Hartlepool, Heysham A, Hinkley Point B, Hunterston B and now Dungeness B - edfenergy.com/media-centre/n… ... forget about net zero plan or loss of £40M to the local economy - how close are we getting to running out of power? 
I know people keep talking about crypto and the Bank of England creating its own currency etc ... but with what? If we start running out of power then the public aren't going to react well with people using it to get rich on crypto when they are having power cuts.
... oh, and before you go ChiaCoin ... proof of space, that's madness right there. Still, at least it means if you spent £400M on a data lake, the real gold is probably your disk storage (not the data).
X : Disk storage?
Me : Disks are the new gold - tomshardware.com/uk/news/hard-d… - and you thought it was data. It's why I told one CIO who was trying to work out how to make an ROI on their data lake to consider selling the disks :-)
Me : Disks are the new gold - tomshardware.com/uk/news/hard-d… - and you thought it was data. It's why I told one CIO who was trying to work out how to make an ROI on their data lake to consider selling the disks :-)
Anyway, I'm getting off the point. As @emilygosden says "five of Britain's eight nuclear plants" -
https://twitter.com/emilygosden/status/1401948340091301896... times like this we need to have a CEGB who have been scenario planning and stress testing for this all along. Alas, no.
Today, I've generated 26kWh of power and consumed 18kWh (using batteries to offset supply / demand) ... next year as I expand my solar array (again), add in more efficient heaters / air con those figures will get better. But in winter .... it's a different story ...
... yes, I'll look into alternative energy sources and the batteries provide some protection against power cuts which we do get occassionally - it's not uncommon to get 10 or so power events over the winter.
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