More fool them! But it doesn't bode well for the reliability of future energy supply when the power companies cannot trust the government to honour its long term contracts. Lets pray for a mild winter this year!
Supply margins will get extremely tight next year...
What happens net Tuesday?
Regards, Martin Brown
actually I thought it was a lot less.
Quite, which is one of the main resosns there is even more delay in starting building the new nukes. The companies just don't trust the governments, all started with Merkles green induced knee jerk in response to Fukishima.
We are having one. Not seen the peak demand much above 50 GW so far.
A bit like the Cambridge University New Testament Society then.
Often wondered about that. When you see two horses pulling a carriage full of people at a fair speed. Would you expect a 2HP electric motor to do the same job?
"In 1993, R. D. Stevenson and R. J. Wassersug published an article calculating the upper limit to an animal's power output.[14] The peak power over a few seconds has been measured to be as high as 14.9 hp.[14] However, Stevenson and Wassersug observe that for sustained activity, a work rate of about 1 hp per horse is consistent with agricultural advice from both 19th and 20th century sources.[14]
When considering human-powered equipment, a healthy human can produce about 1.2 hp briefly (see orders of magnitude) and sustain about 0.1 hp indefinitely; trained athletes can manage up to about 2.5 hp briefly[15] and 0.3 hp for a period of several hours."
Chris
yes
or the proposed: City University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Oh, and for the avoidance of doubt:
Fukushima: no. injured - 0 no. killed - 0
So definitely a major disaster meaning all nuclear material anywhere in the universe should immediately be banned.
That explains it then. A carriage moving at a sustainable speed wouldn't make for good TV. ;-)
Thanks.
Strange then that milk floats tend to have approx 10 hp motors.
I understood there was a death...
... from a heart attack in one of the workers. Not nuclear related.
Andy
Only because hundreds of square miles of territory were evacuated. And remain evacutated, shit-fer-brains.
The sitaution is getting worse not better too.
All traction motors spend little time at max output. Are there no hills where you live? Also they need excess power to accelarate from rest.
How long do you drive round in your car with you pedal to the metal?
Stupid boy.
Well people died as a result of the evacuation and no populated area has had enough radioactivity to have injured anyone that was still there.
They were evacuated through a phobia not because of actual radiation.
So you would advocate that large areas of the UK should be evacuated, including most of Devon and Cornwall, because radiation levels there exceed those for most of the evacuated areas around Fukushima.
Harry, there are times when you post items that are quite interesting. But at other times, your posts can only be describes as plain silly!
The evacuation process did kill a few people, I agree. Everyone would have been better off staying where they were.
And neither does a horse, it seems.
Yes. And horses. They seem to manage them ok.
Excess? How is something that's needed becomes 'excess'?
How often do you read other posts - which have explained that a horse actually has a peak output of many times 1 HP?
I'd have thought even you would wonder how a single horse can operate a milk float ok, but it takes a 10HP motor to do the same job.
Only if it has a suitable driving licence.
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