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So you would not build up the grid before the windfarms in the North are completed? 1,870 kilometres of new transmission lines in 2024 and another roughly 1,600 kilometres are projected for 2025. The different lines, including SüdLink and SüdOstLink, are supposed to bring renewable electricity...

I wonder if MikelBikel know how much CO2 would a power station with the same 8.2GW would produce.

That sounds omnimous. Perhaps I should better be prepared. However, can you point to one successful example of working democracy? I watched Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell interviewing ex Ambassador Tom Fletcher some 3 months ago. In it, Fletcher retold his encounter with Berlusconi. As it...

it's easy to criticise (I know, I do plenty of that too), but what would you do for electricity besides burning fossil fuels and biomass?

Be careful what you are wishing for. Before you destroy the EU, watch what trump is doing to Americans. He is turning the USA into a kleptocracy

Can the USA win the AI battle? China is leading with least training cost, EU, represented by French Mistral LLM, leads on least running cost and data protection, OpenAI leads on most features. The race is now on zero human training. New frontier models are built by AI and won't need human...

Going by your reasoning, the Conservatives made a coalition with the lib Dems in 2010. Did nick clegg 'own' Cameron? Did the Conservatives become socialists in that eara? Did they have million immigrants every year?

It's not quite a parallel because the two journalist friends don't negotiate directly with one another while the USA and UK do. Trump knows Starmer wants the deal more than he does for political reasons in post brexit UK. No.

Starmer's deal is less good compared to what the EU is doing. The EU uses the money that it collects through counter measures to assist essential exporters exporting existing stocks such as wines and spirits. The result is financially neutral but they keep an equal pressure on the USA toward an...

I think I've got COVID for the last 10 days, still have it, and I have had one Pfizer shot. What is the probability that I am going to die?

It's a good deal for Trump and he is proven right. Shafting your friends is the easiest step.

Merz is centre right. He's conservative and liberal. Definitely not a leftie. Why do you think he's left? Is it because he worked for big multinationals? Or because he's pro-EU? Merz often stresses that social welfare should not create dependency. He supports incentivising work over welfare...

You are automatically so negative about European centre right politics. I assume he's not right enough for you. For most Germans, he's a bit too much to the right. He's won, didn't he? He's run into some opposition because he came back on the promise of respecting the spending limit. Germany...

I think it's best to start with your last sentence and walk backward. 1. As for renewables being better at managing load variations than the inertia of rotating mass - it isn't, and you were saying the opposite two days ago. The reason for that blackout is the sudden drop in supply that...

I think we are still paying for early mistakes. It's unfortunate but going back to fossil fuel does not remove the previous mistakes. Soundwave 's installed solar panels must have cost the council more than £7k. It's now pretty worthless. I am about the only one on here happy with a cheap 5kw...

Are you condonning what Grzegorz Braun did? Quote: Braun has already been barred from parliament sessions through October after he disrupted a minute of silence for Holocaust victims earlier in the year. In December 2023, Braun used a fire extinguisher to put out menorah candles lit for...

that's incorrect. Let's talk through point by point. 1. But solar panels are made *with* coal, not "than", just in another country. Coal was the backbone of China's energy mix until last year, but no longer. In 2024, China added: Solar PV: 170 GW Wind: 90 GW Coal: 40 GW China has net zero...

Reform doesn't create legitimate grievances like illegal immigration, high cost of living, housing crisis, high energy prices but deviously exploits them. It brought us nothing good.

... can't you bring yourself to accept that electricity from solar is cheaper than from coal in most parts of the world, including Ireland?

The Levelised Cost of Energy is about 5p per kWH (roughly hydro: 2p, onshore wind: 2p, solar: 2p, offshore wind: 5p, gas: 7p, nuclear: 12p) but you can see we pay a lot more than our neighbours like Sweden for energy, but why? 1. Sweden has communal heating. Swedes spend less on electricity...