Bad bad things are going on in Norway these days. Please spread the word.
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Tradition. Turn bits of wood into charcoal ( and lose energy)
Use charcoal on an open hearth ( and lose energy)
I worked a couple of months ’back in the days’ in a Mission Clinic in Haiti. Lived with the Catholic Priest and his housekeeper/ wifelet.
Cook cooked on charcoal in a caboose in the garden while we watched tv in the AC equipped house.
We all have our little stuped customs which we can not get rid of!
Like cavity wall building style and low insulating double glazed windows in UK.
Use charcoal on an open hearth ( and lose energy)
I worked a couple of months ’back in the days’ in a Mission Clinic in Haiti. Lived with the Catholic Priest and his housekeeper/ wifelet.
Cook cooked on charcoal in a caboose in the garden while we watched tv in the AC equipped house.
We all have our little stuped customs which we can not get rid of!
Like cavity wall building style and low insulating double glazed windows in UK.
Media is reporting that the Norwegian state want all vehicles to be fully or part electric within 6 years, and will start expantion of the charging points.
So the expected need for electricity will increase lots. Seems Norway has no other choice than establishing extensive wind farms, unless they accept importing electricity produced by unsustainable means!
So the expected need for electricity will increase lots. Seems Norway has no other choice than establishing extensive wind farms, unless they accept importing electricity produced by unsustainable means!
Conspiracy theory: the main reason for reducing our dependence on oil and gas is so we are not dependant upon Arab states and Russia for our power; it would not then make sense to make a plan that makes us dependant on importing electricity (though, of course, the UK already does).
The beauty of distributed wind and solar energy is that it's distributed and is not easy to 'take out' otherwise the nuclear solution is probably the ideal.
The beauty of distributed wind and solar energy is that it's distributed and is not easy to 'take out' otherwise the nuclear solution is probably the ideal.
Norway has huge, simply huge, oil and mainly gas reserves in the north. They found a new field just west of the lofotens. But the (local) population is against the extraction. Me too. I like to save it for the future.
Nuclear is the best. We just need to make sure to store the remains safely. But even nuclear is not for the future, it will be phased out once Fusion is cracked.
Nuclear is the best. We just need to make sure to store the remains safely. But even nuclear is not for the future, it will be phased out once Fusion is cracked.
Over here batteries are all the rage, a lot of people believe that everything can run on batteries, planes included ...
I saw a little clip of that battery driven plane in the waiting area in Bodo airport.
Scary.
Scary.
You just hope they tightened the + lead........
I think Reine has now about 5 Teslas, and quite a few various Hybrids.
The locals will get a shock when I import my G655 .........
I think Reine has now about 5 Teslas, and quite a few various Hybrids.
The locals will get a shock when I import my G655 .........
Ive just completed an extension to a college that had insulated concrete form foundations.
The founds were in when I got there but almost everything else above ground is work that me and another bloke did.
The place got a 1.2 on its airtest (the best the main contractor has ever had by some margin) and is insulated with a timber based fibreboard called Pavatherm.
Quite a good system, its 100mm thick tongued and grooved boards, dead easy to put in place and doesn't have that thermal bridging problem.
This is the place...
any more info/links would be greatly appreciated.
The build? This is the only link I have which shows it, well and my work table.
http://borderscollegeblog.co.uk/the-eco-room-at-hawick-campus
Or the Pavatherm?
Some info on Youtube but its not in English.
There's some downloadable PDF files with the instructions kicking about on the internet. Think the company brand is Pavatex but the stuff we were using was Pavatherm.
http://pavatex.com/en/advantages/
A properly insulated house is good for everybody except the energy companies.
I really liked that Pavatherm system, usually adding insulation is a right faff but it really was easy to do.
To be honest though, I would have far rather have made the timber framing from SIPS panels instead of the laminated veneer lumber. That made it more complicated to seal up for the airtest and a slower build in general.
I didn't have a choice in that though.
Fortunately the site agent was one of the best I've ever worked with which considering he was only 25 years old is doing very well indeed.
To be honest though, I would have far rather have made the timber framing from SIPS panels instead of the laminated veneer lumber. That made it more complicated to seal up for the airtest and a slower build in general.
I didn't have a choice in that though.
Fortunately the site agent was one of the best I've ever worked with which considering he was only 25 years old is doing very well indeed.
I'm not positive about this because I wasn't paying for any of it, just made the timber frames, put the roof on, pavathermed the outside fitted internal vapour, sealed that up with Tescon tape, covered the Pavatherm with Tyvek, battoned it then clad it.
It would be fair to say that me and another bloke basically did the lot apart from the insulation that went between the studs (which was also made by Pavatex).
We had nothing to do with the costings although the total extension was something like ￡160 000.
Plenty people took a cut of that money though and I bet some of the people who did a lot less than me got a bigger cut than I did.
The architect was even a decent bloke and it's not often I say that.
If my memory serves me right though, each panel was something like 35 quid, plus fixings.
They were 580 x 1580 or so mm? By 100mm thick.
Windows required a bit of thought and pretty much every cut I did was with a Festool HKC55 set to maximum depth then cut again from the other side to get that 100mm depth.
Oh and if the boards got wet it clogged the saws bladeguard up and needed clearing so the saw was safe again.
Don't even bother trying to cut it with a handsaw, it just clogs the teeth up and stops cutting.
This site gives some decent info about what you need fixings wise although that page is just talking about panels that are different sizes. I assume thats cos the thicker panels get heavier so arent made as big in the other dimensions.
https://lifepanels.com/products/pavatex-pavatherm-combi-panels?
variant=8742784041023
It would be fair to say that me and another bloke basically did the lot apart from the insulation that went between the studs (which was also made by Pavatex).
We had nothing to do with the costings although the total extension was something like ￡160 000.
Plenty people took a cut of that money though and I bet some of the people who did a lot less than me got a bigger cut than I did.
The architect was even a decent bloke and it's not often I say that.
If my memory serves me right though, each panel was something like 35 quid, plus fixings.
They were 580 x 1580 or so mm? By 100mm thick.
Windows required a bit of thought and pretty much every cut I did was with a Festool HKC55 set to maximum depth then cut again from the other side to get that 100mm depth.
Oh and if the boards got wet it clogged the saws bladeguard up and needed clearing so the saw was safe again.
Don't even bother trying to cut it with a handsaw, it just clogs the teeth up and stops cutting.
This site gives some decent info about what you need fixings wise although that page is just talking about panels that are different sizes. I assume thats cos the thicker panels get heavier so arent made as big in the other dimensions.
https://lifepanels.com/products/pavatex-pavatherm-combi-panels?
variant=8742784041023
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Only watched the first one, will watch the second one tonight.
But, assuming we will all drive battery powered cars in the future? I doubt it.
It was first Steam powered, then Battery powered, then Petrol and Diesel, slightly interrupted with Wood Gas, then Hydrogen in the 70's, LPG after than, now Electric. Next decade - ?
Petrol and Diesel is here to stay.
I think the next Big Tech will be sequestering Carbon from the atmosphere and creating liquid Hydro Carbons.
We created liquid Hydro Carbons from Solid coal already in the 1940's.
But, assuming we will all drive battery powered cars in the future? I doubt it.
It was first Steam powered, then Battery powered, then Petrol and Diesel, slightly interrupted with Wood Gas, then Hydrogen in the 70's, LPG after than, now Electric. Next decade - ?
Petrol and Diesel is here to stay.
I think the next Big Tech will be sequestering Carbon from the atmosphere and creating liquid Hydro Carbons.
We created liquid Hydro Carbons from Solid coal already in the 1940's.