Weirdly, I suspect a 2010/11 winter would be worse than a 1963 one. 1963 started quite late in the season and was mostly to do with the wind direction. Today's generation capacity might well hav… (View Post)

Funnily enough, the generators in my garage are for the same purpose. Though I think 165MW is a slight overkill for attracting Haworth's Minor &c. I'm not going to get out the calculato… (View Post)

Obvious outcome is obvious. Test your generators... (View Post)

Even if only a quarter of the population bothered, it would still make a difference. Just a traffic light system would do. A timeline marked in Green, Amber and Red. I would guess the government don&… (View Post)

It does seem a bit bonkers given that with the energy cap it is future taxpayers that are taking the risk here and not the utilities. Perhaps one of the Covid dashboard people would like to step in a… (View Post)