Posts by J.G.Harston

Re: "The power lead approached the PC..."

Ah, so you'd prefer to have a radial to EVERY SINGLE BLODDY SOCKET! 120 fuses in the consumer unit? Just like bloddy Cat5 ethernet where you need a two-foot hole in the wall to get the damn cables through.

Re: Lets do the maths

Ironically, yer late Victoria terrace is much easier to manage heat/cold in than modern tacky Barratt Boxes.

You phase out incandescent lights by allowing the replacements to develop to the point where they are cheaper to buy and run, not by banning them.

My Mercedes TLK1100 is approaching its 30th birthday and is still working strong. I clean it by popping the top off, dismounting the motor (three screws) and dunking it in the sink. The only repair it has had was the plastic filter holder ring replaced.

Also, using electricity for localised heating is yuuuugely inefficient.

Gas: stick it in pipe, push to consumer, take out of pipe, convert to useful work.

Electricity: burn gas, energy losses, convert to motion, energy losses, convert to electricity, energy losses, push across transmission network, energy losses, consumer converts to useful work, energy losses.

Just about the most brain-dead method of using portable energy.

25% of "people" are children. You have to start by removing that number from your dodgy maths,

"Most people drive their car 20 minutes (often less) in the morning then 20 minutes in the evening. It takes about half an hour to top the battery back up and if you have a charger at the office that's fifteen minutes at home."

I'd like to see actual sourced information about that.

I only started to drive ten years ago, every job anybody has been prepared to give me has required much more driving than that. With no other information to compare with I have just assumed that that was "normal". What is "normal"? What is the spread? In my current job I drive 1hr15mins to work and the same back home. The JobCentre insists that claimants consider any job vacancy within 1 hour's travel from home, so based on that I am directed to seeing my travel time as close to "normal". HMRC rules say any travel allowance scheme is only to apply after 50 miles distance to work, I work 52 miles from home, based on that I am also directed to seeing my travel distance as "normal".

What is normal?

Re: Elephant in the room

The Netherlands is flat, and has the advantage of their neighbours shifting all those pesky buildings out of the way 70 years ago.

Re: Elephant in the room

"When a street lamp is replaced with LED do they rip up the electricity supply to the post and replace it with lower rated cable or leave the existing one in place?"

If a street lamp is replaced by replacing the head, then it will still be on the 100-year-old bell wire it was wired up with originally.

With most street lamp replacements the new post is in a different location to the old post - part of the saving is that with the new laps you need fewer of them, so it's pointless putting them in the same place. And when the new ones are put in, yes, they are wired up sufficient to supply the lower capacity LED head set.

Lamp-post charging will require digging up pavements and putting 100A (or even just 60A) supplies in to them, along with the metering equipments.

Re: its not just the public charging

As 90% of adults 20-30 are single and childless, by first approximation, the claim is correct.

Re: Some things that would help the situation

Morrison's have changed all their petrol pumps and no longer take loyalty cards. I used to get a good fraction of my groceries from the credit built up on my card.

Re: Government energy policy

And where do the big polluting corporations get their money from with which to pay taxes? Yes, from their customers, the working stiffs who buy their products. Where else do you think any corporation gets any money from?

Re: A contrarian view

For 200 quid it better damn well last 20 years.

Re: H&S

The H&S inquest would find that the employee was at fault for not taking responsible action for their own health and safety and taking appropriate measures. H&S law explicitly puts the onus on both employer *AND* employee to take appropriate measures to ensure a healthy and safe working environment.

If *YOU* feel the world is too dangerous for you, *YOU* take action to minimise its danger to you.

Re: Odd...

"Masks were never about protecting the wearer"

Ok, they are to protect others from me.

Ok, I've been vaccinated, I've been tested and am uninfected, so I have no need to wear a mask as there is nothing I have to protect others from.

Re: Okay, now I get cryptocurrency

I used to live in Hong Kong twenty thirty* years ago. The process of sending money to the UK was simply to go to my bank, write an international cheque drawn on my account (I think the fee was about a fiver), go next door to the post office and send it recorded and insured mail to my bank in the UK. I never realised the US system was so borked.

*Good god, where's the time gone?

Re: I've said it before, I'll say it again...

Maybe he's using dried frog pills instead of dried frog pills.

Re: Font recommendations

It's Bedstead or it's nothing.