"The UK has surpassed its solar power record, generating 8.7 GW on Friday afternoon from photovoltaic (PV) installations"
"Grid operator National Grid said PV generated 24.3 per cent of demand at 1 pm, beating the previous record of 8.48 GW and for the first time providing more power than the nation's eight nuclear plants"
Now if they could just arrange for the sun to shine at night...
And for the other 86399 seconds in the day?
If conventional power generation is so inefficient it can't reduce its output when other methods come on stream, something should be done.
I'd like to see them do this at night in the winter. Brian
En el artículo , Andy Burns escribió:
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Such cynicism.
Baby steps. Eventually we will have a world wide d.c. grid where the sun will shine and the wind will blow somewhere on the planet during your summer, autumn,, spring, winter and night.
And all the little tellytubbies will play in the sun and no one will blow up the bit that runs through their country or switch it off and demand payment
You forgot unicorns. There must always be unicorns. And perpetual motion.
I should have added pixeie dust as well
Without that up yer nose you can't see the unicorns
Unlikely. We don't want to co-operate with our nearest neighbours, so why think a world wide agreement possible?
Well our language is closer to American than it is French or German. Maybe you should ask why we have been at war with our closest neighbours more than with our fathest neighbours.
Money talks...
But it won't happen until we have "sensible temperature" super conductors.
That'll be a game changer, no losses, so you could move as much energy as you can shove in all over the globe on a mesh made of things the size of todays single fibre optic strand.
I sometimes wonder about that.
Because moving troops and supplies etc has only (relatively) recently become easy?
And we'll still get charged for it in much the same way as now, given where the sun shines the most. ;-)
How do they know I thought most Solar PV was embeded and not metered?
Heysham 1 Reactors 1 an 2 are not running flat out, 484 and 511 MW respectively. Torness Reactor 1 is off line for statutary inspection and consuming 23 MW. The total generation scrapped from the EDF website just now is 8.248 GW.
Quite. Bugger all wind according to gridwatch, 0.61 GW. Gas 15.67 GW, Gridwatch has solar at 6 GW peak today, dropped a GW now.
Or are we talking about last Friday?
Don't let Trump read that suggestion
won;t be that much of a gane changer as they only estimate that the losses due to reistance is about 20%.
where it would be an advantage is in computers that won't need to be cooled.
This would also depend on what the substance is we eventually find it could be rare like gold or other rarer elements that'll just cost to much to manufacture and put into use.
Did you see the program on super elements last week. ?
I prefer american spelling to German.
yes well we have the EU, didn't have that in Roman times.
I wonder how far way the war on terror is.
He will believe he just has to drop his pants.
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