Can't it be sold back into the grid?

I'm sure it can but the devil is in the detail. I'm sure I read somewhere that homeowners can end up with a raw deal and often the kit isn't set up so they can power their homes direct from it. They instead get their power from the mains and what they generate they get a paltry amount for. Read the small print.

You sell what you generate to an N-power or e-on on a Feed In Tariff with domestic panels. It's completely separate to your supply itself. Covering Odsal in solar panels would effectively make it a solar farm/power station.

I think to benefit you need to own your panels not have one of these companies that comes and installs them on your roof but retains ownership and therefore the bulk of the money generated?

The opposite is the case for domestic. The feed in tariffs are so low it would take a long time to get your money back selling it. But as leccy is not cheap, any you can produce for yourself means its energy you don't have to buy.

The storage issue remains a problem, it still is difficult to do. If you could store it then that would be the most benefit - but batteries are not very good, and as they are being charged and discharged hundreds of times, need frequent replacement. Better results are from storing the excess energy is things like storage heaters and immersion tanks

A good tactic is to rethink when you use big power -such as running all washing etc cycles during daylight and not dark. But they really need the boffins to crack the cheap and log lasting battery issue.

Yeh the days of money making feed in tariffs have now passed unless you’re still on an existing 25 year deal etc. Solar panels are still good for businesses who use the power generated through the day but I’d say it would be fairly minimal for th club, we only have a few offices etc it is hardly high demand.

Rumours of Marwan coming on board. Could this be the light at the end of the tunnel.!!!

Or could it be a train about to run us over???

One must ask. Are these 'new' rumours or the same old rumours coming round again, maybe on the rebound from the far side of the galaxy - or indeed, another galaxy altogether?

maybe it is reflection of the moon and the rumours bouncing back off the hypothetical solar panels and an experiment into the speed of communicating via the moon. That way we could argue contacting Nigel wood was less effective than bouncing messages off the moon

Though he generates a greater gravitational field due to his greater mass

I've never been one for wanting to mix my metaphors but does that mean that, if he were to suddenly deflate, he'd become a black hole?

So Big Nige is on his deathbed and a kindly nurse, hearing him sobbing, goes over to comfort him

"Don't cry, Mr. Wood, there's no need to be afraid, we all have our time to go"

"No, you don't understand. I'm upset for the embarrassment for my family, as I just know that they'll have to dismantle half the hospital and get a cherry picker or something, just to remove my body for the funeral. Oh, the shame" <sob, sob>"

The nurse smiles and replies:

"Oh, that! Don't worry Mr. Wood, we've already thought about that. When the time comes, we'll give you an enema, and the rest will fit in a shoebox."

Now fixed!

Bit enigmatic!

Do you mean the lights are now fixed?

Yes.

I wonder if the powers that be have been reading this thread ?. At least some thing has been done. I'll need to take my sunglasses tonight !

It's been obvious since the first friendly and I'm sure they knew about it. To be fair, you can't just pick these bulbs up from B&Q and stick them in yourself so it must take some time to organise, but they've done it before the season so hip hip hooray!

But check the Rooley Lane street lamps looking a lot dimmer during the times the floods are on!

That's ok, they could use that as another excuse to not open the turnstiles on that side to save money. Erm sorry, for safety reasons.

Was it just me or did it look as though any new bulbs might only have been two or three they found in the bottom of a cupboard somewhere in the office? Still looked dark at the Rooley end to me. I guess the reasoning is that we won't be needing them much this season..

Seemed they'd all been put in one floodlight. The Southbank end was v dark.

To be honest, from my position pretty central in the stand, the South Bank end looked the brighter of the two, just as it had last week - the Rooley end was very dark last week but seemed just a teeny bit brighter yesterday, but still not as bright as the South Bank and, to be honest, still not really good enough. Seems like the notion of finding two or three bulbs at the bottom of the cupboard was probably correct..

On the bright side, the stand exercise dynamo bikes have arrived, and will be installed this week in place of the seating. The wheelchair spots will also be adjusted to be on a slightly backward sloping treadmill so they have to join in too.

I best bring my spare battery in July then...