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Welsh electricity
It seems that supply in South Wales is usually heavily dominated by Pembroke CCGT power station. If you believe National Grid's regional model, then somehow North Wales ends up with all the coal burn at Drax.
https://carbonintensity.org.uk
I've tried asking them about it but no response so far.
It doesn't add up...
A further thought about Electricity North West. They will be charged for the electricity they take from the transmission network into their distribution network. If as they imply they are going to reduce distribution voltages by 8 parts in 120 then ohmic distribution losses will rise by (120/112)^2 -1 or 14.8%, which their customers will pay for. Worse still, it's just heat dissipation into the environment, and so contributes to global warming.
Who should we complain to? The Guardian for promoting such nonsense, or OFGEM for not slapping them down?
It doesn't add up...
AK, thanks for the nudge back to understanding, re that Welsh oil field story.
Stewgreen, Paul Homewood is already onto the debunk of the Attenborough albatross story. Particularly pleasing is his use of a Guardian report to contradict Attenborough:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/10/28/albatross-dying-out-because-of-climate-change-latest-attenborough-fake-news/
Mark Hodgson
Times Review of Attenborough
"The message was that melting ice, rising sea levels and unusual weather events such as the gale that blew that albatross chick off the nest, its pink legs pummelling the air in its death throes, are part of the slow global car crash we are watching. However, we can correct our mistakes, the cited resurgence of the whale population being an example.
cameraman Rolf wept at the end, because the future of sites such as St Andrews Bay, South Georgia, now teeming with life, are under threat.
As Attenborough, in a new red parka, said,
“This might be the most critical moment for life on Earth since the continents formed.”
Programmes such as this act as the distress flare.
stewgreen
Hard and easy jobs. I don't believe this is the defining difference. What is the defining difference is between interesting and repetitive jobs. That's why mature students return to education, and why graduates compete for and accept poorly paid positions in their subject area, and why it can be said of many occupations that those doing them would turn up even if there were no pay. My wife said this of me many times and it was the reason I accepted several major pay cuts to teach and then to teach in a British university. Interaction with stimulating young people was a delight, as was doing research - finding new things that others were interested in. I have been extraordinarily fortunate almost all my life to have interesting things to do. Late in life I found the pleasures of blogging, which is why I write here.
AK
PR article in the Times : Green skyscraper’s algae walls eat pollution
the six eco-friendly concepts up for the future project of the year award at the World Architecture Festival in Amsterdam in December range from the fantastic to the fantastical. There are forest dwellings proposed for a site at Samutprakarn, Thailand, and the masterplan for Oslo Airport City, a district powered entirely by renewable energy and served by driverless electric vehicles, has received the backing of the Norwegian government. A project to protect the Port of Houston from storm surges with mid-bay islands and gates remains largely speculative.
stewgreen
via @TheGWPFcom
SIMON KUPER FT Magazine
The myth of green growth
https://www.ft.com/content/47b0917c-f523-11e9-a79c-bc9acae3b654
Makes sense Green is so often more expensive so you don't get growth at the same time.
stewgreen
Ah OK
stewgreen
It was only the US version they were talking about being pulped.
TinyCO2
tinyCO2
>"Society as a whole tends to deride smart kids. Nerds, geeks, etc"
Self-evident. Most people feel threatened by intelligence. It is not necessarily a survival trait, although as an outrider on the bell curve distribution of traits it is needed to jump-push cultures along.
Old saying here: intelligence only gets you into trouble when you use it.
I remain contending that a majority of women *prefer* feelz to factz. They regard STEM as mostly irrelevant. It is this attitude that has permitted the spread of "climate science" without MSM pushback and hard examination. Saving the planet (ie. nurturing) is way more appealing than examining dirty laundry details.