"Arfa Daily" wrote in message
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Well, actually, our " little island ", as you so quaintly put it, is
actually connected to many millions of other users in mainland Europe, to
form a hedged power distribution system


On this side of the pond "many millions" is not even close to 330 million +.

which doesn't suffer from cascade
failure when the weather gets a bit cold, or major outages when the sun
flares a bit ... ; -)

True, but think about the enormous length of the electricity network in
the US and Canada compared to the UK. The UK (and that part of
Europe that the UK could possible support) would easily fit about
10 times in Ontario alone....

Just out of curiosity: How many Megawatts of electricity is
the UK capable of exporting before its own network collapses?

Do Little2