Things I Hate - A Comedic Rantesse

[Ian@1904]

Kit packed. Mr. Anderson will open his "Window of Scorn" for me on Sunday. Happy Days.

[steelemonkey]

As this is a diving forum and not a biking forum ...

I am on holidays in Greece. There is only 1 LDC in the town. Most of their dives do not interest me. Those that do are booked out for the duration of my trip.

Oh well just as well it was intended as a non diving week anyway

What sort of motorbikes do the locals ride?

[Divemouse]

The cat just bought me a harvest mouse - I've never seen a live one in the wild, but I suspect he has seen many.

[steelemonkey]

The cat just bought me a harvest mouse - I've never seen a live one in the wild, but I suspect he has seen many.

Did it survive the experience with the vicious creature?

[Divemouse]

The mouse did not survive, the cat was happy to exchange the corpse for cat sweets - he has wares if I have coin apparently.

[Jay_Benson]

The fasctory has had solar PV panels for around 3 years. So far whenever we put electricity into the grid we have not been p[aid for it as we do not have an export meter fitted. I have negotiated a price of £0.125 per kWh for all the electricty we input into the grid once we have the meter fitted. Today the engioneer came to fit the export meter. He had a look at themeter that is installed and asked that why do you want to change this meter - it is already an export meter? How many kWh has it generated since the panels were installed? 82152kWh. So I am going to be asking for my money - ~£10k -what are the chances that I will get it? Hmm, I think I know the answer.

The operator has had the ability to look at my export generation without any hassle since the panels were installed - but they didn't tell me, they just took the power.

[Energy58]

The fasctory has had solar PV panels for around 3 years. So far whenever we put electricity into the grid we have not been p[aid for it as we do not have an export meter fitted. I have negotiated a price of £0.125 per kWh for all the electricty we input into the grid once we have the meter fitted. Today the engioneer came to fit the export meter. He had a look at themeter that is installed and asked that why do you want to change this meter - it is already an export meter? How many kWh has it generated since the panels were installed? 82152kWh. So I am going to be asking for my money - ~£10k -what are the chances that I will get it? Hmm, I think I know the answer.

The operator has had the ability to look at my export generation without any hassle since the panels were installed - but they didn't tell me, they just took the power.

Dunno but I suspect you may have a battle on your hands as the meter needs to be registered as an export meter in the big database in the sky (regardless of what it actually is) before it can be "seen" by the system so your electricity supplier didn't get any benefit from the electricity you pumped into the grid as it was effectively invisible, it will have merely reduced local distribution system losses (which are simply the difference between metered demand and estimated demand and metered electricity put into the system) a little bit which in turn reduced everyone else's bill by a minute amount. I suspect your supplier should have registered the export meter (in the system they are seen as 2 meters even though it is one box) but if they didn't know it was an import/export meter (which sounds like the case) how could they?

[Divemouse]

We currently have around 50 20kg bags of cat litter in 5 big piles in the house. I went to get one today, only to find that the cat had vomited what looks like liquid rat onto and between every pile and across the pile of clean litter trays I'd put on top. Furry little bastard.

[Jay_Benson]

Dunno but I suspect you may have a battle on your hands as the meter needs to be registered as an export meter in the big database in the sky (regardless of what it actually is) before it can be "seen" by the system so your electricity supplier didn't get any benefit from the electricity you pumped into the grid as it was effectively invisible, it will have merely reduced local distribution system losses (which are simply the difference between metered demand and estimated demand and metered electricity put into the system) a little bit which in turn reduced everyone else's bill by a minute amount. I suspect your supplier should have registered the export meter (in the system they are seen as 2 meters even though it is one box) but if they didn't know it was an import/export meter (which sounds like the case) how could they?

Sadly I fear you are right. Still, at now I now have a good idea of how much I can expect to receive going forward.

[Ian@1904]

Kit packed. Mr. Anderson will open his "Window of Scorn" for me on Sunday. Happy Days.

Two weeks of utter scorn. Orkney, Scapa, northern Isles, North coast, St Kilda, more north coast. Great tales to tell and one or two videos