Reply To: Nissan Leaf grief … such is progress !

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Howi –

No-one here is a “progress-denier”. There is no such being, particularly since “progress” is chronological, not a value assessment nor a synonym for “improvement” – or indeed “worsening”.

That habit of slinging the suffix “denier” about to denigrate anyone with whom you disagree about anything is neither useful nor polite; and usually not even true.

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Bazyle –

I take your point about the use of the church and its hall being too irregular for a time-switch to be an efficient controller, but I wonder if any proper comparative work generally has been done on the various ways to heat a particular type of building?

It ought be easier for a private home, but even there we need consider whether it is better to leave the heating on, controlled by carefully-located thermostats; or run only at certain times of the day via time-switches, even if you also add a remote-control function.

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I’d not realised the demand on a domestic WiFi router could be so high!  Presumably there is a practical limit?

 

As a digression I find that notion that 30 or 40 house guests to one party “will connect”, very sad and even rather eerie. Does it mean, that to each person none of the others present matter – apart from the hosts, and then as suppliers?

I recall one evening in my caving-club being the only member present. The rest were about a dozen young men and women, all in one guest group. Their organiser, I think she was, was busy on a lap-top, possibly with work or study. A couple in the corner shared another, possibly with a film or a game. The rest all tap-tap-tapped away on their own “smart”[?]-‘phones. Nowt was said, by anyone to anyone, among themselves let alone to me, and I felt unable to say anything to them; so found things to read. After about two hours of this Trappist isolationism I slipped out to the pub for some chance of real conversation with real people, leaving the “will connect” lot to their hermetic lives.