We definitely need something done about ours and why we aren't either building more storage or even getting more solar or nuclear plants built is beyond me... The world and what is going on is changing and whilst I struggle to understand the reasoning for some of it, things have to change but ripping off a country full of people because things haven't been thought of or changed over the time/years, isn't acceptable.
But wait, lets make electric cars, that'll solve everything.......
I digress.... But thank god for my solar panels, I'll hopefully be able to control the power I use a little more than most. I have worries it'll hit prices like a £1/kW for electric or something like 30p to 40p for gas... Heaven help the country if it ever makes it to £8000 for an average user.... Was worse than my mortgage...
My landlord put up a notice on the fridge at the shared house I live in for uni, "can't afford to pay for washing machine/dryer" "use the washing line".
Sure, sure, seems fine at first right? I mean energy crisis and it's seems legit.
Then I did the math, worked out the energy cost assuming £0.50/KWhr prices, which AFAIK they aren't yet here in Wales, my
total energy bill including gas (I cycle home from the surgery around 6:30pm then straight away have a cold shower as it's 20km), came to around
£50 upper limit/month, making assumptions I gamed straight for 4hrs a day (assuming max PC energy draw, I don't, maybe one hour gaming and three to four hours of office work), and used the oven for an hour a day (I don't), and two loads of laundry per week, 60 min wash @300W/Hr rate 60 min dry @2200W/Hr.
Point is, the guy has 6 tenants paying £400+ per month in rent,
easily covering the mortgage and bills for this kind of two storey house, even though it's seafront, each of whom would use less energy than I do, being a tech enthusiast, and he's still saying we should dry our clothes in the air of the wettest city in the UK... I get home from work when it's dark LMAO, and there's a nurse who works 12hr day/night shifts.
Clean nuclear modern fission/fasttracked fusion is the only solution, but I still don't think energy prices are at the point where it's unreasonable to expect an average family to pay their bill. Learn to live with less, you know?
Honestly, i'm just going to give him an extra £15 per week and say keep it, I'm going to continue using the dryer as much as I need to. Gotta get back into those cycling clothes again tomorrow morning lol. I don't even use the heating in my room.
AM4isGOD said:
Wonder how many others in the UK in shared housing are gonna get screwed by these type of landlords.
If he argues, I'll just leave, with the extra job I've taken with techpowerup, plus my NHS job, I can pay for a flat and sort bills out myself. I like the location i'm in as I have a direct view of the bay and beach from my bedroom window, but I can get that elsewhere.
Plus my excuse for the 3080ti is that it's useful for folding proteins lmao.