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Minimum Power Consumption Housing

CliveS

Design Parameters 

We need a fully wall and window insulated draught proof house but without any radiators at all.

The roof could be covered in solar panels as a way of charging the batteries in case grid power is unreliable.

If needed, cooking and heating can be on wood burning or gas appliances in the main living room.

As there is no heating upstairs the beds will have DC electric blankets and woollen bed cloths will keep us snug.

Dish washing and washing machines will probably need to become manual tasks; keeping us fit and agile 

In that electricity is difficult to generate economically will lead in future, to power sharing rotas

and we may expect to get grid supply only 4 hours per day mostly at night to charge batteries and heat water..

Expected battery power consumption per day could typically be 

Electronic broadband and TV etc [0.5kWh], electric blankets[0.5kWh], lighting [0.5kWh], 

Fridge {1.0kWh], Microwave Oven [2.0kWh]

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  • My parents had an oil fired Aga that heated the domestic hot water and ran fifty weeks of the year, it was turned off when we went on holiday and serviced the day we got back.

    Initially we had the Aga guy to do it, eventually I ended up doing it as well as installing some second hand Aga’s for other people. It was long before the days of OFTEC and there were few restrictions on working on oil fired appliances.

    However I would not touch one these days, I have been in a couple of houses where there were small oil leaks and the insurance companies seriously considered demolishing them and removing the soil from under them to decontaminate the area.

    The clean up bills were huge and the homeowners from both houses were in rented accommodation for two years whilst the clean up work was completed.

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  • My parents had an oil fired Aga that heated the domestic hot water and ran fifty weeks of the year, it was turned off when we went on holiday and serviced the day we got back.

    Initially we had the Aga guy to do it, eventually I ended up doing it as well as installing some second hand Aga’s for other people. It was long before the days of OFTEC and there were few restrictions on working on oil fired appliances.

    However I would not touch one these days, I have been in a couple of houses where there were small oil leaks and the insurance companies seriously considered demolishing them and removing the soil from under them to decontaminate the area.

    The clean up bills were huge and the homeowners from both houses were in rented accommodation for two years whilst the clean up work was completed.

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