@BenCrellin You’re moaning for the sake of it. In the UK we don’t get these extra ads everyone seems to be complaining about. The players stand about on the pitch a little longer before the kick off but other than that it’s just commentators talking like normal
If I went to another country, and lived there for a few years as a student, I wouldn't expect to get the right to vote in national elections, and the idea of standing as candidate for election would just seem completely bizarre, unless I'd gone through a full citizenship change.
I keep saying: if environmentalists really cared about the environment, they’d be finding ways to sabotage China’s fishing fleet. Instead, they’re complaining about plastic straws.
A reminder of what wind power actually looks like...
We have 32 GW installed, hence the size of the scale on the y-axis
Over the weekend output fell to 0.6 GW - this happened overnight when demand was low but when solar output was zero - so functionally we had no wind or solar on the grid
The length of the lull when wind was below 3.2 GW (a tenth of the installed amount) was far longer than any battery can bridge)
THIS is why wind and solar do not provide energy security. In the winter periods of zero solar are longer and coincide with times of peak demand, not just for the day but for the year
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
I calculated that one (1) of these three new small modular reactors will give out the same average annual energy as 40 square miles of solar panels. And they work at night. And in winter. And when it is cloudy.