Partypooper - I also had a 25 year old gas backboiler, which I tolerated for the first 5 years of moving to this property. During the summer months, when the boiler was seldom used, I measured that the piot light was consuming 6kWh of gas per day - none of which was contributing an...
The team running that project was told recently to get it commercialised in ten years instead of the original twenty years. Molten salt reactors could be added to existing power plants to replace the coal-fired boiler. That technology might come along in time to provide a seamless transition....
"Trick or treat?" The word "trick" refers to a (mostly idle) threat to perform mischief on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given. In some parts of Ireland and Scotland children still go guising. In this custom the child performs some sort of show, i.e. sings a song...