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- Thu Jun 26, 2025 7:48 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: UK Bio Ethanol plant to close
- Replies: 4
- Views: 232
Re: UK Bio Ethanol plant to close
i just wish the farce would stop. Area for area PV produces more energy than the crop for bio fuels. It is madness -probably dreamt up by the FF industry in the first place. Get rid. Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems generally produce significantly more energy per unit of land area compared to biofue...
- Thu Jun 26, 2025 11:40 am
- Forum: Transport
- Topic: Electric buses drive improvement in Oxford’s air quality
- Replies: 5
- Views: 217
Re: Electric buses drive improvement in Oxford’s air quality
I followed a diesel bus up a hill yesterday. I can very easily believe that one bus can cause as much polition as 1000x ICE cars! I have read that the most polluted parts of London are train platforms. The myth that "personal transport is bad and public transport is good" from an environme...
- Wed Jun 25, 2025 9:13 am
- Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
- Topic: Bi-directional charging
- Replies: 7
- Views: 319
Re: Bi-directional charging
There is no technological reason we don't already have V2G. Plenty of cars can do it. Just the manufacturers (eg VW) can't figure out how they can profit instead of the customer. It would've been great if the powers that be hadn't made some really dumb decisions around the official standards. For ex...
- Tue Jun 24, 2025 10:10 am
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: Octopus Energy Tech Summit
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1906
Re: Octopus Energy Tech Summit
... "Less lithium, more neon!" in reference to addressing range anxiety. He suggests that instead of ever increasing battery capacities, rapid chargers should be lit up like petrol stations and not tucked away on a dimly lit industrial estate... I TOTALLY agree that EVs don't need bigger ...
- Mon Jun 23, 2025 9:57 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: Octopus Energy Tech Summit
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1906
Re: Octopus Energy Tech Summit
Come on then! Who is going to give us the lowdown?
- Mon Jun 23, 2025 2:58 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: Octopus Energy Tech Summit
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1906
- Mon Jun 23, 2025 12:06 pm
- Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
- Topic: Octopus Free Power Hours
- Replies: 294
- Views: 59178
Re: Octopus Free Power Hours
I am wondering whether Octopus hope to reclaim some of the costs when people who have programmed an extra battery charge forget to cancel it and find they have to pay for daytime-rate electricity when they let it repeat? I have remembered to cancel mine! A The rewards for SS and PH are so derisory ...
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 1:41 pm
- Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
- Topic: Octopus Free Power Hours
- Replies: 294
- Views: 59178
Re: Octopus Free Power Hours
Well I'm plugged in and the car has a schedule set. Will see what happens.
- Sun Jun 22, 2025 1:39 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: Geothermal
- Replies: 9
- Views: 586
Re: Geothermal
I don't see why every new-build housing estate cannot come with a borehole. You could then pump the water round the UFH in every house. You can get to 35℃ somewhere between 500-1000m underground, it'd cost £50-100k to drill the borehole. Think about a housing development of 250 houses. Even taking ...
- Sat Jun 21, 2025 5:20 pm
- Forum: Cafe
- Topic: Where am I ?
- Replies: 287
- Views: 108530