Your answer appears to be “get rid of solar and wind” which, unless you’re going full nuke (which, honestly has a certain appeal...) isn’t realistic. (I’ve read that gas generators are actually quite… (View Post)

The Spanish report into their Grid failure is out: https://www.euractiv.com/section/eet/news/spanish-government-blames-power-plant-and-grid-operators-for-catastrophic-blackout/ No big surprises. Basi… (View Post)

With another disease tracing might have worked if implemented hard & early. We didn’t know at that point just how infectious Covid was - way off the scale of known existing diseases IIRC (except … (View Post)

FPT: You can’t get central government subsidy for a heat pump if it can cool as well as heat (unless this changed under the most recent update to the rules?). You also can’t use aircon to compensate … (View Post)

Yeah, utopians are always like that. “Oh no, the system isn’t working 100% perfectly, what we should do is break everything & then magically the thing that will rise in it’s place will be the 100… (View Post)