In article l.net,
Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 09:37:46 +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

All well and good but surely they must also realise that all of this
puts up demand for power in a climate of lack of investment in Nuclear,
the only current viable way to generate it without either greenhouse
gasses being emitted or the high cost and intermittent nature of
renewables.

I doubt they realise at all. The general populus has been lulled into
a very deep sense of security due to the reliabilty of the Britain's
mains electricity. It's always there, it happens by "magic". They
haven't clue how much effort goes on in the background to keep the
lights on or the limitations of the whole system from generation to
local distribution. Even less idea of how much energy transport
consumes.

I suspect the last time the general public were affected was whn a
Duisrtibution board in Battersea failed. That took out most of West London
- including BBC TV Centre. The reserved feed to that building was "fed
directly from Battersea" - from the power board that failed. The emergebncy
generator hadn't yet been commissioned so BBC2' first night didn't happen.

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