That's weird, but he does bear certain similarities to General Woundwort. That rabbit looks big enough to be a New Zealand, so it could be lunch. (View Post)

FPT. Dethreaded by the Benevolent Despot. The problem is capital cost to benefit ratio for a setup used on slow cycles, and because there's maintenance etc. If you need to store 10,000 kWh of en… (View Post)

Yep - inter-seasonal heat storage on an individual house basis does not really work well*. The preferred concept has been "treat the grid as a battery" for the extra. House batteries, or ho… (View Post)

Stats The latest is that in England and Wales there are just under 1.5 million dwellings (ie habitations) with solar panels. Scotland adds another 130k or just under 10%. In terms of % of households,… (View Post)

I've just re-run those calculations, as my neighbours to the east had two trees crown-lifted today, which will do wonders for the sun on my East facing panels. In the last 12 months I have used … (View Post)