The Artilleryman
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Boilerjuice are 77.16 (+vat) in my area for normal delivery.
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I think its here. https://homefuelsdirect.co.uk/
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It might be, but currently isn't, and district heating schemes are pretty expensive to set up as you can imagine. So currently both the waste heat and the oxygen from electrolysis are dumped to the atmosphere.
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Over the last 60 years I've often hear the bleat about high costs to set up so nowt gets done. Yet 40 years down the road they are the bees knees Check out the Reading university GSH p heating at Syerston ( SP?) near Reading that had not been long put in back in 1966 .
Oxygen from electrolysis can be captured and compressed /liquified and used for better burning of waste, making steel , medical / industrial use etc.
Peterborough New town had a districtict heating system in Bretton put in all new build near the Cresset centre . The only problem was it was designed by second rate engineer's , put in by unskilled installers and run on a uni-selector PAL controller.
The first dozen homes & buildings close to the heating plant were almost un useable as they were roasting hot , whilst the dwellings a bit further out and to the perimeter were freezing cold in winter .
Everything got taken out and individual gas heating systems put in
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If today's diesel fill up stays at 174.4 p a litre I'll be using some heating oil and other oils to make my own bio diesel ( within the law of course ) It's 30 p a litre more expensive than Tesco petrol at the moment .
Roll on the day I get the new Vauxhall Combo 7 seater Elete Motability EV ( 147 kw fully charged ? ) that we have ordered today after taking a decent 17 mile round town test run .
It has a decent regeneration system too .
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If heating oil stays as cheap as it is currently I will be using it in a diesel generator to fill my electric car whilst the big turbines all around me spin around pumping electricity into the grid!
It's also looking more and more sensible to lose the relatively modern Td5 and TdV6 diesels I run and rebuild the 200Tdis sitting in the garage which are happy with bio. What a ridiculous state of affairs with the pricing of energy in this country.
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Blame Putin and China for their desire for a new world order that benefits only both of them .
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Home fuels direct (Certas)
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I was quoted by Boilerjuice for load which didn't arrive because of tanker size. Boilerjuice were using Certas, which surpise, surpise owns Homefuelsdirect. Who able to deliver after mysteriously finding the right size tanker.....just one of those mysteries of life?
NB.. I think HFD prices include 5% vat?
As was pointed out earlier - really the only way to really make a dent in your consumption of energy and "environmental footprint".... is to use less.
Consuming is consuming, energy is energy - "no such thing as a free lunch" & all that.
Pretty much everything else - is just moving the impact and visibility of your consumption around in a smoke & mirrors exercise in denial (or marketing flim-flam).
Consuming is consuming, energy is energy - "no such thing as a free lunch" & all that.
Pretty much everything else - is just moving the impact and visibility of your consumption around in a smoke & mirrors exercise in denial (or marketing flim-flam).
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Yep, West isn't to blame at all...
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Good news is; we have been:
Bad news is, it's a huge figure and I don't know how, if at all, it accounts for offshoring. 30,000kWh per person is also quite a big number. A domestic house might get 4kW of solar panels that knock 4,000 kWh off the top of it. We can't renewably generate out way out of the problem, which is why insulation, heat pumps, EVs and hybrids, that all reduce consumption further, while maintaining standards of living, get so much focus. Even if the finances are marginal at best currently.
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Tangledfeet
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Thanks; we've just placed an order for 800litres, saving us £33 over the oil club we've been using for years.
Wow. Thats cheap by todays standards. Cant beleive i would ever consider that cheap either!
