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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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.
- 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!
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!
- 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...
- 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/
https://renews.biz/101416/low-carbon-co ... -capacity/
- 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...
- 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.