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by dan_b
Fri Jun 27, 2025 4:12 pm
Forum: Wind Power
Topic: 2GW West of Orkney wind project approved
Replies: 3
Views: 138

2GW West of Orkney wind project approved

Yet more offshore Scottish wind! https://renews.biz/101484/scotland-gives-green-light-for-2gw-west-of-orkney/ Is it wrong of me to have a nagging worry that this could end up being another heavily constrained wind farm paid to not generate - I read somewhere that the brand new 1GW Seagreen offshore ...
by dan_b
Thu Jun 26, 2025 4:09 pm
Forum: Media and Culture
Topic: UK Bio Ethanol plant to close
Replies: 4
Views: 226

Re: UK Bio Ethanol plant to close

Isn't Bioethanol basically used as an additive to petrol, in an attempt to make it a "greener" fuel than just petrol alone? So if we're now going to get it all from teh US, ie shipped across the Atlantic, that's putting a lot of fuel miles on a fuel that's supposed ot lower its greenhouse ...
by dan_b
Thu Jun 26, 2025 2:15 pm
Forum: Photovoltaic
Topic: Electric German Church Roofs
Replies: 0
Views: 136

Electric German Church Roofs

Came across this website about solar roof tiles being installed on large old churches. The monastery has 20,000 solar tiles, for an array total power of 155kWp. That's about 7Wp per solar tile I guess? Isn't this what Musk was trying to get us all to buy as Tesla Roofs a few years back? https://www....
by dan_b
Thu Jun 26, 2025 11:44 am
Forum: Transport
Topic: Electric buses drive improvement in Oxford’s air quality
Replies: 5
Views: 213

Re: Electric buses drive improvement in Oxford’s air quality

Yeah, because apparently no one ever talks about brake dust and tyre wear and that all EVs are as heavy as Sagittarius A* but but aren't electric vehicles of all types just as polluting, if not more than their ICE counterparts? I am sure that's what I read in many of the UK papers at various times a...
by dan_b
Thu Jun 26, 2025 11:01 am
Forum: Transport
Topic: Electric buses drive improvement in Oxford’s air quality
Replies: 5
Views: 213

Re: Electric buses drive improvement in Oxford’s air quality

Impressive reductions in diesel pollution for sure - same thing happening here in London.
by dan_b
Thu Jun 26, 2025 9:58 am
Forum: Media and Culture
Topic: Xlinks snub
Replies: 18
Views: 630

Re: Xlinks snub

I think XLinks is primarily a UK-run business. So I guess from their POV they were thinking initially about it being a project for the UK energy market.
But yes I agree, it was always somewhat bonkers of an idea to run billions of quids worth of cables past several thousand KM of existing EU grids!
by dan_b
Thu Jun 26, 2025 9:37 am
Forum: Media and Culture
Topic: Xlinks snub
Replies: 18
Views: 630

Re: Xlinks snub

I suspect it's a combination of legitimate concerns about cable security, not having 100% trust in Morocco as a reliable energy partner, not having 100% confidence in XLinks being able to raise the money, a huge lobbying effort by the Nuclear Lobby to spend money on SizewellC and SMR sites, and a po...
by dan_b
Wed Jun 25, 2025 4:33 pm
Forum: Photovoltaic
Topic: 4 UK solar farms energised
Replies: 1
Views: 178

4 UK solar farms energised

129MWp of solar farms turned on, including one with co-located battery storage, Warwicksire, Shropshire and 2x in Essex.

https://renews.biz/101416/low-carbon-co ... -capacity/
by dan_b
Wed Jun 25, 2025 4:31 pm
Forum: Cafe
Topic: Nice and slow Life in Eu
Replies: 12
Views: 455

Re: Nice and slow Life in Eu

Bit of an acquired taste - very fatty and not much actual meat on them, but if you're in the mood to try things and you see them on the menu its worth giving a go! Although i am not a beer lover, but will try more of it Paulaner weissen,keep it in mind now I haven't tried the German pig's trotters y...
by dan_b
Wed Jun 25, 2025 3:02 pm
Forum: Energy storage, batteries, energy tariffs
Topic: Bi-directional charging
Replies: 7
Views: 307

Re: Bi-directional charging

Well I guess they already have their own branded heatpump. They might as well go the whole hog and start selling Octopus Solar and Octopus Batteries.