It’s possible that, had the conventional power plants done the job they were being paid for, the grid fluctuations might have been kept small enough that the solar generators would not have dropped o… (View Post)

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)