On Monday, 27 July 2015 21:00:20 UTC+1, harry wrote:
On Monday, 27 July 2015 10:56:52 UTC+1, whisky-dave wrote:
On Sunday, 26 July 2015 10:23:09 UTC+1, harry wrote:
On Friday, 24 July 2015 21:25:26 UTC+1, bert wrote:
In article ,
newshound writes
On 20/07/2015 00:42, Rod Speed wrote:



Only the brain dead can'tseethis.

Only the brain dead can't see that the cost of
renewable energy makes it unviable for heating.

Direct solar for DHW might make sense,

It doesn't in Britain.

particularly if no mains gas and on well insulated new build.

Electricity makes a lot more sense for DHW, because its ideal
for storage hot water because it evens out the load on the
coal fired power stations and makes them run more efficiently.

For thermodynamic reasons, it's a bad idea deliberately to convert what
is effectively mechanical energy into heat. Night storage heaters were
popular decades ago when coal was relatively cheap. There's more
wiring, but with smart metering I suppose we might see a bit of a
come-back.
Nothing to do with smart metering - they're just crap

In the future smart meters will turn things in when electricity is plentiful and cheap.
Nothing to do with time if day.

No it'll do the opposite.
What they want is to use green energy which we all know costs more to produce
and when is that most likely to be most available ?

You really are a dimwit.

but still brighter than you.

In the future renewable energy will be the cheapest.

In the future when it is cheaper then that's when it'll be best to use it,
but time travel isn't possible so will have to wait until the future gets to us.

The energy source is free.
Capturing it isn't.

Life is free too, food is free, air is free water is free, sex is free.


We will use it when it is available.

and we won't use it when it isn't.