Self inflicted. Self inflicted! What? The fucking English did it through domination.

Self inflicted.

Of course the English banned it in school look up Welsh not.

The fact that Wales was conquered by England so long ago and the language and culture still exist is a miracle.

I don’t think that’s odd. People’s lives are boring and not much happens, it’s interesting to talk about unknowns.

It’s like that scene in good will hunting. The best part of my day is when I walk up to the door and imagine you just left.

No ones going to be working soon. Are you going to pivot?

Seen a guy in work filling up his arse bottle in the sink all the time. Was fucking disgusting.

So many people from the third world do that here. Our right illegal for being unsanitary but they don’t care.

You can have pressure loss in the while system and it can suck water up it and contaminate a lot of fresh water.

You don’t minimise the risk of car death because you are way better putting in measures to reduce your risk of dying in a car crash than dying in some weird grid failure that happens once in a generation.

It’s about understanding risk. You can’t just say avoiding any risk for anything all the time is good.

You just chose a hill to die on. That a 1 in a million chance whatever the cost is worth it.

But moving closer to work, a WFH job, cycling, only getting things delivered to you house, taking the bus, walking. No that’s too much you have a seatbelt.

Yea well I have a blanket and a grid that has never gone for an extended period in my lifetime. I’ll be fine. I have been in more car crashes as an adult than I have been in blackouts. Car avoid is a much better exercise in spending money than grid back up.

Hell for grid back up a standalone batter or generator to run the fridge is a better spending of money. Or an electric car.

But again it’s your hill to die on so feel free.

I have literally never even heard of my grid going down for 24hrs and I’m not talking constraint to my lifetime. To think it happens every 2 years is outstanding.

You also do not get any additional benefits. The cost is being able to run off grid doesn’t get to any additional benefits like being sell back to the grid. Obviously you need to pay for batteries and stuff beforehand and the logical reason for buying batteries stands. But to upgrade your system to an event that has literally never happened before seems silly.

Spain just royally fucked up on a grid level and not something that is likely to occur again. They need to spend more on their grid which they are.

Do you drive or ever let anyone else drive you?

Texas should have spent money on it’s grid for sure. Maybe farmers shoukd do for wood.

But spending crap loss of money to create someone that might come in handy once in 10 years is a huge waste of money.

Just buy a battery if you really that concerned.

At what point is a 1 in X event need to be likely to occur for it to be worth spending thousands on, if not 10,000’s?

Grid going down?

I think the last time I experienced that was 15 years ago. Even then it was only for a couple of hours.

Like it’s such a non event as to not even bother trying to fix it.

Here is a goof technology connection video about why at peak time no own would need there car to charge, stove to heat up, hot water tank to run and the air conditioning. But you can totally see them all coming on at the same time in a typical household.

https://youtu.be/CVLLNjSLJTQ

Wind power is paid for if it is used or not.

It could be a lot cheaper up in Scotland where it is often wasted. If it’s cheaper up there more industry will move up there and use more of that cheap electricity and it will mean less is wasted.

But this would benefit Scotland at the expense of England so it’s not going to happen. As such electrical prices are same around country which keeps jobs down south and electricity expensive.

You know why right?

The grid is constraint and because of this it makes prices really high where the congestion is. Now the logical thing is to allow a different price where there is free energy like in Scotland verse where it is constraint.

But! The issue is where it is constraint and that’s south east England. And as everyone in the country knows no one gets anything in the UK unless south east England has more of it for less.

So higher prices in SE England is not going to happen. If it was the other way around I’m certain the government would say fuck the Scots they should have more wind power if they wanted cheap electricity.

Grid should be public and production should be privatised.

Yea I know.

Its not a business failing though it is a government failing. Whsts the point of having a government if they don’t fix shit like this? That’s what they are for.

There 4 billion recent STEM students in China taking the future away from the west.

The amount of STEM students isn’t the problem it’s how we are using them

The best shit on Netflix was not made by Netflix.

Netflix buying more shit is bad for consumers.

Wish Netflix turned into steam