Home of the Future

jimmy321 · 13 Feb 2012 at 21:43

PlacidCasual said:
A 70's coal station is probably 35-37% efficient and once again the waste heat is no use.

I stand to be corrected but I thought that gas generated electricity supplied the home was more like 15% efficient.

Haze · 13 Feb 2012 at 21:44

the presenter was telling the home owner, that is 330k ppl had those generators installed they could switch off 1 power station

PlacidCasual · 13 Feb 2012 at 21:48

jimmy321 said:
I stand to be corrected but I thought that gas generated electricity supplied the home was more like 15% efficient.

For pure electricity generation you might be right I'd have to check. But because all of the waste heat can be used for heating purposes this is included in the efficiency calcs and bumps it way up. Still not a cheap way of doing it though.

jimmy321 · 13 Feb 2012 at 21:52

Well I hope it takes off as I hold shares in Ceramic Fuel who developed Blugen, prob more suited to countries who have large gas supplies like Australia or countries looking to get away from nuclear like Japan.

LordSplodge · 13 Feb 2012 at 22:09

Glaucus said:
This is the future houses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house

Just have to look at where planning permission has been heading.

Energy efficiency, renewable energys, Eco friendly.

I'm not seeing any robots, lasers or jet packs. Nevermind flying cars.

Glaucus · 13 Feb 2012 at 22:11

LordSplodge said:
I'm not seeing any robots, lasers or jet packs. Nevermind flying cars.

That's why it's the future.
At the end of the day, very few people have houses that exceed building regs. People can barely afford a house let alone above code items.

fobose · 13 Feb 2012 at 22:18

The way of the future. The way of the future. The way of the future. The way of the future. The way of the future.

LordSplodge · 13 Feb 2012 at 22:20

Glaucus said:
That's why it's the future.

It's the future because it doesn't have technology from the future? :confused:

Glaucus · 13 Feb 2012 at 22:21

It does have some "tech" from the future.

It's the future as that is what (or at least something very similar) will become law.

radderfire · 13 Feb 2012 at 22:25

I watched a bit of it and did have to lol a bit at the father who liked turning all the lights out at night, including the lights for the high tech indoor plant growers. Why sign up for the house conversion if you're going to switch off vital power??

Rgds

radderfire · 13 Feb 2012 at 22:26

Then there was the bit when the wife walked in to the lounge and burst into tears. She didn't seem too happy with the future.

Haze · 13 Feb 2012 at 22:47

radderfire said:
Then there was the bit when the wife walked in to the lounge and burst into tears. She didn't seem too happy with the future.

lol, did make me laugh, the house was so cluttered before, and she was complaining about having to keep it clean now :confused:

Jamauk · 13 Feb 2012 at 23:20

I thought it would be better than it was. Firstly I thought there would be more information on the gadgets used, costs, ect. Essentially I thought it would be like 'The Gadget Show does DIY SOS'! I also found it disappointing that the people living in the house had very little knowledge of technology. It needed a family who whilst wouldn't have used that technology before may have heard of it and be familiar with similar technologies.

Hopefully next weeks episode will be better....

QlimaxUK · 14 Feb 2012 at 17:37

This is the future!

Narj · 14 Feb 2012 at 17:49

I want my ****** hover board already. :mad: