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  1. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Gas is already the backup. What's the benefit in investing in batteries?
  2. scaramanga

    Richarlison

    Why would we want to incentivise them to win?
  3. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Of course, but none of those options (within the confines of the UK) are a suitable replacement for a power station as a backup to renewables. Which was my original point.
  4. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    It's really easy to build huge batteries in Australia because it's empty.
  5. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    So what provides the backup? The obvious answer (as I stated at the start of this conversation) is nuclear. Batteries are at least decades (if ever) away from being a replacement for generation as a backup to renewables (unless someone solves the tidal cost issues and takes the problem of...
  6. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Storage is what we're already discussing. We would need 10,000 of these large scale batteries to give us a week's cover and a week's cover is nowhere near enough. Assuming they can scale at the current prices and be built in the UK at current prices, it would cost something like our entire GDP...
  7. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    They don't need to, they've got half the world's land mass and about 50 people
  8. scaramanga

    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea, Tue May 19th, 8.15pm, Stamford Bridge ***

    Even if you put back in the injured ones, there's still very little talent. VdV is class. Gray and Spence have high ceilings but a way to go yet. Solanke - if he's good enough for Spurs, wtf was he doing at Bournemouth at 26? Maddison - top players don't come from Leicester at the back end of...
  9. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    I mean those dunkelwhateverthefudges. The things that mean we need nuclear/gas/coal power stations as backup.
  10. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    The UK likes days where there's not much sun and not much of anything to make the spinny things spin - we have quite a lot of them. BTW, you'd need at least 10,000 of those large arrays to cover the UK for a week. And a week's backup with no alternative is pretty low.
  11. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    That's handy. Out of interest, so you know how many of those "large" scale batteries would be required to cover the UK's electricity needs for, say, a week of bad weather?
  12. scaramanga

    The we are staying up thread

    If it were any team other than Spam then I'd agree with you. But the one team you can guarantee will always be bricker than us - even when we're this bad, is them.
  13. scaramanga

    Richarlison

    The best thing about watching Richarlison is that it gives me (at the wrong end of my 40s and with no discernable footballing talent) hope that I might still make it as a PL footballer.
  14. scaramanga

    Mathys Tel

    Have we sold him yet?
  15. scaramanga

    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Leeds United, Mon May 11th, 8pm, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium***

    Richarlison's no good to us, we should have nominated him to do the ref after the whistle.
  16. scaramanga

    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Leeds United, Mon May 11th, 8pm, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium***

    Our team are far too weak. They should have been telling that ref what a bent clam he is all along.
  17. scaramanga

    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Leeds United, Mon May 11th, 8pm, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium***

    fudging disgusting.
  18. scaramanga

    ***OMT - Tottenham Hotspur v Leeds United, Mon May 11th, 8pm, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium***

    How much money has that ref taken?
  19. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    I'd genuinely love to see it. But I've been following scientific articles long enough to know when "nearly there" is more hope than it is reality.
  20. scaramanga

    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Most of the tax goes.on the NHS.
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