1 hour ago, BobyBrno said:

I posted it without comment. You can interpret however you like. 

Posted without comment, now there's a surprise from you..shocked to my very Lemington Spa core.

11 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Posted without comment, now there's a surprise from you..shocked to my very Lemington Spa core.

I went there once - it was rubbish, no pool, no saunas, no masseuses. Just loads of shops selling sickly Australian cakes.

2 hours ago, Not in Crawley said:

Funnily enough, there's similar reports from the 70s about levels of happiness in working folks.

 

 

My happiest days were in the 70s

I also think the 60s were the most creative within Britain

Social media has made the world unhappy

1 hour ago, Rudy said:

Alright Tommy tease spill will you

It’s a bit complicated, so will simplify as best I can.

Below is a graph based on Octopus tariffs. For 40 years, leccy has been cheaper at night on the economy 7 tariff. Basically, energy producers can’t just “turn off” production during the night, so incentivised people to use leccy overnight when demand was low to keep the cogs turning, in exchange for a lower price per kW.

Thanks to new tech, and renewable energy, these fluctuations in supply and demand are much more frequent and yet less predictable (Wind energy, for example, is now a massive provider but it’s peaks and troughs are impossible to predict)

Therefore, there are times when the grid is overloaded with leccy but demand is fairly low. At times like this, some providers (octopus, Ovo) will actually pay you to take the leccy. They’ll credit as much as 7p per kW if you use it. 
 

trouble is, you might be out at work or it’s nighttime.

This is where we come in. Our hot water tanks have a smart bit of kit attached that is connected over the web to your chosen provider. When it is told that leccy is in negative charge territory, it will switch on the immersion heater and - you are getting paid to heat it.

Of course, this isn’t a constant, but our tanks keep water hot for many hours so potentially, you end up paying very very little for the heat.

Im not telling you about the tech unless you give me a trillion million pounds. But the future isn’t all grim.

 

11 hours ago, Spider said:

It’s a bit complicated, so will simplify as best I can.

Below is a graph based on Octopus tariffs. For 40 years, leccy has been cheaper at night on the economy 7 tariff. Basically, energy producers can’t just “turn off” production during the night, so incentivised people to use leccy overnight when demand was low to keep the cogs turning, in exchange for a lower price per kW.

Thanks to new tech, and renewable energy, these fluctuations in supply and demand are much more frequent and yet less predictable (Wind energy, for example, is now a massive provider but it’s peaks and troughs are impossible to predict)

Therefore, there are times when the grid is overloaded with leccy but demand is fairly low. At times like this, some providers (octopus, Ovo) will actually pay you to take the leccy. They’ll credit as much as 7p per kW if you use it. 
 

trouble is, you might be out at work or it’s nighttime.

This is where we come in. Our hot water tanks have a smart bit of kit attached that is connected over the web to your chosen provider. When it is told that leccy is in negative charge territory, it will switch on the immersion heater and - you are getting paid to heat it.

Of course, this isn’t a constant, but our tanks keep water hot for many hours so potentially, you end up paying very very little for the heat.

Im not telling you about the tech unless you give me a trillion million pounds. But the future isn’t all grim.

 

So you've invented a big flask? 

Russia taking the piss out of Boris, he is a laughing stock ffs.

 

 

13 hours ago, Spider said:

It’s a bit complicated, so will simplify as best I can.

Below is a graph based on Octopus tariffs. For 40 years, leccy has been cheaper at night on the economy 7 tariff. Basically, energy producers can’t just “turn off” production during the night, so incentivised people to use leccy overnight when demand was low to keep the cogs turning, in exchange for a lower price per kW.

Thanks to new tech, and renewable energy, these fluctuations in supply and demand are much more frequent and yet less predictable (Wind energy, for example, is now a massive provider but it’s peaks and troughs are impossible to predict)

Therefore, there are times when the grid is overloaded with leccy but demand is fairly low. At times like this, some providers (octopus, Ovo) will actually pay you to take the leccy. They’ll credit as much as 7p per kW if you use it. 
 

trouble is, you might be out at work or it’s nighttime.

This is where we come in. Our hot water tanks have a smart bit of kit attached that is connected over the web to your chosen provider. When it is told that leccy is in negative charge territory, it will switch on the immersion heater and - you are getting paid to heat it.

Of course, this isn’t a constant, but our tanks keep water hot for many hours so potentially, you end up paying very very little for the heat.

Im not telling you about the tech unless you give me a trillion million pounds. But the future isn’t all grim.

 

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

 

2 hours ago, kent_white said:

So you've invented a big flask? 

That keeps your hot things hot and your cold things cold.

Mine has coffee and a choc ice in it

Aren't immersion heaters all a bit 1970s?

I haven't lived in a house with one of them since I was about 8.

A non-twitter version here:

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016/11/22/and-end-to-silo-governance/

38 minutes ago, mickbrown said:

Aren't immersion heaters all a bit 1970s?

I haven't lived in a house with one of them since I was about 8.

Kind of boiler do you have?

15 hours ago, Spider said:

It’s a bit complicated, so will simplify as best I can.

Below is a graph based on Octopus tariffs. For 40 years, leccy has been cheaper at night on the economy 7 tariff. Basically, energy producers can’t just “turn off” production during the night, so incentivised people to use leccy overnight when demand was low to keep the cogs turning, in exchange for a lower price per kW.

Thanks to new tech, and renewable energy, these fluctuations in supply and demand are much more frequent and yet less predictable (Wind energy, for example, is now a massive provider but it’s peaks and troughs are impossible to predict)

Therefore, there are times when the grid is overloaded with leccy but demand is fairly low. At times like this, some providers (octopus, Ovo) will actually pay you to take the leccy. They’ll credit as much as 7p per kW if you use it. 
 

trouble is, you might be out at work or it’s nighttime.

This is where we come in. Our hot water tanks have a smart bit of kit attached that is connected over the web to your chosen provider. When it is told that leccy is in negative charge territory, it will switch on the immersion heater and - you are getting paid to heat it.

Of course, this isn’t a constant, but our tanks keep water hot for many hours so potentially, you end up paying very very little for the heat.

Im not telling you about the tech unless you give me a trillion million pounds. But the future isn’t all grim.

 

Modern flasks today are directly linked with the Apollo 11 space mission........hello? 

21 minutes ago, Spider said:

Kind of boiler do you have?

One of them instant hot water jobs

1 hour ago, Cheese said:

A non-twitter version here:

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016/11/22/and-end-to-silo-governance/

Is it bad for me though? That’s all I’m actually concerned about? 

36 minutes ago, mickbrown said:

One of them instant hot water jobs

A combi?

You're basically killing the planet. And they’re fucking shit.

An immersion, my good man, uses electricity. Like a Tesla. Like an air source heat pump. Like everything modern.

our reliance on fossil fuels needs to end quickly.

This brings the “old” immersion heater front and centre of the green revolution.

Gas combi boilers? Sooooooo 1990’s

Edited March 26, 20224 yr by Spider

6 minutes ago, Spider said:

A combi?

You're basically killing the planet. And they’re fucking shit.

An immersion, my good man, uses electricity. Like a Tesla. Like an air source heat pump. Like everything modern.

our reliance on fossil fuels needs to end quickly.

This brings the “old” immersion heater front and centre of the green revolution.

Gas combi boilers? Sooooooo 1990’s

Fits in a wee cupboard in my utility room.

Where am I sticking a big fuck off cylinder?

17 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

Is it bad for me though? That’s all I’m actually concerned about? 

Probably not. Some of us experience this thing called 'empathy' though. It's not a nice feeling. In a way, I suppose you're lucky you don't suffer from that aspect of the human condition.

42 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

Is it bad for me though? That’s all I’m actually concerned about? 

Everything has a knock on effect 

 

29 minutes ago, Cheese said:

Probably not. Some of us experience this thing called 'empathy' though. It's not a nice feeling. In a way, I suppose you're lucky you don't suffer from that aspect of the human condition.

If you knew the first thing about me I would take heed of your comment 👍🏼

9 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Everything has a knock on effect 

Yes fully aware

im fortunate that I’m much better off than I was 2 years ago pre covid pre brexit etc. but I’m in no doubt that I would be even better off had none of that happened. But as it stands currently I cannot sit and quantify that as I’m better off. If that helps to explain my position 

Think Cheese may have posted something earlier about it, but Brexit sure is getting done folks (unless we’re still giving it 15, 20 or 50 years)

 

5 minutes ago, Escobarp said:

If you knew the first thing about me I would take heed of your comment 👍🏼

From your own words - you don't give a fuck about anything as long as it doesn't affect you. I don't need to know any more. 👍

12 minutes ago, Spider said:

Think Cheese may have posted something earlier about it, but Brexit sure is getting done folks (unless we’re still giving it 15, 20 or 50 years)

 

Yeah - but we've had COVID to contend with - where as the rest of the world hasn't. There's literally no other reason why this might have happened that I can think of.