Posts by Lars

Re: Hot gas

@fg_swe

Yes but some countries use gas for cooking too and to produce a makeshift chimney in an apartment house is not a good idea.

I used to have one of those oil burning things in my summer cottage but switch to electricity many many years ago.

These days I am thinking of one of those "air pumps" as the summers are getting too hot at times.

Re: Hot gas

@Danny 2

I think it's this Norwegian gas project you are referring to.

But that pipe line from Norway is already in operation since 2007.

Could there be one more under construction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langeled_pipeline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEFMgap6Ptg&t=21s

Constructing Mammoth Underwater Gas Pipeline

Re: Rolls Royce Small Modular Reactor ?

According to RR it will take about 10 years before they can deliver.

"In November 2021, the UK government provided funding of £210 million to further develop the design, partly matched by £195 million of investment by Rolls Royce Group, BNF Resources UK Limited and Exelon Generation Limited.[9][10] At that point they expected the first unit would be completed in the early 2030s.".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_SMR

It's not the only company trying to make it work, however.

Re: 17 yrs FFS

@Peter2

Why so negative regarding wind power.

Of what these countries produce of electricity right now, this minute that was.

Denmark gets 91%

Sweden 40%

Finland 27%

Norway 21%

All countries export electricity right now but Finland.

https://www.svk.se/en/national-grid/the-control-room/

As fot ITER, yes that is a huge project but I doubt anybody there would like to guarantee that they will deliver first plasma in December 2025.

One can hope though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCpWPJrH7TA

ITER: The $65BN Power Plant of the Future

I am not all that convinced the Russians needed British technology as they were able to take it from Germany. I am sure the British at the time knew it too.

Quoting the Wikipedia:

"Following the end of the war the German jet aircraft and jet engines were extensively studied by the victorious allies and contributed to work on early Soviet and US jet fighters. The legacy of the axial-flow engine is seen in the fact that practically all jet engines on fixed-wing aircraft have had some inspiration from this design.".

@Jan K

The one Sweden provides is not bad either and includes Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

It's interesting to see how a countries "geography" determines the energy source.

Norway will get its electricity from mainly hydro and wind, right now 98%.

Finland , a flat land with not that much wind either gets 52% from nuclear and about 20% from wind and hydro.

Sweden gets about 90% from hydro 58%, nuclear 28% and wind 5% right now and is a net exporter.

In Swedish

https://www.svk.se/om-kraftsystemet/kontrollrummet/

In English

https://www.svk.se/en/national-grid/the-control-room/

Re: @Lars

@codejunky

I believe you got it right but it gets a bit difficult to use the word ahead when it means "worse" as in that list

where the worst offender is number one.

So writing "ahead of France, Italy, Poland and Spain" means that Britain is worse than those countries.

(on that list then).

But my point was that it's ridiculous to pull the "just 1%" point that Tilda Rice did, probably not trying to fool anybody but rather having been fooled herself by it.

@Tilda Rice

That is a very idiotic comment.

Britain is number 17 among 209 countries with a 1.3% ahead of France, Italy, Poland and Spain for instance.

Also among the bottom 190 all are below 1%.

Try to remember that 100 times 1 is 100.

https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/co2-emissions-by-country/

"China holds the crown for coal-fired power generation".

So lets do nothing!.

It's a problem yes, but they still produce less pollution per capita than we do in the USA and Europe and they will have about 20 new nuclear power plants within 10 years, probably more.

They should do more but so should we.

It's just a bit too simple to say - look at the Chinese, and do nothing.

But there is, of course, Boris who will/would build one a year in Britain apart from all the hospitals.

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwide.aspx

@brainwrong

I can assure you that one hour is exactly one hour at any speed.

Re: Avast

@Doctor Syntax

My point was that it's not a British company, never was, and should not have been mentioned in that article at all.

A hell of a lot of "foreign" companies are listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Re: Got the message yet Google?

Don't worry they won't go bust but lets hope they might learn something from it.

Re: That's how Airbus started

@Chris C

"*Jet* airliner???"

"The Airbus product line started with the A300 in 1972, the world's first twin-aisle, twin-engined aircraft. A shorter, re-winged, re-engined variant of the A300 is known as the A310.

Building on its success, Airbus launched the A320, the first commercial jet to use a digital fly-by-wire control system. The A320 has been, and continues to be, a major commercial success. ".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus

Re: That's how Airbus started

It's also how Boeing started or what are you driving at.

Re: No mention of anything even remotely looking like an "industrial strategy"......

"..building wings for Airbus".

That seems to pop up every now and then, but in reality that factory is an Airbus factory fully owned by Airbus.

While some seem to believe a British company is building wings for Airbus like RR who actually is builds engines for Airbus among others.

I mention this because some years ago a British kid or gammon, a brexiteer, wrote that should Airbus decide to move the production on wings to mainland Europe then the British would never reveal the technology behind building wings.

One should not mention or remember idiocy like that but the guy did very well in the number of up votes he got. It wasn't on ElReg.

"...but why are we not laying out a plan for what we need to build?".

You are run by happy idiots,

it's the cost of a two party system with a one part government, fptp and the English plague in the form of Rupert not the reindeer.

Apart from that I am not all that surprised as +80% of British business is about services and not about industry.

The Moggs will make it all about shuffling money around simply by just shuffling money around.

Re: When BREXIT and MURICA end your markets you fall like a heap

The problem is that they don't understand any other language and anything not English has to be inferior (except for expatting, if only in English).

It has gone as far as the Tory importing the "Venezuela scare" into British politics, not to mention the domestic Drumpf.

Re: have you looked at your electricity bill lately

@captai veg

Ertu kannski að tala um Ísland eða lítur þú á kjarnorku sem endurnýjanlega orku?

Re: "Gas by wire"

You seem to assume Britain is only exporting electricity.

Still these are the facts for 2021, 2022 not of course available yet.

"Electricity demand increased in 2021 to 334.2 TWh, up by 1.2 per cent from 2020. The increase was primarily a result of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which severely restricted the activity of business and industry in 2020 but had a smaller effect in 2021.

Electricity supply increased in 2021, due to higher demand for electricity, but UK generation fell with higher supply from net imports. Total electricity supplied in 2021 was 333.2 TWh, with net imports of 24.6 TWh, 7.4 per cent of electricity supplied. Electricity generation fell to a record low of 308.7 TWh in 2021, 1.2 per cent less than in 2020.

Total net imports were a record 24.6 TWh in 2021. Total imports were 28.7 TWh in 2021, up 28.4 per cent compared to 2020, while total exports were down 7.0 per cent on 2020 to 4.2 TWh. Interconnector capacity rose to 7.4 GW in 2021 with new operational cables between the UK and Norway (North Sea Link), and a second link to France (IFA 2)."

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1094628/DUKES_2022_Chapter_5.pdf

Note, we talk about "net" as a good grid works both ways, or perhaps the word "interconector" is a better word.

Many countries both export and import according to demand and availability.

It's positive to leave a link as you did but I wonder if you are capable of understanding it properly.

Re: A cunning plan

@Cynical Pie

Sir Humphrey was also a fairy tale figure.

Re: UK rejoining the EU?

@Philip Storry

There is of course also Denmark who decided to keep the Danish crown.

But I still would not claim it's "rubbish" as there is really no way to know how different countries would react.

But if there is today a rule that demands a "new" member to join the euro zone that rule can be changed if the member states agree.

And after all, there are hardly any rules specifically for rejoining the EU.

I don't think the pound would be the biggest question at all.

I think one of the bigger questions would be about howto prevent Britain from becoming a "hand grenade", never knowing if it is coming or going before every election.

My first "demand" would be that you get rid of the fptp, not that I know if stuff like that ever enter any such discussions

But what I find so very English is the deeply inbuilt assumption that joining the euro would be a bad thing.

Seriously, what is that based on.

Both in Sweden and Denmark business would have preferred the euro because they can count, and even if they knew they would lose the ability to devaluate the currency.

One SEK is worth 0.080 pound and the DKK is 0.115 pound today.