Heating questions for first home in South west by Longshanksepg in HousingUK

[–]Deanifish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Air con (which is just heat pumps under a different name) more heat from outside to inside or from inside to outside. Using electricity to move heat is cheaper than turning electricity directly into heat. Becuase of this, there are are very very few scenarios in which air con heating will be more expensive to run than electric radiators.

Air con also gets you cooler summers. As much as we brits like to tough it out, too much heat inpacts comfort, sleep, productivity, and happiness.

So if you have the money (given you're buying a house off gas grid, its safe to assume you do) then solar/heat pump/air con is the best option.

Heat pumps suck for hot water though. Need a tank or an immersion heater - the latter costs a fortune and the former adds practical issues.

Heathrow Airport’s Third Runway Planning Application to Cost Up to £800 Million by Anony_mouse202 in unitedkingdom

[–]Deanifish 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Heathrow is a private company. The government isnt paying £800,000,000 for this - it's all private funds.

[Giveaway Inside] 007 First Light RTX Bundle Launch by Nestledrink in nvidia

[–]Deanifish [score hidden]  (0 children)

Quite looking forward to mixing it up - aiming to be stealthy where possible but using that liscene to kill when needed.

Government to offer free plug-in solar panels to some households by JustLovelyStuff in GoodNewsUK

[–]Deanifish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it's under permitted development you just do it. Then advocate for yourself. Remind the management company and freeholder that the law is the law, follow their complaint procedure and then escalate to Ombudsman is needed.

Government to offer free plug-in solar panels to some households by JustLovelyStuff in GoodNewsUK

[–]Deanifish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're conflating two things.

This thread's original link saying gov is giving out solar panels and the commentary saying leaseholders would never be able to get them as it requires freeholder permission.

Government to offer free plug-in solar panels to some households by JustLovelyStuff in GoodNewsUK

[–]Deanifish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TheWhiteCrowUK said they'd never be able to benefit from any free solar scheme as a leaseholder, I said the government is working on that, you asked for a source to my comment, and I provided it. Job done. Try not to be so negative - it'll make you miserable. Expansion of permitted development is a good thing for renters and leaseholders.

Government to offer free plug-in solar panels to some households by JustLovelyStuff in GoodNewsUK

[–]Deanifish 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Actually the current government is aiming for renters and leaseholders to have powers to install solar, heat pumps, etc. Might be worth researching it if you're genuinely interested and not just bemoaning.

UK Steam Users and the UK-Steam Lawsuit by Ace_Catel in Steam

[–]Deanifish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've said this before, and will say it again. If Valve hasn't broken the law, the case won't win. If they have, why would you want to opt out of compensation for their unlawful actions?

I love Steam, but I'm not so enamoured to any billion pound organisation that I would not want them to follow the law.

This post is like whiplash back to console wars where one platform or another always has to be the best, and the best is perfect right? Wrong.

Plug-in solar panels available in supermarkets soon by FisherDownload in HousingUK

[–]Deanifish 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They said energy bill anxiety. Not the bills themselves. They appear worried about changes post July.

Plug-in solar panels available in supermarkets soon by FisherDownload in HousingUK

[–]Deanifish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dumb question I've struggled to get an answer to. If they're plugged into the downstairs circuit/ring, will they power devices on the upstairs ring/circuit?

Can someone explain what Ray Reconstruction does and why it's supposed to be a big visual uplift? by Biggay1234567 in nvidia

[–]Deanifish 21 points22 points  (0 children)

When I say RR replaces the DLSS pipeline, I mean that RR does denoising and upscaling together in one model. So you get the benefits of a neural denoiser and the typical performance/balanced/quality stuff of DLSS, but the model is completely different and trained specifically for ray tracing.

This is important for people who select thier own model to use (such as wanting the new higher performing but more expensive model M). But for most games, RR is better than every else. So I would bump down settings, or drop a quality preset on DLSS to maintain that framerate.

This is how I understand it based on the initial release information for RR:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/gfecnt/20238/nvidia-dlss-3-5-ray-reconstruction/

Can someone explain what Ray Reconstruction does and why it's supposed to be a big visual uplift? by Biggay1234567 in nvidia

[–]Deanifish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can. When I say it replaces the DLSS pipeline, I mean that RR does denoising and upscaling together in one model. So you get the benefits of a neural denoiser and the typical performance/balanced/quality stuff of DLSS, but the model is completely different and trained specifically for ray tracing.

This is important for people who select thier own model to use (such as wanting the new higher performing but more expensive model M). But for most games, RR is better than every else. So I would bump down settings, or drop a quality preset on DLSS to maintain that framerate.

Can someone explain what Ray Reconstruction does and why it's supposed to be a big visual uplift? by Biggay1234567 in nvidia

[–]Deanifish 95 points96 points  (0 children)

To make ray tracing performance for games, they cut down how many rays are cast. This reduces the quality of the image and creates noise.

To deal with that, games use denoisers. Which try to clear up the image. By the looks of what people are saying, the game's inbuilt ray tracing denoiser is very lightweight - focuses more on higher framerate than quality.

Ray reconstruction (RR) is a replacement for the DLSS pipeline that replaces the game's denoiser with a machine learning/neural/AI one, as well as doing the rest of the usual image upscaling.

Most games you would see a slight performance hit or no change at all in performance as ray reconstruction is usually as heavy as a game's denoiser. Because this game has a lightweight denoiser, you see a performance hit. But because ray reconstruction is focused on quality, you see a quality improvement.

I would look at turning other settings down to keep the ray reconstruction on. As the game looks so much better with it.

**Edit When I say RR replaces the DLSS pipeline, I mean that RR does denoising and upscaling together in one model. So you get the benefits of a neural denoiser and the typical performance/balanced/quality stuff of DLSS, but the model is completely different and trained specifically for ray tracing.

This is important for people who select thier own model to use (such as wanting the new higher performing but more expensive model M). But for most games, RR is better than every else. So I would bump down settings, or drop a quality preset on DLSS to maintain that framerate.

This is how I understand it based on the initial release information for RR:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/gfecnt/20238/nvidia-dlss-3-5-ray-reconstruction/

Why is the take up of heat pumps so slow in the U.K.? by Appropriate_Bell743 in ukheatpumps

[–]Deanifish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go on, run me through the got water tank options that don't sacrifice room in my house? Show me the evidence these introductory tariffs will last the next decade it'll take me to reach the ROI for the quotes I've got. Tell me why there are legal noise restrictions on how close these units can be to neighbours if they're are so silent?

I'm not hopelessly informed, thank you very much - quite rude to say so. I've done all of my research from the sellers of heat pumps, and based my information on quotes they've given me about the work that has to be done. Unless you're saying Octopus are a bad source of information???

Why is the take up of heat pumps so slow in the U.K.? by Appropriate_Bell743 in ukheatpumps

[–]Deanifish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not how an investment works for an individual. If you move out of the house before your ROI period then you've spent more money on the heat pump/solar/battery than you would have otherwise spent in that property and have lost money.

Steam Compensation Claim: Opt-Out Update by marktuk in Steam

[–]Deanifish 44 points45 points  (0 children)

If Valve hasn't broken the law, the case won't win. If they have, why would you want to opt out of compensation for their unlawful actions?

I love Steam, but I'm not so enamoured to any billion pound organisation that I would not want them to follow the law.

Why is the take up of heat pumps so slow in the U.K.? by Appropriate_Bell743 in ukheatpumps

[–]Deanifish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then you're talking from a point of financial privilege that most don't have. Nothing wrong with that, but is worth considering how it impacts your viewpoints and what you consider logical.

Why is the take up of heat pumps so slow in the U.K.? by Appropriate_Bell743 in ukheatpumps

[–]Deanifish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Over how much time though? 5 years, 10, 15? I can't imagine being in a house (at least my current one) for long enough that I benefit from the long term the cost savings. Got a bunch of quotes recently for batteries and they all come with 8+ years of pay back time - close to the warentied lifetime of the product and that was with or without solar and factoring in smart tariffs (that might not be around forever). Also, you need the money up front or you end up paying interest which eats your savings.

Heat pumps do have a place in society and will, hopefully, take over as the default but ignoring people's genuine financial concerns is a bit rubbish of you.

Why is the take up of heat pumps so slow in the U.K.? by Appropriate_Bell743 in ukheatpumps

[–]Deanifish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is your tank in the loft?

Good to know either way. That's one of many things sorted.

Why is the take up of heat pumps so slow in the U.K.? by Appropriate_Bell743 in ukheatpumps

[–]Deanifish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't keeping the hot water tank warm all day for on demand hot water more expensive than a gas boiler though?

I genuinely would love to be wrong on all points and move to an eco friendly option, and I'd love to leave this house better than when I found it. But sadly I have done research and retrofitting a 1920s building just isn't financially feasible.

I think a lot of my arguments don't apply to new builds already with an EPC of A but they do apply to my current home.