January 31, 20251 yr Batteries are still too expensive at the moment but even so, 9.4 GW of new capacity have been installed in the USA in 2024, 71GW worldwide. It is expected that battery price will continue to drop 10% a year, new installations double every year. In a generation, the grid will be pan-european, there won't be any need for gas power stations. Yeah? Really? This is Right now. Our 30gwatts of installed capacity is generating only 1.6gwatts of actual power. We are currently drawing 24.82 gwatts from gas fired power stations. The huge 9 Gwatt hour of battery power you speak of in the USA is only enough to replace that gas power for 21 minutes and 45 seconds. The problem is Tony - the wind has been like this all day and was pretty much the same yesterday. What do we do without gas? You keep on asserting that we will not need gas and NEVER EVER face the reality of variable wind and complete absence of wind, which can extend for many days at a time. You assert these things almost like an article of faith spoken of by a religious fundamentalist. It isn't true and it isn't going to happen. As for international cooperation.... Dream on. When there is a calm spell like this one the weather system extends right across our neighbour's territory. Consider this wind chart for mid day today. The system is sitting right over continental Europe. They have no wind either - even less than we have actually. Well, I sat in the dark last week after storm Eowyn, and survived. I suppose we can all do that and maybe light a candle in a plant pot to stave off the January chill. Meanwhile China has (according to google) 3092 operating coal fired power stations and burns 4.5 billion metric tonnes of coal a year and that creates 16.5 billion tons of co2. 1 tonne of coal burned makes 3.67 tons of co2.
January 31, 20251 yr Yeah? Really? This is Right now. Our 30gwatts of installed capacity is generating only 1.6gwatts of actual power. [ATTACH type=full" alt="61969]61969[/ATTACH] We are currently drawing 24.82 gwatts from gas fired power stations. The huge 9 Gwatt hour of battery power you speak of in the USA is only enough to replace that gas power for 21 minutes and 45 seconds. The problem is Tony - the wind has been like this all day and was pretty much the same yesterday. What do we do without gas? You keep on asserting that we will not need gas and NEVER EVER face the reality of variable wind and complete absence of wind, which can extend for many days at a time. You assert these things almost like an article of faith spoken of by a religious fundamentalist. It isn't true and it isn't going to happen. As for international cooperation.... Dream on. When there is a calm spell like this one the weather system extends right across our neighbour's territory. Consider this wind chart for mid day today. The system is sitting right over continental Europe. They have no wind either - even less than we have actually. [ATTACH type=full" alt="61970]61970[/ATTACH] Well, I sat in the dark last week after storm Eowyn, and survived. I suppose we can all do that and maybe light a candle in a plant pot to stave off the January chill. Meanwhile China has (according to google) 3092 operating coal fired power stations and burns 4.5 billion metric tonnes of coal a year and that creates 16.5 billion tons of co2. 1 tonne of coal burned makes 3.67 tons of co2. In a generation, storage capacity will be 500-1000 times the current capacity.
January 31, 20251 yr In a generation, storage capacity will be 500-1000 times the current capacity. And you based that assertion on what? In fact, you just made it up. This is something you have in common with that buffoon Miliband. He will no doubt come out in support of withdrawing the license to operate the new Rosebank gas field, which according to the press is just about ready to start producing. Like you, he will be dreaming that something useful will come along in the next few years. Of course, he will be out of power before the lights go out - so who cares. The people will not tolerate the disaster that is being devised here. They won't stand for it. There will be a revolution if we are deliberately reduced to the disaster that is being set in motion here.
January 31, 20251 yr And you based that assertion on what? In fact, you just made it up. This is something you have in common with that buffoon Miliband. He will no doubt come out in support of withdrawing the license to operate the new Rosebank gas field, which according to the press is just about ready to start producing. Like you, he will be dreaming that something useful will come along in the next few years. Of course, he will be out of power before the lights go out - so who cares. The people will not tolerate the disaster that is being devised here. They won't stand for it. There will be a revolution if we are deliberately reduced to the disaster that is being set in motion here. Sam Evan youtuber electric viking. He does a lot of videos about solar, batteries and evs. I watch hundreds of his videos.
January 31, 20251 yr It doesn't take much power to literally keep the lights on. The big unexploited tool is a fair way off yet, because we are all to some degree greedy, selfish, resistant to change, untrustworthy, and inveterate cheats and fiddlers if we can see advantage for ourselves. But imagine if we could all participate fairly in the rewards for reducing consumption at critical times. Remember a few weeks ago those extraordinary unit prices promised to a couple of gas power stations for short term capacity? That would get quite a lot of people quite excited.
February 1, 20251 yr 'My £5,700 energy bill was cancelled because supplier broke rules' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gxwgn035wo "Our back billing rules These rules set out when a supplier can charge you for any shortfalls in payment for energy you’ve used. You cannot be charged for energy used more than 12 months ago if: you have not had an accurate bill for it before, even though you asked for one you have not been informed about any charges due via a statement of account before your Direct Debit amount was previously set too low to cover any charges due Suppliers must make these rules clear in their contract terms and conditions. The rules apply to domestic energy consumers and microbusinesses." https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/what-do-if-you-get-back-bill
February 1, 20251 yr Could the UK actually get colder with global warming? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn938ze4yyeo
February 1, 20251 yr Climate Puzzle: Scientists Uncover Mysterious Halt in the Atlantic “Conveyor Belt” Slowdown https://scitechdaily.com/climate-puzzle-scientists-uncover-mysterious-halt-in-the-atlantic-conveyor-belt-slowdown/
February 1, 20251 yr It doesn't take much power to literally keep the lights on. The big unexploited tool is a fair way off yet, because we are all to some degree greedy, selfish, resistant to change, untrustworthy, and inveterate cheats and fiddlers if we can see advantage for ourselves. But imagine if we could all participate fairly in the rewards for reducing consumption at critical times. Some of us have already reduced our carbon emissions dramatically. My total emissions in the last 30 days in the worst weather were: 224 kilos co2 domestic (70kwhrs electricity and 1000 kwhrs of gas) 58 kilos co2 petrol (6 gallons) 66 kilos co2 embedded in my food 30 kilos co2 exhaled in breathing Total 374 kilos This is probably the heaviest emitting month of the year and from May to October, my consumption of gas is negligible really just heating a daily shower and boiling water for cooking and drinks. The best I can work it out, excluding embedded co2 in purchased manufactured goods, my annual co2 emissions including food production are under 4 tonnes a year. I bought no manufactured goods outside a pair of chinos in the last 30 days. I did buy a new car last February, but I will likely keep it for the next 14 years like I did the last one, which lasted from 2010 to 2024. I have not been on a plane in the last 15 years. Hilariously - vocal eco-shrew, India Rumbelow has a pile of long haul flights on her record which apparently are obvious to those looking at her social media accounts. This kind of hypocrisy is common among the Green - My prating brother in law who has hectored everyone around him at every opportunity flies with my sister every year to NewZealand, setting loose ten tonnes of co2 on every trip for each of them - but that's alright because they don't eat much meat, and they have an allotment.
February 1, 20251 yr Could the UK actually get colder with global warming? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn938ze4yyeo "In the UK, it could "become horribly, horribly cold … like living in northern Norway," Prof Thornalley warns." Ha ha ha - very scientific information. Especially when the actual data suggest it might cause a half a degree centigrade cooling in London. This sort of scare mongering hysterical negativity is what brings science into disrepute. Some of these people have abandoned science - actual measurements and sensible discussion of results and they have become propagandists and polemicists. There is a big difference between the two ways of communicating.
February 1, 20251 yr "In the UK, it could "become horribly, horribly cold … like living in northern Norway," Prof Thornalley warns." Ha ha ha - very scientific information. Especially when the actual data suggest it might cause a half a degree centigrade cooling in London. This sort of scare mongering hysterical negativity is what brings science into disrepute. Some of these people have abandoned science - actual measurements and sensible discussion of results and they have become propagandists and polemicists. There is a big difference between the two ways of communicating. If the Arctic conveyor belt (MOC) stops in the next 25 years then the uk could be up to 5 Celsius colder. The chance of that happening is tiny though. Edited February 1, 20251 yr by Woosh
February 1, 20251 yr Poisonous pollution footprint like Asbestos, DDT, and Lead in petrol? Now it'll be the HydroFluor rather than the Pollen count in the weather forecast! And maybe pretty colour sunsets..
February 1, 20251 yr Now it'll be the HydroFluor rather than the Pollen count in the weather forecast! And maybe pretty colour sunsets.. Did you find out how much fluorine is in your battery? Tiny amount. Would you ban toothpaste too? Edited February 1, 20251 yr by Woosh
February 1, 20251 yr Sam Evan youtuber electric viking. He does a lot of videos about solar, batteries and evs. I watch hundreds of his videos. He just made a video saying not to trust what you see on the Internet, especially when it gets loads of likes. I think he was trying to tell you something.
February 1, 20251 yr He just made a video saying not to trust what you see on the Internet, especially when it gets loads of likes. I think he was trying to tell you something. I did watch that one yesterday. Do you follow the current bird flu H5N1 in the USA? It can turn nasty. Edited February 1, 20251 yr by Woosh
February 1, 20251 yr https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/01/trump-plane-crash-character-sidney-blumenthal "Outrages of Donald Trump’s rancid character topple over each other so rapidly and in such volume that they long ago became banal. His vileness is unremarked upon, his rottenness unworthy of further commentary. Trump’s offensiveness is an unspoken assumption. Rules and norms exist for him to break. More, he is rewarded. Meta, after discarding monitoring of hateful content and disinformation on Facebook, is paying him $25m in tribute to settle his lawsuit against it for having banned him after his attempted coup on January 6 and his potential “instances of violence” and threats to “public safety”. All is forgiven, if not forgotten. There are no gates; there are no gatekeepers. Let the bad times roll."
February 1, 20251 yr Trump blamed the FAA for the accident at DCA, more precisely FAA's DEI hire policy. I watched a couple of reconstructions, both with the recording between traffic controller and the two pilots. It was an accident. I could not see how trump could blame the ATC or it has anything to do with DEI.
February 1, 20251 yr Trump blamed the FAA for the accident at DCA, more precisely FAA's DEI hire policy. I watched a couple of reconstructions, both with the recording between traffic controller and the two pilots. It was an accident. I could not see how trump could blame the ATC or it has anything to do with DEI. I don't know anything about the cause of the collision, but people who regularly fly there at night, have remarked that the visual scene at night is incredibly confusing with lots of light from the ground and a confusing criss crossing of aerial pathways. I have heard, as you likely have, the tape of air traffic control asking the military copter pilot, had he visual contact with the closing jet and instructing him to pass behind, but one commentator said he could easily have confused another plane's lights for the one he was being warned to avoid. Both crashed air craft DID have ADSB units on board - they are the systems which generate what we see on flighradar24 and other air tracking systems. Every second they transmit their exact position, and the receivers in range show what is moving where and at what altitude. Driving the car last night in a bright, busy roadscape in town, I could see how easily one can be confused by a chaotic light background of moving stuff in the dark. Cars with bright lights, dazzling shop fronts, bicycles, motorcycles, pedestrians.... I thought about this accident. I could see how it could happen.
February 1, 20251 yr The helicopter's mission has now been identified as 'continuity of government drill'. Highly likely that some normal safe guards will be set aside for that. I'm wondering what effect the changing of the runway for the plane had: they were only crossing the river because of that, otherwise would have stayed opposite side to the heli. Perhaps heli was not up to date with plane's instructions.
February 1, 20251 yr https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-834669 https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2013/06/04/roman-concrete/
February 2, 20251 yr Pilots tried to pull passenger jet’s nose up within seconds of deadly DC helicopter collision, preliminary NTSB data shows https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/01/us/black-hawk-helicopter-training-plane-crash/index.html Boeing Warns Airlines About Switch On Boeing 787 Dreamliners That Could Have Caused LATAM Flight to Nose Dive Injuring at Least 50 People https://www.paddleyourownkanoo.com/2024/03/16/boeing-warns-airlines-about-switch-on-boeing-787-dreamliners-that-could-have-caused-latam-flight-to-nose-dive-injuring-at-least-50-people/
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