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  1. FirebarUK

    Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

    Funny how people jump on this sort of stuff as an "ahaha!! GOTCHA!" - when in this specific example it was clearly a mistake not a bare-faced lie - he probably meant grandfather and the whole grandfather-Zelensky thing is pretty well documented. Heck, for all we know even the translator could...
  2. FirebarUK

    Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

    People seem to forget that the ANC were ideologically aligned with communism; Russia (+Eastern block), China, Cuba, other Africa peoples liberation groups, North Korea even. There was a reason for this pattern. I'm sure some of the same contacts those ANC folks worked with are still in senior...
  3. FirebarUK

    Dashcams!

    I presume with the BlackVue when hardwiring it you can just turn off the parking mode so it only turns on/off with ignition?
  4. FirebarUK

    COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

    How are you still alive?
  5. FirebarUK

    *** The Official Battlefield 2042 thread***

    Except the problem is they didn't, which is why BF2042 with its new recipe was such a flop and BF:V with it's pre-launch wokeness jarred the fan base.
  6. FirebarUK

    *** The Official Battlefield 2042 thread***

    They've removed 128 player? Surely we have a good case for getting our money back? It was chaotic but always seemed to me it was just bad level design and lack of objective-focused rewards letting it down. There were glimpses of a great BF in the high player count war experience.
  7. FirebarUK

    Solar panels and battery - any real world reccomendations?

    I'm told it's not the issue, apparently like it or not I simply cannot consume or draw from the batteries more than this 3.68kW because of potential of it going back to the grid.
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    Solar panels and battery - any real world reccomendations?

    Yup, I spoke with the solar installer and DNO. Unfortunately there is nothing we can do as limiting through the inverter is possible but that in turn limits what we can consume in the house. We don't really want to contribute to upstream reinforcement and even then it would only take us to 8kW...
  9. FirebarUK

    Solar panels and battery - any real world reccomendations?

    The battery was either PW2 or SolarEdge 10kWh, the latter can provide continuous output at 5kW according to the datasheet. Our energy usage is fairly flat through the day, all things considered. So we'd be needing plenty of storage. The plan all along was to go big on generation and get multiple...
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    Solar panels and battery - any real world reccomendations?

    Not much, without a battery its 10 x 365w panels through a single 3.68kW inverter. I'm still learning on all of this but yes, you can have a 3.68kW inverter but then your clipping energy from the panels (i.e. over-generation), you then need to add battery storage charging directly from the...
  11. FirebarUK

    Solar panels and battery - any real world reccomendations?

    Put in an application to our DNO for a 10kW battery-backed system this week, turns out they won't allow more than 3.68kW unless either they upgrade the network equipment or we pay £40k+ for a new substation somewhere. Solar power, it's the future! ;)
  12. FirebarUK

    Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

    Quite understandable given that under Obama the US, despite trying to exert influence over Ukraine via other means, didn't ship weapons to them. Then along came Trump and they started shipping Javelin's and other kit to the Ukrainian forces. Putin would certainly know that a Democrat US gov...
  13. FirebarUK

    COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

    Try reading it, this is just an opinion piece - it has some great snippets suggesting an increase in nationalism, xenophobia - social justice tropes, all due to Sweden's pandemic response. YAWN. Let's actually look at some data. Sweden's age-adjusted excess mortality was negative from Jan 2020...
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    COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

    Ha, you're trying to make sense of all this. Problem is that you speak as if government responses to covid have been proportioned, measured and sensible given its risk profile, when they haven't. When this chap has caught covid in the not too distant past and this "acceptable standard" isn't...
  15. FirebarUK

    COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion

    It's like an arms race: between the sniffles and folks striving for their 15th vaccination. All whilst avoiding the most obvious questions. Not sure how people survived before covid tbh.
  16. FirebarUK

    This is getting ridiculous (energy prices - Strictly NO referrals!)

    Wait until you find out what happened to our native nuclear energy capabilities in the late noughties under Labour ;)
  17. FirebarUK

    Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

    Not sure that's something to be pleased with, it's part of the problem if you look back over the past decade.
  18. FirebarUK

    Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

    Opposition are taking Chinese money instead :cry:
  19. FirebarUK

    Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

    Example of short-sighted approach to energy security was the Brown/Labour sell-off of native nuclear energy capability in the late noughties.
  20. FirebarUK

    Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

    Splitting hairs much. Point being that, unlike many are suggesting, they can operate in impunity from air attack.
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