Solar ?

[Jethro_uk]

Been bright sunshine and hitting 27C here (Midlands) today.

Solar providing c. 13% as much as nuclear ?

Well, well, well.

[Chris Hogg]

According to Gridwatch ATM, Nuclear 4.68GW, Solar 3.92GW. Where's your

13% come from?

Try again after dark :-)

[Jethro_uk]

It's dropped to 10% now ...

I was briefly impressed.

[Andrew]

It only needs a bit of cloud, including high-up hazy stuff to have a signifcant effect on solar PV output.

[Chris Hogg]

Ah, I understand you now. Not 13% of nuclear, but 13%, as much as nuclear. We obviously need more nuclear...

[Dave Liquorice]

And that's with only 8 out of the 16 nuclear sets actually online.

[Chris Hogg]

I see that Wylfa is looking increasingly unlikely

[Andy Burns]

It's summer. About half the nukes shutdown for inspection, refuelling or at the request of the grid

[alan_m]

Gridwatch suggests that the solar report on their web page may be an overestimate. Hover your mouse over the meter and an information pop-up will appear.

[The Natural Philosopher]

well that's the BBC innit?

Anti-science. wokist, marxist propaganda

[The Natural Philosopher]

Actually as one person informed me it is probably a slight

*underestimate*. I never fixed that mouseover...

Whatever, solar never producues much in the way of power on average and never when you need it

[tabbypurr]

Whatever the percentage it's still pointless. Max load capacity is required of the grid, so even 100% of solar output would not reduce the need for more conventional sources of power. But it does up the price, since you now have 2 generating systems rather than 1.

NT

[michael adams]

And so unlike Capitalism where factory and other business owners have absolutely no interest in exerting power over their employees but much prefer for them to decide their own working hours, wages or salaries, and conditions of employment.

Poor old Roger Scruton was himself the victim of a Marxist conspiracy of course. Which is why he was never able to secure a teaching post, let alone a fellowship at any of the major universities such as Oxford, or Cambridge but spent his entire career teaching evening classes at Birkbeck

So yet another poor victim of another Marxist conspiracy by the looks of things. In his case Sir Clive Sinclair, his ex wife and Waitrose

michael adams

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[Roger Hayter]

Seems to be a bad case of shooting the messenger. Or shouldn't they have mentioned Hitachi backing out - it sounds like actual news to me?

[soup]

...or for you to live in Scotland.

[The Natural Philosopher]

wylfa is on then off then on then off at every change in the government breeze. It makes perfects sense if only the government will guarantee not to change the rules AGAIN. They wont.

[newshound]

Agreed, it is all a bit of a game. FWIW same story is in Telegraph so a bit unfair to bash BBC and Guardian.

[Jethro_uk]

I don't have a problem with the Guardian. They are free to print what they like, and people are free to pay or not for it.

I have a *massive* problem with the BBC, which I do pay for. For now.

[Brian Gaff (Sofa]

Sounds like we need to get those Nukes sorted. It still represents the least polluting way at night with no wind. Brian

[Jethro_uk]

Couldn't agree more.