Mains power voltage drop to reduce usage?

Then why don't they make the power station like the boiler?

Ahhhhh, someone who uses proper sensible measurements. It's so annoying buying those when you get crazy numbers from American companies quiting 18 efficiency. COP is simple, divide the output by the input.

Actually I bought a heat pump for £430. The cheapest boiler I could find was £500. And the heat pump doesn't need radiators.

The old boilers without combi or condensing lasted for ages, mine lasted for over 20 years (without a single service) and it was still going strong when I removed it. Only ever had to replace a £7.50 pilot light sensor, which I obviously did myself). But the new ones, probably 5 years.

Nonsense, mine turns on and off just fine.

Why would you run it when you're not there?

Neither does mine as I don't need hot water. The shower, dishwasher, and washing machine heat their own water.

Then why don't they make the power station like the boiler?

Ahhhhh, someone who uses proper sensible measurements. It's so annoying buying those when you get crazy numbers from American companies quiting 18 efficiency. COP is simple, divide the output by the input.

Actually I bought a heat pump for £430. The cheapest boiler I could find was £500. And the heat pump doesn't need radiators.

The old boilers without combi or condensing lasted for ages, mine lasted for over 20 years (without a single service) and it was still going strong when I removed it. Only ever had to replace a £7.50 pilot light sensor, which I obviously did myself). But the new ones, probably 5 years.

Nonsense, mine turns on and off just fine.

Why would you run it when you're not there?

Neither does mine as I don't need hot water. The shower, dishwasher, and washing machine heat their own water.

Is the heat to electricity section that inefficient?!

I wake up if I get a headache. See if you can get a firmware update for your brain.

Ah, the Japanese "buy another one" chip. F****ng ripoff.

Wow, OCD or what?

Please don't tell me you're as bad as one of my relatives who writes the date she replaced the battery in a clock.

Then it must be possible to let it go way below 50Hz. The regulation's a bit daft if some can do it.

Why don't they underground everything?

Is that sizewell tea safe to drink?

I'd rather die than live in a city.

Those weirdos can live elsewhere.

A German device couldn't handle a **2%** change?

See when you're having trouble breathing, move.

No need to heat every room, just leave the doors open.

Surely heating isn't required ion Spain.

And that's so difficult for you to do? I read mine every 6 months, takes me 1 minute.

Maybe they fixed it after the big farce. And of course there's still this:

Then vote for the little parties.

If. Do you trust your neighbour?

And did the above folk you mention go to prison? In the UK the punishment for meter fraud is having to pay it back!

ROTFPMSL! No way that could fill that huge space with much CO.

I had mine for 20 years without a single service. Guess what, the fumes go OUTSIDE.

None, I'm not a pussy.

Yes. I stayed one time in council flats in Denmark. They had a community furnace that burnt all the rubbish, heated all the flats and generated a bit of electricity.

I think the Greens wanted them all shut down

Because of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, like I said. The turbines in power stations are heat engines. Hot gas in one end; cooler gas out. The maximum efficiency is the temperature difference between the hot and the cold gases expressed as a percentage of the hot gas temperature, using an absolute temperature scale like Kelvin.

Useful if you want to know whether LR44 cells that cost £2 for 10 are good value compared to ones that are £2 each.

Because the exhaust gasses can not be colder than the hot water output. For heating a house 60°C or less is good. For hot water, 45°C is enough. For a power station, you need to boil the water at elevated pressures.