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From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com
"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
news:op.z24gs5lmwdg98l@desktop-ga2mpl8.lan...
> 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.
Yep, in scotland with a new house it makes a lot
more sense to spend that on a better house.
> Unless you're an unusual person who constantly consumes a small amount of
> power,
Nothing unusual about being retired, not working or working from home
anymore.
> 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.
Then you need to get out more.
> The tories are planning on banning gas boilers installed in new homes
> soon,
Bet that doesn't happen.
> 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.
And don't come cheap and arent cheap to run.
> I also saw illogical paving slabs, which I've seen elsewhere before: like
> this cheap shit:
> http://northwalesblockpaving.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/IMG_1912.jpg
Yeah, pretty fucked with the strip of gravel between it
and the wall and the bit that projects into the grass.
> 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?
Just stupid pollys if it is legislation that says that.
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