Energy Matters Global and Domestic

[NewcastleFalcon]

Watched Panorama,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... cashing-in

Maybe a follow up episode "Energy Crisis:This is what The UK is going to do about it" is required. Currently it would be the Panorama's shortest ever episode, but give it another couple of weeks, things might have changed.

As picture of the day reveals part 2 of the Chez Falcon Plan has been put in place.

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Regards Neil

[Peter.N.]

We seem to get a couple of new super life changing batteries every day.

Peter

[NewcastleFalcon]

We seem to get a couple of new super life changing batteries every day.
Peter

I believe the ones nearest emerging from the lab and making it to scale and wide application are Sodium Ion, and Solid State. Most likely to come out of China, with CATL leading the field and just about there.

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

As picture of the day reveals part 2 of the Chez Falcon Plan has been put in place.

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Regards Neil

That is exactly the same kettle as the one I sent back due to being the wrong size. I'm still waiting for the 3 litre replacement from a different source as the first company refunded me as I expected!

[NewcastleFalcon]

That is exactly the same kettle as the one I sent back due to being the wrong size. I'm still waiting for the 3 litre replacement from a different source as the first company refunded me as I expected!

What's that phrase? "Great minds think alike", or more likely one of those FCF "spookies". There really was very little chance of that event happening. Required non delivery of of our selected kettle, unusual impatience in writing off its delivery, and a noticing of a row of tempting kettles in yes an ironmongers and hardware shop window, and a decision not just to look, for future reference, but to buy there and then, and a ferret about in the stockroom in said ironmongers to produce that very kettle out of a number of options That's not to mention your random arrival at the same kettle

Guess where I got that one from...a local shop...old fashioned I know Ran out of not very much patience waiting for the other one to arrive.

The fancy sexy one, selected as being a little cheaper than on amazon, was from an online supplier. That particular supplier so far has done anything but supply, and turns out has recent tales of non-supply and BS in its dealings with customers. Having paid through paypal every chance of a refund if non-delivery turns out to be the case.

With kettle mania sweeping the country should the kettle arrive and be surplus to requirements it should find a market!

Regards Neil

[Gibbo2286]

The Co-op made a pig's ear out of running its supermarkets, sold them all to Asda last week, now they're offering people cheap energy if they become shareholders in a new 'buy a windfarm' scheme, a £1,000 share will entitle you to a discount on your 'green' energy.

[NewcastleFalcon]

The Co-op made a pig's ear out of running its supermarkets, sold them all to Asda last week, now they're offering people cheap energy if they become shareholders in a new 'buy a windfarm' scheme, a £1,000 share will entitle you to a discount on your 'green' energy.

I think its just 132 supermarkets with attached Petrol Filling Stations Gibbo. I can think of a handful I know of.

https://corporate.asda.com/newsroom/202 ... -the-co-op

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

This would appear to be the buy a share in the windfarm scheme.
Published June 11th 2020

https://www.midcounties.coop/legal/corp ... wind-farm/

UK start-up Ripple Energy today launches the UK’s very first consumer-owned wind farm. Graig Fatha wind farm in South Wales will be owned by the consumers it supplies. It aims to unleash a new generation of consumers genuinely creating the clean energy future they want to see.

Ripple is partnering with Co-op Energy and Octopus Energy to get the electricity from the wind farm to its owners’ homes. Customers can switch to Co-op Energy to join the scheme. Existing Co-op Energy and Octopus Energy customers are also invited to take part. Once the wind farm is operational, in early 2021, savings from their wind farm will be applied to their electricity bill.

Maybe its a pioneering thing for domestic customers. Its been reported on here of large corporations securing all the output of a wind farm development under a Power Purchase Agreement.

Individual domestic consumers are not capable of securing such agreements, but yes clubbing together as shareholders under a scheme run on their behalf by larger energy players may be a way of making it happen. Never come across Co-op energy before but Octopus I see are part of the scheme, and quite innovative in their approach.

Yes onshore wind is the cheapest form of electricity generation, ignored and campaigned against and delayed and rejected all over our green and pleasant land. Secure a PPA, for a bunch of electricity bill payers where all the output of a development is secured at an advantageous price then model might just work, and a onshore windfarm may be regarded as a community asset rather than a blot on the landscape.

Regards Neil

[Gibbo2286]

Misreported then Neil, I read yesterday it was 193 stores, take a guess who got it right .

Our local Co-op in Lydney is closing on the 17th, the in store post office travel agent and chemist are continuing as is but no statement as to who the new owner is, this one doesn't have a petrol station but it does have a sizeable car park (Opposite the newly built Lidl)

In Coleford Lidl built a new supermarket so close to the Co-op it's almost touching,

The Co-op in our third nearest town Cinderford has already been taken over by Tesco, no petrol station there either.

The locals have complained for years that the Co-op monopoly of food outlets in the district needed fixing, well they should get all the competition they need now.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Misreported then Neil, I read yesterday it was 193 stores, take a guess who got it right .

Still a sizeable chunk of a business they are baling out of, and the deal may get added to. They were one of the pioneers of the larger store in North West Durham. The "DISCO" at Annfield Plain was world famous when it was built in the early 70's (now a TESCO) the largest shop for miles and a big carpark. You could even buy Long Playing Records there, I wonder if my Tubular Bells has a Co-op Disco price sticker on. Cheaper than Virgin or OZ proper record shops in Newcastle.

They retreated to the monopoly supermarkets in the larger villages, but even those are being taken over.

Regards Neil

[myglaren]

Most of our shopping was done at the Co-Op when I was a kid, I was sent to do it.
It was fifty yards from our house.
There were a couple of large ones in town, My cousin's husband was manager of the biggest one but hey had a flat over the smaller one.

[NewcastleFalcon]

As picture of the day reveals part 2 of the Chez Falcon Plan has been put in place.

viewtopic.php?p=728857#p728857

and the added bonus the soothing sound of the kettle whistle can be heard, and like Pavlov's dogs with their bell, the reward of a nice cup of tea can't be too far away. Those leccy kettles are nothing short of a bore-fest in comparison.

...and yesterday's decisive seemingly unconnected action of impetuousness, buying the kettle from the shop, has somehow unblocked the negative energy preventing the sexy kettle from making its way from internet ether to manifestation in physical form at Chez Falcon. Royal Mail have it and its set for delivery Wednesday.

Regards Neil

[myglaren]

As it happens Bob's son Paul is a qualified electrician and happens to be bringing his wife's car over to me in the morning for an oil and filter change, so he will have a look while I do the oil change!!

What was the outcome of his investigations Mick?

[mickthemaverick]

The dining room issue is caused by induction from the heat and light unit in the cloakroom. When you turn on the cloakroom light, causing the faint glow on the new dining room LEDs, power is connected to the heating element which then needs its switch to connect it through to the return and fire up the element. However it creates an induced voltage in the LED switch wiring (the two circuits are on a 2 gang switch) in the region of 0.7 Volts which is lighting the LEDs. Not significant enough to warrant rewiring in my view.

The permanent glow upstairs was a different story. The two way wiring on each of the 2 gang switches had been connected on the neutral side of the light feed instead of the live meaning the live feed to one side of the LEDs was permanent instead of switched and causing the leakage via a neutral - earth fault somewhere in the loft which has never caused the RCD to trip. I rewired the 2 way switching onto the live side of the circuit and all is well!!

[myglaren]

I had a feeling that the second one would be the cause.
At least the first one is acceptable.