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- Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:39 am
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: EDF scraps plans to re-start Dungeness B
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2277
Re: EDF scraps plans to re-start Dungeness B
I've got an investment via Abundance in the nearby Hoo Solar farm, there's not much else out there and I know the farmers are really struggling now.
- Tue Jun 22, 2021 4:37 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: EDF scraps plans to re-start Dungeness B
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2277
Re: EDF scraps plans to re-start Dungeness B
I grew up in a village a few miles SW of Sandwich over on the East coast of Kent - remember visiting places like Lydd, Sellinge, Romney,, Hythe, Dymchurch etc. The power station at Richborough, and then later, the prototype on-shore wind turbine, were hugely visible landmarks for miles around - all ...
- Tue Jun 22, 2021 2:44 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: Chinese province stops Bitcoin mining and...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 976
Chinese province stops Bitcoin mining and...
... saw a reduction in electricity demand of 8GW. https://youtu.be/g6C3zDqXe-Q?t=75 Forgive the slightly "Zany" video presentation style! Goodness me though - I knew cryptocurrency mining was being talked about as being a total power consumption disaster, but that really does illustrate it...
- Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:34 pm
- Forum: Hydro Power
- Topic: Loch Ness pumped hydro scheme...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2352
Loch Ness pumped hydro scheme...
... approved by the Scottish Government! Apparently 450MW power, but I can't find any info about how much actual storage capacity it will have. https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/civils/loch-ness-550m-hydro-scheme-approved-09-06-2021/ This part of the story worries me though: The company now needed ...
- Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:26 pm
- Forum: Show us your system
- Topic: Ongoing Work at Nowty Towers
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6668
Re: Ongoing Work at Nowty Towers
Wow - amazing stuff.
- Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:12 pm
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: EDF scraps plans to re-start Dungeness B
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2277
Re: EDF scraps plans to re-start Dungeness B
Interesting thought - Dungeness (well, Lydd), was the site for the first HVDC interconnection between the UK and France back in the 60s. I guess they could make use of the nuclear grid connection to build another one - although I don't believe there are currently plans for one to land there - the ot...
- Tue Jun 22, 2021 11:15 am
- Forum: Wind Power
- Topic: First turbine installed at Hornsea 2
- Replies: 1
- Views: 960
First turbine installed at Hornsea 2
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2021/05/28 ... wind-farm/
First of 165 8.4MW wind turbines planted at Hornsea 2.
Whole thing due to complete mid-2022.
First of 165 8.4MW wind turbines planted at Hornsea 2.
Whole thing due to complete mid-2022.
- Tue Jun 22, 2021 10:52 am
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: EDF scraps plans to re-start Dungeness B
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2277
Re: EDF scraps plans to re-start Dungeness B
The human race is doomed.
- Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:48 am
- Forum: Media and Culture
- Topic: EDF scraps plans to re-start Dungeness B
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2277
EDF scraps plans to re-start Dungeness B
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/romney-marsh/news/power-station-to-move-into-defuelling-phase-with-immediate-e-248599/ EDF had hoped to re-start the reactor and run it for another 8 years, but instead it'll be decommissioned having been shut down in 2018. I know nuclear generation is a very expensive a...
- Sun Jun 20, 2021 1:18 pm
- Forum: Transport
- Topic: EV Spotting
- Replies: 1
- Views: 915
EV Spotting
Just went out for a Sunday Stroll and this is the tally of EVs I spotted around my neighbourhood today, both parked and driving past. Let's start with the new ones: Mercedes EQA - first one of these! Fiat 500-e - also my first spot of one of these! (looks super nice) Also bagged the following: Corsa...