Waah

Hey if you get butturth about being called out for bullshit then maybe don't spew bullshit?

You mean like this?

Hey fanboi, none of those people are me.

Did you notice that and tell a bunch of lies or are you having real trouble grasping the concept that different people exist?

Where did I say it doesn't count?

I'm your previous post.

He's part of your club dude.

No,, my dude. The guys a fuckwit, like you, so you're part of the same club as him.

That's the problem. Luls you into a false sense of security, then when you aren't paying attention it fails and you die.

It's easier to capture the emissions of gas electricity plants. Everything else can be electric.

To an extent, but nobody in Europe is building nuclear at a reasonable cost. It's worse here, but once France is forced to replace its reactors, if it goes for more nuclear I expect we will soon find out how little doing lots of them really helps.

Maybe you don't understand what 95% renewables means. It means that over the course of a year, 95% of electrical energy is generated by renewables.

Interconnects allow us to buy renewable energy from other countries.

The UK's current goal is 95% renewables and nuclear over a year, by 2030. What will probably scupper us is Hinkley Point C, the new nuclear plant, being delayed.

why would you think that?

What use would I have for an EV?

Yeah but somehow it's still way more expensive than other places.

Plus it's also the way we love doing things: once we get around to it, make sure it's a 1 off so all the costs that get amortized (like getting an experienced workforce, supply chains etc etc) don't get amortized!

It's the same problem with HSR here too.

Endless fuckage and then doing it piecemeal.

The trains are so reliable, not just the bullet trains, that if they are delayed by more than a few minutes they have a bit of paper you can collect and show to your boss so you don't get into trouble.

The bullet trains operate on a 15 second interval timetable, but the drivers typically try to arrive within 1 second of the advertised time. They have a system where they make up time by accelerating a little harder, so they never need to exceed the speed limit. They do the calculations in their head to figure out how to arrive at exactly the right time.

They have been trialling driverless Shinkansen (bullet trains), and one of the parts they had trouble with was replicating that system in software. The new maglev ones are driven by humans, but because the trains are so fast they can't really see things like signals and speed limit signs, so the communication systems with the train have to be extremely reliable. The stopping distance at 500kph is 6.6km, although even the conventional railed ones need 4km.

Even in the conventional Shinkansen, the human drivers are not allowed to do too much themselves. If there is a fault, they are required to open the fault resolution manual, look it up, and follow the instructions precisely, similar to aircraft pilots. There are very few "memory items" that they are supposed to resolve without consulting the book.

The way it is supposed to work is that it allows the site to do a cryptographic challenge and response. The site can't tell which device was used, or even if the same device is used each time. There is not communication with the government after the initial confirmation of ID.

That is assuming that all the crypto works properly, of course. Hopefully they have some experts involved.

I'll still VPN into a country that doesn't have such laws as a matter of course, but given that most people seem to think this is a good thing, and we live in a democracy, it's probably the best possible outcome. The current situation in the UK, for example, where you need to prove your age to each site individually, and they all get your real ID and then abuse it and it gets stolen, is close to the worst.

I think the government did everything they could to make it happen and support EDF/Chinese Nuclear. It's just insanely expensive. Sizewell C is the largest building site in Europe. It's not just reactors, it's fuel storage, waste storage, processing, maintenance, monitoring, emergency systems, all on site.

They even had a head start, since the site already had the grid connection and other infrastructure like roads and security that were needed for the two old nuclear plants.

I'm not exaggerating when I say nuclear is expensive. SMRs won't make it cheaper either, because the reactor is only a small part of the cost.

Well, yeah. Though the longest I've run my microwave for nearly continuously is something like 45 minutes (it's rated at 100% duty cycle), when I was catering for 16. It basically served the same purpose as a second oven except it's much smaller and way more useful the rest of the time.

It won't allow more than 15 minutes at full power to be entered.

But also...

If it's the middle of a spell of good weather, I don't want to be dumping a bunch of extra heat into my house!

Haven't the government kept fucking with it though? Plus there were a whole bunch of shenanigans around whether China was OK, or not back a number of years ago.

And they went for some sort of existing design then fucked with it extensively via regulations and then the weird environmental stuff kept piling on requiring change after change after change.

The stupid thing is that Starmer wants to "rip up" environmental regs and let companies trash the environment, because he's a fucking moron frankly. The environmental regs we have are both very burdensome and also not very good at actually protecting the environment. Unfortunately Starmer has no idea why anyone even wants environmental protection (because he believes in nothing), so he's more likely to make it worse.

Wasn't Crossrail something like 30% over budget and several years late? Maybe that's not bad for the construction industry ;)

Yep, that's generally pretty good for the construction industry especially a project of that complexity. And don't forget that it also crossed COVID which messed a whole bunch of everything up.

It was a few years late and a bit over budget and now it's a roaring success.

Or are you an ascetic individual, which refrains from using machinery to make life easier and prefer to wash dishes/clothing by hand and then let them dry naturally? :)

I don't wash by hand, but in summer I often dry on the line outside. I don't really consider it asceticism, especially as it doesn't add extra heat to the house.

My dishwasher averages probably 200W. But also, I generally run when it's full.

It only seems absurd because your premise is absurd - a whole country UPS.

In reality there is always a minimal amount of renewables, we have gas backup plants (that's what the 5% is), and we have interconnects to other countries.