Oh dear. How sad. Never mind

Turning off heat pumps remotely under an authority from whoever controls the system will be most likely to happen in winter, when a blocking high means insignificant wind generation and a severe reduction in insolation means all those expensive solar installations also produce very little generation.

Such blocking highs can easily last two weeks at a time, and with gas and nuclear together with high-price imports running flat out, will your house really stay warm for that length of time?

Anyone installing a heat pump should offer up prayers that Rolls-Royce SMR-powered generation is quickly installed in quantity. Or install a log burner.

Trump would have contempt for Farage for being so cheap. Only £5million!?!

Are you suggesting he could easily be replaced by an AI?

There are some who believe that this has already happened.

It has to be said that a lot of his posts resemble those of a typical provocative bot.

Tim

Um, I’ve had three “power saving/export” sessions this month already. Short term shortfalls can occur at anytime, especially when power plants are off-line for maintenance.

Why do you insist of shameless scaremongering? There’s no way that there is any plan to turn off your heating for days/weeks at a time. Where is your evidence that they would do so? It’s all about short term grid balancing, not dealing with long term problems.

Tim

I take it that you have difficulty doing research and struggle with arithmetic.

For heaven’s sake! It has nothing to do with ’short term grid balancing’, it’s about the unreliability of renewables. 14 consecutive days where gas generation outperforms wind and solar by 10GW (as happens when the winter blocking highs turn up) means that any perturbation in gas or nuclear generation or a problem with imports will mean your heat pump will get turned off, and it won’t be for your fanciful one hour at a time.

And this is at a time when the winter blocking highs are more than 2000 miles in diameter and straddling Europe, when other countries are also struggling for power generation. The Germans have had to fire up lignite generation (lignite - the most polluting energy source!) in order to keep the lights on. And that’s in a country where the Greens called the shots.

isn't Tim+ one already?

^^^^^

Mirror trick. Projection.

I state facts as reported in the media. Tim+ calls that a 'reaction'

That is typical leftBot 'reaction'. When you don't like the message, shoot the messenger.

That's what they said about income tax, too,

"there was the Board of Taxes, which first received responsibility for Income tax in 1799, when the new tax was brought in temporarily to help pay for the Napoleonic Wars. In fact, although this tax has been in force every year since 1842, even now it retains its ‘temporary’ nature and has to be renewed annually by Parliament."

Bollocks! plonk.

Bless!

LOL!

Problem is, no one has any way of knowing, unless they have inside knowledge and then the Cassandra Complex kicks in.

So the “Oh dear, how sad” subject line was somehow added by someone else?

Nah, it was one of your typical anti-renewable mocking posts.

Tim

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind

Bless!

Just look what the Green-inspired German government was forced to do to keep the lights on (a descriptive expression not meant to be taken literally but as an indicator of an issue) when they shut down their nuclear generation because the Greens are against it. They had no option but to open up power stations that burned the most polluting fuel known to God and man. As a result of the clean energy drive by the German Greens, that country now has one of the highest pollution rates in Europe.

So what do you think they will do here when power is short for extended periods? Do you remember the rolling power cuts of 1973?

Bring in generation via Rolls-Royce SMRs, preferably sooner than later. A hundred or so placed near centres of consumption will mean that we won’t need to build a full-power distribution grid as we already have had a balancing grid for the last 90 years, and we’ll be free at last from the expensive and unreliable renewables.

Short-term disruption is what they want you to think it’s about, because they can do little about longer-term power cuts and they don’t want people asking awkward questions.

But when the longer-term shortages appear, what are they going to do? That’s a rhetorical question because we already know the answer.

For individuals, install a log burner if you want to stay warm in winter.

You appear to be criticising these short term measures because they can’t fix longer term issues. By your logic, Dinorwig is also a waste of time and contributes nothing to grid stability.

This is clearly nonsense. Just because these short term adjustments don’t deal with the longer term issues isn’t a reason not to have them in place.

Stop criticising a scheme for not doing what it was never designed to do or not doing what *you* would like it to do.

Out of interest, what do you personally contribute to help out with grid stability? Are you on an intelligent tariff? Do you have batteries that can export power? Do you have smart charging for you EV? Let me guess, none of the above…

Tim

Tim

And yet renewable advocates regularly say that the problem of intermittency is solved by 'batteries',

You clearly show that they are lying.

It is not my job to compensate for Green idiocy. I have done my best to show how idiotic it is and remark that the only way forward is nuclear energy, nut its taken 15 years and only now are people starting to listen.

You totally fail to grasp that when Dinorwig has been emptied, there may well be another ten or fourteen days of energy shortfall due to renewables such as wind and solar not producing anything meaningful.

It’s the longer term issues that will freeze people to death.

Thanks for finally admitting that renewables are leading to long term serious issues of extended power shortages.

Whatever makes you think that it’s up to individuals to fork out tens of £thousands to make up for the deficiencies caused by the loony rush to a Green-inspired renewables grid supply? That’s an insane policy, but then again, it’s Green, what else could one expect? See Germany for an example.