p17ete.bsky.social
I state the obvious
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In primary industries, things like:
Factories
People & Skills
Patents
Product testing & approvals
Supply lines
All take time
Vs with creative arts, it’s more a matter of
“right we’ll do it this way”
Whatever the situation there’s a drive to take people out of the equation & “bot” it instead
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Seems fitting to repeat this
The underlying issue is Political Integrity, abundantly vacant from Reform UK
Political Promises, Positions & Policies should not be bluster, they must become pledges and those pledges hold consequence
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The underlying issue is Political Integrity
How can a party bang the table, shout out injustice while in opposition & then go mute when they have authority to act?
Political Promises, Positions & Policies should not be bluster, they must become pledges and those pledges hold consequence
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The transition to clean electricity in OZ is perhaps the closest the world gets to a demo for the route to net zero
Australia’s tremendous solar resource makes it perfect for solar PV, topped up with wind & buffered with battery storage (+ some hydro) makes it the Energy Market to follow
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Nicely said
Numbers without context are just statistics ripe for manipulation
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No corner must remain undisturbed in the unrelenting quest to kick dust in the eyes of every sober observer
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The fundamental question is
why struggle to tease thimbles of carbon out when we are still adding millions of tonnes & have easy options to reduce the amount we are throwing in
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Strange isn’t it…..
To an outsider there’s little to be done
For the people who make the decisions there’s probably a lot of points of detail which need to be sorted
If I were National Grid, I’d be happy to get money for upsizing my old cables & replacing with new (necessary or otherwise)
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Electricity demand fell 37.76GW (2010) to 29.57GW (2024) thanks to Energy Efficiency
Converting all cars to BEV’s adds ~8GW taking us back to 2010
Heat pumps add ~30 GW with heavy seasonal weighting but, ATM there is a much slower uptake & this demand can be reduced with better insulation
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As for grid upgrades, Utility scale batteries located with the generators and within the network will soon:
- enable more efficient use of the grid by taking the peaks off both intermittent generation & fluctuations in demand
- provide grid stability without the need for spinning reserve
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Lazards say (at the Utility Scale) Solar PV + batteries & OnShore Wind are cheaper than everything else
I’m guessing that the presently pay walled LCE 2023 Report will soon be released for common access
www.lazard.com/research-ins...
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This conversation needs to change
The transition is from expensive foreign energy to Cheap National Energy
Throw in other benefits:
Climate
Polution
Health
Blah blah blah
But the key is Cheap National Energy
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You just can’t argue with stupid
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Security? Don’t bother, a Bobby won’t be able to do anything to stop the:
Falling satellite
The crash landing plane
The £1000 drone
The computer hack
The dumb as a rock operator
The unforeseen circumstance
The confused contractor
The leaking vessel
& we just won’t need a “base load generator”
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Reform is an ominous threat.
The US has shown that, a sound bite bluster works well enough to sway many.
The playbook is simple:
“feed the hate”
&
“lie about everything”
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The worse of US trends are usually a bit slower to travel across the pond
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Absolutely correct
Labour set off as if Global crisis were happening, as it turns out they might be right, but they have already tarnished reputation and given a lot of people genuine cause to reflect on ongoing support
Strangely, Labours biggest hope are the tragically appalling Conservatives
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Flipping horray
These Nuclear Promoters are nothing but unscrupulous megaphones for hire
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This is exactly the action of the moment
It’s time to lever out the practice of gas peakers being in a position to charge whatever they want
As it happens grid scale battery storage will bring much more to the party, grid stability, reduce stress in distribution networks & much more
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Martin
The biggest barrier to personal wealth is the availability & use of credit
I would have thought you’d frame Credit as the route of evil rather than a naughty but nice commodity
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The battery component is particularly interesting
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Should anyone run into dear Tony could you ask…
“If the money was right and the hereditary acceptable, would you consider supporting something which actually benefited the Nation?”
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Does this help?
electreon.com/projects/tro...
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Should anyone run into dear Tony could you ask…
“If the money was right and the hereditary acceptable, would you consider supporting something which actually benefited the Nation?”
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The 20% Nuclear which presently keeps Spain running looks like a financially tantalising target for anyone with a solar farm & a battery
Which is the absolute opposite view from the likes of Dutton in OZ, John Kerry in the US & I’m sad to say this Ed Milliband in UK who are promoting energy dodos
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Rapid deployment of utility scale batteries will quash this exploitative practice
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In the UK we chase drug dealers for “unexplained wealth”
It’s high time that politicians came under the same scrutiny, got the same social standing, received the same treatment & were handed down the same sentencing
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Nail “bang on the head”
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Engage robot voice
“We all agree”
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Useful link
www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Trends/Trend...
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Full steam ahead with the Gravy train
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Came across it while researching motorbike safety which has taken a sudden steep increase in casualties in the US
So likely to be NHTSA but not jumping out at me, at moment
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The galling things about SUV&trucks are:
-it’s easy to lower the bonnet (angle the radiator&push the bumper forward) also improving aerodynamics
-forward vision for child detection is awful. A 20$/£ camera (like reversing camera) would be peanut cheap
-mile for mile van drivers cause fewer injury
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Great group of people here working hard for woodlands
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk?gad_source=1...
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This snapshot of the impact in Wales reinforces your comments
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....
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From the outside, it looks like a dismemberment of Federal Government, perhaps, as a prelude to suspending both houses & imposing martial law to deal with the emergency
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Undoubtedly the WORSE President ever
And by a bigly lot
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My wife, tells me everything twice, the second round perfectly canceling out the first salvo
As a result, I remember nothing, serving to reinforce her behaviour of telling me twice
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Ooops, 99 got exaggerated to 999
Yup diversity & interlinks certainly reduce the impact of dull still days, but I can’t help but think that we will move away from the old model of huge generators to, more small scale, distributed generators & local storage
Time will tell for sure
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The weird thing about this energy transition is how haphazard it is
The transition keeps on evolving and “optimum” solutions continue to develop as technology & costs change
I for one will be delighted to see an economy which is 90% RE powered, then 95 then 999 FF’s providing final, 10 or 5 or 1%