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Friday, 28 March 2025

Pause due to head injury

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I have not for posted a while, mainly because I have been seriously ill in hospital and have undergone 5.5 hours of brain surgery.  As a res...
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Thursday, 2 January 2025

How cold can you go? Is 16°C reasonable?

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As we enter a cold snap, and energy prices have risen again, we are more worried about how to manage our home heating. The easiest way to re...
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Wednesday, 6 November 2024

How much to disconnect your gas supply?

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  When you decarbonise your home by going electric, you can save more money by going off gas completely so as to avoid the standing charge (...
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Wednesday, 4 September 2024

Solving under-occupancy with ‘adjustable housing’

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One of the best ways to save energy is to move to a smaller house. Heating a larger house takes a larger amount of energy – floor area accou...
Wednesday, 21 August 2024

What’s wrong with water softeners?

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Cambridge has hard water and it scales up our appliances. Some of them we can clean with a bit of effort, but some are not so easy. You can ...
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Sunday, 21 July 2024

Learnings from monitoring the solar hot water system

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For reasons too complicated to explain (best summarised – if I was you I would not start from here) my beloved has implemented a controller ...
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Sunday, 28 April 2024

Travel emissions per hour

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How do you think of travel distances in your head? People often think in terms of the time taken to get there rather than the actual distanc...
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