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17 minutes ago, PaulCheffus said:

Hi

 

It’s this that worries me as being diabetic I have to eat at certain times which are likely to be the peak times so I will be penalised for my illness.

 

Cheers

 

Paul

I can quite understand that. The situation is even worse in Copenhagen where the tariffs in the late afternoon, early evening are even higher. There are some who can organise their way around these prices, but it is hard for those who can't. But the traditional flat rate price is set a such a level that it would probably still be cheaper overall to pay the variable rate. Different  countries, different economic structures. No one system is perfect. But making us conscious of what we are paying, has encouraged us to invest in powersaving technology and our total energy costs have fallen dramatically. Which is good for the modelling budget, and the environment.

On 27/03/2024 at 10:42, hayfield said:

 

 

It looks like variable pricing will be with us sooner than later (we have variable pricing now with economy 7). not having a smart meter will not make you immune to it but you will be on a composite rate, which will no doubt favor the supplier than the user !! 

In Denmark, you have to use a smart meter which charges at an hourly rate if you have solar panels that are selling power to the grid. The electricity prices are agreed daily for the following day at 1 pm. We have a car charger that automatically knows how much power we need to charge and what time we are going to use the car. This then chooses the cheapest hours to charge.

We have just installed a geothermal heat pump for heating our large rambling farmhouse. This also looks at the temperature and weather forecast and takes into account the energy prices when planning when to heat the house.

Our electricity prices vary hugely during the day. For example, today the price at 3am was 1.80 kr. (21 pence) and at 6 pm it will be 3.07 kr. (43 pence)

We also have solar cells and a 10Kw battery.  What we need is the central ‘brain’ to join all the systems.

The central unit over time should

·       Learn our pattern of usage.

·       have information about electricity prices.

·       Use the projected weather forecasts.

·       Store information about how much power we need to have in the car battery when leaving for work

I would need to upgrade my car charger to a V2H unit (this means being able to use the car battery to power the house) to et the full benefit.

From this information, it should work out how much power we can get from the sun. It would then work out how much power we need to buy from the net, and when it is cheapest to do so, (possibly buying more than is needed and storing it in the car and house batteries to be used at times of peak prices.

In the summer when we are producing more power than we use, it should also work out when it is best to sell it (ie. when the price is highest).

In short it should do automatically, what I have to do manually today by configuring all the different control applications on my phone.

I was just getting excited because the company that installed the solar power sent me an email telling me that this system called HEARTBEAT was just about to be released. But When I contacted them, they told me that my Huawei inverters are not yet compatible ☹

Presumably there is now a queue of ships waiting to use or leave the harbour. At least the ones outside have the possibility to find an alternative.

4 minutes ago, 25kV said:

I'd say the feline stubbornness is ultra realistic!  😉

Later on in the video they start hunting the trains!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOPFunFsYCU

20 hours ago, Tim Dubya said:

It's an employee guide who speaks pidgin english

10 minutes ago, TheSignalEngineer said:

If I were at Hornby I would be more worried at who was taking an interest in the company's shares.

Fortunately there's still life in the hobby, we haven't yet got to a category for Asset Stripper of the Year'.

Asset stripping? do you actually know what that means? I cannot think of anything Hornby has bought, only for it to be sold on to a new owner. That is the definition of asset stripping. If the owners of Hornby Airfix, Corgi, Scalextrics and so on, started selling chunks off to other companies then. The Hornby could be a victim of asset-stripping. But not guilty of it.

9 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

Typical cartoonist, with the oarholes there, the water would be pouring in....

 

No eye for detail! 🤪🤪🤪

 

 

 

Mind you, he has cleverly positioned the Speech bubble to annoy rivet counters.

On 01/03/2024 at 21:33, J. S. Bach said:

Thread drift, don't you just love it!

It is almost a irregular verb,

I make interesting debate, you argue, he causes thread drift!

On 29/02/2024 at 20:59, 33C said:

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The lower birth rate is related directly to economics. If you cannot afford a child, sensibly you don't have one. If you still go ahead, the welfare system will only go so far. Not many people seem or can, also, be able to save for their future, which is a disaster in the making and a lot are going to have a shock when, or if, they reach retirement age and think the government of the day will look after them. "Make your own luck" is one of my mottos! 

Theres is an interesting article in the Guardian today on this subject:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/03/fertility-rates-are-falling-in-the-rich-world-but-still-plenty-of-people-to-go-round

It is the rich people who are not having children,  Apparantly the prediction is that the world's population will top in 2086.  

11 hours ago, Sidecar Racer said:

 

 As the post refers to pictures of couples then my husband and I is correct if the woman

 responded , here is a picture of ,  just as it would be my wife and I if a man replied .

Nope!

Here is a picture of my husband and me standing in front of the church.

Here is a picture of the church my husband and I visited.

We do need to see the phrase in context before a judgement can be made!

10 minutes ago, Sidecar Racer said:

You need to see more of the sentence before you know which is correct. for example:

The waitress bought the food to my hushand and me, but the food was not what my husband and I had ordered.

15 minutes ago, The Johnster said:

Actually, that looks as if it might work quite well, as the movement of the train will affect the writer's hand, the tablet, and the sling hook jiggerypokery all with simultaneous equiponerance (been waiting years to use that).  It would probably take you from Paddington to Didcot or so before you'd adjusted it half-properly, and you'd look like a total merchant banker setting it all up in front of your fellow-travellers, though...

This is still a problem. I rode in a Danish IC3 train where at least one of the wheels on the bogie under my seat has a flat spot that was so violent I had to stop working as I could not control my mouse. I closed my laptop and put it on the middle of the table and had a snooze… until I was woken up by the noise my laptop made when it hit the floor.

4 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

 

or Mike Rutherford, or ???

Stop calling these great musicians dinosaurs. If you don't T-rex will be after you!

As a kid, I grew up taking Hastings line diesels to Charing Cross when visiting London. Most childhood holidays were taken by car. One of my golden memories is of when my dad (a post office senior executive) had to go to Edinburgh for a three-day trip. BR had an offer where if one person bought a full ticket, up to three others could go for £5. So, Mum, dad, my sister, and I went on an HST for the first time ever. I must have been about 11. It was amazing. While my dad was working, the Scottish Post office chairman’s Ford Granada and chauffeur drove the rest of us around Scotland on trips. The most magical bit was eating dinner in the restaurant on the train on the way home. Most of the other passengers eating there seemed to be American and Japanese tourists. The waiter started a running joke that we were royals travelling incognito. My dad, who was always quick on the uptake for a joke joined in. By the end all the kitchen staff were in on it and making the most of the reactions of the other tourists when bowing and walking backwards in our presence!

My snailpace modelling is about to become even slower. At the start of March, I am going to have a double bypass operation.  It looks like it will take a couple  of months before I can do anything strenuous. I am not good with hospitals. The doctors  say that 99% of these operations have no complications...but I can not stop thinking that people do win the lottery even though that is a million times less likely!

5 hours ago, JZ said:

There is no evidence of mobile phones causing any explosions af pertrol pumps. 

or https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/mar/20/mobilephones.ameliahill and that is 18 years old!. The age of the sign is probably even older it says switch off CAR TELEPHONES!

A lot of modern cars have inbuilt mobile connections. Your remote carkeys also create radiation!

On 01/02/2024 at 17:01, Dagworth said:

Presumably to his ground floor flat?

 

Andi

These puns are revolting. The capacity for making them offends, You can't be neutral about them.

If it is possible, enable 2FA (Two Factor Authentication) on all credit cards. This means that simply getting hold of your card information is not enough for a Scammer to be able to use it to cheat you out of funds. In Denmark it is required by all banks and international debit and credit cards (VISA, Mastercard and so on) for purchases that are over a few pounds. The other thing I do once a quarter, is to check all the subscribers that are active on my bank accounts (and PAYPAL) to see if there are any that I do not recognise ( or ones that I have allowed to request payments for services that I needed once, but no longer use enough to make it worth paying).

33 minutes ago, Hroth said:

 

Surely that should be

 

Flap flap flap flap......

 

Flap flap flap slam. To be precise 

I might have to get Black Prince. When I was a boy, my grandparents lived at Cranmore in Somerset. My grandfather was the gardener for a boy’s school there. About 100 yards down the lane, there was a level crossing and I remember one day hearing a steam engines’s whistle and charged off down the lane to see this monstrous black beast of a steam engine with so many wheels going slowly past at rail level. The driver (Presumably David Shepherd) stopped just passed the level crossing, backed up and asked if I wanted a ride! We only went back and forwards a bit, but I’ll never forget the experience.

7 hours ago, NTrains said:

Does anyone know what happened to the Sound P2 Prince of Wales? Seems to have vanished into the ether! Many thanks.

 

edit: product code R3983SS

He got upgraded to a king

In the 'old' days before Brexit. I expect there were a lot of EU customers who, like me, used Hattons as the one stop 'supermarket' for buying both large and small items for modelling British railways abroad. But Brexit put a stop to that. That is not a political  opinion, it is simply a fact. As Hattons themselves mention. I am really sorry for all the people who have lost their livelihoods today. Thanks for all the times you have given us great service.

On 28/12/2023 at 08:49, Hroth said:

 

 

 

Or possibly a circular Hornby trakmat (not that they've ever done one) and track the grandkids carelessly left out...

🤪

She has a son called Sam.