Ah - I was assuming that cude oil would flare happily if you got it hot enough. I've made parts for the internals of gas flare stacks - inside the flare tube they have a hollow torus made out of… (View Post)

Surely a defensive pre-emptive strike. Otherwise Lord Hermer would object. (View Post)

I think we're slightly at cross purposes. My point about predictablity is that a tidal scheme with a fairly modest battery effectively becomes dispatchable energy. The battery will *always* get … (View Post)

Surely it has the *massive* advantage over wind and solar of its intermittancy being predictable, and of it always outputing roughly the same amount of power daily, just at varying times of the day. … (View Post)

I suspect that the main numbers she will change are gilt yelds. And not in a way that is to HMG's advantage. (View Post)