OneGuyFromBarlick

The government and Pendle borough council are 2 entirely unrelated entities, the government encouraging renewable energy isn't on their radar. The conservation area bounds the old interesting bits of Barlick, Hey farm (Stanley's old stamping ground), The 3 story 18th century back to backs on Manches...

Just got a letter from Borough of Pendle regarding my lack of planning permission for my solar panels. Not aware I needed any (you don't normally) I did some research and found I'm in a conservation area enclosing the old interesting bits of Barlick. Arbitrary line on a map I think. I live in a humd...

I'd rather have much seriously colder weather so water fell as snow, its utterly miserable outside in this heavy freezing rain. A couple of degrees warmer so the rain got rid of the snow would be nice too.

At the West Craven Area meeting, Neil watson said that there should be no flicker effect as it was more than twice the recommended distance from the properties and not within an arc (which I didn't fully comprehend). Maybe there is a wikipedia entry :geek: Presumably the arc of the shadow as it mov...

or is the new site an order of magnitude busier than the old one ? On the old site I could go away for several hours and not much would have changed on my return. Here I come back after an hour away and theres a dozen new posts to look at. The infrastructure is a huge improvement, I don't think anyo...

Well Catty, I suppose it's a bit like not using pesticides in my garden so as not to wipe out the little bugs...but then the little bugs aren't responsible for lousy TV programmes, Ipads, BlackBerrys, mobile phones, bank bonuses, Fred Goodwin, Terry was-is-name the footballer, Adolf Hitler.... Got ...

Its pretty bright again now, but the panels aren't doing too well because they're covered in snow, stupid idea them being on the roof, where its difficult to brush them them off............. :laugh5: I see the some Tory MPs are rebelling against the FIT for wind turbines (slack news day). I read htt...

They moved the reload button as well Tiz........

The delights of Solar PV panels after a cloudless day:

Electricity meter at 08:00 yesterday morning

At 08:00 this morning. We used -2 units yesterday........

Tizer, the main nationwide page is usually very slow. I keep the secure site url handy because its normally very quick direct.

https://onlinebanking.nationwide.co.uk

Kev, in the absence of Pluggy have you tried searching the Ubuntu forums ( http://ubuntuforums.org ) A question for those of you on Firefox. I'm using Firefox 9.0.1 on Ubuntu Linux and there was a big update to it a few days ago. Since then, when we connect to what should be secure web pages we no ...

A Linux question for Pluggy. I have a Compaq Presario V5000 Laptop with Ubuntu 11.04 on it and can't get the S-Video output to work. Video card is ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE). It uses the open source video driver that came with Ubuntu 11.04 I'd be grateful for any assistance...

Looks like I've been reading sceptic websites. This site http://info.cat.org.uk/questions/pv/what-energy-and-carbon-payback-time-pv-panels-uk suggests the energy payback for the manufacture of PV panels is only around 2.5 years in the UK. PV panels don't have a set life, they gradually lose efficien...

Don't bother for me, the original posting occurring at the head of each page was one of my pet hates on the old site. More often than not it was irrelevant because the thread had evolved or strayed from the original anyway. I visit several forums and I've never seen it elsewhere.

I have no regrets about the panels, but they are a financial investment, not a means of saving the planet.

The government is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea on FITs. At one side is fuel poverty or more specifically the 'green subsidy' element of everyones fuel bills and the PV industry on the other crying foul because they were trying to address the balance too harshly. The bottom line is ...

You must be reading some sceptic websites, the joint 2 warmest years on record are 2005 and 2010. 2011 was the 10th warmest on record globally and the 2nd warmest on record in the UK. http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2011/0112/Global-warming-waning-Hardly.-2010-was-tied-as-warmest-year-on-record...

I corrected them Stanley. Must keep Calluna Happy I ran into her on the way to the bank yesterday.

Orange no longer appear as an LLU, so it not just Barlick that lost out, its every non 21CN exchange in the country.

According to 'Sam Knows' Barlick's 21CN upgrade has been put back to the end of March 2012.........

Thanks for sorting those glitches Doc - I don't know how you manage to cope with us all, it must be like having a family of dozens of kids. Gloria, I hope you didn't mind me asking Doc to sort your witchy! It might be a sore subject Tiz and she might put a jinx on me as well as yourself, because wh...

Its a youtube video so you need Adobe Flash installing on your computer. If you're using Firefox you might have some addons that block Flash (its something of a can of worms security wise so the paranoid tend to block flash). If you can't view Youtube videos (or BBC iplayer or a million other things...

Particularly since it was adamant I reduced mine in size (from 102 * 100) before it let me upload it......

Hmmm, we were on Autumn into late November and now we're on Spring in January, I take it we don't like Winter ?

A recursive acronym so beloved of the Linux community. I love it. PHP Hypertext Protocol. I take it as its only £120 a year hosting its running on a lot less than a dedicated server. And the spell checker works, (It never did for me on the old site). It looks like a quality site now, something to be...