2nd power cut in 8 days

In Brum.

Only lasted a couple of minutes.

All those air conditioners coming online at once across the UK.

(Makes note to never buy an electric car).

Couldn't you just sit in the car with its aircon on to keep cool? It's a small space to keep cool especially if you're out of the sun in a garage. Any idea what sort of energy usage there would be to keep the inside of the car comfortable?

I think I would rather have 3kW from my generator, and several days worth of mobility from the car :-)

I generally just go for a drive, rather than sit there

My car estimates the fuel load of the aircon, ISTR it's between 0.25 and

It's contagious

Bali. Popular tourist hotspot Bali is suffering a blackout with the power being out since Friday at 4 p.m. local time.

Power has yet to return at the time of the writing. Beritasatu.com reported that the blackout had disrupted some transactions in Bali.

"There were problems with payments at transactions. It was a chaos since people weren't able to pay. The same goes for transactions at tattoo parlors. Customers use credit cards and they can't even find a signal," local man Reza told Beritasatu.com.

The blackout had also led to traffic jams everywhere as traffic lights were unable to function. Reza also revealed that the power outage made it difficult for online ride-hailing drivers to find customers. He added: "Because we don't have any signal."

The Bali branch of the state-run utility firm PLN attributed the blackout to issues on the Java-Bali submarine cables, thus affecting its power plants.

"We would like to apologize for the inconvenience. We are currently focusing on restoring the system before normalizing the load," a statement by PLN reads. </quote>

I presume that is over and above the fuel usage for the engine idling with the air con turned off (ie air compressor mechanically disengaged).

I doubt it. My engine uses so much fuel when in traffic it ruins any MPG targets I set.

The worst is traffic lights or traffic jams. Stop car lose all kinetic energy, move car to next stoppage, regenerate its kinetic energy etc.

Ah. I presumed that "My car estimates the fuel load of the aircon" implied that he'd taken two readings, one with the engine idling and air-con off, and the second with engine idling and air-con on, and subtracted the two, to eliminate fuel used simply in keeping the engine ticking over.