dream4red wrote: ↑Thu Mar 20, 2025 1:40 am
Dot, I'm glad that you warned me to go hunt for your message. Would never have found it other wise. You stay cool now xxxx
Robert stay with the rehab, it's tedious, but well worth it xx
We came home today, no dramas. Just a washing basket full of packages to be collected from our tenant. Thank goodness noni b sales are now finished online. I ordered a lot of things, expecting them to send only a few of them with refunds for the rest. Well, today's big package had nearly everything that I have ordered in it. I am only opening one package per day. Just to string the excitement out a bit. Today's pack had a lot of tops and 2 pair of "short" jeans that will need to have some lopped off the bottom before I can wear them. The killer is, that I am only paying $5 per pair of jeans, so once all the packages are opened, I will have jeans to last for the next ten years and I reckon I will be the best dressed granny around here for as long too. Much more fun than shopping in op shops, but glad that the deals are now finished (anything left online has been picked over so much that I don't really need it).
Our electricity plan is up for renewal. What a load of crooks. They charge us 24/7 37.246per kwh and then they return to us 8cents per kwh for our solar feed-in BUT if it goes over 8kwhper day the rest of it will be 5cents per kwh and then they have the audacity to charge us a daily "service fee" of 97.79 bloody rip off merchants. I will be doing a bit of research before agreeing to that.
night all xxx
Just one of the reasons we will be off grid in our next house. An electric vehicle can be picked up that has V2L quite cheaply these days, they will give you 2 to 3 days average household electricity consumption storage.
The average Aust household uses 18.7kwh per day, a 10kw solar system will generate, on average, 20kwh in winter and 40kwh in summer.
In winter,3 poor solar days could be recovered by 3 good solar days, or on the last day, a drive to a standard EV charger will cost under $10 to fill it up to give another 3 days of stored power .... sure, that's only around $7 worth of power per day @ 37.2c /kwh, but add the 97.79c for the connection, plus GST, it's up around $8.80 per day to have the power connected and using the average daily consumption ..... against even 2 days of storage for under $10 V $17.60 to have the power connected and supplied from the grid ..... it just doesn't make economic sense anymore to be on the grid.
Then add in all those days you actually get the electricity supplied by the sun from your solar panels ..... it isn't free energy as such, you had to buy the solar panels, but once you have them, the electrical energy they produce is at no additional cost ..... Store that in the house battery and the EV battery, then use the stored electrical energy from the EV overnight when the sun isn't shining ......
T1 Terry
..of course I have brilliant blues in any shape that your heart desires. Not so many reds, they are all closer to orange these days. Red glass is made from gold and that makes it very hard to get in a decent bright red. Tell me what you're after mate Tiny rectangles, long rectangles, tiny squares or large squares, triangles small & large, you name it and I will find it...xxxx
x Goodnight RnBob x 
