OT: cost of reneables part II

The Natural Philosopher · 2022-04-12T11:21:10+00:00

From elsewhere."The UK Net Zero plan (only somewhat modified in the direction of greater realism after the invasion of Ukraine) was basically this: to convert the electricity grid to run on intermittent wind and solar generation, while at the same time doubling demand for electricity by converting cars to EVs and gas heating to heat pumps.To do this without having any plans for storage on the required scale to make electricity supply reliable during calms and evenings.And at the same time as the gas heating is converted to heat pumps, also convert the gas grid to hydrogen, for which there is no current or future source. And for which there will be no demand, once the electricity conversion is done.This is what happens when a country permits its political class, its activists and its media to be run by people educated only in the modern liberal arts after which they immediately move into positions where they make or advocate policy. they have never worked in business. They have none of them the slightest idea what project management is, they have no experience of planning the implementation of anything more complicated than changing a light bulb, they have never had to reason quantitavely about anything at all complicated in their lives. But the thing they know for sure is that they are the nation?s intellectual elite and they are well qualified to come up with policy by sheer power of intellect.It is Dunning Kruger on a national scale."

Apr 12, 2022 Last reply: 4 years ago 46 Replies

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Martin Brown 4 years ago

I know. We made one of the first proper disk drive interfaces for it.

When it was done that was entirely rational. Memory was still very expensive and the machine was fast enough against the competition. What it lacked was reliability in its mass storage system. Losing computer data irretrievably is not something that any business user can tolerate.

Amstrad PCW had him for lunch by launching something that came with business friendly software and a cheap and nasty but much more reliable real floppy disk. The rest is history. Alan Sugar beat him hands down.

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ISTR Sinclair sold them his computer division now long after that.

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Tim Streater 4 years ago

It's the old business of getting there fastest with the mostest. Never mind the quality, feel the width.

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Clive Arthur 4 years ago

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SWMBO had one of those, it was actually very reliable. Non-standard size disks, a green screen and IIRC a single pin dot matrix printer, but very capable. Lots of brownie points for presentation of her work at the time.

£399 I think, with a bit of a wait to get one.

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charles 4 years ago

But he got a knighthood, even though he went bust twice.

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The Natural Philosopher 4 years ago

So did Jimmy Savile . And Robert Mugabe. And Sir Philip Green.I rest my case.

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Andrew 4 years ago

But even he admitted that he had no idea what 'applications software' was all about, or how valuable the operating system was for 'upgrades' so simply relied shifting boxes with MsDos or DrDos, or whatever they came with and then the Chinese and Taiwanese blew him away with cheaper boxes.

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Andrew 4 years ago

I thought the piss created a form of battery and provided the leccy

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