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<div data-externalstyle="false" dir="ltr" style="font-family: 'Calibri', 'Segoe UI', 'Meiryo', 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'sans-serif';font-size:12pt;"><div>This is all well and good but it doesn’t reduce the number of non-renewable generation points required until a storage architecture is in place. Indeed, building a storage architecture has the potential to shift off-demand capacity to the on-demand part of the cycle. There are proposed solutions such as liquid metal batteries that could fulfil this role but there certainly isn’t very much noise about this.</div><div><br></div><div>Please don’t misunderstand. I’m in favour of renewable energy but I’m also in favour of having a robust solution. This probably means a diverse energy supply. I don’t understand why more funding doesn’t go to thorium salt research. This would be a perfectly reasonable medium term vector until there is adequate technical advances in fusion.<br></div><div data-signatureblock="true"><div><br></div><div>Denny</div><div><br></div></div><div style="padding-top: 5px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid;"><div><font face=" 'Calibri', 'Segoe UI', 'Meiryo', 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'sans-serif'" style='line-height: 15pt; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-family: "Calibri", "Segoe UI", "Meiryo", "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:martin@ml1.co.uk" target="_parent">Martin</a><br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 24 March 2015 14:08<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_parent">Notts GNU/Linux Users Group</a></font></div></div><div><br></div><div dir=""><div id="readingPaneBodyContent">A bit more solar in the UK news just now:<br><br><br>Solar energy 'could provide 4% of UK electricity by 2020'<br>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32028809<br><br>#####<br>"Solar power will do to energy what mobile phones did for communication<br>and markets."<br><br>He said he expected up to 14GW of solar by 2020 - up from 5GW at the end<br>of 2014. That equates roughly to 1.5% of total UK annual electricity to<br>just under 4%. He said he expected it to grow further in the next decade.<br><br>... subsidy for domestic solar would continue.<br><br>... "Previously the minister Greg Barker expressed an ambition to get<br>20GW of solar by 2020 - we could have hit that figure if the government<br>wasn't so blind to solar's potential."<br><br>A government spokesman said there were now 650,000 solar installations<br>in the UK, including panels on homes.<br>#####<br><br><br>That "4%" figure must be the average over a year as compared to peak<br>capacity.<br><br>Quick... Everyone move over to the RasPi and shut down all those<br>electricity guzzling x86 CPUs!<br><br>;-)<br><br>Cheers,<br>Martin<br><br><br><br>On 21/03/15 16:44, Martin wrote:<br>> On 20/03/15 10:36, Martin wrote:<br>>> On 20/03/15 09:55, Paul Sladen wrote:<br>>>> On Fri, 20 Mar 2015, Jason Irwin wrote:<br>>>>> I think the sun needs a few coins popped into it.<br>>>>> Looks like the meter is running out :-)<br>>>><br>>>> Just a brown out... nearly fixed now.<br>>><br>>> That supposedly cost something like an extra 80 power stations coming<br>>> online across Europe to pick up the solar shortfall.<br>>><br>>> Looking on http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ for the UK there looks to<br>>> be about a 2GW bump for coal and gas and a 1.5GW bump for pumped storage<br>>> hydro... (Small display scale makes for awkward reading...)<br>>><br>>> Have we really got that much solar already in the UK?!<br>> <br>> <br>> Interesting numbers in this rather overly sensationalist BBC news snippet:<br>> <br>> Solar eclipse poses energy challenge<br>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31951768<br>> <br>> #####<br>> The UK has 5GW of solar, the equivalent to the power output from about<br>> eight to 10 gas fired power stations.<br>> <br>> But while the amount of electricity generated from solar will fall<br>> during eclipse, National Grid is not expecting any major impact.<br>> <br>> "This loss of solar is entirely manageable," said a National Grid<br>> spokesperson. "We have a range of tools in place to manage any effects<br>> of the eclipse and balance the network."<br>> #####<br>> <br>> <br>> And... The grid suffers a bigger power fluctuation from people brewing<br>> up during TV adverts!!<br>> <br>> :-P<br>> <br>> <br>>> Now then... Back to work you sun worshipping slackers!! ;-)<br>> <br>> Shine on! :-)<br>> <br>> <br>> Cheers,<br>> Martin<br>> <br>> <br>> <br><br><br>-- <br>- ------------------ - ----------------------------------------<br>- Martin Lomas - OpenPGP (GPG/PGP) Public Key: 0xCEE1D3B7<br>- martin @ ml1 co uk - Import from hkp://subkeys.pgp.net or<br>- ------------------ - http:// ml1 .co .uk/martin_ml1_co_uk.gpg<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Nottingham mailing list<br>Nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/nottingham<br></div></div></div>
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