That news has not yet reached rural Dorset where every village seems to have turned its red telephone box into a free book exchange 'library'. (View Post)

You voted for Brexit thinking it would achieve anything positive, so... yes. (View Post)

15kW Basically the whole of our south-facing roof. The marginal cost of solar panels instead of slates was minimal. (View Post)

Meanwhile Octopus are only paying us 12p per kWh for our exported electricity. Today we imported from the grid 0.13kWh and exported 45.1kWh). Solar panels, battery, ASHP and good levels of insulation… (View Post)

I started as a Cobol programmer in 1981. The bank I was working at when I retired 37 years later still had its core banking system running on Cobol, with a handful of aging techies who had any chance… (View Post)