Airstrip One News on Nostr: paying gas-fired power stations to tick over in the background. It also involves ...
paying gas-fired power stations to tick over in the background.
It also involves building flywheels as standalone sources of inertia. They don’t generate any power – we just pay them to sit there, spinning away, so that there is some inertia around in case there is a problem.
So it looks as though we are paying at least £200 million per year for a service that fossil-fuel power stations used to provide for free.
This is just another reason why your electricity bill keeps going up.
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It also involves building flywheels as standalone sources of inertia. They don’t generate any power – we just pay them to sit there, spinning away, so that there is some inertia around in case there is a problem.
So it looks as though we are paying at least £200 million per year for a service that fossil-fuel power stations used to provide for free.
This is just another reason why your electricity bill keeps going up.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1850829480568279477.html