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https://www.nationalgrid.com/the-great-grid-upgrade

Approx 10GW down the east coast alone in various stages right now, jumping the current bottleneck (B6) between Scotland and England...

Also see:

  * https://wind-curtailment-app-ahq7fucdyq-lz.a.run.app/
  * https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/#5/55/-3.2

https://www.nationalgrid.com/the-great-grid-upgrade

Approx 10GW down in the east coast alone in various stages right now...


> This price-setting dominance is being eroded by renewables, with recent analysis from the UK Energy Research Centre showing that gas set power prices 90% of the time in 2025.

All untrue long-since-debunked FUD talking points. Please understand the South Australia market for example.

Look at the price of electricity in European Union countries. It's true. I know what I pay for electricity and you aren't going to gaslight me into thinking otherwise.

Nobody is saying that you aren't paying more for electricity. What they are saying is that you reasoning about why that is is wrong.

I don't think that this has correctly cited XKCD, which has quite a low ask...

Indeed.

A client had a weird problem with data flowing 10x faster in one direction between two parts of its campus on either side of a road, ~30Y ago...

http://d.hd.org/anecdotes.html#NFS

TL;DR: kinked fibre causing large (NFS) packets to fail frequently in one direction


Bad PIs seem to be a real problem.

Luckily I'm self-funded and with good supervisors, so not a problem that I face!


They should be unless you want to publish one of the things that too many (eg sites) regard as a reasonable secondary security verifier.


Get a single speeding ticket in most jurisdictions in the U.S. and your birthdate is never confidential ever again.


And health records, e.g. prescriptions, as well.


Inherently sexist/misogynist/objectivising the human female form?


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