George and Dragon

And best of all, plastic bottled water costs more than petrol. Probably not quite as much as whisky.

This looks to me like a case where the solar will not adequately charge the battery for much of the year. If I were the OP I'd be looking for a way to swap batteries daily during the winter so that the system always starts fully charged. Unless a UV LED is employed. in which case they might get away with it.

One of our favourite trips. I cannot understand why they need to prevent mooring along the whole stretch for 15 weeks. Elf n safety again, I expect. It appears pedestrians and cyclists are not going to be affected during the works.

Surely CRT can come up with something far less intuitive than that. If not they're obviously not trying. As a non liveaboard with a home mooring I don't want to see genuine continuous cruisers penalised. I would like to see overstayers encouraged to comply with the T&Cs of their licences and those without licences removed from the water. Unfortunately this is going to mean people who can't afford to live on land in cities won't have the option of living in floating shanty towns. Perhaps we need a government that takes the need to house the population seriously though where we'd get one of those from is not a topic for this particular forum.

Not yet read to the end of the thread so apologies if this has already been asked: How can CRT unilaterally declare a boater who has paid for a mooring at a club or marina or elsewhere to be CC? Especially as there is currently no such licence classification. Exactly so. But when an organisation oversteps it's responsibilities and starts making CCers out of boats with home moorings then it's natural to attempt to correct the record.

Only for quantities of <2m^3. I suspect this means retail outlets such as garage forecourts and DIY sheds. It's just about impossible to enforce for sales where the vendor brings the wood to the home although I think most firewood merchants are aware of the law and will take steps to be seen to be complying. It's impossible to check. How does anyone know whether the wood I'm burning now is from a kiln dried load, a bulk load of >2m^3 or given to me by my friendly local gardener. And the storage once it's been delivered makes a huge difference to its subsequent moisture content. In the interests of not blocking up my chimney with crap I burn the driest wood available to me and it gets stored for 2 years if it wasn't delivered kiln dried. But you have only my word for that.

We have 4.4kWp installed on the roof at home. I very much doubt we could fit that on the deckhead of our 60' NB. Well, maybe if you have nothing else there at all: the panels are 1.134m wide so without allowing for any fixing brackets that's 13.6m. Most of us need to be able to walk on top of the boat at some time.

Zero is what I'd want. CO isn't a normal constituent part of the atmosphere.

My understanding is they are now mandatory.

Looks like I'm moving at the right time then: O2 doesn't work at the marina. Neither does 3.

If you're hoping to get enough energy from your solar to run the domestic hot water you might want a bigger array than 1kWp, lithium or not.

I used to see my phone drop back to 3G on occasion and sometimes even E (2G). Not noticed this recently so I suspect either switching network or better coverage is responsible. Entirely as an aside I'm about to switch to Lebara from Virgin Mobile but they both use the Vodafone infrastructure so I hope not to see any difference.

In my personal experience of working in the NHS it would have been better not to have a reorganisation every two years. I have absolutely no idea how much money that wasted but the effect on staff morale was cumulative.

Are the national numbers missing their 000s? Otherwise I think there'd need to be many more countries than we currently recognise. I see others have already questioned the numbers. Surely we have more than 452 data centres in the UK. I wonder what the German stats office meant by the term 'data centre'.

I wonder how much energy it takes to push a fully laden cross channel ferry between Dover and Calais when wind and tide are both favourable. How long to turn the boat around and head back t'other way? Can't see anything wrong here at all.

Could you explain what you mean by this? CRT may be failing to manage the infrastructure but I don't think it is an evil organisation per se.

Two. Sorry I missed the post as I was scrolling through. And, of course the world's population has increased by something like 33% since the 80s. 2000Wh seems quite generous.

25 Jan 2023.

Rental, perhaps. Like floating static caravans.

I have a Solis inverter. I'm sure it's much better than the supplied monitoring software/interface makes it appear. Solis cloud is updated every 5 minutes, our new smart meter updates every 10 seconds. I've seen the smart meter saying we're exporting 3.4kW while the Solis cloud says we're generating 170W. There's a status page on the actual inverter but the login credentials have obviously been updated since this was written.

Nice to think £1.8m is only slightly ridiculous.

To be fair, if they work out how much more they need to spend then they have to raise that amount. If RPI would have raised it I'm sure that would have been a straw they'd have gladly grasped. They are not going to find a way of raising the money they need that everyone thinks is fair. The consultation will allow them to see how big the pushback is likely to be and from which groups.

I don't know what the rules are for exporting from a self-installed PV system. No reason you couldn't install it to the required standard but without the necessary paperwork I suspect it becomes more difficult. So, you probably want to invest in storage. That will put your ROI back a little depending on what you get.