Prices of the electricity we use to charge

[Woosh]

The Chinese are ahead as usual - you'll be importing Thorium reactors in 2041.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMSR-LF1

scientists at US NIF will announce tomorrow that they put 2.1 megajoules in and got 2.5 megajoules out. So far so good. However, it costs them tens of millions $ to produce a single shot. Still, future prospects look pretty good. Essentially, 3MJ of laser being fired at the capsule, but only about 15kJ is actually absorbed by the pellet before fusion occurs. If they can improve the way the laser energy is converted into shockwave energy then it will surely lower the cost of the lasers.

 

[guerney]

scientists at US NIF will announce tomorrow that they put 2.1 megajoules in and got 2.5 megajoules out. So far so good. However, it costs them tens of millions $ to produce a single shot. Still, future prospects look pretty good. Essentially, 3MJ of laser being fired at the capsule, but only about 15kJ is actually absorbed by the pellet before fusion occurs. If they can improve the way the laser energy is converted into shockwave energy then it will surely lower the cost of the lasers.

Sexy fusion attracts investment, but China will far sooner gain energy resilience with Thorium reactors. I should learn Chinese, to more rapidly understand our future overlord's decrees.

Scientists to announce major ‘breakthrough’ in nuclear fusion

More energy has been created than put into a nuclear fusion reactor, scientists at Lawrence Livermore’s national ignition facility (NIT) in California have...

www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk

 

[soundwave]

them fookers in china, fans toys which is supposed to be the best sent me a fkn robot and the head wont fkn move a mm.on mine




£130 in the bin or just use the bat head lol

 

[guerney]

them fookers in china, fans toys which is supposed to be the best sent me a fkn robot and the head wont fkn move a mm.on mine

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£130 in the bin or just use the bat head lol

Look like Bane, spend like Batman with Dyson's $949 headphones

Mask apparently addresses urban pollution and noise, but doesn't even seal to the face

Look like Bane, spend like Batman with $949 headphones

Mask apparently addresses urban pollution and noise, but doesn't even seal to the face

www.theregister.com

 

[soundwave]

should collect all the teeth when they crash there scooters

 

[PC2017]

I didn't bother with gov't subsidies

Open fire sounds so nice, my cat gives you a thumbs up for that, or paw.

I hear that's common, I rent so I have never looked in to it. My flat was built in 1992 & bodge jobbed for sure, the double glazing is lip service. Even though I have been here nearly 17 years the last person let the moisture build up & even now with no shower, no extractor fans (bath or kitchen) I have to have windows open a lot and ajar for breathing. Me and the other half, her being off sick do use a lot of elecy with 2x 150w PC's + monitors. I am gluten intolerant so I eat spuds and fresh stuff, simple toast n xxx is off my menu (yes this week I have been mostly eating potatoes) and oven cook meats etc, our oven is cheap, the microwave is 20 year old, the kettle need replacing, I have no fire place & the bath take a lot to fill for a fair covering. As for insulation, I have it but it's dissolved. My parents have super efficient bungalow, they got a fix and pay about £90 for both without the gov £66, it will go up but not by much when the fix ends.

 

[guerney]

Open fire sounds so nice, my cat gives you a thumbs up for that, or paw.

I was thinking of replacing one of my double gazing panels with a big piece of sheet steel with a hole cut out for a woodburner flue - those things can put out a lot of heat. A wandering gypsy made one out of a gas bottle for my caravan one summer, and in winter even keeping all of the windows open wasn't enough to cool it down - on minimum. It heated a space far more effectively than the victorian fireplace we had many years ago - heat disappeared up the chimney with the smoke, it didn't heat up rooms much at all.

 

[soundwave]

you not tried the terracotta pot and tea light heater it does work but could burn ur house down.

 

[guerney]

Charging ebikes will take longer:

stove top power charger

stove top power charger which charges your phone using the heat from your stove

salamanderstoves.com

 

[guerney]

Charging costs aren't too high for ALL electric vehicles

Bulb Northern Ireland:

 

[guerney]

personally I feel that some folks are deluded if they think prices will fall, ever.

It took 9 years for Russia to admit defeat and retreat from Afganistan, fighting a population with little to no infrastucture to begin with - for them, the difference in living standards between pre-war and war wasn't as stark. Alternative energy and food supplies will take some years to develop - it'll be a long haul for sure. As always, there is a highly resistant to change, very aggressive select group of useful idiots elite fighting sub-cult being nurtured and trained in Ukraine, which will become capable of little else but continuous war, and I wonder what havoc they'll wreak in the west, when some are eventually abandoned?

 

[PC2017]

Alternative energy and food supplies

Which on the face of it are being purposely eroded, look at Netherlands (farms) & until recent the banning of new onshore wind (UK) - New forms of Nuclear are too far away imo for making any headway in this crisis of crisis, a perfect opportunity to sneak in CBDC you only have to look a Nigeria, because a new increase in the money supply, some free CBDC & more spending is just what we need around now.

 

[Croxden]

Also a fire risk. Sell it. I dry till dry-ish on a rack in the kitchen, and finish off on the radiators.



I was pre-diabetic before I lost weight, still might be a bit, as I do still feel the cold... but a hot water bottle under my feet keeps me from worrying about my toes turning black and falling off, a duvet cover containing a duvet and space blanket keeps my legs and up to upper body warm, and an 45W electric blanket on the back of the office chair/armchair/sofa/bed and a woolly hat does the rest, until I must use a central heating blast or three. Merino wool thermal undergarments are the mutt's nuts. Like I said, I'm making an effort this year...

I bet that lot makes riding a bike difficult.

 

[guerney]

I bet that lot makes riding a bike difficult.

It's a very comfy sidecar

 

[guerney]

I bet that lot makes riding a bike difficult.

Thanks That gave me a laugh and spawned an idea, which @Nealh has helped solve the problem of chilly garden/cycling feet and cramping calf muscles

Is it safe to connect a 40W elecric blanket to my ebike battery?

For cold days at my remote garden, I'm wondering if it's safe to connect this 40W electric blanket (they've changed the listing to king sized and 70W, but I bought a single): https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/265920220858 ...to my 36V ebike battery? Would the battery explode or be damaged?

www.pedelecs.co.uk

 

[Nealh]

Just received and email from Shell energy and my energy prices are going up from Jan 1 , the only change is a small one. Electricity kwh price rises from 35.314p to 35.400p.
Still not very good news considering the oscene profits they are making.

 

[guerney]

Just received and email from Shell energy and my energy prices are going up 99.9 from Jan 1 , the only change is a small one. Electricity kwh price rises from 35.314p to 35.400p.

Do they charge you that for all of your units, or do they charge a higher rate for the first X units of each day, followed by 35.400p for the rest of the day? Mine's simply flat rate and high.

 

[Nealh]

No mine are all the same one flat rate.

 

[flecc]

Just received and email from Shell energy and my energy prices are going up from Jan 1 , the only change is a small one. Electricity kwh price rises from 35.314p to 35.400p.
Still not very good news considering the oscene profits they are making.

Thanks Neal. My Bulb prices pending completing their move into Oxygen have been identical to yours,

35.314p per all units
42.678p per day standing charge

so I may be getting an adjustment soon too. If so, it will confirm that some of the companies have been working together like a cartel.
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[Nealh]

If I had a dual rate where the night time rate was about 10p , I would have by now installed 14kwh of EVE LFP's and inverter to run white goods off during the day.