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Yea, sorry 🙂 Today's is currently 20.2kwh, background covered from 06:40 to 18:40, peak instantaneous 3433.1w. 3600w is quite common from 11:00 to about 15:00, I think the best daily total is around 26/27Kwh. Wife & daughter just back from 3 days in London, 3 load of washing today, all free 🙂🙂 Jan: 166.9Kwh Feb: 209.8Kwh March: 412.1Kwh April: 505.3Kwh May : 482.8Kwh June : 553.3Kwh July : 512.1Kwh August : 464.5Kwh (to date) HTH 🙂

Hi Bb, Located in NR6 (Hellesdon) Roof is orientated SS(and a little East 🙂 ) roof slope is near enough 45deg. System is 13x300w with a 3600w inverter, so the output is capped at 3.6kw (instantaneous). each panel is 1650mm x 990mm which is about the same size as the early 250w panels (I think) Daily Production numbers: 21/08: 20.3kw 22/08: 12.5kw 23/08: 13.9kw 24/08: 11.7kw 25/08: 4.5kw 26/08: 18.8kw 27/08: 13.3kw As for usage, the best I can give you is 5500Kw/yr (from a 2020 bill). To be honest, it has taken my wife a few years to get to grips with using the washing machine during the day rather than over night. PM me if you want any more info. 🙂 I have, only recently, added a small meter c/w CT which is Bi-directional. this helps my wife see what power is actually available. So as far as she is concerned anything +ve is available for use FREE. If it is -ve, then can something be turned off. (I believe new systems have this feature, but ours was installed in 2018 and it was not available then 😞 )

YF. I might be wrong, but isn't the store actually old mining tunnels out under the sea? That link was interesting, any similar for the solar cells? I need more edumification 🙂

Oh and give everyone a tax cut is really going to help those who are on minimum wage. Yea that will help a lot of folk. How much do you need to earn for a 5% (chosen at random TVB) cut to make up for the £1500 (approximation TVB) quid rise in energy bills ? That sure will win a lot of voters over. It made me laugh today (sorry I know it was wrong) but they were saying on the TV that those who could not afford the latest rise in energy costs would be put on 'pre-payment' meters. like that will help them put money in the meter. Like, if they can't afford the bill, where does the money come from to put cash on the pre-payment card/key whatever???

Just for TVB: All that waste from nuclear plants has to go somewhere, but where "Explanation: Half life is just the time it takes for half of a radioactive substance to decay (turn into something new). Since this is a first order process, the time it takes for this to happen is independent of the starting concentration. Different radioactive elements have different half lives, so you can't say it is generically some specific time. Rather, you need to know which radioactive elements you have to help you determine how long it will take your "waste" to decay. Nuclear waste is stuff like radioactive daughter nuclei from a fission reaction, leftover U235, U238, Plutonium, various other nuclei. If you only have daughter nuclei, most of their times required to decay are much shorter (still long time) compared to Uranium and plutonium. The amount doesn't matter. If you have 100kg of C-14, it will take approximately 5200 years for half of it to decay, so that you'll still have 50kg of radioactive C-14. If you started out with 100g of C-14, it would take 5200 years for half of its to decay. So for waste, you have to isolate it and let it decay for a certain amount of time (when I used P-32 in the lab, I think 5 half lives was the standard). So if you have to wait 5 half lives, for some of this material (daughter products), that'll be close to 250 years before the sample has decayed to sufficiently low levels. If you have to wait 5 half lives for Uranium and Plutonium, you'll be waiting hundreds of thousands of years." Yes lets build more of these plants, lets have more of this leftover stuff. I assume that you would be happy for this to be put under your house as you are not a 'nimby'

Yea, and now we are in the position where private enterprise is making so much money the we are going to be dependent on the state to help out. What goes round comes around!!!

From memory: The system here used to be that the companies extracting the gas from the wells were contracted to sell the gas to British Gas (a nationalised company at the time) hence the price you & I paid was fixed (in principle). Then one government decided to sell off British gas as it felt the 'private' sector could do a better job and instantly lost control of the price we pay. The gate was open and the horse named 'control' bolted only to be captured by those now making money at our expense.

Where have I stated that? If you can show me where I posted such a load of trip maybe I won't blame you for my grandchildren poverty. (i'm not sure I actually said that either) Oh and while I'm posting, today my solar system has produced 15Kw of power (as of 14:24) Do you remember your statement: "Don't know if you've ever done a calculator to estimate your potential energy bill saving with a 4kw system but it will barely scratch the surface of our domestic energy needs" My background load is a shade over 250w, the rest is exported (at 5p/kw). How does 5p/kw stack up against nuclear? That unused power could be used for heating/cooking/hotwater, all effectively free, that is why I feel that these should be installed on every home. Pretty they are not. Yes they are limited to daylight hours. Go ask one of the millions of families who are struggling to choose between heating the house or buying food?? Oh I know wait 30 years for a new nuclear power plant to be built and come on line for the utility companies to still charge them the stupid prices we are seeing. I'm sure I know what their choice will be, do you? Then read-up about 'Chernobyl' and 'Three Mile Island' Now add Putin into the mix and what his forces are currently doing at Zaporizhzhia then you might get a understanding on why I dislike nuclear power. Just look here for a glimpse into the safety of these plants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country

We must not forget that there are 650 families dependent on the BIG trough of government !

Hmm. So 'dishing out' contract to china for Solar panels is different to 'dishing out' contracts to Chine for nuclear power stations!! As for solar not scratching the surface, well I don't have to calculate, I just look at the meter and even today ALL of our useage has been covered by the solar panels. (note: we don't have any batteries as when we get the electric car we can use the batteries in that) our last elec bill was under £50/month. Rolls Royce 🙂 here is their 'plan' Design submitted for assessment in 2021 Manufacturing facilities being built by 2025 First SMR goes live early 2030s Not fixed then!! could even be argued as 'hypothetical' as nothing has been built or tested!!! Nothing I have suggested is not available today, can be installed in a matter of a few months and would have a direct impact on every home it is installed at. The government were happy to throw money at solar when they contracted (25years) to pay 45p per unit to those that could afford to install solar when it first became available. When the costs came down to a price that most could afford it dropped to 5p a unit Your proposal to rely on nuclear fision leaves a BIG problem for our children.... for thousands of years, something you think is a good idea? I guess that's not 'in the real world' And just for the record, NO I do not approve/like/condone blah blah, ANY nuclear power station. My 'ideal' would be renewable only.

Where in my post did I say "producing in the UK over China" I didn't. Where in my post did I suggest "migrate hundreds of thousands of farm hands" I didn't. What I was posting was a way that a 'pro-active' government could help thousands upon thousand of families reduce their electricity bills. But that would reduce the need for 'Increasing the amount of nuclear energy' Just a quick minor question, but where are these new nuclear power stations going to be built and who's technology will be used? (French & Chinese I believe) Then, how quickly could just one of the 'new' power stations be designed/permission granted/and finally come on line? A single solar panel system could be designed and installed in a matter of weeks (yes component supply WILL be an issue). So that household is helped then, not in say 30 years + as for Sizewell C

All part of being a member of the 'Monster Raving Looooney Party' (I am fully paid up 🙂)

Re-charging (refilling) the Rough storage should begin 1st September. it was decommed in 2017 but has been brought back.

Why not go a step further and include a battery system, that way you reduce even further the demand on the power grid!! Lets look at a few simple numbers: Say 20,000,000 houses suitable for solar. Cost per house say £10,000 (high volume discount) Total cost £200,000,000,000 The problem with this is that then we would no longer need so many nuclear power stations ! hmmm On another point: back before yr 2000 British gas had contracts in place with the likes of Shell/BP etc to buy all of the gas from specified gas fields in the North Sea at a fixed price, with the remainder sold via the spot market. However as the costs to get the gas to the beach increased these contracts became 'uneconomic' (important word that) and as a direct result of this those contracts were cancelled. Why were the contracts not re-negotiated? no idea. But for me this is where the government can step in and re-introduce these contracts. Ofgem operate too far down the food chain

someone didn't read the op fully!!! 🙂

My GUESS is that they could have 2, possibly more, levels of displeasure in the current leader. level 1 would be as is, 54. [this could remain as a yearly time frame] level 2, say 100?? [ if having got through level 1, a second batch of letters, then a new vote could be allowed] possibly level 3, 51% (choose your own %%) of tory MPs then PM sacked, instant dismissal!!

I'm sorry, but he will NEVER resign. So for him to go there will need to be a rule change in the Conservative Party & they have too many noses in the trough atm

we were!

Can't find it on the EDP24 website!

I tested +ve on Wednesday, daughter tested +ve on Monday, 2 sons +ve yesterday, that's 4 out of 5 with it. Surprisingly wife is still -ve, even though she works in school with the little ones. We all feel shoite, but nothing serious atm.

NO!

Sorry but I think he believes his own hype, so NO he will not appologise as I don't feel he thinks he's done wrong. Also, I don't think he has the ball s to do it, as it takes a big man to see he's wrong and appologise.

I still wear a mask, it makes ME feel comfortable.

NO as he PI$$ED it up the wall!

From what I have seen so far this season. NO