Prices of the electricity we use to charge

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So infowars, which prints total boolocks, is about to make a big announcement.
Let me guess.

It's going to be total boolocks

Update: It is total boolocks. Some delaying tactics that will amount to nothing.
 
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he has got it back already it was all bs they never even had the money and there was no auction :rolleyes:
 
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So infowars, which prints total boolocks, is about to make a big announcement.
Let me guess.

It's going to be total boolocks

Update: It is total boolocks. Some delaying tactics that will amount to nothing.
That's funny coming from the person* who said I get my ideas from the Daily Mail.

Never looked at it in my life without laughing at the shabby, click bait twaddle.

* I used a different word in the first version, but edited it so as not to offend other readers.

People of a certain 'low quality' sort, like to try and slur persons of a more right wing disposition as 'Daily Mail readers and / or Nazis.....

This idiocy simply reveals their ignorance and lack of originality. The Daily Mail is a low rent, clickbait, comic for people who left school early for lack of intellect. I first saw it in a house I was residing in as a student around 1972. I lived at that time, in a rather grand house, where I rented the attic from two elderly European, refugee ladies (sisters). They read it, annotated stories they thought I ought to read and profit from, usually praising Edward Heath, and left it on the landing for me. I looked at it, and laughed and put it back, thanking them for their kindness. At election times, they ran the campaign for the Conservative Candidate and had posters supporting him. I stuck a Labour poster in my upper attic window.

At the time, because of inexperience and the foolishness of youth, I was more a fan of Che Guevara than Churchill. I had a poster of him and attempted to grow a similar beard. Of course, I later discovered that Che was a sadistic murderer who executed children. Like almost all communists and hard left people, he delighted in controlling lives, and established it by violent domination, denying the freedoms people ought to have by right.

I often tried to find out about the history of these ladies, but they would never say. When asked about their origins, they evaded the issue by saying they came from Europe. The accent was pretty much unmistakably German though - perhaps Austrian. I don't know. I also wondered how they managed to own that house since neither of them ever had a profession.

They often held amazing soirees in a huge 'Music Room that they had - and they usually invited me and my girlfriend. There were interesting people there and a lot of what we thought of as old ladies. They would have been younger than I am now. They hired professional musicians some of whom were well known and often on the BBC. They served their guests champagne and canapes to the sound of music from a string quartet.

This was not the milieu from which I had sprung, so it was an interesting and eye-opening experience.

This is the house. Sold recently for £2.5 million!


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I spent a great many hours slaving away at my studies under that attic window at the top. The ladies rented me the entire attic for £4 a week. These days that would be nearer £50 - a bargain.
They did though insist on good behaviour and consideration which I mostly adhered to - with a couple of lapses, caused by inexperience with alcohol and loose women.


The so called Music Room. Courtesy of Right Move.

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i left school and become a crack dealer i had blocks the size of house bricks :p
 
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no that's a computer case :cool:
 

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So why has it never been developed past proof of concept? My guess is that it hasn't worked that well. I'd be very pleased to see some proper commercial installation. I'm not against it at all - IF it can be made to work in a cost effective fashion.

Ouarzazate Solar Power costs $0.12 per kilowatt hour. Built on the scale I am talking about for export to Europe, the price would fall dramatically and certainly far enough to soak up the transmission costs.

As an engineer, I m rather surprised you are so wrong about the under sea cables and transmission loss. You might be right IF the power was being transmitted as AC. That would involve a lot of waste, because of reactive power losses, but no one is suggesting that. Properly dimensioned cables using standard materials run with very high DC voltages are very efficient and do not involve charging and discharging a giant capacitor also known as the Mediterranean Sea. HVDC undersea cables lose only 3% per 1000 km which is much less than AC transmission losses (7% per 1000 km).


Great if it could be done, but how stable is Morocco?
How far is it from Morocco to UK? How much to install? Through territorial waters 22.2km, 12nmil? Or through Exclusive Economic zone of 370km, 200nmil?
Morocco to Spain under straits, yes, or past Portugal, France? Coz the EU really loves UK now! But i suppose money talks?
https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/component/finder/search?q=Hvdc
 

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Satire publication The Onion buys Alex Jones’ Infowars at auction with Sandy Hook families’ backing