Wind turbines used to absorb a power surplus?

So you are paying 8.59p for 7 hours (Economy 7) Standard variable tariff is capped by the government.

TI, and others, have cheap 2 and 3 channel delta-sigma ADCs intended for use in smart meters. Many have on-chip dc/dc converters to power the isolated-side bits. They measure temperature too. Small quantity prices are under $10 and they are do doubt much cheaper at 50 million pieces.

One of these would monitor a DC supply for current and voltage.

Before smart meters, ours was read once a month and it certainly took more than 30 seconds per meter.

In many neighborhoods the meter reader would drive between houses. Ours could walk the block.

Some houses here have a tiny window on the front, with the meter behind that. Some apartments have all the meters in the basement and the meter guy had a key.

Ironically in the US the northeastern states with LNG facilities have at times bought it from Gazprom. A law from the last century meant to protect the maritime industry states cargo between domestic ports must be carried on US owned and operated ships. afaik there isn't a LNG tanker meeting the requirements. That's part of the incentive to sell LNG to Europe.

The northeast could be supplied via pipelines but good luck building a pipeline in that area.

It helps to have a spare nose when you cut yours off to spite your face.

IIRC, there are two caps. One (about 34p) is what your supplier can charge a domestic customer and is a special, temporary cap, while the other is the permanent cap related to predicted gas prices and the normal limit for what companies can charge (possibly about 50p). While the special cap is in place and lower than the normal cap, you will pay the special cap rate.

Ah, you are paying a higher than cap day rate, because you are getting a lower night rate. For average consumption level and pattern, that should still average out at 34p per unit over the full 24 hours.

Yes. They may be bad now, but it used to take 9 to 12 months to get a phone line connected to your house; train services were unusable (I well remember during the weeks of my finals, every train being cancelled and having to get there by other means and months of three trains in a row cancelled, so no room on the next one to run).

We didn't need the quantity of gas that was available to us in the summer and had little spare storage. The EU had few port facilities for importing it, but lots of storage. It made sense for them to import via pipelines, from the UK, using the UK's port facilities.

Does it f*ck

Vietnam was never about modern fast jet fighter planes and plane launched fire and forget anti aircraft missiles with a range of hundreds of miles hadn't even been invented yet.

But both are fly by wire with full computer control. nothing even remotely like F1 racing

It would if you were an average user, with an average spread of use during the day. Much of your use at 50p and the rest at 8.5p.

For us it doesn't work, despite having an EV. With a family of 5, doing lots of washing, drying and cooking that can't be shifted into the night, the bulk at at the higher rate and charging the car overnight, would leave us worse off than just doing everything, when we want, at the 34p rate.

The braking system is quite complex but I wouldn't call it power brakes in the usual sense:

None of my bikes have ABS so something like that would be interesting. On hard braking into a corner there is so much weight transfer to the front tire that the rear brake is used gently, if at all.

My car is 20 years old, and the last of its type. It has a hydraulic assisted rack and pinion that gets the feel in a really simple way.

It turns down as you speed up, and is off by 30MPH.

It's really only there for parking. It did fail once, and I did notice!

Andy

But the G forces are

If its all so long distance firing why do they have to train around the Mach Loop in Wales?

Probably to train for ground attack - such as the low level attacks on airbases during the Gulf Wars. Air to air battles are probably at pretty long range these days, but bombs can only be dropped close up.

Nope, those that fly the latest high performance fighters wear pressure suits. F1 drivers don't

Thats ground attack and making themselves invisible to those extreme range missiles.

They dont wear pressure suits either.

No one dog fights anymore.

That's wrong too. The B52 doesnt do close up.

There are even fish in the Thames in London now.

There were also the massive number of water leaks that that had to be fixed and were ignored before privatisation.