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- Wed Jun 30, 2021 5:38 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: Financial tail wagging the energy dog?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1840
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 ...
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 4:03 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: Flying car!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3294
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 3:38 pm
- Forum: Wind Power
- Topic: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?
- Replies: 3619
- Views: 470757
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...
- Tue Jun 29, 2021 11:03 pm
- Forum: Wind Power
- Topic: Part ownership of a Ripple Wind Turbine, fancy it?
- Replies: 3619
- Views: 470757
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/...
- Tue Jun 29, 2021 12:35 pm
- Forum: Photovoltaic
- Topic: Farmers swapping crops for solar
- Replies: 18
- Views: 4799
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...
- Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:18 pm
- Forum: Gardening and Sustainability
- Topic: Growing potatoes in containers
- Replies: 42
- Views: 23074
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 ...
- 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: 2537
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 ...
- Wed Jun 23, 2021 1:56 pm
- Forum: Cafe
- Topic: Grid sites.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7032
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. ...
- Tue Jun 22, 2021 11:49 am
- Forum: Show us your system
- Topic: Ongoing Work at Nowty Towers
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6668
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...
- Mon Jun 21, 2021 8:23 pm
- Forum: Show us your system
- Topic: Ongoing Work at Nowty Towers
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6668
Ongoing Work at Nowty Towers
(nowtyproject for searching) Well, as its a new forum, we will have to have a short recap of where I was up to with my battery system. Over the past few years I was buying up mostly faulty 5kWh lithium Growatt Battery packs from the SP2000 controller range which I believe are no longer manufactured ...