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Specmaster:

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--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 05, 2022, 09:17:41 am ---Also of course, the heat lost in the process of cooking, is not really lost in the winter as it contributes to the warming of your house? Its only in the summer months that the heat loss is really adding to global warming without adding anything useful in return  :-//

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Burning fossil fuel in 2022 with potentially tons of PV energy on the roof (my case), it is just bad for everybody.
Again it's not just the business case, it the mostly right thing to do.

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Yep, I have PV on my roof as well and it is currently making a massive difference in our energy bill. SWMBO didn't want the PV array when I first went for it (I could see the writing on the wall) but now she is very pleased we have them.
Specmaster:

--- Quote from: bd139 on July 05, 2022, 01:53:57 pm ---Woohoo housing nightmare sorted. Moving 26th Aug now. Place slightly smaller than last one but plenty of storage for TE and secure underground car park so the TE doesn't get wet unloading it from the car :-DD

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Riverview or not this time?
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 05, 2022, 04:48:28 pm ---
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--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 05, 2022, 12:22:10 pm ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 05, 2022, 09:02:39 am ---Ok, then that video does sort of make some sense, but here is another angle, what would happen with all that natural gas if we don't use it for heating or cooking? It's going to get released into the atmosphere and do what? Build up to become a huge big gas cloud that we are going to be breathing in and then one day a lightening strike ignites it and the entire planet erupts into a huge fireball and incinerates everything and everyone or worse, the planet blows apart and ceases to be a planet any more.  :-// :-// :-//

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You must be pulling our plonkers. Natural gas that has happily spent millions of years underground is suddenly going to start floating up into the air if we don't use it?

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Undersea methane clathrate/hydrate? (Note the question mark)

Methane in permafrost.

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And methane rising from landfill sites, sewage works, cows and other sources, and yes it was a bit of tongue in cheek but it does make you think, and don't forget that now we have drilled into the earths crust and disturbed the balance, so there is always the possibility of leaks and blow outs, even from capped wells, at some time in the future I'm sure that there will be a major event, but when is the question.

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Landfill sites and sewage works often "harvest" the methane now. Cows I'm suspicious of, but I've never bothered to investigate whether there's any more substance than PETA/Greenpeace propaganda.

But there is a hell of a lot of methane in permafrost and in clathrates/hydrates.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/colossal-crater-found-Siberia-what-made-it
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=siberian+methane+craters+2020&t=ffsb&iar=images
Specmaster:

--- Quote from: Vince on July 05, 2022, 02:06:55 pm ---Yes... he will install / set up his lab... in the garage....

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I doubt that, from my experience, these garages underground are more of an open plan car park, much the same as normal car parks but with gates on the entrances to keep non-residents out.
tggzzz:

--- Quote from: bd139 on July 05, 2022, 04:56:56 pm ---
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--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 05, 2022, 04:41:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: xrunner on July 05, 2022, 12:10:19 pm ---Got curious and found some info on iPhone 6s support. Might be ending when iOS 16 is out. Don't know any more than what I'm finding at the moment.

https://www.macworld.com/article/561009/ios-16-support-iphone-6s-iphone-se.html

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Thanks, so I'm crossing an iPhone 6 off my list of 2nd hand phones then, I would like a high-end model which will have longer support but not the associated costs, so I'm thinking of a second hand model, unlocked of course.

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Be careful where you buy them. Some of them are mutants stuffed with crap parts. Apple sell refurbs but you’re looking at £529+. Giffgaff sell refurb iPhone 11 for a reasonable price with warranty https://www.giffgaff.com/mobile-phones/apple/apple-iphone-11/refurbished

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£379 upwards?! I'm not going to spend that much on cellphones/calls in the rest of my life! I'd be surprised if I spend £20/year.

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I probably make less calls than you do.

The phone bit is a fairly minor function between the camera, navigation, research, entertainment, organisational, social, banking, transaction and identity functions.

Research function is great for avoiding lemons and checking bounce prices in the middle of a field at a hamfest  :-DD

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Yes, that last one and avoiding traffic jams are benefits. Either uses many more bits/£ than speech+SMS!

The rest, not so much: a major benefit of going out is to inhabit somewhere completely different, not to stay in cyberspace.
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