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Post by geoffr on Jan 20, 2024 21:02:48 GMT
"Taking back control" looks to be working well, then. Wonder how you tell when it's filthy foreign electricity keeping your lights on? When there's an 'r' in the month. More like when there’s a vowel in the month |
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Post by spinno on Jan 20, 2024 22:43:15 GMT
When there's an 'r' in the month. More like when there’s a vowel in the month It's when there's an 'a' in the day |
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Post by zou on Jan 21, 2024 10:28:50 GMT
More like when there’s a vowel in the month It's when there's an 'a' in the day So definitely today but not tomorrow. Got it. |
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Post by spinno on Jan 21, 2024 10:42:57 GMT
It's when there's an 'a' in the day So definitely today but not tomorrow. Got it. Absolutely...damn, there's an 'a' there isn't there |
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Post by mick on Jan 24, 2024 8:16:59 GMT
And run heat pumps.
The grid would crash.
Sorry for resuscitating this old thread but I was struck by noticing how close we were to load shedding. I like the presentation of data given by the quaint meters shown on that website because they indicate very roughly what maximum power is available for each source as well as the power being delivered. Presently we are safe and exporting power. Unusually today we seem to have some nuclear off line. Also we were exporting a smidgen to Norway where we often import over 1GW of hydro. Presently we are importing a small amount on that inter-connector.
This is the site I’ve been looking at recently. A bit easier to read than the one that John linked to. Will we be more reliant on the various interconnectors in the future, or will those countries be needing everything that they can generate? grid.iamkate.com/Have a look at the above website. A few moments ago (8:13 am) it showed the demand for the previous day. Am I being dumb? Why would the demand plummet at 11:30am approx?
Mick.
Sorry I can't seem to give a screen grab.
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Post by davem399 on Feb 11, 2024 10:04:18 GMT
I have just looked at where our power is coming from at present. Although our demand is quite low, almost 25% is coming from Europe via the interconnectors.
The contribution from wind is low, with very light winds at present.
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Post by JohnY on Feb 11, 2024 11:59:36 GMT
When demand is low the price tends to fall. French power may be cheaper than UK CC gas. The French have lots of nuclear power. The cost of running a nuclear power station is pretty much independent of what fraction of its full capacity is being generated so the operators tend to run them almost flat out except when they are under maintenance.
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Post by dorsetmike on Feb 11, 2024 13:30:07 GMT
I still think we need more tidal installations, tides are predictable all round the coast, wind is not!
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Post by kate on Feb 11, 2024 14:38:24 GMT
I still think we need more tidal installations, tides are predictable all round the coast, wind is not! Not enough profit in it for the providers. |
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Post by JohnY on Feb 11, 2024 19:57:37 GMT
I still think we need more tidal installations, tides are predictable all round the coast, wind is not! Tidal power probably has a valid place in the mix. |
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Post by peterob on Feb 11, 2024 20:04:34 GMT
I still think we need more tidal installations, tides are predictable all round the coast, wind is not! Predicting the impact on sedimentation is a real problem. I think this is the main reason tidal barriers have not found favour. |
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Post by spinno on Feb 11, 2024 20:07:37 GMT
We need to use as many sources/types as possible- joined up thinking
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Post by dorsetmike on Feb 11, 2024 21:45:48 GMT
I still think we need more tidal installations, tides are predictable all round the coast, wind is not! Predicting the impact on sedimentation is a real problem. I think this is the main reason tidal barriers have not found favour.
Tidal barriers are not the only way of harnessing power from the sea, it might help if you think of the tides as being a wave moving along the coast, it's a lot of water on the move albeit not as fast as a river, there are also places where there is quite a strong tidal current known as a race, Portland being an example, there are 10 races round the UK coast, and many other places where tides run faster than normal
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Post by peterob on Feb 11, 2024 22:10:03 GMT
Predicting the impact on sedimentation is a real problem. I think this is the main reason tidal barriers have not found favour.
Tidal barriers are not the only way of harnessing power from the sea, it might help if you think of the tides as being a wave moving along the coast, it's a lot of water on the move albeit not as fast as a river, there are also places where there is quite a strong tidal current known as a race, Portland being an example, there are 10 races round the UK coast, and many other places where tides run faster than normal
And they all have the capacity to move enormous amounts of sand if perturbed. Oceanography is a fascinating subject. |
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Post by geoffr on Feb 11, 2024 23:19:42 GMT
We need to use as many sources/types as possible- joined up thinking You have high expectations from a group of people who suffer from myopia, they can only see as far as the next election. |
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