Russell,

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:47:32 +1200, Russell McMahon wrote:

> Their biggest customer by far is in the UK 

I know - I tried to get in on their experimental phase, but they said they didn't need anyone else with my profile (not quite sure what they meant by 
this... they already had lots of fat blokes, I wonder? :-)

> - home cogen systems using 
> wrongly priced north sea gas to make wrongly priced electricity. Saved 
> by a marketing anomaly :-).

Well I don't know if you've heard, but the price of gas here has risen repeatedly recently (I haven't had two consecutive bills with the same 
price/kWh for about a year) and it's getting very expensive.  And because a lot of electricity is generated by gas, that's rocketing too.  My most 
recent electricity bill was about 30% more than the previous one, with no change in usage pattern.  I'd say that home energy costs are close to double 
what they were two years ago.

I am upping my commitment to using solar if I can - bought some chunky batteries and a combined charger/inverter/solar regulator recently, although 
I haven't managed to get it working yet...

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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