PowerSwitch

I've read that the difference is that the us loans are non-recourse loans whereas over here they are recourse loans. I do wonder what would have happened here if all house loans were non recourse - would it have made the lenders more cautious ... probably not going by the US experience. Cheers, Steve

not a response to any of the posts here , but I read this ages ago , posted on hpc, and maybe from tod , but gives a view of the future that seems believable , altho the ending is implausibly upbeat :-) http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=65132&st=0&p=914633&#entry...

Hello Andy , Thanks for the info , it is clearer to me now (I had confused myself about what you had bought :oops: .) Please excuse my curiosity , but it is all a learning experience for me ... I used to do electronics for a living , 2 lives ago , and had decided there was no point now and thrown pi...

Hello Andy, Just thinking about this again today , and had a look on ebay to see what was available and what params are normally specced . One I found had : NEW AMETEK 1150 RPM 38 VDC SERVO MOTOR WIND GENERATOR speed : 1150rpm -> 19.1 rps Voltage 38 VDC Amperage 0.2 Amps Max Current 12 Amps max powe...

I think haggis is right that a diode would be ok to do some testing . for some reason I was interested in pedal power output and seem to recall (and just googled) 300w for a fit cyclist and that the man powered flight was maybe up to 1kw (dont quote me on that), what Andy Hunt might achieve over the...

Cant see the jpg given above. A description of our heatstore system follows , with some ramblings. We live in a so called "chalet style" detached which originally had a coal fire driven CH and DHW with gravity fed pipes to a primatic (or fortic?) tank on the landing . I replaced the coal f...

fwiw, a list of which bank is owned by which.

http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_ ... /post.html

so make sure the top level is different for each bank (iyswim).

hth,

Steve

Hello vortex , I currently know nothing about solar panels etc altho I hope to change that in the near future . Ditto for electric fencers (!). Looking at the sanyo panel (only pv that I have a pdf data sheet on) it appears to be a current source dependant only on the irradiance , and as such would ...

well off topic : wrt hull : another group I intermittently follow had the following appeal posted after the flooding in Hull (I've never been there so couldnt possibly comment) : Please help the forgotten victims of flooding Please help with this major disaster Epicentre: Hull , England News of the ...

I did not catch 'start the week' , but I have noticed the phrase 'peak oil' being mentioned on the bbc for the last couple of monthts , whereas I had *never* heard it used before. Nearest was on working lunch maybe 3 months ago , where the guest slipped in some words like : 'but oil is a finite reso...

fwiw, when I received the email (probably 2 weeks after it was written) , I use the writetothem mechanism , to write to my MP , Chris Huhne , got a ack letter fairly quickly, saying he would write a more detailed response later, and today I got his response , which basically said he had signed the e...

10 units per day ... heaven ! ok , had to dig out my old bits , some of these are measured and some estimated kitchen stuff ... - TD ... obviously variable but measure 2.5/d ie 1hr on 2.5 - w/m costs more in soap powder I think. 1.0 - fridge - need to check 0.4 - (chest) freezer 43.7...

not directly relevant to the OP , but I had/have a large leccy bill and last year bought a power meter from maplins to try to determine where it was going . average daily usage was ~25kwh , hopefully a little less now. One major item of this was computer usage with my box (linux) being on ~14hrs/day...

plastic bags http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3508263.ece "Series of blunders turned the plastic bag into global villain" (dont remember where I found this link) . I take a lot of plastic bags and use them as bin liners as apparently do many others : "... John ...

What a very strange attitude . High cost of oil , blame opec that they wont sell their oil to us at a
cheap price ... it just isnt right ... dont stand there, invade someone !