Steven P

No but there are apparently 11,000 rotating flywheels distributed about the country when the wind blows that will smooth over the chopping effect of DC-AC conversion from solar farms.

Not true, you have backed yourself into a corner that your pride won't let you out of. What are your views and explanation why your favoured fossil fuels will be cheaper than renewable energy?

However rotating machines can and do smooth over the chopping effect of DC-AC conversion which was your point wasn't it? Hinkley will be operational - a new Nuclear power station which is your preferred option isn't it over windfarms

So windfarms, the vast majority of our green energy supply are rotating machines. If wind and solar are both producing the wind supplies will smooth out the DC-AC conversion of Solar somewhat. Rotating machines within the system likewise provide smoothing of the system, both provide some moderation of frequency variations. A distributed system, such as windfarms countrywide are far more capable of nationwide frequency smoothing than a single large rotating machine stuck in the south that Hinkley would be. Industrial, rotating machines by design smooth their supply waveform, heating and lighting systems doesn't matter, any critical equipment (medical, nuclear and so on) will be designed to cope with an impure waveform - safe by design as well as frequency and voltage variations. Outside of the working day - when the largest industrial machines are not moving - and I guess we are talking domestic here - not a lot of critical domestic equipment out there that cannot suffer some impure waveforms. Most domestic equipment is either heat conversion (cookers, fridges, freezers), washing machines and so on where impure waveforms are not an issue, or have internal AC-DC conversion such as TVs, computers, LED lights. and so on, the quality of these depends on the sensitivity of the device. Mind an Electrical Engineer not appreciating this I reckon is on the wind up in the forum.

I see you missed the point of the earlier conversation: "I think Mark J was asking you your views and opinions on the piece he added above about electricity pricing - think you just ignored him, so I'll ask, do you have any views why your favoured fossil fuels will be cheaper than renewables (I do take this is the stance you are taking here?)"

Odd, I was expecting an answer to that one. Odd that.

I see a quick change of subject away from the facts of 'green' electricity generation being cheaper than fossil fuels cause he cannot stomach being wrong to mentioning is vanity van. Before you do change the subject though, I think Mark J was asking you your views and opinions on the piece he added above about electricity pricing - think you just ignored him, so I'll ask, do you have any views why your favoured fossil fuels will be cheaper than renewables (I do take this is the stance you are taking here?)

If the cap fits and all that. No one has called you a racist for ages but if that is weighing on your conscious than so be it. If you want some understanding on the point, which is that anyone with a single narrow agenda can highlight single cases to try to influence others at the expense of reality. That was the point being made. Try not to be too hard of understanding in future.

Name calling on a thread... I usually take that means the poster has no valid response to make, but desperate to make a comment that is all they have (vanity maybe, needs to be centre of every thread). However Bill, you might be stupid, I don't know... but even a stupid man can see that highlighting a single incident to claim a nationwide bias is pushing an agenda and confirming their own bias

Cubic meter of birch is about 3/4 ton, £150 /m3 is about £200 / ton Half the cost as you go down a level of processing: £200 dried and delivered - £100 split - £50 logs at roadside for Firewood quality.

Yeah, but Linkedin doesn't do reasonable and unbiased stories, cannot be the fault of one who relies on it as a source of truth to be easily misled. Especially if it fits their political agenda. Time and again it highlights crimes as if only a small portion of society commits the crimes when in reality if you look at the figures, that small portion of society only commits a small portion of that crime.

That one was hilarious, so vein he thinks it is all about him.

So... 100 days in and his major good achievements are... No, I couldn't think of many either.

Supply and demand, raptors don't feed on bugs but thrushes do

Not really, checking the weight for them all is about 1T, 1000kg give or take a little - quite like my simple hatchbacks - but got to look to older models for ones you can play with easily. Even with that, mpg remains about the same, size and shape is similar, engine about the same, right foot is the same right foot, but insect splats are down year on year for the last few decades.

See I don't buy the aerodynamics bit.... every car I have had has within a percent or 2 given me the same MPG - I am fixed and set in my ways so tend to go for the same type - size, similar shape, and engine size. Not Landrovers but family cars. Improved aerodynamics will give me a better MPG? but I am not seeing that, aerodynamic changes are not as dramatic as you are wanting to make out.

Got to remember his attention span, he'll be dead by the time it hits critical levels rather than just "we need to act now"... so if he dismisses them all he doesn't have to use his limited brain power to worry about it.

So Leavitt thinks that Bezos and Amazon have partnered with a Chinese propaganda arm (as reported by Reuters), and Trump thinks that Bezos, who he has known for a couple of years is a really great guy... so which is it? Evil incarnate according to his mouthpiece or a great guy according to the dottery old man.

Leavitt is definitely worth the humour to watch the press conference, the instant attack and blame everything on Joe Biden, you can almost script her answers yourself (it is like a Leavitt Bingo card I have). In the US there is nothing unusual about price tags having the 'price' plus the various sales taxes listed (remembering 'ticket price' is before tax), all Amazon are doing is continuing this established procedure and listing import taxes. For clarity, the American consumer can now see clearly which products have no import tax (ie American produced goods) and which are imported, you'd have thought she'd think this is a good thing wouldn't you.... except the instant leap to attack suggests she is trying to defend something she cannot really defend.

That would fit with the body double Melania the conspiracy theorists were reckoning were at the Vatican (briefly) on Saturday (it was the real deal for the pair of them there, dottery old man who had to concentrate on the stairs (not sure anyone noticed that) and devout Catholic wife with a front row seat to the top mans funeral, course it was her. Couldn't imagine she is that good an actress to act like she does around a Trump body double)

Not heard anything but also coincides with a reasonably warm day in Portugal (26 Deg C), just wonder if it was something as benign as not looking at the weather, AC units kicking in without enough generation and tripping the system. Old fashioned cock up. (if the system is on the limit a small disturbance can ripple out and black out large areas - trip one substation, the next kicks in to cover the first... which is then overloaded and trips, 2 more try to supply the power and cannot and it ripples out, then of course got to go Manuel and check each is OK to switch back on before you can restore power... simply put)

.. I know we will say this to potential employees to help them along, so to you.. failed at the first hurdle... where are you looking for them to work?

Being dismissive of someone because they are not wearing the traditionally 'correct' clothes for an important occasion.. that would never happen As for the cult, Trump himself did facilitate Epstein....

FYI Mazda 2 rear shock absorber and bracket is about £100 each (this weeks MOT), Mazda 6 will be a bit more? just if you decide to give yours a proper work out!

Cock... Leaves a funeral early so he can have dinner. Not sure how the reservations work on Air Force One, but I suspect he wasn't begging for favours to get a table. (I'm also conscious the time he was in Rome he was also making trade deals... so how much funeraling and paying his respects did he actually do. Cock) Trump makes early exit from Pope’s funeral to treat Melania to birthday dinner UK.YAHOO.COM Donald Trump departed Rome shortly after the Pope’s funeral to treat the first lady Melania to a romantic dinner on Air Force One for her 55th birthday. aks away fro