Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?

Indeed. The only thing where women are at a natural disadvantage is strength, but power steering and brakes take care of that.

They are perfectly capable of handling the G, and equally as good at reflexes - possibly better - and race craft.

No. It was run down because no one was prepared to pay for its upkeep. Russia was such a reliable supplier of gas to the EU and we could buy it cheaper from Qatar than by extracting from the North Sea. They never imagined that supply security could ever be important again.

Experts warned of the short sightedness at the time but were ignored.

Same sort of logic that means now we are out of the EU brown turds float in our rivers and bathing beaches. Raw sewage discharges are massively up due to the same investment strategy in creaking Victoria sewers. Profits are everything - who cares if a few swimmers get tummy bugs.

Again privatising de facto monopolies like water utilities is to blame.

Centrica were not prepared to fund the Rough storage facility on their own and the government didn't see it as an important strategic asset. They could not have been more wrong.

When the s*it hit the fan we had no choice but to pay through the nose to keep the lights on. Buying bulk gas on the spot market is insane!

ABS and traction control no, but power steering and brakes I think they do. Brake by wire is essential with the energy recovery systems on the rear axle

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What are you on about?

What are you on about?

Adding power to a generator that is phase locked simply results in it pushing harder against the grid loads, and so the rotor will advance phase by enough to absorb the extra power.

Nothing to do with field coils or power factor.

Precisely. There was only money in investing in subsidised guaranteed market renewables., The fact that they simply couldn't do the job they were supposed to was *someone else's* problem.

In fact I suspect the power companies were only too eager to see a massive electricity blackout to rub the politicians noises in their won s*it.

That doesn't explain why it was more profitable to export LNG to Europe than use it ourselves.

I am sorry, but brown turds have always been floating in our rivers and on our beaches while we were IN the EU.

Its something to do with the increasse in s*it from EU immigrants.

And all these monopolies and nationalised utilities ran so well with near zero investment for decades and with a couldn't care less attitude to customers.

We have the LNG tanker facilities to accept bulk Qatari oil. Europe relied heavily on the Russian gas pipeline - until it was cut off. They are still building LNG handling facilities right now (same as the UK is desperately trying to add more gas storage to our systems).

Result everyone trying to buy what available LNG there is. We can only store trivial amounts of LNG compared to our requirements we had to offload it to European storage facilities (and had the recent winter been really cold buy it back at usurious spot market prices).

No you aren't. As a UK domestic user your electricity is capped at about 35p/KwH, as is everyone elses, at massive cost to future taxpayers who will be paying off the escalating debt that Lettuce and Kwackers dumped on everyone .

Using 1987 as 100, the ONS says Feb 1993 RPI was 139 while Feb 2023 is 365. Therefore 5p in feb 1993 is now 13.13p, so actual increase to the current *capped* rate is just under

That's because we make use of the storage facilities over in the EU.

They would supply gas and electricity back to us.

ROFL. Raw untreated sewage discharges into the sea were far worse before privatisation. In those days piping it out to sea without even basic filtration was how the water companies did it. There have been massive investments to reduce or eliminate this, like the ginormous holding tank bored under the entire length of Brighton and Hove promenade to capture the combined rain+foul drains output during heavy rain. Then it is pumped along to the coast towards Newhaven and treated using modern UV treatment and other stuff.

The water boards were starved of investment after WW2 because successive governments were spending so much money on the NHS, National Coal Board, the docks, British Steel, British Rail, British Leyland, the Electricity Boards, the Aerospace industry and Defence

Because we have an importation and regasification facility in Pembroke (paid for by the Qataries I believe). Germany had no such facility but they have now built their own in record time so are no longer dependent on other countries.

Network Rail have spent billions upgrading and improving a system that was run into the ground during WW2 and was then simply patched up for decades by BR, who, as everyone old enough will remember, ran such a fantastic, clean, punctual service with helpful, friendly staff (*NOT*)

If company X sells cheaper tickets for a slower, stopping service then clearly you cannot use that ticket to travel along the same line on a faster service which charges higher prices. You, the passenger have to choice. With BR you had no choice.

That's not what my electricity company is saying to me

Payment Plan Budget Direct Debit (Monthly) About my Direct Debit Monthly payment amount £265 (collected on 23rd of each month) My unit rates Electricity day unit rate: 50.60p per kWh Electricity night unit rate: 8.59p per kWh Daily standing charge: 43.76p per day

That's what they thought in the 1950s, thus the F-4 didn't originally have a gun. Vietnam proved that assumption was incorrect.

The F-16 is a fast jet fighter and is used for ground attack (and the F-35 will be used when the last A-10s are retired).

Do generators absorb power? That sounds kinda oxymoronish.

What is the field coil for? What does it do?

Have you ever governed a megawatt-class generator by adjusting the steam valve and the field current by hand, youself?

The thermal time constant of a big boiler, with its many parts, is long, minutes at least. The feedwater is already hot. You can cut the flames instantly but if you soon after shut off the steam outlet valves, you will blow a safety.

Blowing a safety valve is a very big deal. Expect a lot of paperwork.

I once saw a safety valve being tested. Fun, since I had nothing to do but watch. And listen. There were so many official witnesses they were hard to pack into the engine room.

The star of the show was the guy standing next to the valve with a wrench. He had a lot of interesting scars.