The Good News Only - thread...

[icowden]

I will start by admitting, I am a complete idiot when it comes to electricity (some may say beyond that too), I don't even understand how electricity does not spill out of an unstitched socket, when the plug is removed (it has been explained to me several times by my physicist drinking pal).

Hmmmm..... imagine you have an unlimited source of beer. It comes from a straw. When you don't suck from the straw, no beer, no leakage. AT the same time you have catheter that takes out your urine and sends it back to the beer factory to make more beer. So if you are not connected to both the beer straw and the catheter nothing happens. If you are not drinking beer, then nothing happens.

Once you are drinking beer, beer flows both in and out...

 

[Pinno718]

Hmmmm..... imagine you have an unlimited source of beer. It comes from a straw. When you don't suck from the straw, no beer, no leakage. AT the same time you have catheter that takes out your urine and sends it back to the beer factory to make more beer. So if you are not connected to both the beer straw and the catheter nothing happens. If you are not drinking beer, then nothing happens.

Once you are drinking beer, beer flows both in and out...

Perfect.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Pinarello

Perfect.

Except in the case of electricity don't in and out use the same socket?

 

[PurplePenguin]

If I spend more time in France, I might be tempted to install something there, but TBH my energy use is so low in both places, it's probably not economic in either, despite both being south(ish)-facing and with decent sunshine hours on average. At the moment, most of my French time is there when I use even less energy, and my time in Devon I only use more 'lectric in the months when there's much less sun.

That said, some balcony panels in France, if cheap enough, might be tempting, to get 'free' hot water. Especially since there I've got a balcony.

Surely you could just get a solar hot water heater thing as opposed to using solar to make electricity to make hot water? They're very cheap and effective.

 

[briantrumpet]

Surely you could just get a solar hot water heater thing as opposed to using solar to make electricity to make hot water? They're very cheap and effective.

Might actually be a really good call, thanks PP. Worth looking into, especially now I've got a roof that won't collapse when weight is put on it.

 

[PurplePenguin]

Might actually be a really good call, thanks PP. Worth looking into, especially now I've got a roof that won't collapse when weight is put on it.

Don't you have a garden as well? In any case, they're perfect for afternoon showers in the mountains. Less perfect for those who like a morning splash.

That said, presumably the plumbing cost will dwarf the cost of the materials.

 

[CXRAndy]

Invertor takes care of all the voltage and frequency syncing.

Having a panel or two, really isn't going to do much. Yes you will get some energy. Factor in the cost of the equipment and the literal few pence savings per day in sunny conditions. It will be a long time to recoup the outlay.

Houses, offices, big buildings should have been covered in panels going back 20 or more years ago. Then it would have made a difference.

For low income individuals spending a few hundred pounds to have 500-1000 W which will take many years to repay isn't going to be attractive at all

 

[icowden]

Pinarello

Except in the case of electricity don't in and out use the same socket?

But three different pins:

Live = Beer in
Negative = Urine Out
Ground = Emergency beer exit.

 

[briantrumpet]

Except in the case of electricity don't in and out use the same socket?

I must wash my brain out, as I was thinking of a different sort of socket that works for in and out.

 

[C R]

Pinarello

Except in the case of electricity don't in and out use the same socket?

That's an implementation detail.

 

[Pinno718]

Shall I chuck a spanner in the box of tricks and say that the electron flow is negative to positive and not the other way around as is widely presumed?

 

[C R]

Shall I chuck a spanner in the box of tricks and say that the electron flow is negative to positive and not the other way around as is widely presumed?

In @icowden's example the flow of beer follows the flow of current, not of electrons.