In all the systems proposed, you can reserve capacity. So you’d reserve, say, 70% of your car’s capacity. If the level of charge falls to 70%, no more export. That’s how the Tesla PowerWall setup in … (View Post)

A year of so ago, PB went round this comedy - “Evul Rich Southeners Put Wind Farms On Other People’s Land”. Until someone pointed out that the map of on shore wind farms correlates perfectly with the… (View Post)

Nah More fun to prank these people. At one company, an American lady turned up in HR and started a bizarre campaign to force people to sign up to a petition advocating a range of her pet causes. Sadl… (View Post)

What actually happened was - in many places council housing was allocated on need, strictly. So having multiple young children put you at the top of the list, automatically. So an immigrant with 4 yo… (View Post)

In the case of battery storage, it would be about the same cost to replicate Dinorwig with batteries as to build another. Under planning rules, up to 30MWh of storage is not classed as a “power stati… (View Post)