The Environment Thread :-)
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Sep 2022
1:25pm, 11 Sep 2022
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rf_fozzy
Of course, the US has a lot of headroom to see such steep drops, because their ceiling was ridiculously high - they're still 3x the UK per capita emissions data.worldbank.org |
Sep 2022
10:44pm, 12 Sep 2022
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run free
Just seen the comments in the political thread on energy but that thread goes so fast, so gonna comment on it here.....Since 2019, the Clean Energy Job Sector has overall overtaken Fossil Fuels Job Sector worldwide! New energy projects are the major driver of employment, with around 65% of energy workers employed to build and deploy new solar plants, wellheads, heat pumps, cars, and more. You can read the full report here: iea.org
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Sep 2022
10:56pm, 12 Sep 2022
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3M (aka MarkyMarkMark)
Harking back a bit to the issues of human population and the impact on the wider ecology of the planet, I found this earlier on. bbc.com Fairly well balanced and some interesting questions raised. |
Sep 2022
7:45am, 13 Sep 2022
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HappyG(rrr)
Thanks run free. Interesting stat. And encouraging.  G
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Sep 2022
6:14pm, 13 Sep 2022
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JRitchie
Thanks RF. my employer runs a green jobs barometer for the UK. My local perception is that there are a huge amount of job opportunities in the green sector but our European neighbours are ahead of us. A lot of service sector for wind development comes from North Sea neighbours. pwc.co.uk |
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Sep 2022
9:37am, 20 Sep 2022
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HappyG(rrr)
Just getting our solar panels, battery and inverter installed today and tomorrow (and poss into Thursday!) Scary building work, but hopefully worth it. G
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Sep 2022
3:24pm, 20 Sep 2022
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Hanneke
Definitely worth it Happy! Update on my Passiv building: It gets to about 21 degrees during the day, with only a modicum of sun to no sun. I close the blinds when it starts going dark. Next morning I pull them up. Temperatures drops to 18 and it feels dry, warm and very comfy. The chapel with its solid stone walls is cold and damp. It doesn't really warm up more than half a degree and every night the temperature drops by a degree. Tonight it will be 15, one degree off the central heating kicking in 😱 which I have been holding off. I normally don't get to this stage until the 3rd week of October! Autumn seems to have come a month early... I have started clearing the tomatoes in the greenhouse and this weekend I will be moving my tender plants in. Also a month early but we have had night frosts already 😱 |
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Sep 2022
11:45am, 23 Sep 2022
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HappyG(rrr)
Omgosh, geeking out on Solar stats! 13.9 kWh generated so far and it hasn't been on for 24 hours yet! Given that our usual consumption is 12 kWh a day (not including car charging), we're a net exporter, already! G
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Sep 2022
12:17pm, 23 Sep 2022
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K5 Gus
What's the feed in tariff rate per unit now for new contracts ? I thought I'd heard it was pretty negligible now ( or maybe just quite a bit less than it used to be ).
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Sep 2022
2:52pm, 23 Sep 2022
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HappyG(rrr)
Ah, well now Gus, there is no FIT any more. It's now called Smart Export Guarantee. And yes, it's pretty tiny 4p/kWh. But depends on you electricity supplier, there are other, export tariffs. Octopus who I'm with do two, a fixed and an agile one. The Fixed is 15p / kWh and the Agile is variable every half hour. Right now (this half hour) it is At 12:08 PM Fri 23/09/2022 the Octopus Outgoing Agile price is 24.30p/kWh. So my 20kWh that I have generated today (only 10kWh has been exported, cos I was charging battery most of morning) would be £5. Won't do that every day, but you can see how over 365 days that can be valuable. G
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