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West Coast of Scotland in January makes me feel cold, just thinking about it!

Air-con systems can drain a 40amp 60v battery in a very short time, and such extreme drainage isn't good for them. My neighbour has a full solar system, about 20 3'x6' roof panels with two 60volt 40am batteries and a massive regulator system, and the installation team advised her that in a...

Ah.... tall ceilings do make cold rooms. I purchased two sets of long-johns this autumn; I tried one on and presented myself to the Missus who nearly fell over laughing. Wives can be.....so unkind! :D Excellent! Isn't it amazing, what can be achieved with a little imagination.

Yes! OO guage?

OK....... I get the idea now. I am guessing that your hall is up to 5' wide, possibly? In which case that fairly long cellar would make a brilliant DIY area with long work/craft bench/table on one side, shelves above with storage below, and a 3 foot walkway all the way along. If I have...

That sounds like a very interestin home you have. Three storey home with a half-cellar....... the things I would want to do with a half-cellar.... :) Oh....there was one other 'thing' we've done to reduce costs and increase warmth. Although all our windows and doors are fitted with sealed...

It may be very useful one day, your little generator, but you know that. :) I've wondered about using EV batteries for domestic use in power cuts...... My two EV batteries are 60volts @ 20AH @ 1200 KwHrs. I must look in to 60v - 240volt pure-sinewave inverters.

Our little home is a third of the area of yours but being in the UK I expect that our heating costs are significantly higher per SF than yours. On the other hand smaller rooms heat more quickly and cheaply. Ah, yes, electric furnace igniters! Everybody around here who uses gas does rely upon...

Ah, yes..... the 'No true Scotsman' application, or that's what it looks like to me. A person from a religion does a bad thing, gets caught, and so all the congregation can claim 'that person never was a ------, and must have been ------'. But that doesn't work when a whole community acts...

It sure is very strange. It's a dull rainy day here, with no sun, and yet it is warm enough to take a walk in a T-shirt (if you have an umbrella!) So if you have a normal winter you might use $3000 of fuel for heating? We are all electric and if I can get through to next June for £2500 then...

Two days before November and its 21*C in our unheated home and 15*C in the garden, the longest 'Indian' summer I can ever remember. The trouble is that nobody really seems to know what will happen or when; we could be locked in to a serious freeze very quickly, or be gardening in...

I post up a pic tomorrow. :)

Chunky tyre update..... They are brilliant! Surprisingly they are not noisy around town at low 30mph- speeds, we haven't tried them out on the local dual carriageway yet. There's one benefit that neither of us thought of...... we live on a private estate with really tatty roads and a very...

That's it. Absolutely. Our Fire departments still don't know how to control a lithium-battery fire, a perfect (televised!) example was in my post. I wonder if and when the Insurance companies will 'click' on to all this? I've heard of mobiles combusting, and kid's E-scooter battery fires...

Ah, yes....... In the UK I only put the best 95' octane petrol in my wife's jimny, because vehicles using the lower performance fuel are getting problems with overheating, wear, etc .... Back in the 80's the UK started switching over from leaded to unleaded fuel at the pumps and drivers more...

Not one......what? Yes Yeah...Like our 'Law' and 'Legislation' I guess. So you read my post. which explained that. So what did that have anything to do with what I wrote?

Yeah, it's fair. If I want to pop in to the local city I can do this for £0.90p or £9. Those our my choices. It's a comparison between what we have. Absolutely! And I get the impression that many EV owners still think of them as IC cars; for instance, whereas they used to fill up once a week...

More exciting EV waffle! :D I'm reading that EVs on longer journeys and needing to use fast-charge facilities cost as much to run as petrol/diesel vehicles. The way that Electricity costs are going to increase are causing lots of folks who travel long distance to review any green plans that...

Hi..... A pericope is a single scene, situation or incident from the Bible, mostly from the gospels and used by HJ intellectuals. That's why I would never use such titles.

I'm really sad about that, Firedragon. Sometimes I just find it difficult to make points, I guess Of course .