Induced atmospheric oscillations.

And, as well, the lack of electricity is extremely dangerous.

If anyone still cares, now it's all working again, this chap seems to know what he's talking about:

They waited until 24h after the power came back on to start spooling up their nukes, still only putting out 1GW

What do you do with 1GW if the grid is shut down?

"the EU aim is that all partners will extract 10 per cent of their power consumption from synchronous interconnectors"

So Spain has to receive 10% from France and Portugal, even when they are sending 20% to France and Portugal?

I assumed there was some sort of 'poisoning' that they had to allow to fall away before they could restart at full power?

Can only read this by farting about.

I just came across this report called "Inertia and the Power Grid: A Guide Without the Spin" at

Replacing conventional generators with inverter-based resources, including wind, solar, and certain types of energy storage, has two counterbalancing effects. First, these resources decrease the amount of inertia available. But second, these resources can reduce the amount of inertia actually needed—and thus address the first effect. In combination, this represents a paradigm shift in how we think about providing frequency response.

There does seem to be a trend towards more aggressive "consent-or-pay" cookie settings.

I find switching to Firefox's reader mode, then refreshing the page works (Chrome's reading mode and Edge's immersive mode are less useful)

I add '12ft.io/' before the https and that mostly works well.

Chrome works for me if I switch off Javascript.

Add in the Holocene optimum and the Younger Dryas [frighteningly sharp global cooling and recovery] as well

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Worse, it means that one of these unexplained 'causes' could come along now and plunge into an ice age in a decade.

Modern climate change is an irrational position taken up by people with a little learning who feel they ought to be in charge of telling other people how to live, and those who are using them to profit at the taxpayers expense.

What they don't realise is that they are the people who brought communism to Russia whose president immediately sent them to the Gulags to teach them how to do something useful.

Useful idiots is the phrase in question.

It already has but we caught it early and it wasn't national

Utter bollocks. No way do they 'reduce the amount of inertia actually needed' When the flag drops the bullshit stops. In Spain, the flag just dropped

Absolutely. At noon everyone siestas through the hot afternoon, gets up again for an evening meal and goes back to work using aircon

That's an interesting thought.

I think many are designed to actually need electrical grid power to start at all...

Just disable javascript for *telegraph.co.uk

Essentially he is saying the UK is heading straight for a similar position with closure of nuclear and gas, and that Dinorwic is offline too.

I have javascript permanently disabled for the Telegraph,. I can read all the articles but not get all the pictures or comment

Actually all I had to do was to use Firefox instead, then I got the article with no further ado. Bit of a worry that Dinorwig is offline.