🚨When frequency & inertia limits and safety margin breaches are met with denial and obfuscation, you know NESO is facing a serious credibility outage. Whistleblowers have gone to the Shadow Energy Secretary with concerns about grid security. What is going on? A thread 🧵(1/13)
The formerly great Guardian is no longer concerned with journalism, only with pandering to their eccentric leftist readers, in an attempt to postpone the date of their demise
The Met Office is claiming that this year is the first time temperatures of 35°C and higher have been recorded on six days. But the claims are a reflection of poorly sited weather stations, not climate change, says Paul Homewood. https://t.co/h8pMXunk5N
Dear @elonmusk
I am begging you to bring back the old block function!
You know the one where if you blocked someone they can’t comment on your posts, can’t see your posts or tag you!
The lefties are killing me 😂😂
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Help us bring the bygone days of our glorious city into the hearts and minds of modern day people.
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“Consider Yourself” from Oliver! (1968) ends with a reverse flash mob as dancers peel away mid-routine and flawlessly slip back into everyday life as if nothing happened. I've watched this 10 times today; it's perfect!
Pure in-camera movie magic.
Happy birthday, Mark Lester.
As we swelter through another heatwave we're facing more sanctimonious nonsense from people opposing the use of air conditioning
Today I write in the @Telegraph about this idiocy. Also today the paper is carrying a story on how the @nhs is prioritising net zero over the comfort and safety of sick people
These officials need to get a grip. It's no more acceptable to restrict cooling in summer than it is to limit heating in winter
There's no virtue in being miserable
https://t.co/qIRwBKxuAi
In celebration of the new heatwave, here's a Public Information Film from the 1970's that you might just recognise. It's one of four films featuring two characters enjoying the good weather: Joe, complete with a handkerchief on his head, and his bespectacled wife, Pertunia, who has a tongue like Gene Simmons from Kiss!
Joe was voiced by Peter Hawkins (Bill & Ben, etc) and Wendy Craig voiced the first three films as Pertunia, followed by Bridget Forsyth. The films were made by the same people who brought us Willo the Wisp!
Bit of Public Information Film trivia for you. Did you know that Charley the cat from the Charley Says series, was voiced by Kenny Everett!
Toodlepip.
This ‘Proud of Us’ video on slavery is well worth your time.
They have many other videos telling historical truths that are often kept from us
This is not just for kids!
All of us should watch them! 👍
We've been ruled by men who live by illusions:
—The illusion that you can spend money you haven't earned without eventually going bankrupt or falling into the hands of your creditors;
—The illusion that real jobs can be conjured into existence by government decree like rabbits out of a hat;
—The illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than by hard work and satisfying your customers;
—The illusion that you can have freedom and enterprise without believing in free enterprise.
I’ve always never been able to decide which is Britain’s most beautiful bit: North Devon or the Yorkshire Dales. But I’ve just spent the last three days in the Scottish Borders and now I have an answer. God almighty, they’re beautiful. Also, I bought some cows there.
The best way to get energy costs down is to ditch net zero
I have offered a free hour of energy training to all MPs and Peers
So far nobody from @UKLabour has shown any interest. Maybe you'd like to know more
The training covers oil, gas and electricity markets and steps through the value chain from upstream, midstream to downstream
It covers physical logistics and constraints
Eg why does North Sea oil go to European refineries but North Sea gas all comes to the UK
Why the gas market balances once a day vs every half hour for electricity
How bills are constructed etc
There's also a whole section in the notes on how the electricity market evolved after privatisation including how the Power Pool of England & Wales worked and why it was replaced by NETA (then BETTA)
If you don't already know this then perhaps you could spare an hour to find out
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This has been explained to you many many times. Why don't you engage with the answer?
Only the wholesale price is set by gas
The wholesale price is c40% of the bill we pay
Renewables subsidies are almost all higher than the wholesale price so if the wholesale price falls the subsidy element rises. This is a separate charge on the bill
Other charges on the bill are
Backup for renewables
High cost of connecting renewables
Extra balancing costs for renewables
In the autumn energy execs set this out in detail to the DESNZ Select Committee. They were very clear....
WHOLESALE PRICES COULD FALL TO ZERO AND BILLS WOULD STILL GO UP
Spotted this radio set in a shop in Marseillan today, a Le Regional 57M. Note on the top of the dial Droitwich, then on 1500m carrying the Light Programme when this was built. Radio 4 long wave closes in the early hours tomorrow (although a looped anno continues until Tuesday)