Gridwatch down?

[Tim Streater]

I can't reach

I'm getting host unreachable at lonap-gw1.mythic-beasts.com. Anything known?

[Another Dave]

Just times out for me - Firefox (though that shouldn't make any difference).

Another Dave

[The Natural Philosopher]

diito here..I'll have to email naich.

He was going to do an upgrade

Meanwhile the slow one still works

but please don't hang on it - its my home connection.

[Wesley]

Please don't flame me if this is a silly question but why would anybody want to know the status of the national grid?

[The Natural Philosopher]

well one of the purposes was to produce a report like this

a consultancy has already done it..:-)

But my main thrust was to provide instant simple evidence to people who think 'we have loads of wind and solar power on the grid, and pumped storage' with the counter proposition that in fact we have bugger all of any of those.

Despite all the willy waving from the renewables lobby.

I hope to extend it to do database recording and run some 'what if' scenarios over it in terms of generation mix, and carbon footprint thereof. But that's a longer term project.

[chris French]

In message , The Natural Philosopher writes

Is this the latest renewable idea then?

[The Natural Philosopher]

is what?

[News]

I think Chris wonders whether willy waving creates renewable energy :-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Since when has renewable energy been about creating or harvesting renewable energy?

It's about harvesting renewable subsidies, and creating renewable obligation certificates. Energy doesn't come into it.