XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y, alt.sci.physics   
   From: CFKinsey@military.org.jp   
      
   On Fri, 07 Jun 2019 00:05:52 +0100, Rod Speed  wrote:   
      
   >   
   >   
   > "Commander Kinsey"  wrote in message   
   > news:op.z2ziatlkwdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...   
   >> On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 23:08:06 +0100, trader_4    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 5:53:05 PM UTC-4, Commander Kinsey wrote:   
   >>>> On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 22:48:40 +0100, Andy Burns    
   >>>> wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> > Commander Kinsey wrote:   
   >>>> >   
   >>>> >> Andy Burns wrote:   
   >>>> >>   
   >>>> >>> Very little incentive to have any at all now that the   
   >>>> >>> feed-in/bribery   
   >>>> >>> tariff has ended.   
   >>>> >>   
   >>>> >> That's what I would have thought, but these houses are only a couple   
   >>>> >> of   
   >>>> >> years old.   
   >>>> >   
   >>>> > FIT ended (for new installs) 31st March 2019.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I wasn't aware it was a different date for new installs.  I tried to get   
   >>>> some on my existing house 5 years ago and just missed it.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> However, if the bribery had ended, why did they install any at all?  Is   
   >>>> there some silly regulation saying they have to have a small number?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> And these houses would have been completed before 31st March 2019.   
   >>>   
   >>> You don't even say where this is.  The rebates, tax incentives, payments   
   >>> for electric you generate, vary widely, state by state.   
   >>   
   >> Sorry I thought you knew I lived in the UK.   
   >>   
   >>> I agree though that a small number doesn't make sense, assuming it's not   
   >>> enough to cover the energy usage of the house.   
   >>   
   >> Irrelevant, you can always make more and it just goes into the grid.   
   >   
   > But when you are paid fuck all for what goes into the grid   
   > it makes no sense to be paying a lot more for the panels.   
      
   It also makes no sense to have any at all.  Unless you're an unusual person   
   who constantly consumes a small amount of power, you'll often be selling the   
   1kW to the grid anyway, as it's nearer midday when you get more sun, and   
   that's when you're probably    
   out.   
      
   Spotted something else there today: heat pumps!  Never seen one installed in   
   the UK before.  The tories are planning on banning gas boilers installed in   
   new homes soon, but I didn't think that had taken effect yet.  They look quite   
   fancy, piping going    
   into several parts of the house, presumably to individually heat or cool rooms.   
      
   I also saw illogical paving slabs, which I've seen elsewhere before: like this   
   cheap shit: http://northwalesblockpaving.co.uk/wp-content/upload   
   /2015/06/IMG_1912.jpg   
   But for no reason, some of them were sliced diagonally across, making two   
   triangular slabs.  I could understand that if there was a start of a slope, so   
   the slabs needed to "bend", but there wasn't.   
      
   Also noticed what I think is some silly legislation - every front door was   
   accessible without going up steps.  Are 100% of house buyers now disabled or   
   something?   
      
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