miscellaneous

What we’re making

It’s a perfect day for making. Making lots of…

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electricity! We had solar panels for electricity installed on the garage roof a week or so ago (we already have solar hot water panels on the roof of the house) and with a forecast of sun and 34 degrees, it’s a perfect day for making power and watching the electricity meter spin backwards and feed back into the grid. Well, that’s until we turn on the air conditioning – it uses a huge amount of electricity! That’s the view from the upstairs window across to the city. If I was up early enough it would also contain lots of hot air balloons floating above the buildings. I love that view.

Mr Thornberry is so excited about the solar panels that he is obsessively watching how much power is being generated and I would not be surprised if he records those figures and plots them on a graph.  He has already been up on the garage roof this morning cleaning the panels in order to maximise their efficiency.  If only I could get him to clean the filthy kitchen windows with as much enthusiasm.