PING TNP - Gridwatch - You're going to need a bigger scale

What's up with the third interconnector through the chunnel?

Last year they were saying it'd be up and running by end of this year, now it seems like mid 2022.

Off for now

RTE:

"non, nous n'avons pas d'énergie"

(or it's Friday)

The UK and French end works are essentially completed, as for the cable in the tunnel I believe the status of that is not (as yet) for public disclosure.

Wind 10GW. c. 25% ?

Vaguely impressed.

And Biomass was 2.9 GW yesterday...

Wood chips shipped over from Canada and burned in a bloody great big power station. Not all that "small is beautiful".

We have always been 2GW to France...

It's a SECOND Interconnector at !GW

But there have always been two 1GW cables lumped into the French IFR data.

It doesn't show anything more or less than that on BM reports.

Oh, So its ANOTHER 1GW in addition to the 2GW already there? But wont be reported on until 2021.

Bugger, Another dial and no room for it.

This one?

yes, but of course it will transport surplus nuclear power in the summer from france and surplus coal power from the UK in winter.

Just combine them, surely?

I suspect that wont give the real informations that people want. But the site needs a makeover anyway.

Sigh. And I've just spent 3 days circumventing Classic FMs demands to make me register before I can listen over the internet, by adding a 'radio' page to my home media server.

Will also allow my foreign based family to listen to UK based internet radio that they otherwise might be blocked from. I really am not looking forward to hacking more php and javascript...

When I want to listen to UK sites (and other things, like my doctor's repeat prescription service) that require you to be 'in the UK' I just set up a proxy using ssh. It's very, very easy, though of course you do need some sort of system somewhere in the UK where you have an ssh login.

E.g.:-

ssh -C2qTnN -D 8080 <uk ssh host>

and then tell Firefox (or whatever) to use port 8080 for manual proxy

I'm sure putty in Windows can do the same just as easily.

For sure. E&T has turned into Greenpiss monthly.

Thinking of cancelling my membership, as the whole organisation seems to be infested with liberal arts apologists of late.

Shortwave (replacement for Gradio) on my linux box can play Classic FM without any hurdles, it seems to get it from

VLC on windows also seems happy with that URL.

Yup. And my front end to that proxies it for my overseas families, reads the metadata and updates my fake 70s style 'hifi unit' image on the web page.

Its nice. I can watch TV on my mobile when away from home. In other countries even...Its my own 'cloud'

here are the URLS I have chased down so far - in php coding style

$stations= array( "Classic FM"=>"

Obviously these station URLs come and go, or move about, a lot of chasing is done for you by

There is a tendency for the bigger ones to stay put.

But I wanted to export UK TV & the Beeb radio to Africa and Australia....that means a proxy needed to be built, but with fibre in place making my home server accessible across the internet under heavily secured connections seemed like a fun thing to do. And I hate clutter, I don't want half a dozen apps to access books, videos, CDS radio and TV. Just the one. Experience has shown that unless something does everything you want, trying to integrate other s*it is in the end just as hard as starting from scratch.

I do use 'tvheadend' as a tv server, but I wrote an interface and a proxy, to secure and centralise access to it.

Its fun sitting in the dentists watching live TV on the mobile... Need to think about i-player...and TV recording next,