Weather

From the Bavarian skies, one of it's adopted sons dropped down today to pay the kingdom a royal visit. Bliper Nogbad is back in town and doing his best single handidly to drink the State dry and thus cause a collapse of the Euro and Bavaria being thrown out of the EU.

The days events prevented me getting out to take any photos in the beautiful sunny hot weather at around 30°C. So this Blip of the evening approach of a thunderstorm coming out of the Swiss Alps and possibly from the area where the extraordinary avalanche scenes took place yesterday. With the very hot humid weather these evening short storms are pretty commonplace.

Would be nice if we could harness the power of the odd lightning strike. I went to the fuse box and out of habit, killed the fuses to the front drive gate which has hyper over sensitive electronics and I have not yet been brave enough to test whether all our new fuses and power surge equipment will cope. While in the box noticed that we have now generated over 3000 kWh of electricity in the last 72 days since being officially connected to the national grid. Of this about 1300 kWh has been sold to the electricity company and 1700 kWh we have used ourselves directly.

Our annual consumption for the last 15 years has been extraordinarily constant at 6000 kWh. It will now be a lot higher as we are using only PV electricity to heat our water. So while it looks at the moment as though we have produced 50% of our annual consumption in less than 3 months, we know that until now we have mainly had the best summer months and generation will fall off rapidly soon.

However it is rather nice to see we have saved over 2.5 tons of CO² but have to admit I don't really know what that is in tangible terms.Nigel probably has an App on his mobile that converts tons of CO² in to Litres of beer - probably about one day of his beer consumption.