HebrideanUltraTerfHecate on Nostr: https://thecritic.co.uk/we-are-on-the-brink-of-blackouts/ I wrote back in October ...
https://thecritic.co.uk/we-are-on-the-brink-of-blackouts/
I wrote back in October about the sobering thought that many members of Britain’s non-technical elite don’t understand the principle of balancing an electricity grid — the fact that the power which the nation consumes must be balanced by what is being produced, in real time. Given the enormity of the changes being planned, this is a concept about which the whole nation will be getting an unwelcome education in the near future. Yet despite last Wednesday’s near miss, much of the public still seems to be insulated from the fundamental change that is planned in the way that electricity is going to be created.
In this, Ed Miliband has been aided immeasurably by the fact that many of these plans had already been laid down by the Conservatives, and especially by Boris Johnson’s government. Not only the Net Zero plans themselves, but also bans on petrol and diesel cars, and rules encouraging heat pumps. Johnson announced a lot of these ideas for the purpose of political signalling; like a can he was dropping on the floor, to be kicked down the road by the uninterrupted Tory governments he saw stretching out in front of him for years to come, back in 2019. But what Boris had intended merely as an ephemeral political counterweight to Brexit, Miliband now plans in deadly earnest. All he needs to do is tinker around the edges; a deadline brought forward here, a regulation amended there.
I wrote back in October about the sobering thought that many members of Britain’s non-technical elite don’t understand the principle of balancing an electricity grid — the fact that the power which the nation consumes must be balanced by what is being produced, in real time. Given the enormity of the changes being planned, this is a concept about which the whole nation will be getting an unwelcome education in the near future. Yet despite last Wednesday’s near miss, much of the public still seems to be insulated from the fundamental change that is planned in the way that electricity is going to be created.
In this, Ed Miliband has been aided immeasurably by the fact that many of these plans had already been laid down by the Conservatives, and especially by Boris Johnson’s government. Not only the Net Zero plans themselves, but also bans on petrol and diesel cars, and rules encouraging heat pumps. Johnson announced a lot of these ideas for the purpose of political signalling; like a can he was dropping on the floor, to be kicked down the road by the uninterrupted Tory governments he saw stretching out in front of him for years to come, back in 2019. But what Boris had intended merely as an ephemeral political counterweight to Brexit, Miliband now plans in deadly earnest. All he needs to do is tinker around the edges; a deadline brought forward here, a regulation amended there.