It is called marginal pricing the wholesale electricity market uses which determines the spot price of electricity. It is based on the most expensive form of generation, typically gas, needed to meet demand regardless of how little is required. So here in the UK if 99% is generated by low cost renewable and only 1% is generated by expensive gas it all gets priced at the rate for the gas. Absolute madness when you live in a nation like the UK where all electricity retailers are getting their power from one national network operator.
It's not twisting anything, it's verifiable fact. Water temperatures in rivers in the current heatwaves we've had in Europe that are more than 10 degrees celsius above mean average temperatures has meant that the temperatures in rivers and lakes are already reaching levels that are causing severe issues to the wildlife and plants within them. Dumping millions of litres of hot water from power stations into them just makes a critical situation worse.
They do. What happens is that either water levels drop sufficiently enough or the temperature of the water in the rivers that they're drawing from rises to a point that it cannot provide sufficient cooling so they have to turn down or turn off the reactor.
If you're with Octopus they're running an opt-in energy saving session tomorrow from 6-8pm where they credit you if you use less electricity than you normally do at that time.
For those on their Agile tariff that tracks the real time wholesale price and alters every 30 minutes they'll no doubt whack up the rates for 6pm-8pm, possibly up to the max 99p/kWh, to try to reduce demand.
I'm on Octopus Agile on a smart tariff. We got an email today inviting us to participate in an energy saving session, which is where they state a time period typically an hour where they give you credits for using less electricity than you usually use, from 6pm-8pm tomorrow during the eclipse. I'm quite happy to get paid to use less.
Research carried out for Clean Cities shows that a 10cm increase in bonnet height from 80cm to 90cm results in a 27% greater chance of death for pedestrians run over.
Ironically the reason for the increase in bonnet height was actually EU safety regulations which required car makers to increase the gap between the bonnet. This was because when a pedestrian got hit and their head hit the bonnet there was very little gap between that and the solid engine underneath so their head was effectively hitting the solid engine. The idea of increasing the gap was that it allowed the bonnet to deform more, dissipating the energy and reducing the trauma the head experienced.
Goes on to write an article with a bunch of issues that very few people will actually have. It's like he's deliberately gone out of his way to write a karma whoring post on Reddit.
Wow....never seen such an ignorance of modern American history. Are you forgetting all the "interventions" the US did since the end of WW2, especially in South America where despite the supposed "war on drugs" the CIA teamed up with drug cartels, arming them, funding them, even allowing them to smuggle drugs into the USA to fund rebel fighters to overthrow governments? How it massively increased it's prison population and then allowed them to be used as slave labour by corporations, actively got minorities hooked on drugs, used it's own National Guard to kill protesting university students at Kent State?
Linux Mint isn't a bleeding edge distro like Arch, CachyOS and other current flavours of the month which means it's more mature which make it both more stable and less likely to randomly come across issues that can cause it to break quite badly. It also has decently put together things like an "app store". There is also a massive online community for support. For someone coming from Windows with no Linux experience it makes it easier to get to grips with and less likely something bad will happen that would put them off.
They can't afford to move to those places. My 3 bed house in a rural market town that is worth £150k would be worth three times what it is elsewhere where there's more industry and jobs.
Nokia and Blackberry anyone? Or how about any of the massive social networks that have been and gone? The downfall of a product or a company used by tens of millions of people is usually caused from within.
Here in Europe people who work in bars and restaurants get paid at least the minimum wage. They don't get paid just a few pounds or Euros an hour with the employer making it up from tips. In fact that's actually illegal to do throughout the EU and UK.
Except they're not. Here in the UK semi-trucks run at 97,000lb and we're also moving to SUVs and Ford Trucks like Raptor are also starting to make yet pedestrian casualty rates aren't going up.
It is called marginal pricing the wholesale electricity market uses which determines the spot price of electricity. It is based on the most expensive form of generation, typically gas, needed to meet demand regardless of how little is required. So here in the UK if 99% is generated by low cost renewable and only 1% is generated by expensive gas it all gets priced at the rate for the gas. Absolute madness when you live in a nation like the UK where all electricity retailers are getting their power from one national network operator.
It's not twisting anything, it's verifiable fact. Water temperatures in rivers in the current heatwaves we've had in Europe that are more than 10 degrees celsius above mean average temperatures has meant that the temperatures in rivers and lakes are already reaching levels that are causing severe issues to the wildlife and plants within them. Dumping millions of litres of hot water from power stations into them just makes a critical situation worse.
They do. What happens is that either water levels drop sufficiently enough or the temperature of the water in the rivers that they're drawing from rises to a point that it cannot provide sufficient cooling so they have to turn down or turn off the reactor.
Seems like me finally closing my Facebook account this week was timed well.
If you're with Octopus they're running an opt-in energy saving session tomorrow from 6-8pm where they credit you if you use less electricity than you normally do at that time.
For those on their Agile tariff that tracks the real time wholesale price and alters every 30 minutes they'll no doubt whack up the rates for 6pm-8pm, possibly up to the max 99p/kWh, to try to reduce demand.
It's still bright and sunny here in the UK at 6pm, sunset where I live isn't until 40 minutes after the end of the eclipse.
An eclipse of this magnitude reduces solar generation far more than clouds do.
I'm on Octopus Agile on a smart tariff. We got an email today inviting us to participate in an energy saving session, which is where they state a time period typically an hour where they give you credits for using less electricity than you usually use, from 6pm-8pm tomorrow during the eclipse. I'm quite happy to get paid to use less.
Anthropic and OpenAI literally have no control over their leading AI models anymore and it's only by sheer luck that they've not gone full rogue.
Ironically the reason for the increase in bonnet height was actually EU safety regulations which required car makers to increase the gap between the bonnet. This was because when a pedestrian got hit and their head hit the bonnet there was very little gap between that and the solid engine underneath so their head was effectively hitting the solid engine. The idea of increasing the gap was that it allowed the bonnet to deform more, dissipating the energy and reducing the trauma the head experienced.
Goes on to write an article with a bunch of issues that very few people will actually have. It's like he's deliberately gone out of his way to write a karma whoring post on Reddit.
Wow....never seen such an ignorance of modern American history. Are you forgetting all the "interventions" the US did since the end of WW2, especially in South America where despite the supposed "war on drugs" the CIA teamed up with drug cartels, arming them, funding them, even allowing them to smuggle drugs into the USA to fund rebel fighters to overthrow governments? How it massively increased it's prison population and then allowed them to be used as slave labour by corporations, actively got minorities hooked on drugs, used it's own National Guard to kill protesting university students at Kent State?
Linux Mint isn't a bleeding edge distro like Arch, CachyOS and other current flavours of the month which means it's more mature which make it both more stable and less likely to randomly come across issues that can cause it to break quite badly. It also has decently put together things like an "app store". There is also a massive online community for support. For someone coming from Windows with no Linux experience it makes it easier to get to grips with and less likely something bad will happen that would put them off.
They can't afford to move to those places. My 3 bed house in a rural market town that is worth £150k would be worth three times what it is elsewhere where there's more industry and jobs.
Are Americans really this stupid and brainwashed into thinking this is OK?
"I keep telling her that she arrived at one of the worst moments in recent American history."
The whole thing around tipping in restaurants and bars has been a thing for decades in America.
You suck for living in a nation that allows employers to use tips to make up a half decent wage.
Nokia and Blackberry anyone? Or how about any of the massive social networks that have been and gone? The downfall of a product or a company used by tens of millions of people is usually caused from within.
Here in Europe people who work in bars and restaurants get paid at least the minimum wage. They don't get paid just a few pounds or Euros an hour with the employer making it up from tips. In fact that's actually illegal to do throughout the EU and UK.
Except they're not. Here in the UK semi-trucks run at 97,000lb and we're also moving to SUVs and Ford Trucks like Raptor are also starting to make yet pedestrian casualty rates aren't going up.
Just switched from Pixel 8 Pro to iPhone. Looking like that was a good decision even though iOS is a shitshow to use in comparison.