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Originally Posted by walpurgis

Fuel duty to be cut by 5p per litre apparently. Just watch the greedy fuel companies start easing pump prices up to absorb that!!

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And how much of that will be passed on to the customer :scratch: :lol:

latest I have heard is about 2p :steam:

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Originally Posted by struth

The majority of water wheels are big, cumbersome and slow moving so dont really generate electricity well. Its not to say you couldnt do it tho. You just have to design a different one and put it in a place where it will spin quickly enough.

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I wouldn't have thought big and cumbersome would be a problem - as long as the wheel has some welly, the final drive can be quick as you like if it's geared down that way.

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Originally Posted by guy

And how much of that will be passed on to the customer :scratch: :lol:

latest I have heard is about 2p :steam:

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i heard none will be... the old excuse that they can do it til they change their tank contents, and by that time it will have vanished. thats why it wasnt taken off vat. another tory con.

did you see sunak talking about the devistation in ukraine and boris bursts out laughing? what a fuck we have as a pm

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Originally Posted by guy

And how much of that will be passed on to the customer :scratch: :lol:

latest I have heard is about 2p :steam:

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There will always be some who benefit from economic "events", unfortunately that never includes us :(

And the latest I've heard is that price of loft insulation is set to increase by about 55%. Just as folk will be looking at ways to cut down their energy usage. Boils my piss that does.

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

I wouldn't have thought big and cumbersome would be a problem - as long as the wheel has some welly, the final drive can be quick as you like if it's geared down that way.

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they will work and produce electric etc but they are not efficient. modern hydro is really a modern version which is fairly efficient. ideally you want the whell turning fairly even and relatively fast. not like a waterwheel which is better at producing a decent bit of muscle.

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Originally Posted by struth

they will work and produce electric etc but they are not efficient. modern hydro is really a modern version which is fairly efficient. ideally you want the whell turning fairly even and relatively fast. not like a waterwheel which is better at producing a decent bit of muscle.

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Ok I accept that a water wheel is probably not ideal, but living next to a stream can still save us some money - all I would need is a rock in the stream to beat the clothes on, and another rock next to it for Mrs. P to sit on :)

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

Ok I accept that a water wheel is probably not ideal, but living next to a stream can still save us some money - all I would need is a rock in the stream to beat the clothes on, and another rock next to it for Mrs. P to sit on :)

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My grandmother did that. The locals had a pond and stream fed by a spring and washed their laundry there. It was in a tiny hamlet east of central France.

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Originally Posted by walpurgis

My grandmother did that. The locals had a pond and stream fed by a spring and washed their laundry there. It was in a tiny hamlet east of central France.

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Yeah well they have clean streams in France ime, having done canoeing and fishing in some. Not like the watered-down gravy we have over here.

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Originally Posted by struth

The majority of water wheels are big, cumbersome and slow moving so dont really generate electricity well. Its not to say you couldnt do it tho. You just have to design a different one and put it in a place where it will spin quickly enough.

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Wind turbines are slow moving, but they generate electricity. There is no real reason why water wheels cannot be used to generate electricity for domestic use, as long as there is not a need for a lot of power (say < 20kW): https://www.askaprepper.com/homemade...ric-generator/,

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

There will always be some who benefit from economic "events", unfortunately that never includes us :(

And the latest I've heard is that price of loft insulation is set to increase by about 55%. Just as folk will be looking at ways to cut down their energy usage. Boils my piss that does.

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What the f--- :steam: