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staringclown, on 17 May 2012 - 01:36 PM, said:

I prefer SJ's version. More finesse.

Charles Bukowski, on 19 May 2012 - 03:05 PM, said:

Opening bars remind me of Hunters and Collectors. Vocals reminded me of Morrisey, until the yelling kicked in.

My opinion, FWIW, overall quite good but would have been better without the yelling. I think the yelling style is better left to the likes of Brian Johnson and Jimmy Barnes, they're better suited to that vocal style and I think the yelling is wasted on your vocals. I think your vocals are better suited to indie style ballads.

The vocals on the previous video also suited your voice.

Bank of Cyprus - Midas Account interest rate now reduced to 4.85% (i.e. not very interesting).

Your bill says that last year your average daily usage is 14.58KWh, that would be more representative of the amount of electricity you actually use. Your big Hot Water Cylinder and likely an older and larger fridge would be the biggest contributors to that figure (also if you were using air conditioning some of the time).

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I'd agree; you now use 6.34 KWh of grid power per day (probably at night) and feed in more than that during the day which results in a credit. However, you're getting a fairly large credit, so this would mean that your solar panels are producing far more than 14KWh of power per day.

To achieve the kind of credit you are getting, I would have thought that your 3KW system averaging around very close to 3KW per hour for 7 hours of each day, which is likely not to be the case as your solar system would be far less efficient in mornings and afternoons and closest to peak efficiency only around the midday hours.

I must be missing something in my analysis but not sure what I am not seeing.

Edit: Is it possible that the Average Cost Per Day on your electricity bill represents the cost of the 14KWh and not the actual credit you are getting? Similarly, our average cost per day is $2.xx and that is for 10KWh.

Popeye, on 09 May 2012 - 05:08 AM, said:

Dang! We are a childless couple, hardly ever home due to work, do not own any air conditioners, run one 300L fridge, a 5L top load washing machine twice per week and an 80L Hot Water Cylinder which is housed indoors in the laundry (less heat loss), an electric stove/oven, and our electricity bill says that we use 10KWh per day on average!

Do you have gas for cooking and hot water? And what do you use for light, candles?