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- Thu Jun 26, 2025 3:53 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: Xlinks snub
- Replies: 18
- Views: 669
Re: Xlinks snub
You don't put 25% of your countries power supply in the hands of another country. Sorry Morroco but you're not a stable enough platform. One of the best North African states though. You certainly don't rely on a multiple 000's K set of lines in relatively shallow water either. There's a lot can go ...
- Thu Jun 26, 2025 1:00 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: Xlinks snub
- Replies: 18
- Views: 669
Re: Xlinks snub
Hi Dan, If I was the Xlinks CEO I think my head would have been cheaper short cable to Spain saves me X million Euro's which equals Y more PV panels and mounts with gives me Z more MW and I have the ability to sell my power across the whole of Europe and beyond. I must be missing something as I wou...
- Tue Jun 17, 2025 1:22 pm
- Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
- Topic: Intelligent Octopus Go
- Replies: 216
- Views: 50762
Re: Intelligent Octopus Go
How wiil/does using a household battery, or pv and inverter to supply some of the power for the EV or HP impact the use of the smart tariffs for those devices?
- Sun Jun 15, 2025 9:12 am
- Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
- Topic: DESNZ: Over 22,000 domestic batteries installed in past year
- Replies: 10
- Views: 865
Re: DESNZ: Over 22,000 domestic batteries installed in past year
Intresting video spoilt by those presenting constantly mixing up the units for power and energy, you would have thought that those working with electrics day in day out would know when to use kW and when to use kWh.
- Thu Jun 12, 2025 2:58 pm
- Forum: New builds
- Topic: Outbuildings and why they're great. (Vanport)
- Replies: 184
- Views: 33961
Re: Outbuildings and why they're great. (Vanport)
Plumb a 25L jerry can under the ASHP to catch the condensate. Its distilled water, which is basically what RO is, just a different method of getting it. Great for all sorts, even putting in the iron, though limescale isnt exactly an issue up here. Condensate from an ASHP has many more contaminates ...
- Mon Jun 09, 2025 4:34 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: Dynamic Line Rating
- Replies: 4
- Views: 465
Re: Dynamic Line Rating
I seem to remember a previous thred about this sort of thing. iirc lines are normally limited to the capacity of worst case conditons so hot weather wth no wind, by moanitring the lne they can increase that to take advantage of more suitable conditions and put more power through - or at least someth...
- Sat Jun 07, 2025 9:36 pm
- Forum: Photovoltaic
- Topic: France records negative power prices for most of May
- Replies: 5
- Views: 679
Re: France records negative power prices for most of May
Long(ish) shot, but I wonder if this reflects a wider European change, so 'we' just don't need the cheap excess nuclear as much? Before large scale RE, other countries could always ramp down some more coal and gas, and buy France's excess nice and cheap. Not knocking it, UK etc being able to grab t...
- Sat Jun 07, 2025 1:39 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: New UK AI datacentre could cause five times emissions of Birmingham airport
- Replies: 9
- Views: 865
Re: New UK AI datacentre could cause five times emissions of Birmingham airport
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/06/planned-ai-datacentre-in-england-could-cause-five-times-emissions-of-big-airport?CMP=GTUK_email Emissions from power-hungry warehouses at Lincolnshire facility expected to be 850,000 tonnes a year A vast new datacentre to feed Britain’s rising dem...
- Fri Jun 06, 2025 11:00 pm
- Forum: Wind Power
- Topic: Turbines turned off
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1185
Re: Turbines turned off
As it's only a 15MW wind farm I was wondering if it was using older, smaller WT's that are noisier. But sadly I see that the order is to switch off 3 of the 6 WT's, so they must be 2.5MW, which I think is pretty big for the UK, as our topography is a bit limiting. That's a shame, I hope those parti...
- Thu Jun 05, 2025 3:08 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: HPC
- Replies: 177
- Views: 71589
Re: HPC
Forgive me my little rant please ! https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/report-lays-out-failure-at-nuclear-power-plant/ar-AA1G3inI?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LGTS&cvid=3e705c36d8854eafad080bdea7317229&ei=24 Oh how sad I thought the independent was a semi reasonable paper but how can someone make...