Lights Out?

You couild always fit yuorself out with a few dozen of these. ;-)

and in the warmest end-of-October on record (according to Look North). What's going to happen when it gets cold?

jgh

I heard that, and wondered why on earth the aircons were previously being run continuously when they not needed anyway. There's this wonderous invention called a "thermostat", it's only been around about 500 years or so, maybe they haven't heard of them yet...

jgh

I thought that was why they're called wind up, because they wind you up :)

They are American. You can't have anything like natural ventilation or air that hasn't been triple filtered and heated to 25C in a room.

I ordered 40 aa alkaline batteries in case my rechargeable prove inadequate for my torches. They should last for a few weeks.

Yep - just been out with the youngest and his friend going around the village (I made half an effort this year and green-ed up :)

Wore a t-shirt - and was still warm.

My 15 year old 4D maglite got an upgrade 3 years ago with one of these:

That thing lights up half a field on full and the batteries last a long time if used wisely (dropping to the mid or low setting)

I suspect these will be large central coolers, with a fair amount of thermal inertia and probably able to modulate how much cooling they do. The rooms may look as if they individual air con units, fans and thermostats yes but the cooling is done centrally and cold water(?) circulated.

Tell them to be sure the fuel pump is on the internal circuits, not the external mains.

Andy

I think you'll find that the incompetence is pretty evenly spread across the political spectrum and that your comment merely reveals you for the bigot you are.