You were obviously not on a gas main. Oil heating is very expensive.
Electricity sounds fine until you realise the cost per kW is four times the rate for natural gas. That's why nobody wants to switch.
We mostly have hot water radiators, so yes, hot water, but for heating as well as bathing.
I think the current plans assume just changing out the existing gas or oil boiler for one of these things, leaving the existing pipework in place.
These are supposed to be air source, not ground source. No holes dug or bored here.
The way UK winters and summers are going, we should all be fitting real AC units instead.
The biggest problem is the tiny amount of voltage generated could be from 'noise' such as RF or the AC power grid.
What's wrong with that? The noise energy or electric/electromagnetic field energy radiated from the power grid would otherwise go to waste. If someone can find a way to collect what is otherwise dissipated, and in usable amounts, then why not? It isn't as if the Earth's rotation is our only potential source of energy.
But can you eat it with chopsticks?
Well, when you consider the Professor's name, the suspicion is that a cat wrote it.
"Because classical information needs to be sent, quantum teleportation cannot occur faster than the speed of light."
Bummer.
Then don't send it in Greek, dummy!
It's not air-gapped. There's a fiber cable linking the two boxes.
It's therefore not teleportation either. Gotta love ignorant journalism.
...Does this "single anonymous private investor with deep pockets" have a white cat?
I don't know. Can you say "corrosion-resistant" and "copper" in the same sentence? From personal observation copper isn't resistant to corrosion at all.
I'm sure there must be more suitable materials to use.
Never been to Switzerland, then.
No. Your service stops working. You are at liberty to take out a new plan with another carrier at that point, but your handheld computing device will still do everything else but make or receive calls if you don't. Ever heard of WiFi?
You mean, switch to a computer with a spell checker.
Actually, we do.
Difference is, they only let responsible people use them.
How much trouble is it to replace a AA battery in a low-draw device every 2.5 years?
So you're quite happy to undergo a major operation every 2.5 years for the rest of your life to have that pacemaker battery replaced?
You need tender loving care once a week - so that I can slap you into shape. - Ellyn Mustard
