SAFCOldie
Striker
IMO They will pay folk not to use it, at first anyway, likely only for smart meter customers that can be monitored. They can't just shut down energy wholesale in towns/cities as some key infrastructures will still need it.
Rolling blackouts
- Thread starter Baloo
- Start date
The issue now is that in (probably) 6 years time we’ll be able to build small modular reactors at a fraction of the cost of a traditional plant. Plus the build time will be almost the same if we started now. So they’re gambling on SMRs becoming the viable option.
In reality, we should have started building new reactors in 1994 (to replace Chapelcross) and 2002 (to replace Wylfa). There’d have then been a hectic few years replacing Hunterston, Heysham and Hartlepool which were given extended lifelines. Realistically with the excess energy we’d have been producing thanks to the extensions given to current operating plants, we’d now be in a position to sell our electricity to other countries while waiting for the SMRs to come on line, had the replacements for the offgoing reactors been built in time for their original end dates.
Come the late 20s, early 30s I’m confident we’ll be fine with the SMRs but it’s a long wait till then.
Exapno Mapcase
Striker
That recent?
Nookie Bear
Winger
Yep £10 a day apparently
TicoTorres
Midfield
I feel that this story is not being met with the outrage that it should. How the hell have we got here?
Quench
Striker
Key infrastructure will have back up diesel generators. They manage to shut off power to areas of cities and areas of the country on a daily rolling basis in South Africa. I can't see why they won't be able to do that here
joemcdokes
Striker
Three posts, politics forum this shit.
I remember during the power cuts in the 70’s a friends mam saying “well I don’t mind sitting watching telly in the dark”
Apache Inbound
Midfield
Cotia
Midfield
Stupid thing is, I saw this thread and thought similar. Like, oh well I don't mind so long as I can put the telly on and watch it wrapped in a blanket.I remember during the power cuts in the 70’s a friends mam saying “well I don’t mind sitting watching telly in the dark”
Pinching them smelly candles that people have bought for Christmas presents in the last 20 odd yrs?
Mini projector and a power pack. Jobs a good’un.
Will them smart meters stop working?
By not investing when we were in the good times
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I'm Spartacus
Striker
I'm not watching the 2022 corrupt as fuck sports washing festival so fuck it, I hope it is...Imagine if England get to the world cup final (yeah I know) and there's one planned for that day
Apache Inbound
Midfield
safcforever
Striker
aren’t the electric companies making record profits?
Killing off the old again
SAFCOldie
Striker
It could be worse, we could be an EU country. Jesus.
www.bloomberg.com
People in Poland Are Burning Trash to Stay Warm This Winter
Russia’s war in Ukraine has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s fuel supplies. In Poland, some households are hoarding garbage to replace their coal.
www.bloomberg.com
Probably should let people here do the same.It could be worse, we could be an EU country. Jesus.
People in Poland Are Burning Trash to Stay Warm This Winter
Russia’s war in Ukraine has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s fuel supplies. In Poland, some households are hoarding garbage to replace their coal.
SAFCOldie
Striker
100%, of course.
