That's pretty much what domestic batteries, smart meters and funky power companies do. Whilst batteries are more expensive than storage heaters, the energy is much more useful stored as battery charg… (View Post)

More than you might think, which is why they work in Scandinavia. The relevant way to think about the temperature isn't -5C, it's 268 K. (View Post)

Partly it's a question of when people formed their ideas on all this climate stuff. Until... 2000 or so? it was just about possible to squint at the data and say "variations, cycles, uncertainty… (View Post)

Has anyone ever established why the number of civil servants has increased since the middle of the 2010s? I'm assuming it's related to the other big thing that happened in the middle of the 2010s, bu… (View Post)

There is another problem for the North Sea hydrocarbon industry. It's been declining for a while now, simply because it's a finite resource where the easy to get oil and gas have already been extract… (View Post)