Airstrip One News on Nostr: "If the public can be made to understand that loading the grid with intermittent ...
"If the public can be made to understand that loading the grid with intermittent power sources without backup means regular blackouts, and that backing up the British grid with batteries would cost at least the equivalent of the UK’s whole annual national income, and that backing up the intermittent sources without batteries means ramping up diesel generators and producing enough CO2 to render the whole exercise pointless, it will put the burden on those who think that it’s a good idea to go through with it in the next few years to justify themselves."
https://thecritic.co.uk/do-our-leaders-understand-the-power-grid-at-all/Published at
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