Flick 🇬🇧 on Nostr: I’m reminded of my friend who was so excited about getting an occasional hour of ...
I’m reminded of my friend who was so excited about getting an occasional hour of “free” electricity: I can definitely see the training attempts increasing.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/05/if-net-zero-means-letting-britain-go-dark-labour-are-finish/
According to the slightly sinister sounding Neso, millions of households may have to be persuaded to shift their power consumption to even out the load on the grid. Wind and solar power are so variable, and capacity so limited, that if we all start boiling the kettle at the same time the whole system will crash.
It is not hard to see the slippery slope here. Sure, it may start with “persuading” us to change the way we use power, perhaps with some increasingly deranged TikToks from “Green Ed” himself showing us how to cook dinner in the middle of the night. Soon afterwards, there will be rationing, and after that power cuts, with the grid switched off at regular intervals. Brownouts, as they are known in South Africa, and a few other third world countries, will become a regular feature of our lives.
https://archive.ph/7Samy
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/05/if-net-zero-means-letting-britain-go-dark-labour-are-finish/
According to the slightly sinister sounding Neso, millions of households may have to be persuaded to shift their power consumption to even out the load on the grid. Wind and solar power are so variable, and capacity so limited, that if we all start boiling the kettle at the same time the whole system will crash.
It is not hard to see the slippery slope here. Sure, it may start with “persuading” us to change the way we use power, perhaps with some increasingly deranged TikToks from “Green Ed” himself showing us how to cook dinner in the middle of the night. Soon afterwards, there will be rationing, and after that power cuts, with the grid switched off at regular intervals. Brownouts, as they are known in South Africa, and a few other third world countries, will become a regular feature of our lives.
https://archive.ph/7Samy