Solar panels

[xoggoth]

Very suspicious in my view. Obviously nobody would buy these things if they made no commercial sense so what is the real motive? I note that they always point to the sky so they are probably signalling devices to faciiltate an alien invasion.

[xoggoth]

We have a small stream at the bottom of our garden. Is there any subsidy for a small water turbine?

[Fred Bloggs]

We have a small stream at the bottom of our garden. Is there any subsidy for a small water turbine?

Can't answer your question but I am very envious, I'd love a micro hydro power generator in my garden. Best thing about micro hydro is it runs 24x7 too, unlike solar.

[EternalOptimist]

I had hydro turbines fitted into my drainpipes. Its is the cleanest, most efficient and safest way to produce energy.
Every time it rains, my three drainpipes produce 450 gigawatts each, which I feed into the Chinese grid which saves them burning dirty coal. Models have proven that my single house alone has saved 5 polar bears and 150 frogs and tadpoles.
Unfortunately the sceptics, or should I say 'deniers' dont believe me and accuse me of having an agenda. When we have spread socialism across the globe, they will be first up against the wall I can tell you
-PJclarke

[OwlHoot]

If the eleccy companies pay a flat rate for a micro generation feed in, couldn't you just get a hampster on a wheel and claim it?

[shaunbhoy]

You'd love one of these, really, which bloke wouldn't?:

Garden Studios | Sustainable Buildings | Garden Rooms/Offices/Housing - Ecospace Studios

Another of your wifie's brainwaves I expect. Get you banished off out to your shed so that she, and the Polish beefcake gardener Janek, can play "Hide the Kielbasa" in peace whilst you potnoodle yourself to a frenzy in the toolshed/ecoshed.

[EternalOptimist]

If the eleccy companies pay a flat rate for a micro generation feed in, couldn't you just get a hampster on a wheel and claim it?

to get the generation tarrif, plus the ffed-in tarrif, you have to register and get a certificate,

I hadnt considered the house resale aspect. So that means house values in the area are going down

so not only am I subsidising this madness, its putting the value of my house down as well ?

[Sysman]

We have a small stream at the bottom of our garden. Is there any subsidy for a small water turbine?

I heard of someone who tried it before water privatisation and the water board wanted to charge them for using the water! That made it economically inviable.

[PAH]

I had hydro turbines fitted into my drainpipes.

I did have that on my list of 'free energy ideas' but figured as my place is not yet on a water meter it's easier and more profitable to just have the micro-hydro-tubine in the cold tap, which happens to be on 24/7.

Keeps the rats from climbing up my drainpipe too.

[Addanc]

I heard of someone who tried it before water privatisation and the water board wanted to charge them for using the water! That made it economically inviable.

They're not consuming water, they should have told the lazy parasitic bastards to feck-off.