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12/11/2023 at 11:00pm
Location: East Herts
Outfit: 1992 Elddis Wisp 450CT + X Trail
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We lived in a flat that had storage heaters 32 years ago and we didn't like them one bit. They used Economy 7 off peak electricity overnight to charge up, then gave out that heat during the day. If British weather was predictable that would be fine, but today and tomorrow's (predicted) temperatures show the problem. Today around here we had a high of 9 degrees, but tomorrow it is supposed to be 16 degrees. If we had set them on low over last night it would have been quite chilly indoors today. If we then turned them up because it was cold during the day, and tomorrow's prediction turned out right, it would be baking hot indoors tomorrow and we would probably have to open the windows to cool things down as the heaters would still be pumping out heat. Very wasteful.
I'm really glad we have gas central heating in this house because it responds within minutes. If it gets cool during the day we can turn it up (or on if it's turned off) and the house warms up quickly. I'm not a big fan of electric heating, partly because it can dry the air too much for comfort, and partly because it is very expensive in comparison with gas.
Heat pumps I have no experience of, and we don't have a choice here as we can only have what the Housing Association gives us. However, what we have now is very good and reasonably economical as the house is well insulated.
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Colin
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 via mobile 13/11/2023 at 11:51am
Location: Ayrshire
Outfit: Auto-Sleeper MHs
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Quote: Originally posted by oldham on 12/11/2023
Biogas is the way to go, sites tend to be on farmland and full of people. So with the farm animals and the visitors producing waste could a site produce the gas for the following season in a Eco friendly option.
Got a feeling static owners would not go for that or being next door to a solar farm.
Never seen a static with solar panels on the roof. Now that would make sense, it would not cover the daily usage but would help, and when site closed in winter the power could be fed into the national grid when most needed.
Biogas is used extensively on German farms, using slurry (cattle live indoors all year), but I also needs other green agricultural ingredients that a holiday park is unlikely to have. Big - like a grain silo. One exploded at an English waste recycling centre recently, it was using food waste to make energy.
Solar energy farms are pretty much invisible behind a standard agricultural hedge. I know, I live near one. They need to be angled directly south: no good for a flat roof. Not sure I’d want a battery storage system in the static either (no sun at night). Unlike a wind turbine, however, solar panels are silent. (My work took me to wind farms, I can be boring about them.)
Heat pumps as are noisy: my sister had an air-to-air HP in NZ (they’re usually air-to-water ie radiators, here) & she had to turn it off at night because neighbours complained. However, it also acted as an air con in summer, which might be useful.
A recent Grand Designs was about a huge PassiveHouse that had a roof covered in an electricity generating material. It created enough for 4 local houses; unfortunately the local grid was such that the owners could only export enough for 2.
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2024 = 20 sites / 41 nights. 2023 = 9/23. 2022 = 13/35. 2021 = 11/29. 2020 = 4/20. 2019 = 13/35. 2018 = 20/33. 2017 = 10/22. 2016 = 19/33. 2015 = 15 sites / 27 nights. Didn't count 1976 to 2014.
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