jcb produce hydrogen engine

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On 22/12/2022 at 16:05, fulton said:

A report I seen said the ignition was an electro static discharge to the ground but it was the, highly flamable, aluminium oxide coated fabric skin that you see burning in the films that caused the disaster. The low pressure hydrogen gas burnt realively harmlessly upwards.

.....and the large amount of diesel fuel on board

[peanuts]

11 hours ago, black and decker boy said:

They have: it now is.

 

part L of building regs has changed to deliver significant co2 savings to new builds.
 

So new build houses from mid 2023 should feature solar, EV chargers and air source heat pumps as standard. No one is expecting domestic wind turbines (people complain about neighbours dogs so swish-swish-swish 24/7 could see all out war in the suburbs)

 

commercial buildings see similar changes though in practice, many new builds already feature Solar and avoid gas.

 

 

in terms of small scale hydro, there are quite a few (I was loosely involved in a couple on the Trent in the early 2000s) but cost vs income is a perennial issue plus needing to create the head drop - the EA don’t like weirs as it stops fish swimming upstream and don’t like people digging & building turbines next to their existing weirs. This adds time & cost to overcome. Quite a few private estates have hydro to power themselves. 

remember when i worked for a builders merchants one of our regular jobs would be to go to the latest new build housing estate that was nearing completion and deliver lots of compost bins and those twirly washing lines to satisfy "green " planning regs .two weeks later we would be back to collect and store 90% of them as new house holders couldn't be bothered with them" that's what bins and the tumble drier are for " must of delivered some of them multiple times to different site compounds only to collect again   

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30 minutes ago, peanuts said:

remember when i worked for a builders merchants one of our regular jobs would be to go to the latest new build housing estate that was nearing completion and deliver lots of compost bins and those twirly washing lines to satisfy "green " planning regs .two weeks later we would be back to collect and store 90% of them as new house holders couldn't be bothered with them" that's what bins and the tumble drier are for " must of delivered some of them multiple times to different site compounds only to collect again   

 

In the US many homeowner associations prohibit drying washing in the sunshine as it might give the impression that people living there couldn't afford a tumbly.

People are dumb.

[black and decker boy]

47 minutes ago, peanuts said:

remember when i worked for a builders merchants one of our regular jobs would be to go to the latest new build housing estate that was nearing completion and deliver lots of compost bins and those twirly washing lines to satisfy "green " planning regs .two weeks later we would be back to collect and store 90% of them as new house holders couldn't be bothered with them" that's what bins and the tumble drier are for " must of delivered some of them multiple times to different site compounds only to collect again   

The problem nowadays, especially in the new developments ‘affordable housing’ areas where terraced rows are built, is the sheer number of council bins & boxes each house gets with nowhere to keep them , generally other than outside the front.

 

we live in a semi. We have a drive and garage, both hold a car and have no spare space for all the bins. One goes out front, two wheeled through the garage into the back garden. We had a compost bin but as we back into a shop, we (as most do) had a rat problem and one season they were traced to our compost bin. We now only use the council garden waste bin.

 

with the building regs changes, the solar & Heat pumps will be built in not optional extras. Gas Boilers are due to be phased out in the few years as new sales / installs by Government rules.