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| tom66:
When I worked in Halifax, W.Yorks, a car garage opposite our office would frequently burn off their waste oil. It would cover the entire area in a thick black smoke and made the air unpleasant to breathe. I would be glad if that practice were to be banned, maybe it should be allowed if it can be done cleanly, but it is probably better to take the waste oil and recycle it into something else. |
| AVGresponding:
--- Quote from: bigfoot22 on December 06, 2022, 05:54:29 pm --- --- Quote from: Jackster on December 06, 2022, 01:50:08 am --- --- Quote from: james_s on December 06, 2022, 01:21:05 am ---Is there a significant amount of electric resistance heating in the UK still? It's still common in apartmens in the US and there are still older houses around that have it but at least in this region natural gas is more common and heat pumps are rapidly gaining. Given the much higher cost of energy over there I'd have thought resistance heat was largely a thing of the past. --- End quote --- Gas is common in and around cities as well as built-up areas. But out in the countryside, electricity and oil are used for heating.\ --- End quote --- Yes I've heard first hand from a UK immigrant on how the heatwave is treating the UK with everyone not having air conditioners. Sad tale. --- End quote --- That was in the summer, it's now winter. Sad how? |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: tom66 on December 06, 2022, 04:10:02 pm ---When I worked in Halifax, W.Yorks, a car garage opposite our office would frequently burn off their waste oil. It would cover the entire area in a thick black smoke and made the air unpleasant to breathe. I would be glad if that practice were to be banned, maybe it should be allowed if it can be done cleanly, but it is probably better to take the waste oil and recycle it into something else. --- End quote --- It can be done cleanly, not as clean as burning natural gas but it shouldn't be belching out black smoke. |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 06, 2022, 01:30:13 am --- --- Quote from: Zero999 on December 05, 2022, 10:28:56 pm ---When was that? Modern LED Christmas lights hardly use any power. --- End quote --- Mine use about 900W for the outdoor lights plus about 260W for the tree and another 80W or so for other misc indoor lights. Most LED Christmas flicker and/or have icky monochromatic colors, I have incandescent C9, C7, C6 and miniature lights that look much nicer IMO. It's well worth the ~$35 extra I spend on electricity. --- End quote --- The Christmas lights you've seen are complete junk. I have a set which is run off 24VDC, or high frequency 24VAC PWM rather and are flicker free. They hare saturated colours, but that's what I like. It is possible to get pastel phosphor converted LEDs, which some people prefer. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on December 06, 2022, 08:33:34 pm --- The Christmas lights you've seen are complete junk. I have a set which is run off 24VDC, or high frequency 24VAC PWM rather and are flicker free. They hare saturated colours, but that's what I like. It is possible to get pastel phosphor converted LEDs, which some people prefer. --- End quote --- I've tried everything I can find, I'm a lighting enthusiast, I even tried some fancy high end "TruTone" C7 bulbs, the colors look great but like most LED holiday lighting they flicker. I've considered trying to run them off of filtered DC but they're expensive enough that it's cheaper to just stick with incandescent. If you like the saturated LED colors that's great, personally I think they're icky, the green is always that gross lime green, the red is more orange than a true deep blood red, the blue is the same saturated blue of almost all blue LEDs, my eyes can't focus it properly and it looks blurry. I've looked at everything available and so far found nothing acceptable. For whatever reason, Christmas lights that use a transformer or power supply are not a thing here, the LED lights are universally series strings powered directly from the mains, or individual 120V bulbs wired in parallel. |
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