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  Topic: Long range EVs
Hairyloon

Replies: 1054
Views: 438713
PostForum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects   Posted: Thu Nov 10, 22 8:43 am   Subject: Long range EVs
The problem I see with electric vehicles is the batteries.
Am I being unreasonable to extrapolate my experience with laptop batteries on to vehicle batteries?
I could presume that they are quite a l ...
  Topic: Long range EVs
Hairyloon

Replies: 1054
Views: 438713
PostForum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects   Posted: Tue Nov 08, 22 9:45 pm   Subject: Long range EVs
The problem I see with electric vehicles is the batteries.
Am I being unreasonable to extrapolate my experience with laptop batteries on to vehicle batteries?
I could presume that they are quite a l ...
  Topic: Radiator valves and stuck nuts
Hairyloon

Replies: 19
Views: 160662
PostForum: Make Your Own/DIY   Posted: Wed Nov 02, 22 5:11 pm   Subject: Radiator valves and stuck nuts
Given the damage caused by a pipe joint failure, and the fact that the supplier would be liable if it was due to the product, if push fit plumbing joints were not very reliable, then nobody would stoc ...
  Topic: Radiator valves and stuck nuts
Hairyloon

Replies: 19
Views: 160662
PostForum: Make Your Own/DIY   Posted: Tue Oct 25, 22 8:06 am   Subject: Radiator valves and stuck nuts
If I've read right, you've not yet got the joint loose?
In which case try heating it.
If you've actually damaged the pipe, or if you want to fit a narrower radiator, it's not a major issue to extend ...
  Topic: Local access point forum.
Hairyloon

Replies: 6
Views: 10308
PostForum: IT Matters   Posted: Tue Oct 25, 22 7:57 am   Subject: Local access point forum.
Would this present security concerns for ones home network?
It shouldn't do if it isn't connected to it.
  Topic: Local access point forum.
Hairyloon

Replies: 6
Views: 10308
PostForum: IT Matters   Posted: Tue Oct 25, 22 7:55 am   Subject: Local access point forum.
Probably beyond an esp32.
Is it?
A forum as sophisticated as this one may be beyond them, but they're certainly capable of hosting a web page with a text editor.
  Topic: Local access point forum.
Hairyloon

Replies: 6
Views: 10308
PostForum: IT Matters   Posted: Sun Oct 23, 22 9:55 am   Subject: Local access point forum.
I have an idea, or part of an idea, to put a discussion forum on a local WiFi access point.
Something like a virtual noticeboard at the end of the street.

I'm not sure why, but I think there is so ...
  Topic: Why not have devices with a solar mode?
Hairyloon

Replies: 16
Views: 102844
PostForum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects   Posted: Wed Oct 19, 22 10:14 am   Subject: Why not have devices with a solar mode?
What I don't understand about this kind of problem is why they don't make it easier to get the relevant information out of the meter.
Unless they do, and the people I have spoken to haven't tried ver ...
  Topic: grabbed by the tabloids
Hairyloon

Replies: 4
Views: 45274
PostForum: Energy Efficiency and Construction/Major Projects   Posted: Sat Nov 20, 21 2:35 pm   Subject: grabbed by the tabloids
Anaerobic methanogenesis is not a complex process, or rather it is, but the bacteria deal with all the complexity.
I believe that it can be quite difficult to optimise the process, but gas can be pro ...
  Topic: Forum hosts
Hairyloon

Replies: 1
Views: 27211
PostForum: IT Matters   Posted: Sat Oct 03, 20 8:48 am   Subject: Forum hosts
I knew I had asked, and was wondering why I couldn't remember the answer...

I've been volunteered to set up a forum for the Get PR done campaign, to see how they get on with it.

Anybody here sti ...
  Topic: Do chickens eat clematis?
Hairyloon

Replies: 2
Views: 41417
PostForum: Poultry   Posted: Mon Apr 20, 20 1:01 pm   Subject: Do chickens eat clematis?
And is it bad for them?
Asking for a friend.
  Topic: Hand sanitiser.
Hairyloon

Replies: 11
Views: 39660
PostForum: Recipe Database   Posted: Thu Mar 05, 20 7:49 am   Subject: Hand sanitiser.
2/3 cup of alcohol and 1/3 cup aloe vera gel makes a sanitizer of 65 % I read that apparently most commercial ones are 60%
I think that 60% is the minimum required by the regulations, probably becaus ...
  Topic: Hand sanitiser.
Hairyloon

Replies: 11
Views: 39660
PostForum: Recipe Database   Posted: Tue Mar 03, 20 1:46 pm   Subject: Hand sanitiser.
For some strange reason there seems to be a national shortage of hand sanitiser. I overheard a shop assistant this morning say that they'd sold out 10 minutes after opening today.

Do we have any go ...
  Topic: Growing in mud.
Hairyloon

Replies: 12
Views: 37552
PostForum: Conservation and Environment   Posted: Thu Feb 27, 20 11:52 pm   Subject: Growing in mud.
We moved a lot of mud this week.
My co-worker is concerned that nothing will grow in the piles of mud that we have made what was there before will die and the mud will bake hard into solid lumps.
He ...
  Topic: apocalypse cocktails
Hairyloon

Replies: 21
Views: 325320
PostForum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing   Posted: Sun Dec 15, 19 6:11 pm   Subject: apocalypse cocktails
Those were not the free press that I was referring to. They are neither free, not the press.
 
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