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- Tue Feb 09, 2010 3:08 pm
- Forum: I read the news today, oh boy.
- Topic: EU ( hock - spit ) - bin police ??
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5161
Re: EU ( hock - spit ) - bin police ??
Educate a few MPs not hard? :lol: That statement is going to get Flo this century's prize for optimism :wave: Seriously, though, although I agree with the EU madness sentiment, exactly what must we do to change a congenitally wasteful society into one which takes a bit more care of its environment?...
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:02 am
- Forum: Alternative Energy
- Topic: solar panels - beware
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2856
Re: solar panels - beware
simple question of economics AL - i have to buy them when they are on "offer" and the big ones are way outside my price bracket - so its build up the system slowly as funds permit :wink: - taken 4 years so far to get where i have as like you PV ain't exactly a priority - but as i have ment...
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:09 am
- Forum: Alternative Energy
- Topic: solar panels - beware
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2856
solar panels - beware
ho hum - i got a couple of new 12 w solar panels the other day - and as i always do checked them for output in the kitchen under the fluorescent ( what i call my "standard " source ) - one was obviously damaged and gave no output at all - the other was fine - the point of this is that thes...
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:29 pm
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: projects for 2010
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4964
projects for 2010
dunno about you lot - but i have always got projects ( read ideas in progress ) on the go - this year the main one will be to sort out the heating in this place after the winter cold periods have shown the deficiencies of my current heating system - and at the moment i am thinking ( only thinking mi...
- Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:48 am
- Forum: I read the news today, oh boy.
- Topic: EU ( hock - spit ) - bin police ??
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5161
EU ( hock - spit ) - bin police ??
CAUTION : monday morning rant immenent :angryfire: well the lady who puts out one bin a year will find favor with the latest crazy proposal from the accursed EU mafia in brussels - apparently in an EU ( :pukeright: ) report they are NOW recommending the establishment of an "waste implementatio...
- Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:34 am
- Forum: Alternative Energy
- Topic: solar powered washing machine
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14205
Re: solar powered washing machine
well to be fair i speak as i find with the product mentioned - and yea agree with those adverts - they don't work so well on ground in /dried in / baked on for a couple of days stuff ( eg real stains and spills as opposed to ones put on 10 seconds before filming advert ) may be some of the ladies wo...
- Sat Feb 06, 2010 7:46 pm
- Forum: Alternative Energy
- Topic: solar powered washing machine
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14205
Re: solar powered washing machine
http://www.greenconsumerguide.com/washing_machines.php http://www.washerhelp.co.uk/topics/eco-energy-labels.html above may be of interest an "A" rated machine uses approx 1 kw per cycle - dependent on a number of factors - so the heating bit ?? :dontknow: have you thought about washing wi...
- Sat Feb 06, 2010 3:37 pm
- Forum: Eco Products and Innovations
- Topic: Your top 5 products/Innovations
- Replies: 50
- Views: 31797
Re: Your top 5 products/Innovations
You'd better not go in the Health and Beauty section of this forum then Brett :laughing3: :laughing6: :laughing6: :laughing6: ..... and especially don't read the 9 pages of this thread http://www.selfsufficientish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=6780 :lol: :mrgreen: :lol: :laughing4: :laughing8:...
- Sat Feb 06, 2010 7:06 am
- Forum: Eco Products and Innovations
- Topic: Your top 5 products/Innovations
- Replies: 50
- Views: 31797
Re: Your top 5 products/Innovations
1. any type of powered wood or metal working machinery - well its not like you uses em day in day out - but boy do they extend the stuff you CAN do for yourself - and so at the end of the day are sort of "Eco" 2. tools of any sort - spending money on tools AND learning how to use them is T...
- Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:50 am
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: we all doomed -again
- Replies: 3
- Views: 869
we all doomed -again
heads up folks in the UK - the pundits are predicting more severe cold weather with snow for the next 10 days or so starting Monday - lets hope they have the grit /salt situation sorted ?? - and if you have kids prepare for school closures ( never appened in my day ) :roll: so we all doomed - again ...
- Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:51 am
- Forum: I read the news today, oh boy.
- Topic: Powercuts and renewable energy in uk
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5081
Re: Powercuts and renewable energy in uk
I don't have a link I'm afraid but I do know it was in the daily mail, I will find it again and post the whole thing...I'm just shocked!!Hope there is a way that you can get the renewable energy you want without connecting to the national grid, damn goverments, they just want people to be totally r...
- Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:49 am
- Forum: I read the news today, oh boy.
- Topic: 'A slice of quiche? I'll need to see some ID.. '
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4298
Re: 'A slice of quiche? I'll need to see some ID.. '
you got to watch them when they start doing that - maybe on the look out for a toy boyold tree man wrote:it is very funny but it is total madness mind you i was called young man once i think the older lady was 400 give or take a couple of days
- Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:47 am
- Forum: I read the news today, oh boy.
- Topic: One bin, one year, one family. Hooray.
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11559
Re: One bin, one year, one family. Hooray.
Repair - recently our breadmaker broke down - the motor still worked but the blade wasn't turning. Not to be beaten OH took it apart, located the fault - a nut had fallen off - put it back together again and now it works fine. BUT ..... it was an absolute pig to take apart and it took him 2.5hrs to...
- Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:46 am
- Forum: I read the news today, oh boy.
- Topic: Powercuts and renewable energy in uk
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5081
Re: Powercuts and renewable energy in uk
When reading the paper today I saw an article that suggested that if you had a source of renewable energy ie: your own wind turbine that in the event of a power cut from the national grid, you would be forced to switch it off within so many seconds ... I think that this totally defeats the object!!...
- Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:34 am
- Forum: I read the news today, oh boy.
- Topic: One bin, one year, one family. Hooray.
- Replies: 49
- Views: 11559
Re: One bin, one year, one family. Hooray.
ah repair - a word to conjure with - when i was a lad ( caution - shimmering of the drifting back in time sort imminent ) - we used to have "fix it " shops - where a guy in a brown coat and bottle glasses would take stuff over the counter and MEND IT :shock: :shock: - and YOU COULD get SPA...