It's nearly 11 am here, and it's like early evening. No light at all.
yeah but no but.... just think how many LED's an electric car battery could run?
Is it more than 7?
They have solar panels, a chimney that's in use and all their windows are open?
They don’t seem to know what they’re doing or if they’re hot or cold.
It was always wood when I were a lad, tha' knows.
'Cos it's green innit? If it's green it's saving the planet. Nearly as good as "eco" is green.
Right gotcha! Our living room is currently 12c so I'd better get it on! (Only keeping it in the green of course).
They definitely used to be.
Marijuana farm?
The AGA I had was solid fuel and you can get them to run on gas no problem. Bloody useless thing it was.
It did smell like normal chimney smoke.
I think the plants require a great deal of heat and light though. They may have a fire going for heat along with the solar panels for lighting and windows open for ventilation? I am not an expert though!
We have electric heaters in each room and, yes, they are so expensive to run. We're not on a gas main, we can't have storage heaters or Economy 7 because we'd need a smart meter. We can't replace the ancient meter we have with a smart meter because *deep breath* ... Two types - old and new - are available but the new type can't be used thanks to the vicinity of GCHQ tech in this area and there's such a long waiting list for the old type that they're effectively unavailable.
My ol' mum and dad got one, even though they had a decent calor gas cooker, because a) it was posh and b) they had an open coal fire with a back boiler to heat water. The AGA was used maybe once a week because it made their tiny kitchen boiling to work in and you'd scorch your arms accidentally brushing against it. In the end they stopped using it as a cooker and it became another work surface.
Unbelievable!
Are they the same as what I call 'Halogen heaters'? If so we've had a couple for years and I find them very good, plus they light up the room so you can save on lighting.
A bit confusing but Halogen heaters are infrared but not all infrared heaters use Halogen. From a brief googling I think the ones that glow are Halogen but you can get ones that don't glow which use Tungsten or Quartz.
Ceramic heaters are becoming popular. Halogen ones didn’t really seem to take off. To me they look a bit scary.
Usually instead of, but that's if MrsF isn't about and I just need the one room warming. I used to have one set on timer in the bedroom as they also give a nice warm glow and light up the room when it's a dark morning. Not the best looking things I suppose, but they're quite cheap (£25-30) so it would be worth trying one. They usually have three settings but I only ever use one. Over time the bulbs blow but you've got the remaining ones to use. One of ours is on its last bulb now but we've had it for ages.
This is a very similar one to what we have:
