What? The fictional, humorously incompetent policemen featured in silent film slapstick comedies produced between 1912 and 1917?Ketones! Those damn things nearly killed me last year!
No to ketones.
The buggers.
What? The fictional, humorously incompetent policemen featured in silent film slapstick comedies produced between 1912 and 1917?Ketones! Those damn things nearly killed me last year!
No to ketones.
National Grid has also confirmed that April saw a record period of solar energy generation.
Overall 42% of the UK's electricity in the first quarter of 2023 was from renewable energy, with 33% coming from fossil fuels like gas.
The BBC are sort of giving it a go.the cleanest energy I know of is a bicycle hooked to a generater with a kid riding the bicycle to power the television. Of course it could be anyone. Those gyms could give free membership to all the members who ride those stationary bikes and treadmills if they hooked the bikes up to a generator to power the building and the other equipmemnt.
People got less educated, that is what happened. The corporations are running thing (or is it ruining) and money is more important than survival or health.I must be getting delusional. I'm sure it wasn't more that fifteen or so years ago that nuclear power was the work of the devil and numerous demons. The waste nuclear material had a half life in millions of years and we had nowhere to safely dump it. Lead cannisters full of waste would be dumped inn the deepest ocean trenches and containers would split in earthquakes spreading radioctive waste into the oceans. Mutant squid would prey on mankind* and any of us that survived would die of radiation poisoning and we'd all be doomed along with all life on the planet - except the mutant squid*.
Now we can't burn hydrocarbons and nuclear is a viable alternative. What happened? Did I enter a alternate reality somewhere?
*OK, I made the bits about squid up.
The bit about the squid sounds legit to me...I must be getting delusional. I'm sure it wasn't more that fifteen or so years ago that nuclear power was the work of the devil and numerous demons. The waste nuclear material had a half life in millions of years and we had nowhere to safely dump it. Lead cannisters full of waste would be dumped inn the deepest ocean trenches and containers would split in earthquakes spreading radioctive waste into the oceans. Mutant squid would prey on mankind* and any of us that survived would die of radiation poisoning and we'd all be doomed along with all life on the planet - except the mutant squid*.
Now we can't burn hydrocarbons and nuclear is a viable alternative. What happened? Did I enter a alternate reality somewhere?
*OK, I made the bits about squid up.
This site is as a good, but possible not so partisan.Well, current generation splits and transfers against usage can be viewed on the National Grid summary page here;
https://grid.iamkate.com/
At time of writing, 46.6% is from fossil fuels, 20.6% from renewables, 17.6% from transfers, and 15.3% from other sources (including 11% from nuclear)
The output from nuclear remains fairly constant as the 'base' level of power available, but as demand fluctuates it makes up for a lesser, or greater amount of supply by percentage.
Often you'll look at this page and see a bunch of 'minus' figures on the right hand side - this is because we regularly export surplus power supply via undersea connectors.
Depends on how windy it is and how sunny it is as we are not able to store any excess electric currently, or at least, only a tiny amount.
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Something I've only just heard about - Global Stilling:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_terrestrial_stilling
This is an overall decline in wind, year on year. Bad news for the green energy industry.
https://www.offshore-mag.com/renewa...lling-poses-challenge-to-offshore-wind-market