619
Views: 468528

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

Don't worry, I shall be visiting when I can see something actually happening and ground works are scheduled to start tomorrow, or maybe its on Monday as I've read both 1st July and first week in July. I just checked up on my various wind farm investments, Greencoat UK Wind, Renewables Infrastructure...
by nowty
Tue Jun 29, 2021 11:03 pm
Forum: Wind Power
Topic: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?
Replies: 3619
Views: 468528

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

For pure geekness I checked google maps when we returned home today and here are the co-ordinates of where the van was parked in the picture and I was looking South. I reckon the turbines to the left in the picture are Graig fatha. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Co-op/@51.5820028,-3.4659451,69m/...
by nowty
Tue Jun 29, 2021 12:35 pm
Forum: Photovoltaic
Topic: Farmers swapping crops for solar
Replies: 18
Views: 4764

Re: Farmers swapping crops for solar

When we get, as promised, fusion powered free electricity, solar will be too expensive. ;) Predicted cost of fusion power is in the region of £50-60/MWh - solar is about the same price, depending on how you work out the cost of capital for both. Buts its predicted to be 30 years away and its always...
by nowty
Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:18 pm
Forum: Gardening and Sustainability
Topic: Growing potatoes in containers
Replies: 42
Views: 23053

Growing potatoes in containers

Been doing this for about 10 years, tried different ways and different varieties but now I have a tried and tested method. I only grow Maris Peer and I find, they can grow as first earlies, second earlies or maincrop. Some years I've had them in as early as Feb, but this year its been mid April and ...
by nowty
Wed Jun 23, 2021 2:36 pm
Forum: Transport
Topic: ULEV / congestion charge free to use but chargeable due to registration requirements?
Replies: 8
Views: 2527

Re: ULEV / congestion charge free to use but chargeable due to registration requirements?

SWMBO got a fine a few weeks ago whilst visiting her daughter in Pimlico and driving our EV. Its outside of the congestion zone but very close to it and she inadvertently crossed into it for literally about 100m before moving out of it again. Problem was she did not know she had done this, nor even ...
by nowty
Wed Jun 23, 2021 1:56 pm
Forum: Cafe
Topic: Grid sites.
Replies: 13
Views: 7022

Re: Grid sites.

A few links I use, An alternative to https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk or https://grid.energynumbers.info https://gridwatch.co.uk Nice, live, forecast and outturn info on UKs carbon intensity of leccy generation. https://carbonintensity.org.uk General forecast and actual graphs of UK leccy stats. ...
by nowty
Tue Jun 22, 2021 11:49 am
Forum: Show us your system
Topic: Ongoing Work at Nowty Towers
Replies: 6
Views: 6662

Re: Ongoing Work at Nowty Towers

Always very impressed with the work you do with these batteries and the life you have had from them after they were effectively scrapped. When my Growatt system finally gave up I just sold it and bought a more up to date AC coupled system. Whether you are the seller or the buyer, both parties are d...