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[Retired]

Hi,

Thanks Lawrence. The £320 gas bill I quoted was for the last quarterly bill but even so I'm not complaining because we are comfortable.

After all our roof problems when we first moved in here ending by Bron and I fitting a brand new roof to the main bungalow and over the two roomed extension I want to limit as much as possible anything which penetrates the roof at the moment this is only the chimney.

Our bungalow has 12" loft insulation which is very effective it being just over our heads. Mostly double glazed especially the rooms most used. I don't believe in cavity wall insulation as I've previously mentioned but this is the individuals choice.

The bungalow enjoys full length under floor storage; not high enough to stand in but very useful accessed by a door from the garage which the bungalow sits on; its a steeply sloping site with detached bungalows to our side of the road but upside down houses across the road with bedrooms below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansen_Transmissions

Whilst working at Brook Motors we used to despatch gear units from Hansen Transmission across the road; we would supply the electric motors; Hansen would attach them to their gear boxes then the completed units would be brought over on a daily basis for night loading. A few yeas ago I visited Hansen on the scrounge for a lump of cast iron and whilst on site had a good nosy around. Hansen had started manufacturing huge wind turbines and I believe the largest topped out at something like 23 tons?

Energy conservation? I can't help but wonder just how much energy has been used to manufacture one of these monsters and more to the point how many years would payback be before it even produced a profit. I mentioned to Gary ages ago that as an engineer it seems strange to me to hoist such a heavy turbine so high into the sky when wouldn't it be possible to simply design a huge fan and connect this to a large turbine on the ground via a prop-shaft thereby simplifying installation and making future maintenance much easier?

What does it cost to extract Hydrogen from water?

http://www.intelligent-energy.com/automotive

We get more than enough rainfall here in the valley for raw material; perhaps in years to come we will be installing our own hydrogen converter units; I'm certainly not clued up on these things but if Hydrogen and Oxygen are separated then they could be brought back together again to enable combustion?

I'm just thinking aloud but I get some strange ideas.

Kind regards, Col.