GarethM
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The grid as it was was designed for a time when we produced and used masses more power. Obviously city infrastructure is a different argument as it'd old and need better distribution. The total network capacity has gone down, the requirements for the upgrade is to cope with the occasional glut of wind without burning up the pylon wires and for when we buy in power from France/Germany/Denmark/Norway and also to Ireland etc.
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Can't have tidal, look at the times they've tried to do it. Cardiff, Bristol channel, menai all rejected and those ones up at Scarpa keep breaking and failing. Solar is fine even with a lead acid setup if it powers some things, but it's just more boondoggle with lithium or similar chemistry. Create more waste to "recycle", providing no government money is used, the whole thing thing disappears and the snake oil salesman go quiet.
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What you're all believing to be a panacea solution requires more stable based load ie more nuclear. Wind will never be able to support that as there will never be anywhere to store it, so they'll do what they currently do and pay to keep it off, so don't waste your money and the environment littering it with boondoggle turbines and a bigger grid to cope not with capacity but those times when it does. You're system also requires 3 phase everywhere, as even with inverter drives the spikes will be massive and running mostly 24/7. My domestic load is say below 150-200w would be 4000w for most of the day if you're forcing me off gas.
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From what I hear they're reopening old nuclear power plants, as they're also realising the time scale for new is daft as you just down rate a power station and won't need to swap out the fuel as much. Personally, all the pwr just makes it far too complicated and electric nation is not practical, say a gas boiler is 25Kw+ for every home is a lot of electricity. Low pressure town based nuclear district heating is the real solution, sealed and safe using the gas pipework infrastructure for central heating.
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Unfortunately that won't work, for every Kw of renewable you have to have the same in conventional sitting idle and burning fuel. That's why you have gas power stations practically running 24/7 to smooth the supply and stop a rolling blackout, from a engineering and electricity supply it's better to not have wind and use solar locally. I've said it many times we design/built and had magnox Calder Hall online in 3 years!.
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J, without conflating topics. Europe is already at war with Russia, one they've effectively bankrolled for Putin by buying all that lovely gas and fertiliser. They laughed at Donald when he said as much, then they closed down Germany's nuclear built more wind turbines this requiring more gas.
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And to bring things back to topic. Why is Donald/Elon so bad for cutting all the extraneous crazy spending on worthless stuff and a national debt the size of Europe ?. USAID for example, or those millions of dead people still recieving benefits and what 150+ years old!. Clinton sacked 400k people just for reference. It's quite easy to bisect/dissect what he says, you're just use to speech written drivel from Starmers type. They've gurned for weeks about the where to put a full stop and a comma, Donald just adlibs so you get unfiltered somewhat honesty.
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If you left uni before say 2008, I would agree. Sadly education became a very indoctrinated environment, a pernicious teaching that the state knows best agenda. Pre 2008, your teacher just taught and outside of that environment they were practically invisible.
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Auwwww, did you have to leave twitter and move here because they stopped you smelling your own farts ?. Typical lefty tosh, play dumb and think the world revolves around your echo chamber college debate level politics. The Gretta playbook, shout loud about idealistic waffle whilst doing nothing.
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Auwwww, bless
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Does that even warrant a reply, they'll keep kicking that can down the road until it's worn down to a 5p piece. I'm guessing they'll be doing something against HGVs next, probably enforcing euro 6 as a standard or charging older ones considerably more unless you put a new engine in it. Low hanging fruit argument, but the cost won't be on the consumer. Erm if I need it you'll be paying.
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Or to paraphrase I think it was William Hague. You start off as a student being labour, then conservative when you're working and then go liberal democrats in later life. BS, as a former centre of the road conservative, neither ends of that spectrum appeals.
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Once you've left college, experienced the world and learned that auntie just spoon feeds you nonsense all day long and is barely better than elevator music. You might find a decent level of broader understanding, instead of just posting memes about how bad Donald is and crying on the shoulder of fellow lefties. Maybe hang around with people of an opposing view and argue your POV, instead of wearing that court mandated crash helmet and hugging your safe space teddy bear.
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What a load of utter claptrap. Me thinks you're the poster boy for that study the other week regarding the defeating lefty protest tactics that Vegans/JSO/Climate and all your other issue cause celeb that actually harm their issues.
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You're going to have to atleast articulate a thought there. Unless you're just adding to the sea of lefty, the Donald hating tears, at this rate it'll be a Atlantis style water world dystopian parody.
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Still increased the VED tho
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It might work on say ITV or C4 but the BBC have to try to whole impartiality thing even with comedy, granted that's probably 90% Tory bashing and a weak labour joke from the audience. YouTube is pretty much what ever within reason, but he does do actual standup shows. Granted from a standup perspective, unlike the unfunny Ben Elton/eddy izzard he is pretty even handed regardless who's in power.
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No doubt with Kamala & Diane being deputy, competing in the maths Olympics?
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He did for a while on BBC sounds. I suspect despite his political content he's a closet Tory. Laura kuensberg was a not so in the closet Tory and stuck out like a sore thumb at the BBC from what friends have said.
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My god man, do they actually let you out of the cubicle after work. It's a bloody joke.
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I'm not sure what he actually likes. I'm an equal opportunity hater, I hate everybody 🙂.
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Park it side on, thread straps from the wheels on the other side of the car. All force is then on the side where it's almost impossible to roll it over without grinding the tyres into the ground and flipping it. Whilst tyres are big it's surface area on the floor is less than a sheet of A4 and never rely on a gearbox or engine to stop as it's an expensive. Okay if you're parked on a hill as a backup to a handbrake, knew a guy that did that daily to start a tractor when the battery died on a fergy.
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Absolute BS, handing them millions upon millions to the tune of billions has achieved the zero sum of absolutely diddly squat. I'll say it again, lend lease or you get absolutely nothing and he'll start negotiating knowing we aren't going to foot the bill for his incessant grand standing. And don't even try to say it's to benefit us because it doesn't.
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Before or after the Colombian marching powder arrived?
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From what I remember it was more about having for example scud missiles than NATO. I would have thought having a post WW2 germany style force on the border, wouldn't be bad. Start moving long range missiles or nukes and yeah he'll kick off. Ukraine had nukes what 15/20 years back!.
