Renewables Still Fail Despite Ideal Weather

 No one can deny the past few days have been extremely windy. So you'd think that renewable energy would be taking up all the load now and we can finally ditch the fossil fuels.

Er, no.

In this graph you can see that wind (the light blue bit) made a good fist of it, but despite winds approaching speeds that would cause damage, wind only produced 56% of our energy needs.

Interesting that Nuclear (the Grey Smudge at the Bottom) tracks wind, producing more power when the wind is higher.

Then of course the wind drops (as it does) and bam, the Orange stripe of Gas takes over, showing the failure of renewables even when there is favourable weather. 

Don't get me started on the inconsequential yellow smudge of solar around lunchtime. It's getting into the depths of winter and extremely short days. At this latitude it shows how much of a nonsense solar is.

I did the maths on making a solar-powered boat on the canals. I just wanted to go as an example 5 miles a day. In order to recharge the battery in a reasonable amount of time I would have had to have a solar array the size of sails directly pointing at the sun. Because the actual amount of realistic solar generating time in winter is about 4 hours if you're lucky and it's not overcast. 

Pumped Hydro (purple) does it's usual thing around dinner time.

Finally, the real shock is the pink band of the French Interconnector. We were actually taking about 5% of our energy needs from them. In fact, we were taking energy from all our European interconnectors rather than supplying energy, which we were doing in the summer.

In fact the graph above paints a dire picture. We are nowhere near getting all of our energy needs from renewables and sadly gas fired plants will be carrying the burden for quite some time. It also shows we are nowhere near self-sufficient when it comes to energy generation. We are still relying on our European interconnectors to supply a significant amount of power.

The last puzzling fact is we never switched on a Coal-Fired power station. Coal-Fired energy stayed at 0.00% all day, instead taking 5-10& of our energy from abroad. 

Now can anyone let me know if that's practical or not? Is French energy cheaper than coal-fired energy? 

"Risk Averse" Emergency Services no fit for Purpose.

Let me start by saying the people working at the sharp end of the Emergency Services do a great job, under sometimes difficult circumstances.

But the Manchester Arean Bombing enquiry shows there is a lot to be desired when it comes to management.

The risk-averse culture of management prevented emergency workers tending to the injured and dying. 

This management culture comes up time and time again. I just wonder where it comes from. You know, incompetent Managers being promoted above their ability.

It used to be called the old boy's network, but now there are other organisations involved in greasing the wheels of management in the public services. <cough - Common Purpose >

Incompetent senior and middle managers caused this problem. Lack of communication caused this problem. Lack of common sense caused this problem.

This article lists the failings. It beggars belief.

And all the while I'm sure the operators on the phones were telling the victims and their families that help was almost there. When in fact it was parked well away from the arena. 

Immigrants. Just Ship the Fuckers Back. I don't Care any More.

Right now we have the usual virtue signalling, lefty twaddle. Some bad man threw a petrol bomb at an immigration detention centre, then killed himself.

I can understand the feeling of desperation that brings a person to do such a thing.

The government is now storing up a huge feeling of anti-immigration resentment in the population.

Outside of the immigrant bubble, people are genuinely struggling. People outside that bubble are regularly denied support. 

Immigrants get pocket money regardless if they are able to work or not. Normal citizens have to prove they are actively seeking work to receive benefits.

Immigrants receive free NHS dental treatment. Normal citizens don't get free NHS dental treatment.

Immigrants are automatically housed in a reception centre or a hotel. Normal citizens are denied free housing. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many homeless on the streets.

The immigrants expect to be housed and fed and cause trouble when they aren't. The sense of entitlement is palpable. Just get across the channel and they will supply everything for you.

These double standards have to stop before there are serious incidents. The incident at the weekend is only the first of many as ordinary citizens are denied access to services and housing.

Had the UK the money and resources to give all their citizens free housing, supply them with free health and dental, and give them some pocket money on top, then I'd have no issue with extending that umbrella to immigrants.

But we are not the land of milk and honey. Our resources are not infinite. Our own citizens are homeless and in poverty. Yet we still allow immigrants in at a rising cost of currently several billions of pounds a year.

I've lost all sympathy with the government, the do gooders and the immigrants themselves.

Enough is enough. We cannot and should not be held to ransom by the traffickers.

We should not be expected to house immigrants at huge cost. Especially if they are coming from a safe country. We should not be expected to house them simply because they prefer to live here. 

They have other safe options, they passed through several safe options. The rules need to be changed to reflect that in their status and the expectation to house them. 

If they come through safe countries, then they are not refugees. They are not escaping persecution. They did that when they landed in Greece. They did that when they travelled through Italy, Austria and France.

Put them under armed guard, load them on a landing craft and drop them back on the beaches of France.

If the French get uppity, arrest the Captains of the coastguard vessels for trafficking. 

I don't care if the vessel is in French waters. It is trafficking. I don't care if the people in the dinghy have family here, I don't care if we are seen as an international pariah.

I. Don't. Care.