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by Pluggy
15 Nov 2023, 13:14
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3924
Views: 555898

Re: ENERGY MATTERS

Regarding stuff made in China, expect less stuff to be made there in future. China is starting to fall out of favour, there are numerous reasons for this. The big one is that wages in China have increased sixfold in real terms in the last 3 decades. Its no longer such a cheap place to manufacture. A...
by Pluggy
13 Nov 2023, 12:28
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3924
Views: 555898

Re: ENERGY MATTERS

Watch the flames shoot out from underneath where the batteries are located - and new batteries had just been fitted to the car... `Firefighters tackle raging Texas Tesla fire' BBC video Theres little evidence that electric car fires are any more common than other car fires but they burn a lot hotte...
by Pluggy
10 Nov 2023, 14:54
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3924
Views: 555898

Re: ENERGY MATTERS

Am I right in thinking that's £55 for a full charge? Not a lot of incentive there to spend a fortune going electric..... Like the banks, some energy companies are laughing at us while they drag in obscene profits. I can understand why some deniers reckoned that this is what climate change theory is...
by Pluggy
10 Nov 2023, 14:25
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3924
Views: 555898

Re: ENERGY MATTERS

My neighbour has just bought himself an EV, a Hyundai Kona, similar size to my ix35 oil burner. Chatting today about public charging points and how expensive they are. It's 85p a kw at an Electravolt charger and it's a 64kw full charge, he'll get around 250 miles out of that. By comparison, the Oct...
by Pluggy
01 Aug 2023, 14:05
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3924
Views: 555898

Re: ENERGY MATTERS

I very much doubt the government would want an anti-capitalist who thinks the time for chasing net zero was 4 or 5 decades ago. Sooner of later some spark will catch on that a system that depends on continuous growth is folly on a planet with limited resources. History teaches us that the worlds emp...
by Pluggy
01 Aug 2023, 12:07
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3924
Views: 555898

Re: ENERGY MATTERS

Inaccuracy in the BBC article, The graphic "How a heat pump works" says they act like an air conditioner in summer. The usual type (an air to water) which is the one you can get a £5000 grant for cannot really act as an air conditioner in summer. They use larger than normal radiators or un...
by Pluggy
28 Jul 2023, 10:53
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING
Replies: 2021
Views: 341634

Re: CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING

Its way more complex than the gulf stream turning off. The gulf stream is driven by the rotation of the earth and won't stop unless the earth stops rotating. What the melting of the arctic will do is slow down or stop whats called the AMOC (Atlantic Meridianal Overturning Circulation ). Newspapers r...
by Pluggy
20 Jun 2023, 15:27
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3924
Views: 555898

Re: ENERGY MATTERS

If we get 'netzero'd' back to the middle ages - and that surely would happen - and the 'climate' doesn't change - can I have a refund? :smile: If its your call you can't lose and you probably wouldn't accept anybody elses call Net Zero is a delusional pipe dream. it could never happen for a whole v...
by Pluggy
19 Jun 2023, 09:03
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3924
Views: 555898

Re: ENERGY MATTERS

suicidal quest for Net Zero Way too little, way too late by the consensus of climate scientists by my reading. If we took serious steps 30 years ago we might have stood some chance. Instead we used as many fossil fuels in the past 30 years as we did in the 3000 years preceding that. The human race ...
by Pluggy
09 Apr 2023, 13:15
Forum: Technology & Communication
Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Replies: 6615
Views: 944757

Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

You can use voip phones for voip but the cheaper option is using old school analogue phones with a voip adaptor. I had a voip system for my business back in 2010, but then it went over the standard ADSL broadband which wasn't even FTTC. It was so I had a separate landline number to my home landline ...
by Pluggy
07 Apr 2023, 20:39
Forum: Technology & Communication
Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Replies: 6615
Views: 944757

Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

So is his, he has some old modem cables that fit, but they don't work, presumably because they are wired back to front. The point being he wasn't provided with a suitable cable to make the VOIP work with his phone.
by Pluggy
07 Apr 2023, 14:18
Forum: Technology & Communication
Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Replies: 6615
Views: 944757

Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

Another couple of years and we'll all be going through the full fibre landline hoop. I think I'll be in two minds whether I'l bother keeping the landline when I make the switch (probably when they kill off the old copper network in 2025) My friend has just done it and he elected to keep his landline...
by Pluggy
30 Mar 2023, 09:52
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3924
Views: 555898

Re: ENERGY MATTERS

The IT world is panicking because of the dramatic developments in Artificial Intelligence the last few months (google GPT4 or its older sibling chatGPT for details) meanwhile at the other end of the scale EDF sends me an email inviting me to renew my energy contract or I'll be moved to the standard ...
by Pluggy
24 Mar 2023, 16:49
Forum: Technology & Communication
Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Replies: 6615
Views: 944757

Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

I can confirm its a CR2032 cell. I have a few in my computer bag I have from my self employed days. But I would think they are available in Barlick easily and cheaply enough. The biggest job is taking the side panel off the computer. You can usually get the battery out and replace it with your finge...
by Pluggy
07 Mar 2023, 12:16
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3924
Views: 555898

Re: ENERGY MATTERS

Yes its my birthday today, such as it is at 65, we're having a celebratory brunch at the cafe on the square later on. :biggrin2: I wouldn't worry about the 50mm hole standard practise on these new fangled properties with cavity wals is to put a piece of 2" drain pipe to seal off the cavity when...
by Pluggy
06 Mar 2023, 11:59
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3924
Views: 555898

Re: ENERGY MATTERS

Old badly insulated house (Victorian end terrace with sold walls) with a 15 litre hot water. undersink heater which actually does The bathroom and kitchen hot taps, no cylinder as such and we have an electric shower which heats it as it uses it. Accidents of history meant we've only ever had an elec...
by Pluggy
05 Mar 2023, 13:29
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3924
Views: 555898

Re: ENERGY MATTERS

For the luddites, there is a big difference in efficiency between an air-air system like mine and the standard air-water system that the majority of people fit. The big downside of air-air systems is that they don't do hot water which is why most people fit an air to water system. An air to water is...
by Pluggy
04 Mar 2023, 14:55
Forum: Current Affairs & Comment
Topic: ENERGY MATTERS
Replies: 3924
Views: 555898

Re: ENERGY MATTERS

EDF just put my monthly direct debit up from £113 to £145 in anticipation of my old cheap tariff expiring next month. (I started a 2 year contract about a month before the prices started going silly) I'm only £6 in arrears at the end of winter because they've already been doing some creative account...
by Pluggy
26 Feb 2023, 18:59
Forum: Technology & Communication
Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Replies: 6615
Views: 944757

Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

there is one proviso with the Mini PC I bought , I couldn't get the included sound jack socket to work with linux. I had to buy a "usb sound card" to have sound on it. its a particular type of intel chipset that does it, there lots of [people having trouble with it, its not just mini PCs, ...
by Pluggy
26 Feb 2023, 13:59
Forum: Technology & Communication
Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Replies: 6615
Views: 944757

Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

I had a small accident with the new laptop, to save a new install of ubuntu, I opened it up and swapped,the ssd (new fangled hard disk) and killed it in the process. My old laptop which had a VGA connector would connect to the my old desktop monitor. The new one with a HDMI connector won't. Back to ...
by Pluggy
21 Feb 2023, 14:39
Forum: Technology & Communication
Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Replies: 6615
Views: 944757

Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

Having a dead laptop and awaiting its replacement has pushed me back to using my old desktop. God I miss this thing, a screen I can see with loads of detail with much higher resolution. Makes me wonder why I bothered ordering a new laptop.... Because the laptop fits my hospital type bed table which ...
by Pluggy
20 Feb 2023, 21:22
Forum: Technology & Communication
Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Replies: 6615
Views: 944757

Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

Regarding Stanleys problem, it could be the Bios Battery that has expired. They generally giveb out after a period of between 4 and 8 years . A ubiquitous CR2032 cell clipped into a holder on the motherboard. That's where I was going with the BIOS date/time :biggrin2: It was your post that gave me ...
by Pluggy
20 Feb 2023, 17:51
Forum: Technology & Communication
Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Replies: 6615
Views: 944757

Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

Regarding Stanleys problem, it could be the Bios Battery that has expired. They generally giveb out after a period of between 4 and 8 years . A ubiquitous CR2032 cell clipped into a holder on the motherboard.
by Pluggy
20 Feb 2023, 17:31
Forum: Technology & Communication
Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Replies: 6615
Views: 944757

Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

Since my last post a couple of things have transpired. My laptop with the broken hinge I was talking about replacing - it has completely given up the ghost. When I try to turn it on it lamely flashes a code using the caps lock light. Looking it up it translates as either call your supplier for servi...
by Pluggy
20 Feb 2023, 11:21
Forum: Technology & Communication
Topic: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY
Replies: 6615
Views: 944757

Re: COMPUTERS, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY

With all this talk about BIOS (UEFI on modern machines) unless you know exactly what you're doing and are feeling very lucky don't be tempted to upgrade it........ here be dragons. Unlike the operating system which is dead easy in comparison. I probably won't upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 on this computer...

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