Interesting Links for 16-08-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Under Marxism, which will be the correct way to eat?

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2. New Omicron jab to be rolled out within weeks after UK becomes first country to approve it

(tags:UK Pandemic vaccine )

3. On The Society Of Authors and transphobia

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4. Estonian government will remove Soviet Union war monuments

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5. Home solar panels will now pay for themselves in just four years as energy bills soar

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6. The majority of babies born in the UK have unmarried parents

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7. Saving Lake Windermere

(tags:UK water Doom )

Comments

[andrewducker]

How much oversupply and storage do we need on top of generation to guarantee absolutely no blackouts? I know we can do it, but my memory was that guaranteeing it was remarkably expensive. Although storage may have gotten significantly cheaper than then.

[danieldwilliam]

Nobody guarantees absolutely no blackouts but taking your point as an acceptable level of blackout risk I think a lot of the prohibitive cost comes if you are determined to minimise generation capacity and the dumping of surplus generation.

I think the key commercial break-through is someone finding something that uses a lot of electricity to do something useful and which doesn't mind much being switched on and off somewhat unpredictably.