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Fridges are too weak to operate sufficiently as heat pumps. Single room Air con units consume 900 to 1500 watts/hr when cooling, depending on room size, far above any domestic fridge consumption. With the new electricity prices the current heat wave will be hurting some air con owners! .

My air conditioner is currently pumping air into my lounge at 12.6 degrees C say I, doing my smug Rishi Sunak impression. The temperature of the air it's ejecting outside is currently at 48.4 degrees C, doing my bit for global warming. .

Indeed. Our difficulties in exporting to the EU are just a very minor addition to the problems our comprehensive incompetence has caused ever since 1950. Seven decades of decline, that slowed in pace during the four decades of EU membership but now accelerating again towards oblivion. .

There is just one lithium recycling centre in the EU, recovering metallic lithium from battery cells, it's in Belgium. I don't know if anything from here is sent there, probably not. The future looks brighter though, the advent of e-cars has meant that at least one cell recycling centre for...

The main thing one wants is an honest and dependable company. ACT bikes is clearly not one. At the top and tail of their web page on their Sdream Ur 500 on this link, they are shown as ACT.com EU. That e-bike is 500 watts rated and with assist to 20 mph, both illegal as a pedelec throughout...

Understood Pete, that wasn't at all clear before. I must say I would never buy a cheap e-bike like the Kristal e5 for commuting. The components on an e-bike at that very low price are nowhere near good enough for year round daily use, especially if doing additional work with it. Even with...

This is what makes me suspicious. Oxygen make good e-bikes and are highly respected by many in here. One of the most skilled and knowledgeable tech helpers in this forum was d8veh and he always had a very high regard for Oxygen e-bikes, recommending them to many members. Yet you tell us you...

"Fair wear and tear" is often used in this context. The company has made a very cheap e-bike one can use for leisure rides. Social, Domestic and Pleasure is the usual phrase to describe this sort of usage. That doesn't include use for working purposes as you are doing, so any failure isn't...

Long ago there were trade bikes, those deliberately made tough for working use. They had such things as wider chains and sprockets, often heavier duty rims and tyres. All others were regarded as leisure bikes. As Matthew has remarked, many bikes bought for leisure cycling get remarkably...

Aren't nearly all politicians? I don't care, he's best for this job in hand. Eventual failure is guaranteed, but his is likely to be the least affecting. .

This is why I want Sunak to be PM. He's the only one with financial ability. Ignore his spending as chancellor, that was just following Johnson's policies. Now he's showing his true colours, and they are sensible. .

Haven't watched, haven't read, have no intention of doing either. It's all too boring and predictable. .

Yes that is agreed. We are never going to agree on a couple of fundamentals, particularly "build it and they will come" and the way too many cyclists here appear to the general public (normal people!). .

None of it really matters since our propects are so poor. We are so deep in immense debt that we can no longer afford to service. There's only two ways out of that. First austerity, getting use to poverty and a harder life to get the economy in better order. George Osborne tried that, but...

Of course, read all that some while ago, and his time in hedge fund management. In respect of partners there's two sorts of smart, not getting married at all or marrying into lots of money. .

It was 1972 they started their post war program according to the Dutch government web site I read long ago. That was when their decline in cycling started to alarm them. From Wikipedia: "Road building traditions go back a long way and they are influenced by many factors. But the way Dutch...

Sunak has achieved the most. Ma and Pa had a chemist shop which paid for his education. He's now a billionaire. More aspirin to wealth than aspiring to wealth. .

As I've posted before, it's just as much our cyclists who hold back cycling. Their helmets, lycra, drop handlebars etc. are very off putting compared with the photos in your link, which is the best way to get normal people to consider it: Agreed, but do you see that changing? I said...

Lid shorting out the battery connectors? .

Exactly, our loss if Truss or Mordaunt win. I don't really want any of them, but if it has to one, I'd rather it be the smartest one. .