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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 06 Oct 2019, 10:39 am
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| So... 4pm Sunday has come and gone. It has been cool (good for photovoltaics) and sunny (also good for photovoltaics). I've been looking at what I'm generating, and I'm more than impressed! I've been getting something like 1.5kw from the panels, which means nearly 60% efficiency. I've also discovere... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 05 Oct 2019, 3:24 am
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Could you fit some concrete brick storage in your back yard?
EnergyVault.com claim 90% round trip efficiency.
I suppose, if you had a disused missile silo, you could fit a small rig inside it. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 04 Oct 2019, 5:30 am
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| The panels on this house (11*240W=2.64kW) cost £9650, back at the end of 2011. They were supposed to break even after nine years. They actually broke even a year or so ago. It's cloudy and 15 Celsius here. At this instant (now they've fitted the smart meters) I'm feeding 150W into our national grid.... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 03 Oct 2019, 5:59 pm
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| I try to be informative... when I'm not being plain weird. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 03 Oct 2019, 4:57 pm
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| Ooops. The battery I'm getting for the house is merely 8.2kWh. I dunno where I got the 10kWh figure from. Anyway, to get that amount of stored energy with lead/acid leisure batteries would take eighty of them, and cost treble what I'm paying. I've just looked at the cost of an equivalent Tesla Power... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 11:45 am
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| I'm getting a (non-TeslaPowerWall) PowerVault fitted soon. Only 10kWH, so it can't charge the car (much), as the car has a 30kWH battery. However, the solar panels can charge the PowerVault during the day, I can then use some of that to charge the car, and it should cover my electricity needs as wel... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 02 Oct 2019, 8:47 am
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| Pure electric Nissan Leaf 2017 Black Edition (It's white), cameras all round for parking, but it does have a rubbish satnav built in - they want to charge £90 each year to update it - and charge points are way out-of-date. Says it can do 144 miles, but that's a bit optimistic and you have to drive s... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 01 Oct 2019, 4:25 pm
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I had my first Scotch for many years on Saturday night. Very nice.
Broke my new car today. Well, crunched the front wing a bit. It'll cost. Didn't see the concrete flower pot with the sun in my eyes while parking. My fault. I'll get it fixed. Sob. After a few weeks, I like my electric car. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2019, 2:04 pm
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| Mostly silliness. We're quite adept at that. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 30 Sep 2019, 1:26 pm
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| Whoops! There goes another box of Cabernet Sauvignon. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 29 Sep 2019, 9:10 am
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| Ah. We're pretty informal here. I believe the muffins are still behind the aspidistra in the corner. I'm not sure what flavour they are, these days. Probably "Essence de Mold". |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 10 Sep 2019, 12:53 pm
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| Back to Warehouse 13 now. (grin) |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 10 Sep 2019, 12:16 pm
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| I just drop by occasionally. Mainly to prove that I'm not a figment of your fevered and extensive imagination. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 10 Sep 2019, 12:16 pm
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| I just drop by occasionally. Mainly to prove that I'm not a figment of your fevered imagination. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 10 Sep 2019, 12:15 pm
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| I just drop by occasionally. Mainly to prove that I'm not a figment of your imagination. |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky) |
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Posted: 10 Sep 2019, 11:14 am
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| I don't consider myself to be geriatric. I haven't completed my first century yet! |
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