On 22/04/17 10:36, Andy Burns wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

ARW wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39675418
I thought we had already done that.

I thought we'd had "more solar than coal" one bright saturday?

we had that some time ago,

I was mis-remembering the BBC article from March when

"For the first time ever, the amount of electricity demanded by
homes and businesses in the afternoon on Saturday was lower than
it was in the night, because solar panels on rooftops and in
fields cut demand so much"

and there was a brief couple of hours in 2016 whene there was no
coal, but this is a no coal *day*, and the greens are wetting their
pants thinking its terribly wonderful.,

Wait till be get a 'no electricity day'. The sad part about that is that
Gridwatch wont be able to record it.

What? Not running in a datacentre with n+1 UPS and standby generators?

I am sure the server is, but whether it could do 24 hours without power
is another matter, BUT if the grid at large goes down, can you guarantee
all the meters in and around powers stations and the grid and the UK
internet itself would stay up? I doubt it.


I hope someone somewhere at GCHQ or MI sioomething or other hgas run a
detailed scenario of what actually would be left functional if we had a
national power cut.

My guess is apart from a few MILSPEC comms links and a red telephone
shoved um T Mays bottom, 'not much' is the answer.

All supermarket food spoilt.
No transactions possible except cash.
NO working petrol or diesel pumps.
No road transport after a day or so
No water
No sewage.
No central heating or hot water
No lights
No radio
No TV
No Internet
No mobile phones.
(Landlines would work for a bit, if you had a POTS to plug in)

Never mind the Greens, it only takes half a dozen shaped charges on a
few major transmission line pylons to trip the lot I would think.

Done properly should take out 50% of all city dwellers in a few days



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Canada is all right really, though not for the whole weekend.

"Saki"