Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

Hetty17

I paid £355 for the Solar iBoost (local installer, south Manchester).
There's no way I'll be able to calculate precisely what it'll save, as I use gas for cooking, water & heating, and I've never measured what it costs just to heat up the tank with the gas boiler. But I've got monthly gas readings for the past few years, so should be able to see a reduction over the next few months.

theboylard

How's about...

Arfur for half an O
Bond for a double O
Typhoo for triple O (as in oooh with a typhoo!)
Dunno for 4 O
Universally accepted Hawaii for 5

Any more than 5 can go @#£% themselves, as I don't think I'll get any, so they don't apply!

Dodo0808

theboylard wrote: »

How's about...

Arfur for half an O
Bond for a double O
Typhoo for triple O (as in oooh with a typhoo!)
Dunno for 4 O
Universally accepted Hawaii for 5

Any more than 5 can go @#£% themselves, as I don't think I'll get any, so they don't apply!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

1961Nick

groovyf wrote: »

How about a "semi" for half an O?

So is it ok for me to announce that I've just achieved a semi?:rotfl:

Andy_WSM

1961Nick wrote: »

So is it ok for me to announce that I've just achieved a semi?:rotfl:

Depends on your age as to whether or not that is something to be proud of :rotfl:

zeupater

edwink wrote: »

... I have worked out payback roughly at around just under 5 years for us. Plus needing less logs to heat the water in the summer!! (Gas is switched off) Today we used in the region of 2kWh and exported 5.5kWh. I have worked this figure out by estimating the iBoost would divert enough electricity to heat our hot water for around 8 months of the year approx. So a tank of hot water using imported electricity would be 36p per day x 243 days = £87.48 x 5 = £437. Maybe you worked your figures out a different way to what I have. Can't see it being 10 years though!!!! ...

Hi

The issue here revolves around a basic question .... if you didn't have pv and proportional diversion how would you heat the DHW - with cheap gas or with electricity at around 3x the cost ?

If the answer's 'electricity' then your methodology would be correct (but sanity questionable ) and if 'gas' the saving/repayment is likely a little overstated, probably moving your breakeven point from 5 years to closer to 15 .. ...

HTH
Z

old_grouser

A semi for half O? Or an Arfur? (Or, on some cockney rhyming principle, an Askey?)
I considered 'Big O' for a really miserable day, but apparently it has other meanings.
Today has been pretty miserable, with cloud and mist - 3.2 kW/h - just under an O - and is there a word for a single O? Something that rhymes with Wooden Spoon, perhaps.
edit [Smaller son has wandered in and suggested Oxygen for 2 Os and Ozone for 3 Os. He has something of a chemical outlook. I have a suspicion that the play on the letter O in the box-hedge scene in Twelfth Night might have some mileage in it...]

Andy_WSM

2.67 O's (10.48 kWh)

Not even a Typhoo today!

Dodo0808

Oh dear.... 3.1 kWh = 0.775 O's.

jimmyboy420

So, my final generation for the first year of my system, 4,021.5kWh. That's 1,024.84 Os from my 3.924kWp system.

My installer had suggested I'd get 3,747kWh, and PVGIS suggested a little lowed - so it's clearly been a good year. :beer:

Here's to the next 19 years being as good....