On 13/03/18 12:13, NY wrote:
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Max Demian writes:
On 08/03/2018 23:14, Marland wrote:
Andrew Gabriel

Before the Berlin wall came down, there were two continental Europe
synchronisation zones, Western Europe run from Switzerland, and
Eastern Europe run from Moscow. The first was +/- 0.1Hz, the second
was +/- 1Hz, IIRC. The western side was actually very short on spare
capacity (particularly Germany), and the east had lots, but from
highly poluting sources. When the wall came down, Germany was in a
dilema at the time on using power from the east which Western German
industry desperately needed, but seriously pumping up the resulting

What were the reasons for the UK having its own grid, with a *DC*
connection to mainland Europe? Was it just that the UK wasn't part of
Europe at the time, or was there another more technical, less political
reason?

Well you see its this odd and not very political thing called GEOGRAPHY.
You maye have heard of it although its not as fashoinable as gay
marriage, but what it means is that if you walked all round the COAST
like that ponce on TV you find that is water on every side!

And that means its a long way to string pylons in shipping lanes so teh
GB grid is naturally isolated and always was, since ints inception in
IIRC the 1930s


Really it wwsnt much point in building any undersea links until the 60s,
as AC links were too lossy and the electronics to do DC links was still
pretty impressively huge featuring mercury arc valves and the like.

Later on with silicon stuff it got a bit easier. And access to cheap
French nuclear power was an economic driver.


You see, I know its hard to understand, but EU treaties do not join
countries together. Bridges and roads and cables and tunnels and ferries
do, no matter what some **** in Brussels thinks or says.

I know its hard stuff, this 'thinking' but if you do a bit more of it
you will realise that life goes on without any politics at all.

Out in my garden Pigeons are having sex and building nests *without any
legal status or rights as couples or as parents*.

WOW!

Similarly electrons are flowing dutifully down wires everywhere
irrespective of any human prescribed laws or statutes.

Apparently - I watched the documentary - the ancient Olmecs and Toltecs
and Mayans of Mexico all thought they could control the climate by
worshipping the right gods and sacrificing the odd victim.

They all died, because they couldn't.

Are you listening Mr. Attenborough?

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Climate Change: Socialism wearing a lab coat.