It is a little odd for the price of electricity in my house to be quite so dependent on the speed of the wind in the North Sea, though I guess no odder than my comfort in a house in Montreal being utterly dependent on icy water rushing through turbines in James Bay
It’s not a great outcome if world oil production is down 30% for two decades while they rebuild the refineries and pipelines and export terminals, because three billion people _in countries with nuclear ICBMs_ rather need oil to make fertilisers and run tractors to keep them fed!
There used to be quite good subsidies: I’m getting something like £400 a quarter for seven years which pays off most of the capital cost of the heat pump I put in in 2021. Oblige landlords to fit, let owners borrow at subsidised rates secured against the property.
There seems a certain Bambi vs Godzilla enjoyment to be had out of Coral vs Jane Street ...
Mark every customer as a high-competence gambler with an observed edge and the underlying systems will restrict them to betting five dollars a week anyway …
I described Ribena as ‘purple water’ to my toddler once five years ago, and now all squashes are $COLOUR water in my whole household forever …
Chart of energy use and tariff, showing the battery filling up with <2p/kWh electricity overnight on this windy night
Dunkelbrise!
If you are burning electrolysis-produced methane you have left the path of wisdom. Hot industrial heat from electricity is something that needs development - Brayton cycle with inert gas in electrically-driven turbines, maybe, fluids with a usable phase change much hotter than steam are rare.
I'm also a bit unsure what nine months of storage of enough hydrogen looks like - a gigawatt of fuel cells is at least a billion dollars, I can see an argument for making methane to store in LNG storage we already have and burning it in turbines we already have at least until they're worn out.
I can see that, but I can’t see who pays for the fourth chunk of solar and wind the size of required capacity … as @solarchase.bsky.social pointed out, there aren’t many users of intermittent power for which the finance on the factory is not more than the power cost
The app can notify the user directly without anyone needing to know the user’s mobile number
It's not a completely unreasonable term to use for the sum of oil pumped from the ground and oil products refined, which seems to give the figure being discussed.
The first act of the war was to sink every vessel in the Iranian navy from their large drone carrier down to a ship full of military bands returning from an international meet-up in Sri Lanka. That’s quite a lot of the mining capacity.
For about a decade starting about fifteen years ago crypto was entirely a way to get exposure to a lot of the illegal economy without having to make the acquaintance of gentlemen with acquaintances with baseball bats.
Isn’t that why she’s following up with X-ray fluorescence?
France and Britain both produce rockets - quite good ones - and both have the capability to close the English Channel tomorrow, but they’re not going to, and they’ve been clearly not going to since 1904. You can’t manage “not able to threaten”, only “not going to threaten”.
I really dislike the way that all the current boosting about AI coding is 'run this opaque thing on Anthropic's computers' rather than 'run mistral on your local PC' - replacing handwriting with a free wordprocessor is very different from replacing it with initially-subsidised typing pool access.
Doesn't it depend on what you mean by 'rely'? Sometimes there is a still night, and burning a bit of natural gas even at 2022 prices in turbines that you've already got is quite a bit cheaper than building enough batteries to get through it, and climate-safer than burning coal then.
The Russian word 'minut' in Times New Roman italic; looks like MuHym but all the letters the same height
'muhym' for 'minute' is weird - suggests it was transcribed from italicised or cursive Russian, the 't' character in минут becomes m-shaped in handwriting or in italics.
It’s not Chinglish, it’s Russlish, though I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if it were Chirussian.
Cantor Fitzgerald would like to argue …
Is there still a pile of sulfur the size of a city block on Vancouver North Dock? The problem is that it’s so low-value ($500 per ton) that you don’t want to ship it so want to make the sulfuric acid next to the oil refinery.
I am wondering whether switching to flexible electricity pricing five days before Netanyahu bombed Iran may not have been the best plan. In dunkelflaute conditions like now the lowest per-unit price (0330-0400) is 24p/h while non-flexible prices are 27p/h 24/365.
Is anyone else on Moixa ( mygridshare.com ) having their dashboard not update? I've been unable to contact their support since Friday morning which makes me worry something larger-scale is wrong.
No. There are oil loading facilities at Jeddah on the Red Sea, but the Houthi have something like control at the south end and you’d have to go Suez Canal in tankers small enough to fit. And the gas liquefaction facilities are all on the Persian Gulf - Saudi Arabia barely exports gas.
Hiring six thousand people to get it done by June doesn’t strike me as a difficult ask for the federal government …
If you’re at that stage of career in investing and still need your salary to live on you have really not done good investing!
Ah yes, the aphrodisiac T-shirt
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I am waiting for BA to start advertising flights to Colombia heavily, pushing the the plus points that you’re going nowhere near Dubai and you’re changing planes in Madrid rather than the USA …
