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Apologies for this post. I had not read the whole thread coming across it in the 'What's New section, and had not realised that the poster has private land to ride the bike on. I would have deleted it but it is too late to remove it now.

Actually - your're right, and it reminds me - when I was thinking about low carbon energy, I should have considered the hub alternator on the Raleigh Twenty that I fixed up a few years ago and gave to my daughter in law. I even turned it into a twelve volts Led system with a rectifier and a...

Did you think about these numbers before posting them. It is absolute fantasy data. You must be insane. We don't and can never have 28Gwatts of solar power! This years daily average solar power on the grid: We have a thing called night time. We have a thing called winter. The Uk is...

Another key issue in these times of international strife with a power which has a lot of submarines and submarine capability - Offshore gas pipelines, electricity cables and data cables will be a prime target for surreptitious, Russian meddling. This would not be true of shale gas under our own...

Gas didn't reach its peak output until 2008. At least 10% of the grid output came on in terms of gas CCGT between 2000 and 2008, so unless that investment was lying idle in the 1990s, it was built after that time. In any case, CCGT plant, when properly maintained will last forty to forty-five...

There was a vast fleet of gas turbine generators built since the 1990s, which has been responsible for a huge reduction in co2 emissions from what went before. Gas generation has half the carbon of coal which predominated before 1990. An absolute fortune has been spent on developing wind energy...

They have no business having a different agenda than that of the elected government. You have no idea at all of what democracy is about.

The title of the thread is Prices of Electricity we use to Charge. This is BANG ON RELEVANT to that matter. What has been discussed in the last few posts is EXACTLY about our ridiculous electricity costs and why they are as they are.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyv2g2pe5ro The big question is, 'Will Sir Keir fire the civil servants who fail? The usual habit when a civil servant has become so much of an embarrassment that their abject failure can no longer be ignored, is to promote them sideways. Politicians have...

The issue is the power RATED by THE MANUFACTURER when it was made and sold, not what you have done to lower its actual power output. Your motor can never be made legal because it was rated at 1000 watts. Sorry to disappoint. EDIT: If you have a driving license, you will likely collect a...

And you wonder why we have the most expensive electricity (both industrial and domestic) in the developed world. You are ENTIRELY unreasonable in the way you argue. I feel as if I am discussing creation with a religious fundamentalist. You get nowhere, because their belief is founded not on...

We don't need to ask Chat Gpt. The data is readily available. You have completely ignored the main point of my post on your battery idea - that every winter there are long periods of still, dark weather when all the renewables are severely curtailed. These periods, caused by blocked high...

I had a thumb throttle on my Bafang mid drive/ specialised conversion. I messed around with the controller settings trying to limit its non pedalling speed to the low speed allowed, but it was pretty useless like that, and had barely any power, so I just removed it and put the throttle in a...

Maybe you could react to my post about why your sodium battery idea is nuts?

Absolute boll ox and if you weren't completely mad you would know it. This is like arguing in a lunatic asylum....... You say you are an engineer by training. Calculate the capacity needed to store enough electric power to run the grid for three and a half weeks when the wind energy you get...

The REAL kicker for Miliband's and Woosh's ridiculous dogma driven crusade - Having the highest electricity prices in the world ought to trigger a national emergency response. The Government’s primary mission should be to cut energy prices because cheap energy is the key to unlocking growth...

Another snippet from the IEA article: As discussed previously (here and here), it is the ~£11bn of renewables subsidies, £4.6bn of carbon taxes in the form of the Emissions Trading Scheme, £2.5bn of grid balancing costs and £1bn of capacity market costs that are driving electricity prices...

Snippet from IEA discussion of UK gas and electricity prices referenced above in my post. When we turn to electricity prices, the UK is woefully uncompetitive in both industrial and domestic markets with the highest prices among the 28 countries covered by the IEA. This level of price...

I have never argued against ANY practical use of what we might call green technology. In fact I have championed wind energy many times under other screen names since I came here. If there are practical alternatives, which produce power at a cost we can afford, I am all for them. I would imagine...

In the last twelve months I used an average per month of: Electricty 60 Kwhr Gas 394 Kwr Petrol 8.3 gallons