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By-election betting – politicalbetting.com
We have the Hamilton, Larkhall, and Stonehouse by-election on Thursday, in 2021 the SNP polled 46.2% in this constituency but things are different today with the surge of Reform and whilst the SNP lead in the polls it isn’t impressive as it was in 2021.
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If you're good, Robert will publish my piece that discusses AV.
The general thing with social emails is to pick the ones you're interested in and ignore the rest.
So what if some people in your work want to do Pride activities? How is that affecting you whatsoever? If others are playing 5-a-side is that affecting you? Don't hear you moaning about that, but I imagine that's happening too?
If Pride is the only social stuff being organised, then it sounds like a pretty crappy place to work, but if its one amongst many, then why have a bee in your bonnet about what others choose to do?
You could of course create a few more of these by working in tandem with extracting the rock required for tidal lagoon power stations. As long as it is of the correct quality for the "armour rock " cladding required to withstand the tides (and perhaps, acid rain) for 120/180 years.
Just sayin'...
Dinorwig's 9.1 GWh of storage is the equivalent of 140,000 vehicles with a 65 kWh battery, or the equivalent of 0.4% of the vehicles on the road.
Why spend billions on that, when we're transitioning anyway?
The amount of storage we will have in this country in a few years time utterly dwarfs anything imaginable today.
Mike Turner of Freshwater Strategy, who conducted the Liberals’ polling returned research that wildly overstated the Coalition’s support, according to Liberals insiders who had access to the campaign research.
He did not respond to The Nightly’s calls but has written in the Australian Financial Review about how he had missed Labor’s landslide, including wrongly believing that voters who voted No to the Voice referendum would switch to the Coalition.
His errors meant party strategists were left in the dark that they were under threat in their own seats and wrongly believed they were capable of taking out Labor heartland seats such as Werriwa.
https://thenightly.com.au/politics/federal-election-2025/who-will-replace-peter-dutton-wa-mp-andrew-hastie-pulls-out-of-liberal-leadership-contention-c-18590888
It would be like the Tories replacing a defeated Jenrick with Tugendhat or Stride
Gas . . . I'm assuming because our grid isn't capable of spreading the power where its needed well enough yet, so we may have too much in some locations but not enough elsewhere, which requires gas there? But that's just a guess.
Here's an edited version of that photo.
https://x.com/donkoclock/status/1929544634352484447
It’s something that will might be worthwhile for people who can garage their cars & have the vehicle at home during peak demand hours (4-7pm most days) but the extra expense probably makes it marginal at best for individual car owners. Large battery plants that can take advantage of economies of scale & use cheaper batteries are in a much better position I suspect.
My issue is more finding where to put it and getting an electrician to do the work
The Crimean Bridge is in a state of emergency, after the Ukrainians detonated "the first" 1.1 tonnes of explosives underwater on the bridge supports.
Ma's out pa's out, let's talk rude ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSrXqOI9988
Also, there are two bridges: the road and the rail one. I'm still unsure whether they've got the rail bridge back up to full loading/capacity after the explosion a couple of years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ789p2fIrM&ab_channel=Kanal13
I mean, you can choose to slow the fissionable process (and do when you need to refuel the reactor), but you want to avoid excess thermal cycles as much as possible. Every time you go through a heat-cool-heat cycle, you go through a process of expansion and contraction, and that means that metal weakens and the risk of leaks increases. And this is a particular issue because the metal in nuclear reactors tends to become brittle over time due to it being bombarded with neutrons. That combination of thermal cycles and brittle material means that nuclear power plants become increasingly expensive to maintain as they get older.
And the consequence of this is that nuclear operators would often rather sell electricity for negative prices (particularly for older plants), than turn the power on and off.
The Coalition have, I would argue, as significant a task to defeat Albanese in 2028 as the incoming Labour leader faced against Boris Johnson in 2020.
Will history repeat?
There are a number of utility scale battery storage projects, totalling over 100GWh, in some sort of planning:
https://www.renewableuk.com/energypulse/blog/battery-storage-capacity-in-the-uk-the-state-of-the-pipeline/
Presumably quite a few businesses think it worthwhile.
Cars will of course contribute an enormousl amount of storage over the next decade, but most of that won't be dispatchable.
And the answer is that there actually aren't that many suitable sites. You need to have two reservoirs that are very close, of sufficient size, and which have enough vertical drop between them.
That's a pretty rare combination.
They also take up a lot of space, are not inexpensive to build, are more convenient if they are close to existing intermittent power sources (and ideally demand) so as to avoid the need to build out transmission capacity, and are far from maintenance free.
Plus they often involve having to compulsory purchase order a bunch of people's property, because the chance that all the space is going to belong to a single landowner is really small.
Met for lunch with an ex-colleague with whom I shared many a laugh and joke in the office over a number of years.
He is now squarely in the Reform camp - his line is not just the traditional "boats" but the notion the indigenous population (and, to be fair, never said "White", just British) were being disadvantaged in terms of welfare and housing provision by migrants "coming over here, taking every handout and living off our taxes".
This is a refrain I've heard before - there was a scintilla of admiration for "the Romanians, they grew up in a Communist society and know how to play the system. They come over here and we're wide open and they take everything". On the assumption, that's everything to which they are entitled, yes. Perhaps the issue, as we saw with winter fuel payments, is British people aren't taking the things to which they are entitled either through ignorance or a mistaken sense of pride.
The illegals have to go through a process but the legal migrants do all they need to do and ask for everything to which they are entitled. If they are considered British citizens and have entered the country legally and have been given permanent permission to stay, do they not have the right to certain benefits or to register with a GP?
As it is the courts, and not the government which sentence individuals, "two tier Keir" is a pretty dumb comment in this case.
Let's see what happens with the French investigation, which will possess the evidence regarding the fatalities.
https://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/stay-informed/explainers/top-facts-from-the-latest-statistics-on-refugees-and-people-seeking-asylum/
The Ukrainians appear to have - God knows how - placed the explosives directly agains the bridge supports, which comprise steel bundles. The dams brought down by the Dambusters were massive stone structures. This Ukrainian strike can have been far more surgical. The explosive used may well have been Semtex - somewhat less powerful than Torpex, but better able to be shaped for maximum damage.
https://x.com/WarMonitor3/status/1929882892861116902
This is because in a situation of scarcity people do not behave economically rationally, they hoard scarce resources rather than sell them.
The same would be true of fully charged car batteries. If there's a high pressure forecast for a week, and even if a fully charged battery would normally last a person for a month of driving, rather than sell their excess energy for a profit, most people will want to hang onto it, just in case.
That is ultimately why there will be a market for grid scale storage owned by people willing to sell their energy at a profit when energy is scarce.
Should the Kerch bridge come down, the ability of the Russians to supply both the civilians and the forces in the Crimean peninsular would become very precarious indeed.
Maybe half a dozen Taurus missiles will finish it off.
I may be misremembering, but I thought I'd heard Ukraine planning FOUR high profile assaults?
about when to use it too.
If it costs you £5 to run the dishwasher now, then maybe you'll postpone it.
Perhaps more importantly, Warmonitor is claiming that Ukraine hit *two* Beriev A-50 AWACS planes t'other day. They don't have many of those left, especially the modernised ones, and they're more than a little important.
https://agile.octopushome.net/dashboard
I thought this would be a good tariff to be on: actually it is, but not THAT good: in summer, when I am generating a lot of my own electricity through solar panels anyway it is cheap, and in winter when I am not it is expensive. And the times when I am generating the most correspond when the time when import prices and export prices are both lowest. I am in the fortunate position that most of my panels face just south of west, so I am still generating quite a lot during the 4-7pm peak, but even so: I need to find a way of using all this free but unexportable electricity. (My solution so far: hot tub (only an inflatable one; I'm not some plutocrat)).
Solar panels are great, but for saving money what you really want is a battery (I have a 5kw battery - I should have got a 10kw one).
That's the head of the SBU ?
https://x.com/IAPonomarenko/status/1929879402432610724
What was all that about pensioners freezing because there was no WFA? Wouldn't be surprised if the young started revolting over the amount they have to pay for rent and tax.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj42022gqzwo
@alaynatreene
NEW: Laura Loomer met privately with JD Vance at the White House (specifically EEOB) this morning, three sources familiar w/ the mtg tell me &
@joshscampbell
The sources would not share the substance of the 1-on-1 mtg. Loomer did not meet w/ Trump & has since departed the WH
After Loomer’s last known visit to the White House in April where she met directly Trump, the administration fired several NSC staffers whom Loomer labeled as disloyal, including the director and deputy director of the NSA
The Highlands of course do have economic value, and also value beyond economics.
I vote for paving over Surrey with solar farms and batteries instead. After all, the deer aren't the ones using the power.
Technically, they're quite attractive...
What are we doing?
https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1929868372705235253
There are for sure a lot of myths out there, but I'd imagine if you have been on the waiting list for a council house for a decade and you saw a recent immigrant getting ahead in the queue, you would be annoyed. Does this happen? Is it a myth?
You have to be seen to champion, echo and be enthusiastic about this stuff, from a career perspective, or else you are suspect. It's a required belief. There is no choice.
This is the entire problem with Wokery. Which people like you and @Gallowgate cannot understand.
[PS. I don't have people talking to me about 5-a-side on every call for every day for a full month every year, and requiring me to applaud it or I'm seen as bigot. It's not remotely comparable.]
So an immigrant with 4 young children would be automatically the top of the list.
IIRC this has been changed now, in most areas.
Believe it if you want but it won’t do you any favours other than building pointless resentment for absolutely no reason.
In which case, why spend billions on a new Dinorwig? Its redundant.
People who have been able to house themselves in the housing market for a decade while they wait for a council house are going to be seen as a lower risk of imminent homelessness than a refugee with poor English and no income.
For a heavy industrial consumer of electricity having storage that means electricity can be stored when effectively free would be worthwhile.
Which is why I expect to see a resurgence in heavy industry in this country as we continue to transition to renewables. Bountiful cheap energy is the future.
That's you, btw.
In the past year I've had invitations to Easter events, Christmas events, Ramadan ones, Iftar (sp?), Diwali, Halloween, Valentine's and plenty of other stuff. Just pick and choose what you're interested in and ignore any you're not . . . which since I'm not especially keen on engaging in events at work means I tend to ignore everything but I have no objection to those who want to do stuff doing it.
Pride is just one of a plethora of stuff that happens. Get over it.
The dog is...
Indeed, IME, companies which supply the public sector - whose business depends on them being woke - are rather more aggressively woke than the public sector itself - most of whom are just going through the motions.
Are they okay now, is it worth getting one ?
Been considering it.
Household chores are enough of a hassle without having to plan them with the aid of the weather forecast. That's why people pay for a dishwasher, or a robot vacuum cleaner/lawnmower. They don't want to micromanage the whole thing.