Cost of living crisis/kWh Measuring Contest

Yeah, but it went shit and then you mention it on a forum and mistakenly double post and people keep reminding you off an horrendous and harrowing period of your life

The problem with Greece is everything is broken, even straightforward stuff like running in the traveller locations and islands, wild monkey attacks etc. There's also the dishonesty, red tape and the cultural norm of taking advantage of outsiders. It's also full of British cunts.

I married a prostitute from Greece and weirdly this made things more difficult. I ran a whorehouse out there which attracted the attention of the local sherrif which resulted in my having to garrot him and dissolve his body in an acid bath. And somehow I'm now the bad guy. I'm glad to be done with it now but the money we spent would have bought us a KFC franchise back in the UK.

Might not go there then. How's Italy

There is nothing available by the way.

Tbf I WFH and it would be once a month. But I am union and a stickler for overtime but the company are shitty on toil.

So the laptop will stay open on Friday afternoon while I sit in the garden and enjoy the sun.

Solar panel updates - couple of quotes coming in at £5k ish for 6-8 panels. One bloke explained there's a six month wait on batteries and he uses Tesla who are a bit more expensive but you can store, essentially, a day and a bit of power.

This is also for everyone - he advised me, regardless of whether I use him or not, to look at a flexi tariff that has cheap overnight rates. The maths is

7p per kwh between hours of midnight and 5am on some tariffs means you can set your battery to charge from the grid at cheap rates then power the house during the day. More during winter, mind.

So if it's a cold December and you don't want to eat through gas, then get a little electric heater and turn it on in the morning when you get up. It'll be cheaper than using the grid as you're only using the 7p tariff from your battery, rather than gas to do your heating.

It's utterly fucked. Prices have gone up again after the invasion and could lead to same increase in October that is just about to be implemented next month. £3-400 a month on gas and electricity for millions of people. And yet there are still people claiming that the 50s weren't so bad. a) the health implications are huge and b) few homes have fires these days so alternative heating isn't an option and c) why the fuck are we always so keen to look backwards? Things should improve for everyone, not go backwards.

There is no such thing as a little electric heater. If you want any noticeable heat output, they are going to draw 1-2 kW.

These guys were able to move exclusively to ceiling mounted electric infrared heating panels after insulating.

archive.ph/PmQty

Note though, I think you might need quite a lot of battery capacity to use for heating in general... Money perhaps better spent first on insulation if it's either/or.

The difference between now and the 70s is that we're all up to our eyeballs in CREDIT. Lets get a car on finance, lets get a phone on contract, sofa on finance, blah blah blah. No fucker saves for anything because we all want it NOW.

/Daily Mail

Might sound dumb (I scoffed at it when I first heard about it), but I've got bubble wrap on some of my poorer insulated and less used windows now. I thought it would look really bad, but it thankfully doesn't and it is helping on the insulation. Apparently on single glazing, it cuts down 50% of the heat loss and on double 20%. You use large bubble, wrap. Fitting is easy, just spray water on the window and spray on the wrap and place it on. Take it off in the summer.

I took a look at how much it would cost to get a fixed energy tarrif at the moment and my monthly payments would quadruple. I have no idea how some people will survive with these increases.

So apparently the cost of electricity in Spain reached another all time high today citing the gas crisis from Ukraine.
Funny thing is I'm sure I was reading something that said Spain receives 0 gas from Russia.

Yeah, it's all tied in to worldwide wholesale prices, similar to how the UK uses almost zero Russian gas but our prices are going insane because wholesale market reasons.

OPEC were asked to start upping oil production recently to ease the tensions but refused. I imagine a repeat of the 70s oil crisis is on the cards in the near future.

Other than nationalising energy production and distribution, not sure how you can stop stuff like this happening. When pensioners and low-income (and more besides!) families start dying en masse next winter, maybe something will happen. Maybe...

Leccy+gas going up to £146 a month from £102.

Fuck.