Indeed, France 24 cites technical problems as the cause of the 12 year delay and massive cost overruns.

Keep in mind this is a new reactor at an existing nuclear site, i.e. the cheapest option as the infrastructure isn there and the site is already well surveyed etc.

Also France's nuclear fleet manages a capacity factor of about 70%, with unexpected shutdowns a regular problem, so "stable" is not the right word.

Fortunately we have a grid, so we can close gas plants as they become redundant and the remaining ones can maintain a higher usage level. Eventually though they will all be closed and replaced by storage and transmission lines.

Octopus have never tariffs that are generally the cheapest around, favouring green energy.

I do appreciate how hard it is for many people though. We should be investing in upgrading housing stock with insulation, solar, and batteries. The prices are still too high, and we need to do something for people renting or who are otherwise unable to get those things.

Or the cloud is down and their doorbell doesn't alert them to people ringing it.

Delivery people hate smart doorbells anyway. Users hate that notifications often take tens of seconds to arrive.

It's because we are too reliant on expensive gas. The price of electricity is set by the most expensive source, which is often gas. Nuclear pushes it up too.

The more wind we have the less gas we will use. It has also been suggested that we could have regional pricing, so expensive gas/nuclear needed in one area doesn't stop others from getting cheaper wind.

Get on to Octopus Agile. When prices are negative you get paid to use electricity.

You can actually do it with your home battery/EV and solar if you make the effort. Charge when you get paid to, export when it is profitable.

Didn't the Gran Turismo Devs already demonstrate all of this? Tyre warming, adaptation, an AI that players can't beat?

It's the sensor suite that gives them the necessary data that is the issue.

Yes, but if you can rhetorically minimize the effects of sea level rise, then you don't have to admit that increasing GHGs in the atmosphere is heating the surface of the planet and melting year-round ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, so yay!

What job? To bring life expectancies down?

You actually think he should be put in charge of a government department, in particular one whose mandate directly correlates with life expectancy? Do you just hate humans?

And groups trying to impose their religion, and a Supreme Court happy to help them.

That would be very useful for a lot of sensors. It's enough energy to send a transmission every day, and take some readings.

Even if the electronics only last several decades that would be a huge improvement on current 5-10 year battery lives.

I think it's definitely reduced the cost of returning stuff to Amazon. They have it streamlined like they do with deliveries now.

The biggest players get special treatment. Like monopolies do in the US.

Apple uses this exclusivity to distort the market. Google uses more open protocols, e.g. RCS, and Microsoft supports Linux and Mac.