They do enable the kind of billing that Octopus have been experimenting with & we’re probably going to need more of that stuff in the future as we shift to “greener” energy supplies. But the impl… (View Post)

If you watch the video of the run-up, it seems that the vessel suffered a power failure during the approach to the bridge, restarted the diesel engines (you can see the cloud of black smoke) but then… (View Post)

Yes, obviously. Good grief. The point (which you appear to have so egregiously missed that you wrote an entire screed about something else entirely) is that the claim that “we will respect you” with … (View Post)

Note that (helpfully) tidal times vary across the country, so if you had a network of tidal power stations, they would deliver power in a more spread out fashion. But that doesn’t help if you don’t h… (View Post)

One problem with tidal is that it’s predictable but annoyingly periodic in a way that doesn’t line up with the 24 hour day over time. So you still have the problem that to actually use this power you… (View Post)