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Potential power outages this winter
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England wins the world cup but no one can watch it due to black out, I'm calling that nowscare mongering gas supply shortage was a replay of 2018 beast from the east - where we would need some EU/continental gas to keep us going from our friends.
California avoided blackout by getting consumers to turn (AC) thermostats up this year, and pre-cooling their houses to reduce peak demand slot, when everyone would, nonetheless, be cooking ..
if everyone does a little, is the UK consumer capable of that ?... maybe time-shift the world cup matches, showing the final maybe too much of a risk.
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'we got him'
I think triggers broom analogy for four tory leaders is apt,
or, had seen this #It is already becoming a slight cliché to suggest Liz Truss could be compared to Eric Morecambe. Like him, she has all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order. In her conference speech ...
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Alternative to the current situation in Ukraine?
That ship sailed about 5+ months ago. We’ve masterfully put ourselves in a position of Zugzwang. There are no good options. So now I just observe, let those who wanted this, figure out how to get through without ending humanity. Good luck
A lot of people live near enough to work that they are potentially in the same service area for electricity.
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That’s what you call - time out. No work can be done in the event of a black out. lol. Wonder how many businesses rely on electric if there’s a black out they can’t operate due to having centralised systems.
There never were good options - Putin isn't a very naughty boy who accidentally put his armies in Ukraine and now regrets it, as all too many seem to see it. Don't buy into the Russian lies, regardless of any Western meddling or otherwise, in early negotiations Putin was the one who turned down the initial negotiated deal wanting nothing short of Ukraine's complete capitulation and it would not have ended there.
People don't pay attention to Putin's words - behind everything there is a desire to disrupt and reorganise the Western oriented structure of the global stage as he sees it. Any appeasement will just embolden him to push further.
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Even if you have power you may still not be able to work as a home worker if your main office is dark that you connect to, or your customers are dark.
How many computers, routers, switches etc in businesses will be failing due to being power-cycled for the first time in years, or the comedy option where config changes were made in memory but not saved to disk, or even worse changed on disk to something wrong but not live until a reboot. Seen all of these scenarios a bunch of times over the years.
I work in a regional office where the computers that control the id badge activated locks on the doors are in another part of the country etc.
They are talking about cuts between 4pm and 9pm - so good luck with no working traffic lights during rush hour.
How many computers, routers, switches etc in businesses will be failing due to being power-cycled for the first time in years, or the comedy option where config changes were made in memory but not saved to disk, or even worse changed on disk to something wrong but not live until a reboot. Seen all of these scenarios a bunch of times over the years.
I work in a regional office where the computers that control the id badge activated locks on the doors are in another part of the country etc.
They are talking about cuts between 4pm and 9pm - so good luck with no working traffic lights during rush hour.
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Can’t wait for the chaos.
I wonder how many companies are currently trying to hoover up as many generators as possible to try and keep these vital bits of equipment running.
Motorbikes FTW
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Bloody Tories, buggering up foreign countries as well now.
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I agree there were no good options but we were overly hasty in our sanctions. I can only imagine we (the West) thought Ukraine would lose quickly and we could go back to normal soon after. Instead we're paying Putin as much or more than we were paying before and we've knackered oureconomies because we didn't actually analyse our options in our rush to be seen to act. We could have fed Ukraine the weapons to win this war without stopping buyinnh Russian gas. The financial system implications may be worse in the long run because we have encouraged the autocratic states to decouple from US/European systems by showing our willingness to weaponise them.
No good options but we were very rash in the choice of options we did have.
Different supplies
Business will be shut. You will be forced to use your holiday
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Exactly. Its not the end of the world. Its **** yes but with everything that is happening right now in the world not having your PC or TV on for 3 hours a day isn't going to kill you.
We were thankful of that during the storm outage. Huddled round the woodburber at home but luckily the Chinese takeaway a few roads away still had power
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We were thankful of that during the storm outage. Huddled round the woodburber at home but luckily the Chinese takeaway a few roads away still had power
Running on Noodle power.
Can we all agree Liz Truss is crazy? She doesn't want to do anything to mitigate this beforehand because according to her it should be up to the individual to decide.
While the choice of areas to be cut will be meant to be chosen by the national grid, I'd be amazed if there weren't ham-fisted attempts at political interference.
Hell will freeze over before the center of the universe (London) gets it's powercut. Every town and city north of Reading would be without power for a week before London sees 1 minute of it.
Hell will freeze over before the center of the universe (London) gets it's powercut. Every town and city north of Reading would be without power for a week before London sees 1 minute of it.
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Oh I imagine anywhere that's not Blue will be made blue.
Smart meter payouts to be made permanent to help meet net zero goals
National Grid is offering to pay households for reducing smart meter use during peak hours on days when wind is low to avert blackouts
www.telegraph.co.uk
Nice..