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Lol, you're right.
Good story.
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Old Mr Webb was a bit of a lad in his more active days . He taught me how to splice and make things like turks head knots and rope fenders . Talked at length about the great depression & what he did to provide for his family of five . Taught me how to use a jemmy bar very quietly & effectively and how to cut out a pane of glass without making a mess or noise whilst it was in the frame a, s well as making black beer & honey & seasonal fruit wines & cider .
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One particularly hot summer school holiday I was with him ... with me moving a pile of rubble from a collapsed building . sorting out the ancient hand made bricks and stacking them so he could sell them .
There was only well water on the plot and it had been declared unsafe to drink due to a pig farm & chickens in deep litter being his immediate neighbours .
So he gave me some of his delicious cool black beer that he'd brewed earlier in the year from one of his 20 x one gallon stoneware wide mouthed preserving jars .
It was fab , he brought me home after the second jam jar as I was having trouble with rubbery legs
Seems logical.
Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go, study finds
The move to electric vehicles will result in large costs for generating, transmitting, and storing more power. Shifting current EV charging from home to work and night to day could cut costs and help the grid, according to a new study.
www.sciencedaily.com
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I can see the sense. And for the most it makes sense. But needs Infrastructure in place.Seems logical.
Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go, study finds
The move to electric vehicles will result in large costs for generating, transmitting, and storing more power. Shifting current EV charging from home to work and night to day could cut costs and help the grid, according to a new study.www.sciencedaily.com
Though if you work in customers houses daily ...
An electric card and sockets across the country that bill the metered supply to your account would work. Needs to be non proprietary though
A bit different in the UK to California, as solar is never going to be as big here, and if there ever starts to be higher demand than supply, during the night, the off peak rates and times will be changed to suit the new situation. In fact it is said that smart meter technology will allow suppliers to switch prices to suit demand. Seems a bit far fetched to me, as they can't get smart meters to work properly now.
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That’s my thinking too…..I’d be quite happy connecting my own supply up to my house from a genset….the network can stick their standing charges where the sun don’t shine..greedy ********…
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At a tenner a gallon for petrol for almost a 2 & 1/2 hrs 2kw run of pure sine wave load I'll stick with the tariffs we got a while ago.
My genny also needs a service & oil change every 25 hours of run time.
I do have several none grid double switched sockets that the genny powers up independent of the mains when it's plugged in
My genny also needs a service & oil change every 25 hours of run time.
I do have several none grid double switched sockets that the genny powers up independent of the mains when it's plugged in
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My wife had to run on petrol today, so she can add some new fuel to the tankk as the current contents are seven months old & the ECP tells her it's time to replace at least 1/4 of a tankful.
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There will be a lot of cooked geese and chickens too.Won't the forthcoming nuclear winter render EVs and PV a dead duck?
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Already with us, Octopus do a variable tariff that the Smart Meter takes care of
Same here, which is why I posted "they can't get smart meters to work properly now." Eon pestered until I agreed to get one, man came and fitted a "dumb meter" I asked why and he said, "no signal". I can see one of those fake tree phone masts from the living room window. A couple of years ago it was on the radio that 10% of households can't get a signal for smart meters.
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Hi, The RAC are saying that some electric car charging is nearing the same price as petrol prices.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63029226
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63029226
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