Nonbelievers: don’t be a cunt to nice religious people who come to your door at this time of year. This is the first time, in a year and a half since moving here, that we have had a religious door knocker. Mother and youngish daughter, she started with a smile and after I had said β€œHello!” said, β€œSorry do disturb you! I won’t keep you!” And held out a small β€œfree bible class” business card. 1/n
Schadenfreude is seldom a positive emotion. However, I will just allow myself a momentary tipple with it, just this once. image
New tee. image
My hidden talents are so well hidden even I don’t know what they are.
Physicists! A question: Suppose I have a solar panel, sitting in bright sunlight, open circuit (i.e. no load) and I measure its surface temperature. And I note it down. Now, with the same amount of sunlight still landing on the panel, I hook up an MPPT to the it and charge a battery at maximum power point. I measure the panel's surface temperature again after this has been running for a time and note down that reading. Will the energy transfer cause the latter reading to be colder?
Heat pump saga. I've now had the "insurance backed" 2 year workmanship guarantee through; which theoretically protects me if the installer goes bust. And the installer also sent me the 7 year guarantee on the Samsung heat pump itself. So, I mean, they are sort of doing some stuff properly, in terms of the "paperwork" aspects. I also received good news from my mortgage lender that they've processed our application for the "Greener Home Reward", giving us Β£2k for free for some reason. 1/some